Avice Landone
{{Short description|English actress (1910–1976)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Avice Landone
| image = Actress_Avice_Landone.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = In Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
| birth_name = Avice Spitta
| birth_date = {{birth date|1910|9|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = Quetta, British India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|6|12|1910|9|1|df=y}}
| death_place = Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, England{{cite web |title=Search Results for England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007 |url=http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-deaths-1837-2007?lastname=barnabe&eventyear=1976&eventyear_offset=0}}
| other_names =
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1947–1972
| spouse = Bruno Barnabe (m. 1940)
| children = 1
}}
Avice Landone (1 September 1910{{spaced ndash}}12 June 1976) was an English actress who appeared in British television and film.{{cite web |title=Avice Landone movies, photos, movie reviews, filmography, and biography |url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/avice-landone-p40315 |publisher=AllMovie}}
She was born in Quetta, British India, and made her screen debut in the 1948 film My Brother Jonathan. From 1961 she co-starred with Peggy Mount in the ITV sitcom Winning Widows. Between 1970 and 1972 she played Margaret Brown in the television series Man at the Top.{{cite web|url=http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/Man-at-the-Top-Complete-Series-2/|title=Man at the Top: Complete Series 2 DVD|work=MovieMail}}{{cite web |title=It's all Perfectly True (1970) |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b825b567f |url-status=dead |publisher=BFI |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218154239/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b825b567f |archive-date=2015-02-18}}
She was married to the actor Bruno Barnabe. She retired from acting in 1972 and died in 1976, aged 65, from undisclosed causes.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/206699|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080817125508/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/206699|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-08-17|title=Avice Landone|work=BFI}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484952|title=Avice Landone|work=IMDb}}
Filmography
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Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
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1948 | My Brother Jonathan | Mrs. Martyn | |
1950 | Guilt Is My Shadow | Eva | |
1951 | The Franchise Affair | Mrs. Wynn | |
1951 | Laughter in Paradise | Shopper at Swan & Edgar | Uncredited |
1951 | White Corridors | Sister Jenkins | |
1952 | Something Money Can't Buy | Maternity Sister | Uncredited |
1953 | Personal Affair | 1st Gossip | Uncredited |
1953 | Operation Diplomat | Mrs. Terry | |
1953 | Love in Pawn | Mrs. Trusslove | |
1953 | Escape by Night | Mrs. Weston | |
1954 | The Embezzler | Miss Ackroyd | |
1954 | Thought to Kill | Maud | |
1955 | An Alligator Named Daisy | Mrs. Weston | |
1955 | Windfall | Mary Lee | |
1956 | My Teenage Daughter | Barbara | |
1956 | Reach for the Sky | Douglas Bader's Mother | |
1956 | Eyewitness | Night Sister | |
1957 | True as a Turtle | Valerie Partridge | |
1958 | Rx Murder | Mrs. Motlock | |
1958 | Carve Her Name With Pride | Vera Atkins | |
1958 | The Wind Cannot Read | Second Nurse | |
1958 | A Cry from the Streets | Rachel | |
1958 | The 39 Steps | Louisa | Uncredited |
1960 | Operation Cupid | Mrs. Mountjoy | |
1961 | Five Golden Hours | Beatrice | |
1962 | Gaolbreak | Mrs. Wallis | |
1964 | This Is My Street | Lily | |
1964 | The Leather Boys | Reggie's Mother | |
1964 | Nothing But the Best | Mrs. Horton | |
1969 | Two Gentlemen Sharing | Mrs. Pater - Roddy's Mother | |
1971 | The Blood on Satan's Claw | Isobel Banham | |
1972 | The Adventures of Barry McKenzie | Mrs. Gort | (final film role) |
Selected theatre roles
- Great Day (1945) by Lesley Storm
- A Lady Mislaid (1950) by Kenneth Horne
- And This Was Odd (1951) by Kenneth Horne
- Not in the Book (1958) by Arthur Watkyn
References
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Category:English film actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:British people in colonial India
Category:20th-century English businesspeople
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