Elaine Usher
{{short description|English actress}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Elaine Usher
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|06|08|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Bournemouth, Hampshire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|1|1|1932|6|8|df=y}}
| death_place = Richmond, London, England
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1951–1963
| spouse = {{marriage|Peter Sallis|1957|1965|reason=divorced}}
| children = Crispian Sallis
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Elaine Usher (8 June 1932 – 1 January 2014{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jun/15/peter-sallis-obituary-letter |title=Letter: Peter Sallis obituary |work=The Guardian |date=15 June 2017 |accessdate=25 June 2017}}{{cite news|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60788-2000311 |title=Elaine Sallis |website=The Gazette |date=21 February 2014 |accessdate=28 February 2018}}) was an English actress. She was known for her work on British television.
Personal life
Usher married actor Peter Sallis at St. John's Wood Church in London on 9 February 1957.{{cite web|url=http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/english-television-actor-peter-sallis-with-his-wife-elaine-news-photo/56860606|title=Sallis Marries Usher|date=16 February 2006|accessdate=20 August 2012|publisher=gettyimages.co.uk|work=London Evening Standard}}{{cite news|url=http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/leisure/interviews/1731472.0/|title=Don't give Peter Sallis any Wensleydale, please Grommit|author=Melanie Dakin|date=3 October 2007|work=Bucks Free Press|accessdate=17 February 2016|archive-date=21 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421112948/http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/leisure/interviews/1731472.0/|url-status=dead}} However, it was a turbulent relationship, Usher left Sallis sixteen times until they eventually divorced in 1965.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-sallis-dead-life-career-who-was-he-last-summer-wine-wallace-gromit-death-age-obituary-a7774161.html|title=Peter Sallis, the Last of the Summer Wine actor later enchanted children as the voice of Wallace|date=5 June 2017|website=The Independent}} They eventually reconciled and continued to live together until 1999; Usher remained close to Sallis until her death in 2014.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jun/05/peter-sallis-obituary|title=Peter Sallis Obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=5 June 2017}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jun/15/peter-sallis-obituary-letter |title=Letter: Peter Sallis obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 June 2017 |accessdate=25 June 2017}} They had one son, Crispian Sallis (born 1959), who works as a film set designer.
Death
Television and filmography
=Television=
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! Year !! Title !! Role | ||
| 1951 | When We Are Married | Nancy Holmes |
| 1956 | Nom-de-Plume | Miss Barton |
| 1957 | The Goose Girl | Princess Lucinda |
| 1958 | Television World Theatre | Kaia Fosli |
| 1958 | The Firm of Girdlestone | Kate Harston |
| 1959 | Less Than Kind | Rose |
| 1960 | Itelevision play of the Week | Mabel Dancy |
| 1960–1962 | No Hiding Place | Mrs Mason |
| 1963 | It Happened Like This | Mary Somerville |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2782467}}
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Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:Actresses from Bournemouth
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