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Georgina Ward (actress)

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In July 1961 Ward was convicted at Birmingham Assizes of dangerous driving that caused the death of a roadster after the jury in an earlier hearing had been unable to reach a verdict. She denied that she had been rushing to get to the theatre at
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in London in 1965. During the 1960s and into the 70s, she appeared in episodes (mostly extant) of a number of popular British TV series, often in nefarious roles, and also in films. Her first movie, in 1963, was the espionage thriller
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and graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, whom she married in 1978 and was possibly the model for Dicky Umfraville in novelist
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Ward’s first husband, the journalist Alastair Forbes (1918-2005), whom she married in 1966, was uncle of US Democratic Senator
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and she had a number of “walk on” parts with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among her leading roles on stage was in
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In the event the series ended in September 1966. Celia and her husband returned to London in the final episode.
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for a rehearsal, and was fined ÂŁ100 and disqualified for driving for four years after the judge, Mr Justice
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In the early 1970s Ward was a potential Labour candidate for the parliamentary constituency of
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helped briefly to raise its national profile. As such she was the cover star of the
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On her mother’s side, Ward was the great-granddaughter of the Liberal politician
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For the Countess of Dudley, born Georgina Moncreiffe (1846-1929), see
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before the practice was discontinued. Another actress,
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. 8: 405:Ward was the cousin once removed of actress 303:on 16 July 1966 (during the finals of the 163:(13 March 1941 – June 2010) was a British 43: 27: 179:and Anne Capel (1919-2008), whose father 568:In October 1967 Ward was a guest on the 177:George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley 148:George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley 626: 7: 719:https://www.listal.com/georgina-ward 647:"Georgina Ward | Theatricalia" 218:, Countess of Dudley, whose sister 349:to be presented at Court to Queen 14: 21:Georgina Ward, Countess of Dudley 197:William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley 804:Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. 231:Thomas Lister, Lord Ribblesdale 183:was a muse of fashion designer 871:Actresses from Gloucestershire 866:20th-century English actresses 413:, mistress of the future King 390:. He died on 1 February 1998. 365:, gave a dance for her at the 345:In 1958 Ward was one the last 1: 468:, “The Tourelle Skull” (1963) 286:. 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Georgina Ward, Countess of Dudley
The Honourable

Danger Man
Chipping Sodbury
Gloucestershire
Mexico
Pride and Prejudice
The Man Who Finally Died
The Avengers
Danger Man
George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley
The Honourable
stage
film
television actress
George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley
Boy Capel
Coco Chanel
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
Edwardian
music hall
Gertie Millar
Lord Salisbury
Georgina Moncreiffe
Harriet
Edward VII
Thomas Lister, Lord Ribblesdale
Margot Tennant
H. H. Asquith

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