Margery Mason

Margery Mason was a British actress and director, born in London in 1913 and died in 2014. In the 1960s she was artistic director of a repertory theater in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. She took the part of Sarah Stevens, the mother, in John Hopkins's cycle of four plays, Talking to a Stranger (1966), and the fourth play, The Innocent Must Suffer, gave Sarah's perspective. On television she appeared in Peak Practice, Midsomer Murders and Juliet Bravo (1982), and she was Mrs Porter in the Granada series A Family at War from 1970 to 1971. Her film roles included Charlie Bubbles (1968), The Raging Moon (1971), the bullying teacher's wife in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982), the Ancient Booer in The Princess Bride (1987), a contestant on a game show in Victoria Wood Presents (1989), 101 Dalmatians (1996) and Love Actually (2003).