May Warden

May Warden ( born May 9, 1891 in Leeds, † October 5, 1978 in London) was a British actress.

Life and career

May Warden was born as the daughter of American actor Edward Warden and his wife Maud in Leeds. Maud broke up with her ​​middle-class family in order to marry the penniless actor. Her parents lived a life of no fixed abode, so May Warden therefore never went to school. Your theater career began at age twelve. Since the late 1940s, she appeared as Miss Sophie in the sketch Dinner for One in various variety shows of the British seaside resort of Blackpool. Together with her stage partner, comedian Freddie Frinton, the then 72 -year-old Warden was known by a performance of Dinner for One in the NDR television program " Good evening, Peter Franks box " and a subsequent TV recording in Germany. This is shown every year on New Year's Eve on TV.

Dinner for One was to be their first television appearance, it followed until 1973, however, around 30 other television roles, where they usually embodied grandmothers. She played among others in the series Doctor Who, as well as in the series as Billy Liar grandmother Florence.

She married in 1915 the comedian New Year's Eve Stewart ( † 1973); the two had two daughters and two sons. Her daughter Audrey was also an actress. After Sylvester 's death, she withdrew from the spectacle shop and lived until her death in London.