Dinah Sheridan
Biography
Dinah Sheridan was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades and who became known for films including Genevieve (1953) and The Railway Children (1970). Born in 1920, she trained at the Italia Conti Stage School and made her professional debut at eleven in Where the Rainbow Ends. In 1936 she was among the first actresses to appear on television. Her early films included Give My Heart (1935) and Calling Paul Temple (1948), and she later appeared in The Sound Barrier (1952), Appointment in London (1953) and The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953). She co-starred in the BBC comedy series Don't Wait Up from 1983 to 1990 and played Chancellor Flavia in Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983). She also had a long stage career in London's West End, and in 1953 the Motion Picture Herald named her Britain's top female box-office star.
92years old at death
- Born Hampstead
- Died Northwood
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Dinah Nadyejda Ginsburg and Dinah Ginsburg
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 35 years1948 to 1983
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About the name
Sheridan chose her professional name from a phone book when she was 14, to play Wendy in a long-running production of Peter Pan.
A first
Sheridan was the first actress to take on both Peter Pan and Wendy. She toured the show from 1934 to 1936 and brought it to Stratford-upon-Avon.
A first
Sheridan was one of the first actresses on television in 1936, interviewed on the BBC magazine program Picture Page when the medium was in its infancy.
First role
In 1932, when she was 11, Sheridan made her professional debut in Where the Rainbow Ends at the Holborn Empire.
A change of course
At the start of World War II, Sheridan put her film career on hold for two years to work as an ambulance driver in Welwyn Garden City, where she also took part in repertory theater.
Dinah Sheridan movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Dinah Sheridan shares two films with Michael Ripper, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Michael Ripper's page
Robert Morley's page
Denholm Elliott's page
Wilfrid Hyde-White's page
Ralph Richardson's page
Dirk Bogarde's page
All films by Lionel Jeffries
Henry CorneliusDirector, 1 film, 1953
All films by Henry Cornelius
David LeanDirector, 1 film, 1952
All films by David Lean
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Official profiles and reference pages.