Ursula Howells
Birthday
1922/09/17
Day of death
2005/10/16 (83 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Also know as
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Biography
Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father worked as Director of Music. She made her first stage appearance at Dundee in 1939, in John Drinkwater's Bird in Hand, then moved to Oxford in 1942 and three years later made her London debut at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage. In 1947 she appeared in the comedy Jane at the Aldwych Theatre. After several years in the West End, and a brief stint on Broadway where ...Read more
Acting
(1968) Assignment K
as Estelle
(1965) Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf")
(1970) Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
as Mumsy
(1986) Time After Time
as May Swift
(1957) Now Let Him Go
as Nurse Judith
(1957) Account Rendered
as Lucille Ainsworth
(1969) Crossplot
as Maggi Thwaites
(1973) Father Dear Father
as Barbara
(1955) Track the Man Down
as Mary Dennis
(1955) The Gilded Cage
as Brenda Lucas
(1952) The Cocktail Party
as ---
(1963) 80,000 Suspects
as Joanna Duten
(1974) Miss Nightingale
as Aunt May
(1956) The Long Arm
as Mrs. Elliot / Mrs. Gilson
(1957) West of Suez
as Eileen
(1967) Torture Garden
as Miss Maxine Chambers (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")
(1980) Gentle Folk
as Mrs Menant
(1962) Two Letter Alibi
as Louise
(1972) Franklin's Farm
as Prue
(1974) Little Fears
as The Older Woman
(1963) The Sicilians
as Mme. Perrault
(1998) A Rather English Marriage
as Mary
(1955) They Can't Hang Me
as Antonia Pitt
(1951) Flesh and Blood
as Harriet Marshall
(1998) The Tichborne Claimant
as Lady Doughty
(1994) A Pinch of Snuff
as Alice Andover
(1953) The Oracle
as Peggy
(1955) The Constant Husband
as Ann
(1954) The Weak and the Wicked
as Pam Vickers
(1956) Keep It Clean
as Pat Anstey
(1963) The Madhouse on Castle Street
as Martha Tompkins
(1984) The Cold Room
as Headmistress
(1952) I Believe in You
as Hon. Ursula
(1980) The Enigma
as Mrs Fielding
(1978) When the Actors Come
as Barbara Karolina
(1953) The Blakes Slept Here
as Emily
(1964) A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter
as Liz Essendine
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Lady Isabel Aubrey
(1981) Bergerac
as Elizabeth Fouchet
(1992) Heartbeat
as Miriam Wakefield
(1986) Lovejoy
as Olive Nettleton
(1954) Sherlock Holmes
as ---
(1985) Bulman
as ---
(1968) Father, Dear Father
as Barbara
(1959) Interpol Calling
as Miki
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1974) Fall of Eagles
as Empress Maria Fyodorovna
(1967) Man in a Suitcase
as ---
(1955) Lilli Palmer Theatre
as Mary
(1977) Hard Times
as Mrs Gradgrass
(1970) Ryan International
as ---
(1976) The Many Wives Of Patrick
as ---
(2001) The Cazalets
as ---
(1963) The Human Jungle
as Julia Gray
(1970) Play for Today
as Sarah Chandler
(1968) Ooh La La!
as Mme Pontagnac
(1971) Upstairs, Downstairs
as Duchess of Buckminster
(1985) Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
as Miss Blacklock
(1971) Cousin Bette
as Adeline
(1992) Jewels
as The Duchess
(1981) Bergerac
as Laura Atherton
(1984) Miss Marple
as Miss Blacklock
(1978) Father, Dear Father
as Barbara Mossman
(1960) Sunday-Night Play
as ---
(1956) Armchair Theatre
as Margaret
(1964) A Choice of Coward
as Liz Essendine
(1950) Sunday Night Theatre
as Mary Winsloe
(1960) Sunday-Night Play
as Janet Ormund