Ada Brand Thomson[1] (22 July 1929 – 3 October 1982), known professionally as Vivien Merchant, was an English actress. She began her career in 1942, and became known for dramatic roles on stage and in films. In 1956 she married the playwright Harold Pinter and performed in many of his plays.
Merchant achieved considerable success from the 1950s to the 1970s, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress in 1964. For her role in the film Alfie (1966), she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 1967, she starred in the Broadway production of Pinter's The Homecoming, and received a Tony Award nomination. Her other films included Accident (1967), The Offence (1972), Frenzy (1972), The Homecoming (1973), and The Maids (1975). Suffering from depression and alcoholism as her marriage ended, she died in 1982, two years after her divorce.
^Billington, Michael. "Pinter, Harold". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/100647. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Brand Thomson (22 July 1929 – 3 October 1982), known professionally as VivienMerchant, was an English actress. She began her career in 1942, and became known...
Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and VivienMerchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin. The plot centres...
productions (as well as a 1973 film adaptation), Pinter's first wife, VivienMerchant, played Ruth. Max, "a man of seventy" – The patriarch of the family...
for killing the suspect in a series of flashbacks. Trevor Howard and VivienMerchant appear in major supporting roles. Bannen was nominated for a BAFTA...
and England. In 1956 he married actress VivienMerchant and had a son, Daniel, born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Lady Antonia...
directed by George Schaefer, written by James Costigan, and starring VivienMerchant, Jenny Agutter, and John Ronane. During The Troubles in Northern Ireland...
name. It starred Glenda Jackson and Susannah York as the maids, and VivienMerchant as their employer. It is also mentioned in a 1995 French film of Claude...
Company and other troupes throughout the world. In 1975, Dalton and VivienMerchant headed the cast of a revival of Noël Coward's The Vortex. With two...
Various BBC radio productions covered in these strands were Thérèse with VivienMerchant, Jane Eyre with Patrick Allen, How To Get Away With Murder, The Concert...
lessons during the Second World War with her friend and neighbour VivienMerchant. At the age of 19 she won a scholarship to train as an actress at LAMDA...
London on 1 June 1971. It starred Colin Blakely, Dorothy Tutin, and VivienMerchant, and was directed by Peter Hall. The play was dedicated to Hall to...
film Bitter Harvest (1963). Around the same time, he played opposite VivienMerchant in a television version of Harold Pinter's play The Lover (also 1963)...
revived in London at the Greenwich Theatre in 1973 with the actresses VivienMerchant as Madame, Glenda Jackson as Solange and Susannah York as Claire. This...
role, also featured Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Glynis Johns, VivienMerchant and other well-known actors, including Ryan Davies as the "Second Voice"...
Seasons as Alice More Jocelyne LaGarde – Hawaii as Queen Malama Kanakoa VivienMerchant – Alfie as Lily Geraldine Page – You're a Big Boy Now as Margery Chanticleer...
Steensma Annette Crosbie The Slipper and the Rose The Fairy Godmother VivienMerchant The Homecoming Ruth Billie Whitelaw The Omen Mrs. Baylock 1977 (31st)...
Letitia Chitty, English aeronautical engineer (b. 1897) October 3 – VivienMerchant, British actress (b. 1929) October 4 Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, 25th Prime...
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