Joanna Lumley

Films include:. She died from a stroke while undergoing treatment for colon cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 81. Television includes:. They are located at 1724 Vine Street and 6821 Hollywood Blvd. Lumley was awarded an OBE in 1995. The second woman to be admitted to the Director's Guild (Dorothy Arzner was first), Ida Lupino has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the fields of television and motion pictures. The first of her two subsequent marriages was to comedy writer, Jeremy Lloyd. These all ended in divorce.

However, following her rise to fame, she revealed that she had been an unmarried mother during the 1960s when it was socially unacceptable. Lupino was married three times: to actor Howard Duff with whom she had one daughter, as well as producer Collier Young and actor Louis Hayward. She has specialised in playing upper-class parts, and her distinctive plummy voice has reinforced this. After guest starring in TV shows such as Charlie's Angels and Barnaby Jones, she made her final film appearance in 1978 and retired. Her first major role was as Purdey in The New Avengers: a revival of the secret agent series The Avengers. She continued acting throughout the '50s, '60s and '70s and her directing efforts during these years were almost exclusively television productions such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, The Donna Reed Show, Gilligan's Island, The Untouchables, The Fugitive, and Bewitched. Tall, leggy, thin and blonde, she began her acting career as a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. She directed Outrage in 1950 and tackled the contraversial subject of rape.

Joanna Lumley (born May 1, 1946 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India) is a British actress and former model who is best known for her portrayal of the chain smoking, boozing, cocaine-sniffing and other drug-taking sexpot Patsy Stone on the British comedy television show Absolutely Fabulous. From the early '50s she began directing films, mostly melodramas and was one of the few women of her era to achieve success in this field. Trail of the Pink Panther. Lupino often joked that if she had been the "poor man's Bette Davis", then she had become the "poor man's Don Siegel". Tam Lin. Her first directing job came when Elmer Clifton became ill during Not Wanted, a 1949 movie which she co-wrote. Sweeney Todd. It was during a suspension in the late '40s that she began studying the processes behind the camera.

Some Girls Do. In 1947, Lupino left Warner Brothers to become a freelance actress. Shirley Valentine. She acted regularly and was in demand throughout the 40s without becoming a major star. The Satanic Rites of Dracula. During this period she became known for her hard boiled roles and appeared in such films as They Drive By Night (1940) and High Sierra (1941). Prince Valiant. While working for Warner Brothers, she would also refuse parts that Davis had rejected, and earned herself suspensions.

Parting Shots. Her parts improved during the '40s and she began to describe herself as "the poor man's Bette Davis". On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It was after her appearance in The Light That Failed in 1939 that she was taken seriously as a dramatic actress. Mad Cows. Encouraged to enter show business by both her parents, Lupino made her first film appearance in 1933, in Her First Affaire and worked for several years playing unsubstantial roles. James and the Giant Peach. She was born in London, England, (allegedly under a table during a World War I zeppelin raid), the daughter of music hall entertainer Stanley Lupino.

Innocent Lies. Ida Lupino (February 4, 1914 – August 3, 1995) was a film actress and director, widely considered a pioneer in the field of women filmmakers. Games That Lovers Play. Funny Bones. Don't Just Lie There, Say Something.

Curse of the Pink Panther. The Breaking of Bumbo. Up In Town. A Rather English Marriage.

Sapphire and Steel. The New Avengers. Coronation Street.