Charlotte Mitchell

Known for ActingBorn 1926-07-23Died 2012-05-02Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

In the 1950s she provided lyrics, sketches, and occasionally acted in revues on London's West End. She was especially successful in her ventures providing lyrics for Madeleine Dring in Airs on a Shoestring (1953), Pay the Piper (1954), and Fresh Airs (1956), all productions of Laurier Lister. She was once (allegedly) the girlfriend of Peter Sellers, and appeared in The Goon Show episodes Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1954) as Maid Marian and Tales of Montmartre (1956) as Seagoon's love interest, Fifi. Charlotte Mitchell was married to the actor Philip Guard[3] and was the mother of three children, actors Christopher Guard[4] and Dominic Guard[5] and animator and novelist Candy Guard. Charlotte lived in West London during the later part of her life and continued to be active as a poet. She appeared on BBC Radio with Ian Carmichael in The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C. Potter. Carmichael played Gerald C. Potter, mystery writer, while she played Diana, his wife, who, under the pseudonym of Miss Magnolia Badminton, wrote romantic novels. She also played, on radio, the Dowager Duchess (Lord Peter Wimsey's mother) in the radio adaption of Strong Poison that starred Ian Carmichael as Peter Wimsey and the character of Kath Miller in the BBC Radio 2 daily serial Waggoners' Walk. [9] She also featured as Maid Marion in The Goon Show's "Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest"[10] in December 1958. On television, she played Amy Winthrop the housekeeper in The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972–74), and Monica Spencer in And Mother Makes Five. Her poetry was published in collections such as "Twelve Burnt Saucepans", "Looking Round Dangerously", "I Want to Go Home" and "Just in Case". These provided the basis of a series of popular programmes on BBC Radio 4 in which she read her own work. Her poetry is often requested and read on the BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please, and one of her poems was chosen by Judi Dench and Michael Williams in their joint BBC Radio 4 programme With Great PleasureRead more

Movies & web series

The Woman He Loved

The Lady's Maid's Bell

Never A Cross Word

Cribb

Inspector Morse

The Ronnie Barker Playhouse

Shine on Harvey Moon

Farrington of the F.O.

Lytton's Diary

The Kids from 47A

Pond Life

Heartbeat

The Gentle Touch

Village of the Damned

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Curtain Up

Not in Front of the Children

Father Brown

The Man in the White Suit

Lost

Ladies in Charge

Persuasion

The French Lieutenant's Woman

The Happiest Days of Your Life

...And Mother Makes Five

Three Up, Two Down

The Paradise Club

Laughter in Paradise

Jim, the World's Greatest

The Adventures of Black Beauty

The Blood on Satan's Claw

The Bridal Path

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Crown Court

Street Corner

In This House of Brede

Time Bomb

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

Miss Jones And Son

Arthur Clears the Air