Susan Hampshire

She currently stars in Monarch of the Glen. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1957. In 1969, she starred as Sarah Churchill in The First Churchills, and in 1974, she played the lead in another 26-part serial, The Pallisers. Hull made one more film, The Lady from Texas (1951), and appeared in a TV version of Arsenic and Old Lace in 1949, before retiring. Susan Hampshire appeared in several long-running television serials, notably in the BBC's blockbuster, The Forsyte Saga (1967), in which she played Fleur. She brought her two best stage roles to film in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) playing a homicidal aunt, and in Harvey (1950) as the batty sister of a man whose friend is an invisible rabbit, for which she won the 1950 Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. In her autobiography, Susan's Story, she publicised her experiences, and her work on behalf of dyslexics eventually led to her being awarded the O.B.E. Hull made a total of five films.

Her appeal was that of an "English rose", and few people were aware of her problem with dyslexia. Through the 1920s she continued working in the theater, and in the 1930s had three Broadway hits in You Can't Take It With You (1936), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), and Harvey (1944). Soon afterwards, she was taken up by Walt Disney, and starred in The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Fighting Prince of Donegal. Hull was a stage success in Craig's Wife (1926), and in Daisy Mayme (1926), a role which was written especially for her. She first became famous after playing the lead in a 1962 BBC adaptation of What Katy Did. Her husband died in 1919, and in 1923 Hull returned to show business under the name Josephine Hull. Susan Hampshire (born 12 May 1938) is an English actress best known for her many film and television roles. She made her stage debut in stock in 1905, and spent five years as a chorus girl and touring stock before she married Shelley Hull in 1910.

Hull was born Josephine Sherwood in Newtonville, Massachusetts, and attended Radcliffe College and The New England Conservatory of Music. Josephine Hull (January 3, 1886 - March 12, 1957) was an American actress who had a successful 50-year career on Broadway before taking some of her best roles to film.