1. Kathleen Walsh was an English actress, dancer, and screenwriter.
14 Facts About Kay Walsh
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Kay Walsh was born on 15 November 1911 in Chelsea, London.
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Kay Walsh began her career as a dancer in West End music halls, and at the age of 17 she began going out with Pownoll Pellew, and they shared an interest in sports cars.
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Kay Walsh continued to act in "quota quickies" films for several years.
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Kay Walsh first met David Lean, then a film editor, in 1936, during the filming of Secret of Stamboul.
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Kay Walsh appeared in the films In Which We Serve and This Happy Breed, both directed by Lean and written by Noel Coward.
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Kay Walsh campaigned for Lean to receive co-director credit on In Which We Serve.
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Kay Walsh contributed dialogue to the 1938 film of Pygmalion, and devised the scenario for the closing sequence of Lean's film adaptation of Great Expectations, receiving a writing credit on the latter film.
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Kay Walsh devised the opening sequence of Lean's adaptation of Oliver Twist and played Nancy.
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Kay Walsh continued to work as a character actress in films through the 1950s, including films with Alfred Hitchcock and Ronald Neame.
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Between films, Kay Walsh appeared regularly in plays and farces at the Strand and Aldwych theatres, directed by Basil Dean.
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Kay Walsh starred with Peter Coke in the 1938 thriller Death on the Table and Ralph Lynn at Aldwych in the 1940 comedy Nap Hand.
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Kay Walsh was a semi-regular on the 1979 Anglo-Polish TV series Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, and remained active in films until her retirement in 1981.
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Kay Walsh died on 16 April 2005 at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, aged 93, from multiple burns, following an accident.