Beatrice Varley (11 July 1896 – 4 July 1964) was a British actress who appeared in a variety of television and film roles between 1936 and 1964. She made her screen debut in the 1936 film Tomorrow We Live and began to portray a variety of character roles in films such as Oh, Mr Porter!, Holiday Camp and The Wicked Lady later moving predominantly into television until her death in 1964.
British character actress whose best-known film role as Robert Newton's downtrodden wife of 'Hatter's Castle' (1941), typecast her in similar parts thereafter. During her lengthy career, she portrayed a host of long-suffering housekeepers, landladies or spinster aunts and was Aggie the junk dealer, who supplies a lethal dagger to Michael Gough, proprietor of the 'Horrors of the Black Museum' (1959).
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Started out as a girl soprano and instrumentalist at the age of 14
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Villains
1964
TV Series
The Old Woman
Armchair Theatre
1957-1963
TV Series
Mrs. Corbie / Mrs.Beeston / Mrs. Holmes
ITV Play of the Week
1956-1963
TV Series
Mrs. Grey / Mrs. Collins / Catherine Alan / ...
The Human Jungle
1963
TV Series
Clare Bridges
ITV Television Playhouse
1963
TV Series
Mrs. Milne
Hedda Gabler
1962
TV Movie
Berte
Zero One
1962
TV Series
Miss Pinto
Echo of Barbara
1961
Mrs. Roscoe
Night Without Pity
1961
Mother
Theatre Night
1960-1961
TV Series
Nanny
Coronation Street
1961
TV Series
Mrs. Stark
Kipps
1960
TV Mini-Series
Mrs. Kipps
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960
TV Mini-Series
Mrs. Tope
Identity Unknown
1960
Matron
Man from Interpol
1960
TV Series
Mrs. Roper
Portrait of a Sinner
1959
Hotel Manager
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
1950-1959
TV Series
Alice Greenleaf / Mrs. Hillier / Mrs. Pirto / ...
Hilda Lessways
1959
TV Series
Mrs. Lessways
Horrors of the Black Museum
1959
Aggie
Charlie Drake
1959
TV Series
Room at the Top
1959
Aunt
The Nightwatchman's Stories
1959
TV Series
Mrs. Bill
Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens
1959
TV Series
Mrs. Heep
The Flying Doctor
1959
TV Series
Sis. Carter
Tom Barnardo
1958
TV Movie
Mrs. Dent
Bachelor of Hearts
1958
Mrs. Upcott
Television Playwright
1958
TV Series
Mrs. Blundell
Onion Boys
1958
TV Series
Madame Tregan
Dick and the Duchess
1957-1958
TV Series
Mathilda
Dixon of Dock Green
1957
TV Series
Mrs. Dyke / Mrs. Groome
The Surgeon's Knife
1957
Mrs. Waring
Hell Drivers
1957
Mrs. Yately - Tom's Mother
Hour of Mystery
1957
TV Series
Mrs. Catherick
Hindle Wakes
1957
TV Movie
Mrs. Hawthorn
Sea Wife
1957
Elderly Nun
The Good Companions
1957
Mrs. Carrie Nunn
The Grove Family
1955-1956
TV Series
Belle Wensley / Landlady
Tiger in the Smoke
1956
Lucy Cash
Bill Radford: Reporter
1956
TV Series
Mrs. Hughes
A Man from the Sun
1956
TV Movie
Miss Prior
The Gentle Touch
1956
Sister Snow
Jumping for Joy
1956
Landlady (uncredited)
Lilli Palmer Theatre
1955
TV Series
Mrs. Trent
As I Was Saying
1955
TV Series
Mrs. Rosamund Hart
Rheingold Theatre
1955
TV Series
Emily
Terminus
1955
TV Series
Mrs. Avon
Simon's Treasure
1955
TV Movie
Miss Quickworth
Barnet's Folly
1955
TV Movie
Hannah Mudge
Sweet Coz
1955
TV Movie
Mrs. Bint
The Black Rider
1954
Mrs. Marsh
The Monkey's Paw
1954
TV Short
Mrs. White
The Wide, Wide World
1954
TV Series
Timmins
Game of Danger
1954
Mrs. Maxted
Melba
1953
Aunt Catherine
Death Goes to School
1953
Miss Hopkinson
Holiday Week
1952
Mrs. Hollins
The Wild Heart
1952
Aunt Prowde
There's Always Juliet
1951
TV Movie
Florence
Out of True
1951
Short
Mrs. Green
She Shall Have Murder
1950
Mrs. Hawthorne
No Trace
1950
Landlady
Gone to Earth
1950
Aunt Prowde
Paul Temple's Triumph
1950
Mrs. Weston
The 20 Questions Murder Mystery
1950
Olive Tavy (uncredited)
The Late Edwina Black
1949
TV Movie
Ellen
Adam and Evalyn
1949
Mrs. Parker
Marry Me
1949
Mrs. Perrins
Interlude in Eden
1949
TV Movie
Clara Scutt
No Room at the Inn
1948
Mrs. Jarvis (uncredited)
My Brother's Keeper
1948
Mrs. Jenny Martin
Ma's Bit o' Brass
1948
TV Movie
Aunt Norah
Good-Time Girl
1948
Mrs. Rawlings
As You Are
1948
TV Movie
Emma Pearson
My Brother Jonathan
1948
Mrs. Hodgkiss
The Monkey's Paw
1948
TV Short
Mrs. White
Pygmalion
1948
TV Movie
Mrs. Pearce
The Little Ballerina
1947
Mrs. Field
Master of Bankdam
1947
Mrs. Pickersgill
Jassy
1947
Mrs. Wicks
Holiday Camp
1947
Valerie's Aunt
So Well Remembered
1947
Annie
I Became a Criminal
1947
Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
The Upturned Glass
1947
Injured Girl's Mother
Power Without Glory
1947
TV Movie
Maggie
The Green Finger
1946
Miss Amelia Marchment
Bedelia
1946
Mary
The Wicked Lady
1945
Aunt Moll
The Seventh Veil
1945
uncredited
Johnny Frenchman
1945
Mrs. Tremayne
The Agitator
1945
Mrs. Shackleton
Great Day
1945
Miss Tracy
Waterloo Road
1945
Mrs. Colter
A Lady Surrenders
1944
Miss Rossiter
Welcome, Mr. Washington
1944
Martha
Bees in Paradise
1944
Moagga
Men of Rochdale
1944
Short
Mrs Taylor
Victory Wedding
1944
Short
Mrs. Clark
Millions Like Us
1943
Miss Wells
I'll Walk Beside You
1943
Miss McKenzie
The Man in Grey
1943
Gipsy
The Bells Go Down
1943
Ma Turk
We Dive at Dawn
1943
Mrs. Dabbs (uncredited)
Squadron Leader X
1943
Mrs. Krohn
A Welcome to Britain
1943
Documentary
Vi (uncredited)
There's a Future in It
1943
Short
Mother
Talk About Jacqueline
1942
uncredited
Secret Mission
1942
Mrs. Donkin - the British Cook
A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle
1942
Mrs. Brodie
South American George
1941
Mrs. Butters
Rush Hour
1941
Short
Shopper (uncredited)
The Remarkable Mr. Kipps
1941
Mrs. Kipps
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
1939
Mrs. Mooney (uncredited)
Poison Pen
1939
Mrs. Jenkins
When We Are Married
1938
TV Movie
Mrs. Northrop
The Man with 100 Faces
1938
Bit Role (uncredited)
The Girl Was Young
1937
Accused Man's Wife in First Court Case (uncredited)