1. Rachel Gurney began her career in the theatre towards the end of World War II and then expanded into television and film in the 1950s.
19 Facts About Rachel Gurney
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Rachel Gurney remained active, mostly in television and theatre work, into the early 1990s.
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Rachel Gurney is best remembered for playing the elegant Lady Marjorie Bellamy in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs.
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Rachel Gurney was born in Buckinghamshire, England on 5 March 1920.
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Rachel Gurney's father, Samuel Gurney Lubbock, was a housemaster at Eton and her mother, Irene Scharrer, was a concert pianist.
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In 1938, Rachel Gurney entered the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art to study acting.
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Rachel Gurney has appeared regularly on the London stage during the 1950s.
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Rachel Gurney appeared as Alice in The Voysey Inheritance at the Arts Theatre and as Mrs George Lamb in Caro William at the Embassy Theatre.
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Rachel Gurney remained busy over the next several years appearing as Avice Brunton in The Bombshell, Portia in The Merchant of Venice and Olivia in The Chalk Garden.
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Rachel Gurney began to appear in both films and television in the 1950s.
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Rachel Gurney remain active in theatre, television and film during the 1960s and on radio.
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Rachel Gurney starred in the 1969 touring production of Shaw's On the Rocks opposite David Tomlinson, Robert Flemyng and Jack Hulbert.
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Rachel Gurney appeared as Mrs Darling in Peter Pan at the Palladium in 1975.
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In 1977, Rachel Gurney made her American stage debut off-Broadway as Mrs Clandon in George Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell at the Roundabout Theatre in New York City.
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In 1980, Rachel Gurney made her Broadway debut in Major Barbara.
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Rachel Gurney returned to Broadway twice more in The Dresser and Breaking the Code.
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Rachel Gurney appeared in a major role in the Noel Coward play Mr and Mrs Edgehill in 1985.
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Rachel Gurney appeared in the television productions AD, Lost Empires, Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, Richard III, and Little Sir Nicholas.
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Rachel Gurney died in Norfolk, England on 24 November 2001 from pneumonia due to Alzheimer's disease.