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Gillian Lind (25 August 1904 - 25 October 1983) was a British
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, film and
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. In 1930 she starred in
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's play '' On the Spot'' in the West End.Kabatchnik p.172 She went on to enjoy a long career in film and television. Initially appearing onscreen as a female
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, she later transitioned into
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s. In 1957 she appeared in the
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'' as the protagonist's mother. She featured on the 1964 series ''
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'' based on a novel by H.G. Wells. She was married to the actor
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.


Selected filmography

* ''
Condemned to Death ''Condemned to Death'' is a 1932 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Arthur Wontner, Gillian Lind and Gordon Harker. It was adapted from the play ''Jack O'Lantern'' by James Dawson which was itself based on a 1929 novel by ...
'' (1932) * ''
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'' (1933) * ''
The Man Outside ''The Man Outside'' (, literally ''Outside, at the door'') is a play by Wolfgang Borchert, written in a few days in the late autumn of 1946. It made its debut on German radio on 13 February 1947. ''The Man Outside'' describes the hopelessness of ...
'' (1933) * '' Open All Night'' (1934) * '' Death Croons the Blues'' (1937) * '' The Oracle'' (1953) * ''
The Heart of the Matter ''The Heart of the Matter'' (1948) is a novel by English author Graham Greene. The book details a life-changing moral crisis for Henry Scobie. Greene, a former British intelligence officer in Freetown, British Sierra Leone, drew on his expe ...
'' (1953) * '' Aunt Clara'' (1954) * '' Don't Talk to Strange Men'' (1962) * '' Fear in the Night'' (1972) * '' And Now the Screaming Starts!'' (1973)


Selected stage credits

* ''
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'' (1928) * '' On the Spot'' (1930) * ''
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'' (1934)


References


Bibliography

* Kabatchnik, Amnon. ''Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection : an Annotated Repertoire''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.


External links

* 1904 births 1983 deaths British television actresses British film actresses British stage actresses 20th-century British actresses British people in colonial India {{UK-actor-stub