Georgina Cookson
Biography
Lean, aristocratic-looking British character actress,on stage from the 1940's. She was noted on Broadway for her performance (and for bringing the house down with her tango on opening night) as Lady India in Jean Anouilh's 'Ring Around the Moon' (1950-51). On television, her aquiline features and impeccable bearing led to her gravitating towards upper class roles as wealthy or snooty socialites -- few more memorable than her unnamed party-goer in the dream sequence of The Prisoner (1967) episode "A.B.and C."; and as Mrs. Butterworth, who not only resides in Patrick McGoohan's old flat and drives his sports car but turns out to be another Number 2 (in the episode "Many Happy Returns"). She also had to graciously scrape the mould of a bread-roll offered her by Steptoe and Son (1962) in "Loathe Story", as the hyphenated mother of Joanna Lumley. Georgina had a rare lead in the title role of the low-budget thriller The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (1965) as Gary Merrill's crippled and demanding wife, who, unsurprisingly gets killed and disposed of in the potting shed. Of course, she comes back to haunt her evil hubby (really, just a double-cross staged by his two accomplices). In many of her other appearances on screen, Georgina played opposite great British comic actors, from Sidney James to Tony Hancock. Privately, her circle of friends included Denholm Elliott and Terry-Thomas (with whom she shared the stage in 'Full House'). Her final curtain call before retirement in Australia was as the lead in the comedy play 'A Breath of Spring' in 1990. - IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis
Known For
All Movies (13)
- Love, I Think1970 · as Mark's Mother
- The Picasso Summer1969 · as British Woman at Dinner
- Darling1965 · as Carlotta Hale
- Catacombs1965 · as Ellen Garth
- Woman of Straw1964 · as Guest at Villa Salon (uncredited)
- Five Golden Hours1961 · as Lady Passenger
- Your Money or Your Wife1960 · as Thelma Cressingdon
- The Shakedown1960 · as Miss Firbank
- The Treasure of San Teresa1959 · as Billie
- A Question of Adultery1958 · as Mrs. Duncan
- The Naked Truth1957 · as Lady Lucy Mayley
- Woman Hater1948 · as Julia
- I Didn't Do It1945 · as Willow Thane
All TV Shows (12)
- Number 101983 · as Baroness Rothschild
- Affairs of the Heart1974 · as Maud Lowder
- Lord Peter Wimsey1972 · as Helen, Duchess of Denver
- W. Somerset Maugham1969 · as Marion Towers
- Ooh La La!1968
- Ooh La La!1968 · as Madame de Pontmele
- The Prisoner1967 · as Mrs. Butterworth / Number Two
- The Prisoner1967 · as Blonde Lady
- Espionage1963 · as Eve McAvoy
- Danger Man1960 · as Miss Bishop
- Emma1960 · as Mrs Elton
- Theatre Night1957 · as Lorna Loveday