Margaret Muriel de Melfort Martin-Harvey (4 October 1891, in London – 15 December 1988, in Hillingdon, London) was an English stage actress. Martin-Harvey was born to actors, London-born Angelita Helena Margarita (née de Silva) and Essex-born Sir

John Martin-Harvey Sir John Martin-Harvey (22 June 1863 – 14 May 1944), known before his knighthood in 1921 as John Martin Harvey, was an English stage actor-manager. Born in Bath Street, Wivenhoe, Essex, he was the son of John Harvey, a yacht-designer an ...

. She made her debut in 1921 in ''The Bear Leadera'', and later toured the United States and Australia. She also played the leading role in two

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s. Her brother was the actor

Michael Martin-Harvey Michael Martin Harvey (birth registered as Jack Seaforth Harvey, baptised as Jack Seaforth Elton Harvey, 18 April 1897 – 30 June 1975) was an English actor. He was the son of the stage actor/manager Sir John Martin-Harvey and brother of actress ...

. Martin-Harvey married three times.Muriel De-Melfort Martin-Harvey
findagrave.com She first married

Ronald Squire Ronald Launcelot Squire (25 March 1886 – 16 November 1958) was an English character actor. Biography Born in Tiverton, Devon, England, the son of an army officer, Lt.-Col. Frederick Squirl and his Irish-born wife Mary (Ronald's surname 'Sq ...

in August 1924; they divorced the same year. On 15 July 1926, she married actor Garry Marsh, an actor 11 years her junior. She later married Anthony Huntly-Gordon, who was the company and stage manager to the Agatha Christie thriller ''

The Mousetrap ''The Mousetrap'' is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. ''The Mousetrap'' opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-1 ...

'' at the Ambassadors Theatre for 21 years.

Filmography

* '' The Answer'' (1916) * '' The Hard Way'' (1916)

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* 1891 births 1988 deaths 20th-century English actresses Actresses from London English film actresses English people of Chilean descent English silent film actresses English stage actresses {{England-film-actor-stub