With your free account at foundagrave.com, you can add your loved ones, friends, and idols to our growing database of "Deceased but not Forgotten" records. Dulcie Gray died from bronchial pneumonia in the actors' residential care home Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, on 15 November 2011, five days before her 96th birthday. There is a problem with your email/password. During the 1940s, Dulcie Gray appeared in Gainsborough melodramas such as They Were Sisters. Born James William Bailey, in his teens he studied opera at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, and was cast on the television program ‘The Children’s Hour’ for almost a year, where he performed by acting, singing and dancing. It was never officially released as a record. We have a volunteer within fifty miles of your requested photo location. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. From Aberdeen, Gray went on to rep at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Harrogate. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? With her husband, she wrote some thoughts on her craft for young children, An Actor and His World. © 2018 Found a Grave, All rights reserved. Unusually – but appositely – … Denison and Gray first played opposite one another as Parnell and Kitty O'Shea in the play Parnell. Although she often gave her year of birth as 1920, Gray much later admitted that "the fib began in the 40s when studios insisted on making you younger". dulcie gray grave Posted on September 28, 2020 by Also His Beloved WifeDULCIE GRAY C.B.E.1915 - 2011Gracious And WittyWith An Infectious SmileAn Accomplished ActressAuthoress And LepidopteristTheir Happy Marriage And Professional PartnershipLasted 59 Years, Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Please enter location or other information that may help the volunteer in fulfilling this request. Actor. Try again later. Dulcie Gray wrote some two dozen murder mysteries, which found wide popularity, including seventeen detective stories featuring “Inspector Cardiff”, a character she created, eight radio plays, several volumes of short stories (one of these included “A Feast of Blood”, which was turned into a Night Gallery episode) and an autobiography, Looking Forward, Looking Back. She moved to England at the age of three and went to school at Wallingford, Wokingham and Swanage, before working as a school teacher and as a journalist in Kuala Lumpur, then returning to England on a cargo boat in 1937, with only £4 and her luggage. In the early 1940s, she returned to the […], Baird was born at 8am on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute (then Dunbartonshire), and was the youngest of four children of the Reverend John Baird, the Church of Scotland’s minister for the local St Bride’s church and Jessie Morrison Inglis, the orphaned niece of a wealthy family of shipbuilders from Glasgow.

When her husband returned from war service, he found that his wife was established as a film star and radio favourite. He became a self-trained naturalist as a young man, learning about the field from his brother, William, who was a birder, and the likes of John James Audubon, who instructed Baird on how to draw scientific illustrations of birds. Then she also began to tackle more heavyweight material, such as The Cherry Orchard (1980, at Exeter), The Kingfisher (1980, at Windsor and on tour) and The Living Room (1987), and appeared in productions of An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. As a student at the Actors’ Academy she […], Conductor,  Composer. She made her stage-singing debut when she was 15 years old. Bailey also played […], Actor. The couple's professional careers were intertwined and they frequently appeared on stage together.

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