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Elspeth Duxbury (23 April 190910 March 1967) was a British actress born in
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. Known primarily for working in theatre, she had one television role in 1938 but did not make her big screen debut until 1960 in the
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''. She followed this with a role on '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' the following year in the episode "
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''. Her final screen role (and one she had performed on stage) was a televised version of the well known farce ''
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. Elspeth Duxbury was found dead in her room, at the St Martin's Hotel, London, on 10 March 1967 aged 57.


Filmography

*1938 ''Laugh with Me'' (TV) (as Sophia Kimberley) *1960 ''
Make Mine Mink ''Make Mine Mink'' is a 1960 British comedy farce film directed by Robert Asher (director), Robert Asher and featuring Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques and Billie Whitelaw. The screenplay concerns a group of eccentric misfits who go o ...
'' (as Elizabeth Pinkie Pinkerton) *1961 '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (episode
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) (TV series) (as Gladys) *1964 '' Swizzlewick'' (TV series) (as Miss. Oldacre) *1965 ''Alexander Graham Bell'' (TV) (as Mrs. Tweedie) *1966 ''
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'' (as Veronica Bledlow) *1966 ''The Yellow Hat'' (as Customer) *1966 ''Big Bad Mouse'' (TV) (as Miss Spencer)


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Still of Elspeth Duxbury (far left) on the set of Make Mine Mink
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duxbury, Elspeth 1909 births 1967 deaths British film actresses British television actresses British stage actresses 20th-century British actresses People from Mhow British people in colonial India