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{{Short description|British actress and playwright (1920–1956)}}{{other people}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

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Biography

Crawford was born in Palestine to a Scottish father and an English mother, and brought up in Edinburgh.A contemporary of Margaret Lockwood and Phyllis Calvert, Crawford is best remembered for her roles in women's pictures of the 1940s, such as Millions Like Us (1943), Two Thousand Women (1944), and They Were Sisters (1945).She married Wallace Douglas in 1953 and died of leukemia in London in 1956, aged 35.NEWS,weblink ANNE CRAWFORD. WES, The Canberra Times, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 19 October 1956, 15 June 2020, 20, Trove, The Times, on 18 October 1956, reported that she was playing in Agatha Christie's The Spider's Web, at London's Savoy Theatre, when she became ill. After acting in a stage production of The Gift, about a scientist blinded by an accident, she added a codicil to her will leaving her eyes to the International Eye Bank.

Filmography

Film{| class"wikitable sortable"

! Year! Title! Role! class="unsortable" | Notes|1938|Prison Without Bars|||1942|They Flew Alone|ATA Girl|AKA, Wings and the Woman|1943|Teri Mortimer||1943|Millions Like Us|Jennifer Knowles||1943|Mary||1943Headline (film)>Headline|Anne||1943|Karen Lindley||1944|Joan Draper||1944|Two Thousand Women|Margaret Long||1945|They Were Sisters|Vera Sargeant||1946Caravan (1946 film)>Caravan|Oriana||1946Bedelia (film)>Bedelia|Ellen||1947Master of Bankdam>The Master of Bankdam|Anne Pickersgill||1947Night Beat (1947 film)>Night Beat|Julie Kendall||1948Daughter of Darkness (1948 film)>Daughter of Darkness|Bess Stanforth||1948|Helen Brasted||1948|It's Hard to Be Good|Mary Leighton||1948Miranda (1948 film)>Miranda|Lady Marten||1950|Tony Draws a Horse|Clare Fleming||1950Trio (1950 film)>Trio|Mrs. RamseyTrio (1950 film)>Mr. Know-All"|1951|Thunder on the Hill|Isabel Jeffreys||1953Street Corner (1953 film)>Street Corner|Susan|AKA, Both Sides of the Law|1953Knights of the Round Table (film)>Knights of the Round Table|Morgan le Fay||1954|Mad About Men|Barbara Davenport|">

Television{| class"wikitable sortable"

! Year! Title! Role! class="unsortable" | Notes|1946|After Dinner|Laina Penrose|TV film|1948|Reunion|Sophy Ross|TV film|1949|Lady Audley's Secret|Alicia Audley|TV film|1950–51|Repertory Theatre|Theresa, Margaret Fuller|Episodes: "The Gambler", "Let Them Be Sea Captains"|1953|Strictly Personal|Diana Wilson|TV series|1954|Douglas Fairbanks Presents|Laura Barrie|Episode: "Pattern for Glory"|1954|Polly Arden|TV series|1954|Out of Bounds|Sophie Garnett|TV short|1954–55|Sunday Night Theatre|Jill Manning, Stella Tabret, Carol Lindsay|Episodes: "Waiting for Gillian", "The Sacred Flame", "The Leader of the House"|1955|Polly Arden|TV series (six episodes, continuing the story of TV-family The Walkers, first appearing in 'The Six Proud Walkers').|1956|Opportunity Murder|Vera Lewis|TV series

References

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External links

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