Mary Peach

Mary Peach was a film and television actress who was born in South Africa and built her career in Britain. Born in Durban, she earned a BAFTA nomination as most promising newcomer for Room at the Top (1958) and went on to appear in British films and television for some 25 years. She starred opposite Rock Hudson in A Gathering of Eagles (1963) and appeared in Scrooge (1970), the musical version of Dickens's A Christmas Carol with Albert Finney. On television she was a regular in Couples, Inside Story, a 1966 BBC adaptation of The Three Musketeers, Fox and the Doctor Who serial The Enemy of the World, and she played a Russian counter espionage agent in a 1967 episode of The Saint and starred opposite Ian McShane in Disraeli in 1978. She was among the actresses considered to replace Diana Rigg on The Avengers and played Mae in a BBC production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.