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Dinah Sheridan

(1920–2012) Stage Actor

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Dinah Sheridan was a stage actor.

Quick Facts About Dinah Sheridan

Born: September 17, 1920
Died: November 25, 2012
Profession: Stage Actor

About Dinah Sheridan

[Wikidata] British actress (1920–2012)... | [Wikipedia] Dinah Sheridan was an English actress with a career spanning seven decades. She was best known for the films Genevieve (1953) and The Railway Children (1970), the long-running BBC comedy series Don't Wait Up (1983–1990), and for her distinguished theatre career in London's West End.

Quotes by Dinah Sheridan

But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.

Appointments

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But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

Accepting

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I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.

Desperately

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I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.

Accept

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I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

Cruelty

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I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two…

Am

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I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

Enjoy

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I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

Age

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What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of…

Adventure

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After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

Enjoy

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They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

Choice

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Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to…

Children

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It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

Cinema

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