Dorothy Dewhurst

{{Short description|English stage and film actress (1886–1959)}}

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Dorothy Irene de Singleton Dewhurst{{citation |title=Jonathan Dewhurst: The Lancashire Tragedian |author=Philip Taylor, Susan Taylor |publisher=Book Guild |year=2001 |page=203 }} (1886 – 12 December 1959) was an English stage and film actress. Born in 1886 in Sale, Cheshire, England, she was married to the actor George Bernard Copping, who died before her. She died on 12 December 1959 in London.{{citation |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef1db9a |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001210715/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef1db9a |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 October 2016 |title=Dorothy Dewhurst |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=15 September 2016 }}

She appeared in multiple films between 1936 and 1959. These include Love at Sea (1936), Father O'Nine (1938), Bedtime Story (1938),{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160035/|title=Imdb}} and Blackmail Is So Difficult (1959).{{Cite web|url=https://gb.imdb.com/title/tt1670341/|title=Imdb|access-date=1 July 2018|archive-date=20 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920024418/http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt1670341/|url-status=dead}}

She appeared on the stage in multiple performances in London in the 1920s and 1930s.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5vFEAwAAQBAJ |title=The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel |author=J. P. Wearing |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2014 |pages=468, 472, 491–92, 496, 505, 507, 526, 532, 541–42, 544, 551, 561–62, 580, 588, 596, 611–12, 615, 617, 640, 650, 658, 670, 678, 698, 700–1, 709 |isbn=978-0810893023 }}{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2mYAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 |title=The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel |author= J. P. Wearing |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2014 |pages=2–3, 5, 8, 13, 16–17, 19, 21–22, 24–25, 31–32, 40, 44–46, 48–49, 51, 53, 56, 60–62, 64, 66–67, 70, 75, 81, 83, 85, 88, 149, 151, 156–58, 162, 166, 280, 416, 435, 563 |isbn=978-0810893047}} In 1938, she appeared in The Torch Theatre's production of a play by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy called Katie Roche.{{Cite web|url=http://deevy.nuim.ie/items/show/338|title=Teresa Deevy Archive}} Produced by Lennox Robinson, there were nine performances. It was the first time it was presented in a London Theatre, having been published in "Famous Plays of 1935-36" after its production in the Abbey Theatre Dublin.

In 1953, she appeared in the original cast of Graham Greene's first play, The Living Room, which premiered at Wyndham's Theatre, London, and was produced by Peter Glenville.