Carla Lehmann
Canadian actress (1917–1990)
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::summary Canadian actress (1917–1990) ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| image | Actress_Carla_Lehmann.jpg |
| name | Carla Lehmann |
| birth_date | 26 February 1917 |
| birth_place | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Berkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| othername | Carla Hillerns Lehmann |
| Carla Hillerns Townsend | |
| alma_mater | RADA |
| occupation | Stage actress |
| Film actress | |
| Television actress | |
| years_active | 1938–1952 |
| :: |
|image = Actress_Carla_Lehmann.jpg |imagesize = | name = Carla Lehmann | birth_date = 26 February 1917 | birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | death_date = | death_place = Berkshire, England, United Kingdom | othername = Carla Hillerns Lehmann Carla Hillerns Townsend | alma_mater = RADA | occupation = Stage actress Film actress Television actress | years_active = 1938–1952
Carla Lehmann (26 February 1917 – 1 December 1990) was a Canadian stage, film and television actress.
Career
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada, Lehmann was the youngest of the five children of Dr Julius Lehmann and Elsa Hillerns. She was educated at Riverbend School (now Balmoral Hall), where she edited the school newspaper, and from the age of fifteen appeared at the Little Theatre, Winnipeg. Gaining a place to train for an acting career at RADA in London, she then joined the Croydon Repertory Company for a year before first appearing in the West End. Her stage work included appearances in several Aldwych farces. During the Second World War she starred in war films opposite Stewart Granger and James Mason. She also played in Cottage to Let opposite John Mills and Alistair Sim in 1941.
Lehmann notably played Susan Foster in the film Candlelight in Algeria (1944) and Lady Mary Hannay in the BBC television series The Three Hostages (1952).
Private life
Lehmann spent most of her adult life living in England. In 1941 she married George Anderson McDowell Elliot, a former Royal Marine officer recently commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps, but they later divorced. In 1947 she married her second husband, John R. Townsend, an insurance broker, in Westminster, and they had three sons, John Anthony (born 1948), Nicholas (born 1949), and Alain (1954). She died in Berkshire in 1990.
Filmography
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Luck of the Navy | Uncredited | |
| 1939 | So This Is London | Elinor Draper | |
| 1940 | Sailors Three | Jane | |
| 1941 | Cottage to Let | Helen Barrington | |
| Once a Crook | Estelle | ||
| 1942 | Flying Fortress | Sydney Kelly | |
| Secret Mission | Michèle de Carnot | ||
| Talk About Jacqueline | Jacqueline Marlow | ||
| 1944 | Candlelight in Algeria | Susan Foster | |
| 1945 | 29 Acacia Avenue | Fay Jones | |
| 1947 | Fame Is the Spur | Lady Lettice | |
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References
References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090114165758/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/19803 Profile], ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 12 September 2015.
- McFarlane, Brian. (16 May 2016). "The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition". Oxford University Press.
- Register of Marriages for Surrey South West, volume 2a, p. 1633.
- ''[[The London Gazette]]'' dated 10 May 1940 (Supplement), [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34846/supplement/2795/data.pdf p. 2795]
- Register of Marriages for Westminster, volume 5c, p. 736
- [http://westenddumplings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/look-back-at-winnipeg-actress-carla.html Carla Lehmann: From Winnipeg Little Theatre to London's Stage UPDATE], accessed 3 October 2016
- Register of Births for Ealing registration district: Jan-Mar 1948, volume 5e, p. 201; July-Sept 1949, volume 5e, p. 152; April–June 1954, volume 5e, p. 151
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