Clare Kelly

{{Short description|English actress (1922–2001)}}

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| name = Clare Kelly

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| birth_date = 25 February 1922

| birth_place = Manchester, England

| death_date = 18 February 2001 (aged 78)
Bath, Somerset, England

| occupation = Actress

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Clare Kelly (25 February 1922 – 18 February 2001) was an English actress who worked primarily in television.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17282fa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518185616/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17282fa|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 May 2017|title=Clare Kelly|website=BFI}} She was known for roles in films such as Georgy Girl (1966),{{cite book|last=Mayer|first=Geoff|title=Guide to British Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7FOX_OWDyHEC&pg=PA147|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30307-4|page=147}} And Soon the Darkness (1970), The Fourth Protocol (1987).{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/clare-kelly-p220026|title=Clare Kelly | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}} TV roles included Gideon's Way S1E25 (1964), Valerie Barlow's mother Edith Tatlock in long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1969), as Connie Wagstaffe in The Cuckoo Waltz (1975), Mrs. Rothwell in A Kind of Loving (1982), and as Violet Littlejohn in Rep (1982).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b706eae40|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718194707/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b706eae40|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 July 2019|title=The Cuckoo Waltz (1975)|website=BFI}} Kelly also appeared in several roles in The Bill.