Marjorie Westbury

Marjorie Westbury ( born June 18 1905 in Oldbury, Worcestershire, † 16 December 1989 in Maresfield Uckfield, Sussex ) was a British actress, radio play spokeswoman and singer.

Life

Marjorie Westbury studied 1927-1930 singing at the Royal College of Music in London. In the 1930s, the soprano often appeared in the BBC studios in Birmingham as a singer. From the end of the thirties could experience as a radio play spokesperson then. A small supporting role in the radio drama series Paul Temple Intervenes ( Paul Temple intervenes ) ( 1942) brought her in 1945 as the female lead (Steve Temple ) in all other Paul Temple mini-series a. The radio play of Francis Durbridge thriller author was produced by the BBC from 1938 and stopped in 1968.

Your first partner in Send for Paul Temple Again was Barry Morse, who later as Lt.. Philip Gerard, the opponent of Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen ) in the American television series The Fugitive worldwide fame gained. After Howard Marion Crawford in the next production A Case for Paul Temple in the title role spoke, took over in the next 10 productions until 1953 Kim Peacock this Part until the termination of the series then spoke Marjorie Westbury and Peter Coke, the couple Temple. Meanwhile, the surviving radio plays in this series have been re-broadcast of the BBC Radio 4 Extra and also published on CD, which has contributed to its renewed popularity with a younger audience.

With the Part of the fictional Austrian soprano Elsa Strauss in the Hilda Tablet series by Henry Reed, she held a more long-lasting role in the radio in the fifties. Even in the 1970s and 1980s, she was a radio drama spokeswoman in use.

Her career was mainly confined to the radio, which was probably due to their small stature and corpulent, which represented a significant contrast to her bright and vibrant youthful -sounding voice.

For their 50th anniversary at the radio, which they celebrated in 1983, she chose the role of Helen Lancaster in Waters of the Moon by NC Hunter. She died aged 84 on December 16, 1989 in their farmhouse in Maresfield.

Filmography

Radio plays as Steve Temple

Literature

The figures stem exclusively from WP articles, mainly the English contribution to Marjorie Westbury and the Paul Temple articles, with as at 25 November 2011.