Rosalie Crutchley Net Worth

Rosalie Crutchley was a highly acclaimed actress who trained at the Royal Academy of Music and made her Broadway debut in 1950. She was known for her dark complexion and gaunt facial features, which often led to her being cast as Spanish, French, or Italian characters. She was frequently cast in sinister or villainous roles, or as downtrodden and tragic characters. She played Madame Defarge in both the 1958 film of A Tale of Two Cities and a later BBC television version, and also played Catherine Parr in The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R, for which she won an International Television Award.
Rosalie Crutchley is a member of Actress

Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day January 04, 1920
Birth Place  London, England, United Kingdom
Age 100 YEARS OLD
Died On 28 July 1997(1997-07-28) (aged 77)\nLondon, England
Birth Sign Aquarius
Occupation actress
Years active 1947-1997
Spouse(s) Peter Ashmore (1946-?) (divorced) (2 children) Dan Cunningham (1939-?) (divorced)
Children Jonathan Ashmore Catherine Ashmore

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

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Biography/Timeline

1939

She was married twice. First to actor Dan Cunningham in 1939 and secondly to actor Peter Ashmore in 1946. Both marriages ended in divorce. She had two children, the Physicist Jonathan Ashmore and Catherine Ashmore, the theatrical Photographer.

1947

Her screen debut was as a Violinist who is murdered in Take My Life (1947). She played Madame Defarge twice in adaptations of A Tale of Two Cities, in both the 1958 film, and in the 1965 television serialisation of the same story.

1956

Crutchley also appeared in adaptations of two A.J. Cronin novels, The Spanish Gardener (1956) and Beyond This Place (1959), and played the flinty maiden aunt in the TV adaptation of Brendon Chase (1980–81). She had two guest roles in Casualty, in 1992 and 1995. She also had a short, but memorable, appearance in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).

1970

She played Catherine Parr in the 1970 TV series, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, and played the same character in its sequel, Elizabeth R (1971). She had previously portrayed Henry's first wife Catherine of Aragon in the 1953 film The Sword and the Rose.

1972

She appeared in only one film musical, Man of La Mancha (1972), based on the successful stage production, as Don Quixote's housekeeper. In the role, her less-than-good singing voice was used for intentionally comic effect in the song "I'm Only Thinking of Him".

1977

Other roles included Mrs Sparsit in Hard Times (ITV, 1977), and Electra (1974). She also starred in Testament of Youth, the 1979 BBC TV production, playing the role of the Principal of Somervile College, Oxford. She was in the films Quo Vadis (1951) as Acte, Nero's confidante, and The Haunting (1963) as the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Dudley.

1997

Her last appearance was in an episode of the TV detective series, Midsomer Murders, in the episode, The Killings at Badger's Drift, playing Lucy Bellringer. This was shown in 1997, shortly before she died.