Barbara Couper
{{Short description|British actress (1903–1992)}}
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| name = Barbara Couper
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1903|1|6}}
| birth_place = London
United Kingdom
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1992|1|10|1903|1|6}}
| death_place = Woking
United Kingdom
| othername =
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = Howard Rose
| years_active = 1925–1969
}}
Barbara Couper (6 January 1903 – 10 January 1992) was a British stage, film and television actress.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/25274|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117034310/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/25274|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 January 2009|title=Barbara Couper|publisher=}} She made her stage debut in 1925 and played leading roles at Stratford in the 1930s.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&q=barbara+couper+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA164|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111975|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/1x7/barbara-couper/past?page=2|title=Barbara Couper – Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com|access-date=26 August 2018|archive-date=27 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827075424/https://theatricalia.com/person/1x7/barbara-couper/past?page=2|url-status=dead}} Her screen work included several films and much television.{{cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=39131|title=Barbara Couper|website=www.aveleyman.com}}
Selected filmography
- Heaven Is Round the Corner (1944) – Mrs. Trevor
- The Story of Shirley Yorke (1948) – Muriel Peach
- The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949) – Lady Dolwyn
- Dark Secret (1949) – Mrs. Barrington
- Paul Temple's Triumph (1950) – Mrs. Morgan
- Happy Go Lovely (1951) – Madame Amanda
- The Lady with a Lamp (1951) – Mrs. Nightingale
- The Weak and the Wicked (1954) – Prison Doctor
- Face in the Night (1957) – Mrs. Francis
- The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) – The Mayor's wife
- The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) – Mabel Radnage
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) – Mrs. Paunceforth
References
External links
- {{IMDb name|0183639}}
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Category:English stage actresses
Category:English film actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:Actresses from London
Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:20th-century British businesspeople
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