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Welsh actress (1909–1983) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruth Dunning (17 May 1909 – 27 February 1983), born Mary Ruth Dunning, was a Welsh actress of stage, television, and film. Although her year of birth was long given as 1911, her birth was registered in Holywell in 1909.[1]
Ruth Dunning | |
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| Born | Mary Ruth Dunning 17 May 1909 Prestatyn, North Wales, UK |
| Died | 27 February 1983 (aged 73)[1] London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Jack Allen |
Mary Ruth Dunning was born in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, in 1909.[1]
As a young actress, Dunning was a member of an amateur theatre company in Altrincham. In 1934, she took over a part from Wendy Hiller in Love on the Dole, at the Garrick Theatre in London.[2] Other stage appearances for Dunning included Val Gielgud's Punch and Judy (1937),[3] A. A. Milne's Gentleman Unknown (1938),[4] Ted Willis' The Eyes of Youth (1959),[5] and Willis' adaptation of Gorky's Mother (1961).[6]
Dunning found fame in the role of Gladys Grove in BBC Television's The Grove Family (1954–1957), also portraying that character in the 1955 film It's a Great Day.[7] In 1956, she appeared in a television commercial for Persil laundry detergent, on the first night of Granada Television's broadcasts in the north of England.[8][9] In 1962 she was awarded the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her work on Armchair Theatre.[10]
Other screen roles played by Dunning included Leonie in Intimate Relations (1953), Auntie B. in Urge to Kill (1960), Mrs. Mitchell in Hoffman (1970), Betty Atherton in The Sextet (1972), Agnes Henderson in The House in Nightmare Park (1973), Miss Minchin in A Little Princess (1973), Mildred Finch in An Unofficial Rose (1974–1975), Lesley Whittle's mother in The Black Panther (1977), and Mrs. Crabtree in Children of the Stones (1977).[11]
Ruth Dunning was married to actor Jack Allen.[12] She died in 1983, aged 73, in London.
The Ruth Dunning and Jack Allen Collection at the University of Bristol holds some of her papers, including contracts, scripts, and photographs.[13]
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