Barbara Waring ( Barbara Alice Waring Gibb; 1 August 1911 – April 1990) was an English

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

, screenwriter, and playwright.

Biography

Barbara Alice Waring Gibb was born on 1 August 1911 in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, England, the daughter of Dr. J. A. Gibb.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. She attended the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sen ...

, and was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s. In the late 1930s she married Laurence A. Evans, a theatrical agent. They divorced and in 1947 she married the Hon. Geoffrey Cunliffe, son of

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, and Edith Cunningham Boothby, and Chairman of British Aluminium. In 1963, she wrote the script for ''Two by the Sea'' and in 1974 that for ''Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies''. In 1967, she wrote the play ''The Jaywalker'', performed at Coventry Cathedral with music by

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. She died in April 1990, aged 78, in

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, England.

Appearances

*1935: ''

His Majesty and Company ''His Majesty and Company'' or ''His Majesty and Co'' is a 1935 British musical film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring John Garrick, Barbara Waring, and Morton Selten. It was made at Wembley Studios by the British subsidiary of the Fox ...

'' as Princess Sandra *1935: '' The Girl in the Crowd'' as Mannequin *1942: ''In Which We Serve'' as Mrs MacAdoo, written by

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and directed by

and

David Lean Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics ''The Bridge on the River ...

*1943: ''

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'' as Joan Simpson, directed and narrated by

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*1944: ''A Canterbury Tale'' as Polly Finn *1944: ''

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'' as Dorothy Trevor *1945: ''

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'' as Gladys *1947: ''

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'' as Barbara Brodrick, with a screenplay by

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and

Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather was Geor ...

, from the novel by Daphne du Maurier

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Waring, Barbara 1911 births 1990 deaths 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights Actresses from Kent Alumni of RADA English female screenwriters English women dramatists and playwrights