Iris Vandeleur

{{Short description|British actress (1884–1969)}}

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| name = Iris Vandeleur

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| birth_date = 11 January 1882

| birth_place = Stirling, Scotland, U.K.

| death_date =27 June 1969 (aged 87)

| death_place =Chelsea, England, U.K.

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| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1938-1961 (film & TV)

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Iris Vandeleur (1884–1969) was a British stage and film actress.{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/gay/iris-vandeleur|title=Iris Vandeleur | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}{{cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=Robert |title=British Cinema and the Second World War |date=2005 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-7897-9 |page=283 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9jQdmfyGDoC&q=%22Iris+Vandeleur%22&pg=PA283 |accessdate=March 6, 2020|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baa40a4dc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918155922/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baa40a4dc|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 September 2018|title=Iris Vandeleur|website=BFI}} In 1951 she appeared in the BBC television series Sherlock Holmes as Mrs. Hudson, the landlady.{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e717adb9f5ff4db0a1d68036a45535f8|title=The Empty House|date=October 20, 1951|issue=1457|pages=51|via=BBC Genome}}

In the West End she appeared in 1939 in Ian Hay's comedy Little Ladyship.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2mYAwAAQBAJ&q=little+ladyship+london+stage+1930-1939&pg=PA732|title=The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|first=J. P.|last=Wearing|date=May 15, 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810893047|via=Google Books}}