Eileen Way

Eileen Mabel Elizabeth Way (2 September 1911 – 16 June 1994)^[1] was a British actress who appeared in film and television roles in a career dating back to the 1930s. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from the age of 16.^[1][2]

Eileen Way
Born	Eileen Mabel Elizabeth Way (1911-09-02)2 September 1911 New Malden, Surrey, England
Died	16 June 1994(1994-06-16) (aged 82) Canterbury, Kent, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1938–93
Spouse	Felix Warden Brown

She was in some of the first productions of Tennessee Williams' plays in Great Britain, including playing the role of the Mexican Woman in A Streetcar Named Desire,^[3] and appeared at the Bristol Old Vic and Nottingham Playhouse.^[4]

She appeared in an early televised episode of Hancock's Half Hour as a puritanical former ATS member, the TV series Doctor Who, in the serials An Unearthly Child (as Old Mother, the programme's first on-screen death) and The Creature from the Pit (as Karela),^[5] as well as in the 1966 film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (as Old Woman), based on the serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964).^[6] She also appeared in the second series of Poldark (1977) as Aunt Agatha; Century Falls;^[5] Upstairs, Downstairs;^[1] By the Sword Divided;^[7] Inspector Morse;^[1] Bergerac; and Ripping Yarns.^[8]

She was married to the psychiatrist Felix Warden Brown.^[9]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	Cheer the Brave	Unknown
1952	The Happy Family	Mrs. Potter
	The Stranger Left No Card	Secretary
	Venetian Bird	Woman Detective
1953	Street of Shadows	Mrs. Thoms
	Blood Orange	Mme. Fernande
1954	They Who Dare	Greek Woman
	Knave of Hearts	1st Landlady	Uncredited
	Aunt Clara	Maggie Mason
1957	Bullet from the Past Scotland Yard (film series)	Lady at No. 72	Uncredited
1958	The Vikings[1]	Kitala
1960	Kidnapped	Jennet Clouston
1961	The Singer Not the Song	Fortune teller	Uncredited
1962	Village of Daughters	Gloria Balbino
1964	The Bargee	Onlooker	Uncredited
	The Comedy Man	Landlady
1966	Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.	Old Woman
	Drop Dead Darling	Italian Dressmaker
1969	Vendetta for the Saint	The Maid
1981	Sphinx	Aida
1984	Memed My Hawk	Seuneh
1985	Bad Medicine	Sra. Madera
1989	Queen of Hearts[1]	Mama Sibilla

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1938	The Gay Lord Quex	Unknown	TV movie
1939	The Day Is Gone	Florrie	TV movie
1947	The Gay Lord Quex	Miss Moon	TV movie
1954	Thunder Rock	Ellen Kirby	TV movie
1955	The Blakes	Gypsy Rebecca	Season 1, episode 1
	Barbie	Miss McGinty	Season 1: (2 episodes)
1955 1957	BBC Sunday-Night Theatre	La Cachiporra Sarah Becker	Season 6, episode 16: "Midsummer Fire" Season 8, episode 49: "Counsellor at Law"
1956	Armchair Theatre	Unknown	Season 1, episode 11: "The Right Thing"
1958	Television World Theatre	Woman of Troy	Season 1, episode 3: "Women of Troy"
	General Electric Theatre	Old Maid	Season 6, episode 15: "Time to Go Now"
	ITV Television Playhouse	Susan	Season 4, episode 10: "Breakdown"
1959	William Tell	Reynolds	Season 1, episode 32: "The Black Brothers"
	The Vagrant Heart	Mrs. Smith	TV movie
1960	International Detective	Mama Carlucci	Season 1, episode 5: "The Winthrop Case"
	Hancock's Half Hour	Mavis Smith	Season 6, episode 4: "The Reunion Party"
	BBC Sunday-Night Play	Ruth Kellner Senora River	Season 1, episode 15: "Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning" Season 1, episode 27: "Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust"
	Rendezvous	Signora Zampino	Season 1, episode 18: "Next Time You'll See Venice"
1961	Rashomon	The Medium	TV movie
	Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond	Mrs. Evans	Season 3, episode 27: "The Confession"
	Dixon of Dock Green	Isa Capon	Season 8, episode 7: "Desperation"
1962	Sir Francis Drake	Pastora	Season 1, episode 22: "The Gypsies"
	Benny Hill	Lorna	Season 2, episode 1; "The Mystery of Black Bog Manor"
1963	Crane	Unknown	Season 1, episode 5: "The Executioners"
	Man of the World	Catrina	Season 2, episode 6: "The Bullfighters"
	Drama 61 -67	Landlady	Season 3, episode 14: "Drama 63: Rasputin Was A Nice Old Man"
	Maupassant	Mme. Padoie	Season 1, episode 10: "Bachelors"
	Maigret	Irene	Season 4, episode 3: "The Lost Life"
	The Sentimental Agent	Miss Mithras	Season 1, episode 7: "A Little Sweetness and Light"
	Kidnapped	Jennet Clouston	Season 1, episode 7: "Catriona"
1963 1979	Doctor Who	Old Mother Karela	Season 1: (2 episodes: "The Cave of Skulls" and "The Forest of Fear") Season 17: (4 episodes: The Creature from the Pit)
1968	ITV Play of the Week	La Madrecita	Season 9, episode 23: "Camino Real"
	First Night	Mrs. Phillips	Season 1, episode 30: "How Many Angels"
1964 1965	Cluff	Mrs. Bateson Amy Horrisey	Season 1, episode 5: "The Daughter in Law" Season 2, episode 9: "The Daughters"
1965 1967	The Troubleshooters	Mrs. Murtagh Saroya	Season 1, episode 9: "A Job for Willy" Season 4, episode 11: "Who Buys Who"
1966	Court Martial	Woman	Season 1, episode 15: "Where There Was No Echo"
1966 1969	The Wednesday Play	Aunt Erika Margeurite Rosmer Mrs. Phillips Woman in pub	Season 1: (4 episodes)
1967	Mickey Dunne	Sophia Lombardi	Season 1, episode 13: "Are there any more at Home like You?"
1967 1974 1977	Z-Cars	Mrs. Hancock Mrs. McGann Mrs. Riley	Season 9, episode 49: "The Great Art Robbery: Part 1" Season 10, episode 1: "Bits An' Bats" Season 12, episode 2: "Rage"
1968	The Spanish Farm	Berthe	TV movie
1968 1970	ITV Playhouse	Gypsy woman Woman	Season 2, episode 9: "The Kindness of Mrs. Ratcliffe" Season 3, episode 32: " A Sound from the Sea"
1969	The Saint	The Maid	Season 6: (2 episodes)
	Omnibus	Old Dorothy	Season 2, episode 16: "The Women from the Shadows"
	The Gold Robbers	Dowager	Season 1: (2 episodes)
	The Flaxton Play	Macena	Season 1, episode 8: "1854: The Witches"
1970	The Germinals	Ma Brǔlé	Season 1: (2 episodes)
	The Doctors	Alice Platt	Season 1, episode 103
1972	New Scotland Yard	Mrs. Esther Grubber	Season 1, episode 3: "Memory of a Gauntlet"
	The Onedin Line	Old Woman	Season 2, episode 3: "A Woman Alone"
	Thirty Minutes Worth	Unknown	Season 1, episode 6
1973	The Adventures of Black Beauty	Maggie	Season 1, episode 25: "The Barge"
1974	Upstairs, Downstairs	Madame Francini	Season 4, episode 8: "The Glorious Dead"
1976	The Glittering Prizes	Mrs. Hersh	Season 1, episode 6: "A Double Life"
1977	The Mackinnons	Christina McSween	Season 1, episode 7: "Shame the Devil"
	Poldark	Agatha Poldark	Season 2: (5 episodes)
	Ripping Yarns	Old woman	Season 1, episode 5: "Across the Andes by Frog"
	Just William	Mrs. Marsh	Season 2, episode 5: "William the Philanthropist"
1978	Les Miserables	Lodger	TV movie
1979	Secret Army	Woman Patient	Season 3, episode 10: "Collaborator"
1980	Fair Stood the Wind for France	Grandmother	Season 1: (3 episodes)
1982	Minder	Mrs. Chambers' mother	Season 3, episode 1: "Dead Men Do Tell Tales"
1983	The Old Men at the Zoo	Mrs. Langley-Beard	Season 1, episode 4: "Armageddon"
	Macbeth	Second Witch	TV movie
1983 1985	By the Sword Divided	Minty	Season 1: (8 episodes) Season 2: (8 episodes)
1984	Sakharov	Ruf Grigorievna	TV movie
1985	Mussolini: The Untold Story	Vendor	Season 1, episode 1
1986	Paradise Postponed	Dora Nowt	Season 1, episode 10: "Faith Unfaithful"
	All Passion Spent	Genoux	Season 1: (3 episodes)
1987	Screen Two	Finn's Grandma	Season 3, episode 6: "Naming the Names"
	One by One	Mrs. Maplin	Season 3, episode 1: "Changing Places"
	Vanity Fair	Mrs. Tinker	Season 1, episode 3: "Crawley of Queen's Crawley"
1988	The Rainbow[1]	Lydia Brangwen	Season 1: (2 episodes)
1989	War and Remembrance	Mrs. Stern	Season 1: (2 episodes)
1990	Screen One	Aunt Anna	Season 2, episode 6: "One Last Chance
1991	Bergerac	Mrs. Edwards	Season 9, episode 7: The Waiting Game
	Inspector Morse	Mrs. Papas	Season 5, episode 4: "Greeks Bearing Gifts"
	Birds of a Feather	Irene	Season 3, episode 10: "Cuckoo"
1992	Mistress of Suspence	Edna	Season 1, episode 11: "Under a Dark Angels Eye"
	The Bill	Mrs. Collins	Season 8, episode 74: "A Blind Eye"
1992 - 1993	Sean's Show	Mrs. Pebbles	Season 1: (6 episodes) Season 2: (7 episodes)
1993	The Detectives	Old Lady	Season 1, episode 2: "Hostage"
	Century Falls	Alice Harkness	Season 1: "5 episodes"