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Clare Greet
English actress (1871–1939) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Clare Greet (14 June 1871 – 14 February 1939) was an English stage and film actress.
She began on stage in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Company and later played many roles in the West End between 1907 and 1938. The premieres in which she played included Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, Major Barbara and Androcles and the Lion. She appeared in films between 1921 and 1939.
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Clare Greet was born on 14 June 1871, the daughter of John Greet and his wife Fanny.[1] She was educated privately at Leamington Spa and then attended the Girls' College, Brighton.[1] She studied for the stage under Hermann Vezin, Emile Behnke, and Ben Greet (to whom she was no relation).[1] She made her first appearance on the stage in 1891 with the Ben Greet Company, in which she played numerous parts in Shakespearean plays and old comedy. She was then engaged by John Hare for the Garrick Theatre, where she understudied; she subsequently toured with him, and then with William Calvert and subsequently with Grace Hawthorne, as Stephanie in A Royal Divorce, and Antonin in Theodora .[1]
In 1893 Greet played an engagement at the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel, where she appeared as Louisa Anne Ferguson in The English Rose, Joyce in East Lynne, Minnie in Nance, Peggy Chudleigh in The Harbour Lights and Moya in The Shaughraun. She made her first appearance in the West End at the Strand on 10 May 1894, as Hetty in The Love Letter. In the same year she was engaged at the Avenue as understudy in Arms and the Man, in which she appeared as Louka on several occasions.[1]
Greet toured in the US with Lillian Russell, and in the British provinces with May Fortescue and next toured as Mrs. Bagot in Trilby, and subsequently as Madame Vinard. She toured with Sidney Brough as Mrs Pomfret in The Paper Chase, and toured in South Africa in Two Little Vagabonds, East Lynne, Confusion and The Two Orphans. Her later West End roles were:[1]
Greet died in her sleep at her flat in Chelsea on 14 February 1939, aged 67.[2]
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Partial filmography
- The Rotters (1921) as Mrs. Clugson
- Love at the Wheel (1921) as Martha
- Three Live Ghosts (1922) as Mrs. Gubbins
- Number 13 (1922) as Mrs. Peabody
- The Farmer from Texas (1925) as Frau Appelboom
- The Ring (1927) as Fortune Teller (uncredited)
- The Rising Generation (1928) as Cook
- The Manxman (1929) as Mrs. Cregeen
- Murder! (1930) as Member of the Jury
- Third Time Lucky (1931) as Mrs. Scratton
- Alibi (1931)
- Many Waters (1931) as Registry Office Cleaner (uncredited)
- Lord Babs (1932) as Mrs. Parker
- The Sign of Four (1932) as Mrs. Hudson (uncredited)
- White Face (1932) as Mrs. Albert
- Lord Camber's Ladies (1932) as Peach
- Channel Crossing (1933) as Anxious Passenger
- Mrs. Dane's Defence (1933) as Mrs. Bulsom-Porter
- The Pointing Finger (1933) as Landlady
- Little Friend (1934) as Mrs. Parry
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) as Mrs. Brockett (uncredited)
- Emil and the Detectives (1935) as Grandma
- Maria Marten (1936) as Mrs. Marten
- Royal Eagle (1936)
- Sabotage (1936) as Mrs. Jones, Cook (uncredited)
- St. Martin's Lane (1938) as Old Maud
- Jamaica Inn (1939) as Granny Tremarney, Sir Humphrey's Tenant
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