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Marjorie Westbury (18 June 1905 – 16 December 1989) was an English radio actress and singer. Her career lasted for more than fifty years.
Born in Oldbury, Worcestershire, she studied Voice at the Royal College of Music in London between 1927 and 1930. During the 1930s, she made many radio broadcasts as a soprano from the BBC's studios in Birmingham. By the late 1930s, she had moved into acting as well as singing. This led in 1942 to a small part in Francis Durbridge's Paul Temple Intervenes.
In 1945, she took on the role of Paul's wife, Steve Temple, and continued to play the part until the radio serials came to an end in 1968. The surviving Paul Temple serials have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
While "Steve Temple" might have been her longest-lasting role, she was a very frequent radio actress into the 1970s and beyond. During the 1950s, she created the part of the (fictional) Austrian soprano Elsa Strauss in the Hilda Tablet series of radio plays by Henry Reed. In 1964, she played the part of the baby in a radio adaptation of Mervyn Peake's long poem The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb. In 1983, she chose to celebrate the golden jubilee of her first appearance on radio by appearing as "Helen Lancaster" in N. C. Hunter's play, Waters of the Moon.
Westbury's career was mostly on radio with occasional films and theatre work. She died at her farmhouse in Maresfield, near Uckfield, Sussex on 16 December 1989, aged 84.
MarjorieWestbury (18 June 1905 – 16 December 1989) was an English radio actress and singer. Her career lasted for more than fifty years. Born in Oldbury...
Coke (pronounced Cooke) and MarjorieWestbury, who starred together in every serial made between 1954 and 1968; Westbury had played the role in every...
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of the Paul Temple serials (mysteries) that starred Peter Coke and MarjorieWestbury. His television roles included two Doctor Who serials; The Mind of...
Shepherd, Jeffrey Segal, Judith Paris and Suzy Mandel, with narrator MarjorieWestbury. A BBC Radio adaptation followed on BBC Radio 4 on 1 August 1998 as...
William Tell - Paul Daneman UAC 11002 Snow White - MarjorieWestbury UAC 11003 Cinderella - MarjorieWestbury UAC 11004 The Knights of the Round Table - Derek...
readings: 1956, in 10 episodes, abridged by Neville Teller and read by MarjorieWestbury. 2006, in 10 episodes, abridged by Neville Teller, produced by Neil...
had been played in the radio series of Paul Temple from 1945-68 by MarjorieWestbury), the BBC wishing to drop Drinkwater, but Taurus favouring her retention...
second wife Marjorie Merriweather Post as a winter residence. Post would end up keeping the house after the divorce. Hutfield, Old Westbury, New York:...
1953, an adaptation by H. Arnold Hill, with Carleton Hobbs as Silas, MarjorieWestbury as Maud and Gladys Spencer as Madame de la Rougierre. 1981, a 3-part...
Maxwell-Scott. Lady Lucan, his wife, was born in Uckfield. The actress MarjorieWestbury lived at Maresfield near Uckfield. Nicholas van Hoogstraten, a property...
Heathcote". TV.com. "Thomas Heathcote". www.aveleyman.com. "Peter Coke and MarjorieWestbury in 'PAUL TEMPLE AND THE SPENCER AFFAIR'". The Radio Times (1781):...
1904) 15 December – Edward Underdown, actor (born 1908) 16 December – MarjorieWestbury, actress (born 1905) 17 December Edward Boyd, scriptwriter (born 1916)...
1959) Hugh Burden as Herbert Reeve Mary O'Farrell as Hilda Tablet MarjorieWestbury as Elsa Strauss Carleton Hobbs as Stephen Shewin Deryck Guyler as...
original on 18 October 2017. "Masterpiece". TVGuide.com. "Peter Coke and MarjorieWestbury in ' PAUL TEMPLE AND THE SPENCER AFFAIR'". The Radio Times (1775):...
disc jockey 2 November – Tom Mennard, 71, comedian 16 December – MarjorieWestbury, 84, radio actress and soprano 1989 in British music 1989 in British...
studio performance of Le Docteur Miracle, alongside Willy Clément, MarjorieWestbury and Alexander Young, conducted by Stanford Robinson. Nadine Renaux...
from the 1954 serial, Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case, onwards. MarjorieWestbury took over the part of Steve from the fifth serial, Send for Paul Temple...
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