Marie Lohr

Marie Lohr was an Australian-born actress whose stage and screen work in Britain spanned more than six decades. She was born in Sydney in 1890, and her mother was the actress Kate Bishop; the family moved to England in 1898, and Lohr began acting as a child. Her first stage appearance came in Sydney when she was four, in The World Against Her, and she made her London debut at ten in Shockheaded Peter. She created roles for writers including Bernard Shaw, Noël Coward, J.M. Barrie and Somerset Maugham, performed mostly in the West End and toured the British provinces, Broadway and Canada. Her films include Pygmalion (1938) as Mrs. Higgins, Major Barbara (1941), Went the Day Well? (1942), The Winslow Boy (1948), Anna Karenina (1948) and A Town Like Alice (1956). She appeared on television in The Plane Makers and The Last Chronicle of Barset, and died in 1975.