Lally Bowers

Lally Bowers was an English actress whose career spanned hundreds of stage, film and television productions. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, and educated at Hulme Grammar School, she worked as a secretary before joining the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, where she began with walk-on parts and understudying. She made her London debut in 1944, and among her West End successes were Dinner With the Family, which won her a Clarence Derwent award in 1957, and The Killing of Sister George, which also played on Broadway. Her films included The Chalk Garden (1964), Up Pompeii (1971), Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) and The Slipper and the Rose (1976). On television she appeared in sitcoms such as You're Only Young Twice, Going Straight, Hi-de-Hi!, My Name Is Harry Worth and A Fine Romance, and in 1982 she played Mrs. Ariadne Oliver in an Agatha Christie adaptation, The Case of The Discontented Soldier. She died in 1984.