Imelda Anne Crawford (22 November 1920 – 17 October 1956) was a British film actress.
Biography Crawford was born in Palestine to a Scottish father and an English mother and brought up in Edinburgh. On the advice of Alastair Sim, she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
A contemporary of Margaret Lockwood and Phyllis Calvert's, 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 a London nursing home in 1956, aged 35. 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 Year Title Role Notes1938Prison Without Bars1942They Flew AloneATA GirlAKA, Wings and the Woman1943Teri Mortimer1943Millions Like UsJennifer Knowles1943Mary1943HeadlineAnne1943Karen Lindley1944Joan Draper1944Two Thousand WomenMargaret Long1945They Were SistersVera Sargeant1946CaravanOriana1946BedeliaEllen1947The Master of BankdamAnne Pickersgill1947Night BeatJulie Kendall1948Daughter of DarknessBess Stanforth1948Helen Brasted1948It's Hard to Be GoodMary Leighton1948MirandaLady Marten1950Tony Draws a HorseClare Fleming1950TrioMrs. RamseySegment: "Mr. Know-All"1951Thunder on the HillIsabel Jeffreys1953Street CornerSusanAKA, Both Sides of the Law1953Knights of the Round TableMorgan le Fay1954Mad About MenBarbara Davenport
Television Year Title Role Notes1946After DinnerLaina PenroseTV film1948ReunionSophy RossTV film1949Lady Audley's SecretAlicia AudleyTV film1950–51Repertory TheatreTheresa, Margaret FullerEpisodes: "The Gambler", "Let Them Be Sea Captains"1953Strictly PersonalDiana WilsonTV series1954Douglas Fairbanks PresentsLaura BarrieEpisode: "Pattern for Glory"1954Polly ArdenTV series1954Out of BoundsSophie GarnettTV short1954–55Sunday Night TheatreJill Manning, Stella Tabret, Carol LindsayEpisodes: "Waiting for Gillian", "The Sacred Flame", "The Leader of the House"1955Polly ArdenTV series (six episodes, continuing the story of TV-family The Walkers, first appearing in 'The Six Proud Walkers').1956Opportunity MurderVera LewisTV series
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