Peggy Ashcroft

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Dec 22, 1907 (117 years old)
Death date
Jun 14, 1991

Peggy Ashcroft

Known For

The Heat of the Day
1h 46m
Movie 1989

The Heat of the Day

In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to not arrest him if she'll have a relationship with him.

A Perfect Spy
0h 53m
TV Show 1987

A Perfect Spy

The life of British MI6 spy Magnus Pym, from his school days to his mysterious disappearance.

When the Wind Blows
1h 24m
Movie 1986

When the Wind Blows

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.

Murder by the Book
0h 51m
Movie 1986

Murder by the Book

Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.

The Wind and the Bomb
0h 25m
Movie 1986

The Wind and the Bomb

The making-of When the Wind Blows, featuring interviews with producer John Coates, director Jimmy T. Murakami and writer Raymond Briggs

Biography

​Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.

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