Margo Lee

Margaret Stella Lee (20 June 1923 – 16 October 1987) credited as Margo Lee, was an Australian actor and singer of radio, stage, film and TV.^[1]

Portrait of Margo Lee, television story, 1951, by Eric Francis

Life

Lee was in 1923 in the Leichhardt area of Sydney. Her parents were Margaret Clara (born Draper) and a dentist named John Llewellin Hogg.^[1]

She worked briefly in Hollywood.^[2]

Filmography

Film

• Into the Straight (1949) as Zara Marlowe^[3]
• The Twelve Pound Look (1956) (TV movie) as Kate^[4]
• The Importance of Being Earnest^[5] (1957) (TV movie) as Gwendolyn
• Don't Listen Ladies (1963) (TV movie) as Madeleine
• Flowering Cherry (1963) (TV movie) as Isobel Cherry
• Tim (1979) as Mrs Harrington
• Starstruck (1982) as Pearl

Television

• Whiplash (1959-60)
• Stormy Petrel (1960)^[5] as Elizabeth Macarthur
• The Outcasts (1961) as Mrs John MacArthur
• The Purple Jacaranda (1964) (miniseries) as Anne James
• Voyage Out (1969)
• The Mike Walsh Show (1977) (TV series) Song performance "My Hero" with Dinah Lee, Tim Hall & Phil Haldeman
• Run From the Morning (1978) (miniseries)
• Patrol Boat (1979-83) as Matron Whylie
• The Mike Walsh Show (1983) (TV series) Guest as herself.

Theatre

• Top of the Bill (1954) at Phillip Street Theatre
• Charlie Girl (1971) at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne