Iris Ashley
{{Short description|Irish-born British actress (1909–1994)}}
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| name = Iris Ashley
| image = Actor_Iris_Ashley.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = 1936 Spotlight photo
| birth_name = Iris Blanche Stafford-Northcote
| birth_date = 26 December 1909
| birth_place = Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
| death_date =5 January 1994 (aged 84)
| death_place = London, United Kingdom
| othername =
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1930–1936 (film)
}}
Iris Blanche Stafford-Northcote (26 December 1909 – 5 January 1994), known as Iris Ashley, was an Irish-born British stage and film actress.Sweeney p.95{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/pck/iris-ashley|title=Iris Ashley - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2be1617|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222053809/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2be1617|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2017|title=Iris Ashley|publisher=}}
Biography
She was born in Trellis Cottage, Rushbrooke, Queenstown (now Cobh), County Cork, to English-born parents, Captain Leonard Augustus Stafford Northcote and Lilian Cora Van Praagh.Civil Birth Certificate, General Registry Office Ireland She grew up in England.1911 England Census Her mother was of Dutch descent and her father was a member of the aristocratic Northcote family. Her parents divorced in 1912 after her father abandoned the family and moved to Australia with another woman. Leonard wrote to his wife, "I have cut myself entirely adrift from my former life and thrown in my lot with some one else. Try and not take it too badly, because you will be far better off as regards money, and your only deficiency will be myself. I do not think I shall be much missed.".{{cite news |title=From Husband to Wife |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1002776086/?article=a1faf611-1187-48d7-a2f3-dc655bcc6563&xid=5904&terms=Mrs_Lilian_Cora_Stafford_Northcoto |access-date=8 May 2024 |work=The Darling Downs Gazette |date=29 April 1912 |page=6 |language=en}}England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858–1918
She made an appearance on the BBC's television game show Call My Bluff in 1968.{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1968-02-11|title=BBC Two England - 11 February 1968 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}
Filmography
- An Obvious Situation (1930)
- Never Trouble Trouble (1931)
- Poor Old Bill (1931)
- Nine Till Six (1932)
- The Lodger (1932)
- Heads We Go (1933)
- The Song You Gave Me (1933)
- The Warren Case (1934)
- Royal Cavalcade (1935)
- The Student's Romance (1935)
- Me and Marlborough (1935)
- I Give My Heart (1935)
- Blind Man's Bluff (1936)
- The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)
References
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Bibliography
- Sweeney, Kevin. James Mason: A Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0039063}}
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Category:British people of Dutch descent
Category:British film actresses
Category:British stage actresses
Category:Irish stage actresses
Category:Actors from County Cork
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