Moira Lister Gachassin-Lafite, Viscountess of
Orthez
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(6 August 192327 October 2007) was a South African-British film, stage and television actress and writer.
Early life
Born in
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...
to Major James Lister and Margaret (née Hogan), Lister was educated at the Parktown Convent of the Holy Family,
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...
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She was a theatre student of Anna Romain Hoffman, who with her husband Arthur Hoffman founded The Johannesburg Repertory Theatre.
Career
She began her acting career on stage in South Africa and then went on to act in the London theatre at the age of 18.
Lister began working in films in 1943, and appeared in a number of films over several decades. The most notable of these being for
Ealing Studios
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, such as ''
Another Shore
''Another Shore'' is a 1948 Ealing Studios comedy film directed by Charles Crichton. It stars Robert Beatty as Gulliver Shields, an Irish customs official who dreams of living on a South Sea island; particularly Rarotonga. It is based on the 1 ...
'' (1948), ' (1949), ''
Pool of London'' (1951) and ''
The Cruel Sea'' (1953). She starred in
Peter Ustinov's long-running 1951 play ''
The Love of Four Colonels
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'' in the West End.
She had a regular role in the first series of the
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'' in 1954–55, and was also one of the girlfriends in ''A Life of Bliss'' starring
as David Bliss, a perpetual bachelor. She starred in the
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