Fanny Rowe

Rowe was born in Preston, Lancashire,{{cite news|title = Fanny Rowe|date = 3 August 1988|newspaper = The Times|page = 12}} the daughter of a parson, and educated at Channing School For Girls in Highgate and then went on to study at Newnham College, Cambridge.{{cite news|url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/260338679/|title = Frances Rowe|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 6 August 1988|last = Cotes|first = Peter|via = Newspapers.com|url-access = subscription|accessdate = 9 March 2024|page = 35}}

Rowe's acting career started in the Marlowe Society, Cambridge. She then worked on the West End and in repertory theatre from 1936 onward, at Newcastle, Coventry, Harrogate, Worthing, Dundee and Windsor.

She appeared in many theatrical productions both on the West End and also in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/rpw/frances-rowe|title=Frances Rowe - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}} Her American stage debut was in Man and Superman. In 1951 she was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award (her real name Frances Rowe is listed). She played the part of Alex Cornwall in Who Goes There!.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g2PBAAAQBAJ&dq=who+goes+there%21+john+dighton+1951+london+theatre&pg=PA84|title=The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|first=J. P.|last=Wearing|date=16 September 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810893085|via=Google Books}} In 1952 she was in John Clements' comedy The Happy Marriage. In 1955 she starred in the J.B. Priestley play Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon.

Rowe made her American radio debut on Grand Central Station.

Rowe's television work included Love Story, Rogues' Gallery, Vanity Fair, The Mill on the Floss (1965 TV adaptation of the book) and as Emily Forsyte in the 1967 BBC TV serial drama The Forsyte Saga. In later years, her most famous roles were that of Nancy Penrose, the mother of Hester played by Julia McKenzie in the ITV sitcom Fresh Fields, (1984–86) and Vera Polling in After Henry (1988).{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/fresh-fields/cast/201506/|title=Fresh Fields - TV Guide|website=TVGuide.com}} She was also in the Tales of the Unexpected episode What Have You Been up to Lately?. (series 5-episode 13){{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b78819805|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517052732/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b78819805|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 May 2019|title=What Have You Been up to Lately? (1982)|publisher=}} She appeared in an episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, "The Hero's Farewell", as the Duchess of Mitcham, and she made a guest appearance in the final episode of Rising Damp, playing Miss Jones's mother.

Rowe married actor Clive Morton in 1954.{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=%2Fqr7LMjP5soedSqBVhcNLA&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=9 March 2024|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/25/archives/clive-morton-actor-dies-at-71-butler-in-upstairs-downstairs.html|title=Clive Morton, Actor, Dies at 71; Butler in 'Upstairs, Downstairs'|website=The New York Times|date=25 September 1975 |publisher=}} She died in London on 31 July 1988 at the age of 75.

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• {{IMDb name|0746509|Fanny Rowe}}
• {{IBDB name|94472}}

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Category:English stage actresses

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Category:English film actresses

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Category:People educated at Channing School