12 Facts About Rosalie Crutchley

Rosalie Crutchley played many classical roles, including Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Hermione in The Winter's Tale and Goneril in King Lear.

Rosalie Crutchley played Madame Defarge twice in adaptations of A Tale of Two Cities, in both the 1958 film and in the 1965 television serialisation of the same story.

Rosalie Crutchley had previously portrayed Henry's first wife Catherine of Aragon in the 1953 film The Sword and the Rose.

Rosalie Crutchley starred in the 1979 BBC TV production of Testament of Youth, playing the role of the Principal of Somerville College, Oxford.

Rosalie Crutchley was in the films Quo Vadis, as Acte, the former mistress of the Emperor Nero and The Haunting, as the sinister housekeeper Mrs Dudley.

Rosalie Crutchley had two guest roles in Casualty, in 1992 and 1995.

Rosalie Crutchley had a short, but memorable, appearance in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Rosalie Crutchley appeared in only one film musical, Man of La Mancha, based on the successful stage production, as Don Quixote's housekeeper.

Rosalie Crutchley's final acting role was in the pilot episode of the TV detective series, Midsomer Murders, playing Lucy Bellringer.

Rosalie Crutchley was married twice, firstly to actor Dan Cunningham in 1939 and secondly to actor Peter Ashmore in 1946.

Rosalie Crutchley had two children, one of who is the physicist Jonathan Ashmore.

Rosalie Crutchley died at The Harley Street Hospital in London in 1997 at the age of 77.