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Helen Horton
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Helen Virginia Horton (November 21, 1923 – September 28, 2007) was an American actress. She was born in Chicago and had a brief career in New York. She married Hamish Thomson and…
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Helen Virginia Horton (November 21, 1923 – September 28, 2007) was an American actress. She was born in Chicago and had a brief career in New York. She married Hamish Thomson and lived near London. She worked extensively in British television, radio and theatre, and had three children; her granddaughter is the English actress Lily James. Horton voiced the ship's computer, "Mother", in the 1979 film Alien. Horton attended Northwestern University where she became lifelong friends with Patricia Neal (Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still). She was well thought of in the drama department and was cast as Viola, the lead role in Twelfth Night, with Neal cast as Olivia, in a university production of the Shakespeare play. In September 1945, Horton and Neal took a shared apartment in New York and looked for work. They both got parts in a production of Seven Mirrors at the Blackfriars Theatre. Horton took over from Vivien Leigh as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire after the play's London run was completed and it began to tour the United Kingdom. When Neal mentioned the connection to Leigh, she remarked "No one takes over for me, dear. When I leave a play, it's over."
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1990
Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
Movie ALA Group Leader
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1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV show Julia Olivera
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1988
The Woman He Loved
Movie Martha
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1987
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
TV show Nurse at Playhouse
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1985
Reunion at Fairborough
Movie Mrs Bigard
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1984
The Razor's Edge
Movie Red Cross Lady
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1983
Superman III
Movie Miss Henderson
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1980
The Best of Friends
Movie Mrs Lovsky
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1979
Minder
TV show Judge's Wife
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1979
Alien
Movie Mother (voice)
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1979
Tales of the Unexpected
TV show American Passenger
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1977
Widows' Nest
Movie Ana
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1977
Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes
Movie Nancy
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1975
Two's Company
TV show Clare
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1974
Phase IV
Movie Mildred Eldridge
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1973
Centre Play
TV show Nancy
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1972
Endless Night
Movie Aunt Beth
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1972
Van der Valk
TV show Mrs Lovell Wallace
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1970
The Pueblo Affair
Movie Mrs. Bucher
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1969
The Benny Hill Show
TV show
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1969
The Chairman
Movie Susan Wright
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1969
The Last Shot You Hear
Movie Dodie Rubens
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1966
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Movie Brenda Claffern
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1965
BBC Play of the Month
TV show Grace Torrence
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1965
Out of the Unknown
TV show Brenda Claffern
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1963
Espionage
TV show Mrs Quade
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1961
Hurricane
TV show Mrs. Van Diemen
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1960
Danger Man
TV show Helen
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1960
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Movie Sylvia Kingsley
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1957
The Mark of the Hawk
Movie Barbara Craig
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1957
Thunder on Sycamore Street
Movie Clarice Morrison
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1957
Let's Be Happy
Movie Sadie Whitelaw
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1953
Strange Stories
Movie Marie ('Strange Journey')
