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Profile of Margaretta Scott
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Margaretta Scott |
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13th February 1912 |
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London, England, UK |
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Margaretta Scott (1912–15 April 2005) was an English actress who was best known for playing the wealthy and eccentric widow Mrs Pumphrey in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990).
However, she had a long acting career of over seventy years, and was the last surviving signatory of the document that established Equity, the British actors' trade union, in 1934.
She played at the Old Vic in 1934, in George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion and in 1958 played at the Bristol Old Vic in Hamlet.
Film roles included Things to Come (1936), Girl in the News (1941), and Fanny by Gaslight (1941).
She was married to composer John Wooldridge, who was killed in a car accident in 1958. Their daughter, Susan Wooldridge, is also a well-known actress.
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