Elspeth March

Elspeth March was an English character actress whose long career covered stage, film and television. Born Jean Elspeth Mackenzie in Kensington, London, she studied speech and drama at London's Central School of Speech and Drama with Elsie Fogerty. Her professional debut came in 1932 at the Westminster Theatre in London, in Jonah and the Whale. She returned to acting in 1944 and went on to take supporting parts in plays, movies and television into her eighties. In 1977 she acted with the National Theatre in The Madras House and in Don Juan Comes Back from the War. During 1983 she took part in Underground, a thriller, in Toronto and at London's Prince of Wales Theatre. Her television work included Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Saint, the 1979 miniseries Rebecca, Tales of the Unexpected, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime and Executive Stress. Her final appearance was as Lady Blanche in The Eligible Bachelor (1993), an episode of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.