Audrey Fildes

Audrey Fildes (24 November 1922, Bromborough, Cheshire, England – 13 September 1997, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a British actress whose first film credit was the 1947 production While I Live. In 1949, she played the role of Louis Mazzini's mother, who was ostracised by her aristocratic family, in the film Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Granddaughter of Victorian painter, Sir Luke Fildes R.A. and Welsh Sculptor Sir William Goscombe-John R.A., and son of British Olympian (Épée) Luke Val Fildes, Audrey showed keen interest in acting while a student at Hayes Court School. She later related that, while at Hayes Court, she was directed in a performance of The Merchant of Venice by Alec Guinness. At the performance, he brought Peggy Ashcroft backstage and introduced Audrey to her as "my Portia". During her 20s she enjoyed an active acting career, appearing as Sonia in the celebrated production of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment with John Gielgud at the New Theatre in 1946 and as Diana in Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon (1950), directed by Peter Brook and co-starring Paul Scofield.

In 1947 she appeared as Miss Design, opposite Joyce Grenfell's Miss Arty, in Designing Women, a short film made by the Central Office of Information for the Council for Industrial Design in an attempt to influence consumers' taste. Helping a newly-wed couple consider their motley collection of wedding gifts, she advised them to ask "Does it work? Is it genuine and well-made? Is it attractive?". An author writing about the film in 2009 described Fildes as a "beautiful starlet".[1]

She married a Canadian design consultant in 1955, and moved to Ottawa. They had two sons Paul and Nicholas before separating, following which Audrey returned to England to bring up her sons. In the early 1970s Audrey trained for a second career as a gilder and restorer at the City and Guilds of London School. In 1976 she returned to Canada, settling in Toronto. Her gilding and restoration clients included the Government of Ontario and pieces of her work remain at Queen's Park, the Provincial Parliament. She was a member of the William Morris Society of Canada.

The National Portrait Gallery holds a 1944 photograph of Fildes by Cecil Beaton,[2] and the collection of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales includes a 1934 bronze bust Audrey by her grandfather Goscombe John,[3] which may be of Fildes. She appeared as a model in the September 1950 edition of British Vogue.[4]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1947 While I Live Olwen
Designing Women Miss Design Short
1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets Mama

Television Work

Television Series[5] Episode Character Year
Wednesday Theatre A Social Success The Countess of Amersham 1953
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre

(Live Performance)

The Lake Marjorie Hervey 1953

References

  1. ^ Horrall, Andrew (14 September 2009). Bringing Art to Life: A Biography of Alan Jarvis. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-0-7735-7583-7. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Audrey Fildes". npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Audrey". Museum Wales. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Vogue British UK September 1950 Cecil Beaton, London and Paris". hprints.com. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Audrey Fildes | Actress". IMDb. Retrieved 2 August 2023.

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