Biographies: Una O'Connor - Actor

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A British actress, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Her works include David Copperfield (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957). She was a comic actress with an expressive face and a heavy Irish accent, often playing the role of the housekeeper or the maid. She began her stage acting career at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and was called to Hollywood in 1932 upon an invitation to reprise her distinguished role in the play Cavalcade, and then in a movie of the same name. She began her film career in Britain by appearing in the movie Dark Red Roses (1929) then Murder! (1930). She is considered among the first generation of actors who worked on British television, having made her first television appearance in the TV movie The Moon in the Yellow River (1938). She died in New York City, USA on February 4, 1959.

• 20 October 2021
• Christina Aziz