Mary Wimbush
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Aunt Agatha (Mary Wimbush) and Arthur Prysock (John Cassady) (Jeeves and Wooster - Cyril And The Broadway Musical). She is enamoured of the Abstract Expressionist portrait painting by Corky Corcoran, and asks NY Chronicle Art Critic Arthur Prysock to buy it for her art gallery.
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19 March 1924 Kenton, Middlesex, England, UK |
| Died | 31 October 2005 (aged 81) The Mailbox, Birmingham, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1945-2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Howard Marion-Crawford (1946-1954; divorced); 1 child |
Mary Wimbush (19 March 1924 – 31 October 2005) was an English actress whose career spanned sixty years from the 1940s to the 2000s. Active across film, television, theatre and radio, she was perhaps best known for her role as the character of Julia Pargetter in BBC Radio 4's popular soap opera The Archers, a part she played from 1992 until her death.
Wimbush's father was a schoolmaster and her mother had trained at RADA, but did not pursue a stage career. Wimbush was educated at the Berkhamsted School for Girls, and at St Agnes & St Michael's Convent, an Anglican school in East Grinstead. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, before joining the Amersham repertory company.
She first acted on radio for the BBC in 1945, later preferring the medium as it gave her more time to look after her young son, and it continued to be the medium in which she was the most active throughout her career. She played roles in hundreds of series, serials and plays, including various Shakespeare productions; Mrs Dale's Diary, The Governor's Consort (a part written especially for her by Peter Tinniswood), The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Horse's Mouth. For the latter two productions she won Best Actress at the 1991 Sony Awards, the radio equivalent of the Oscars. In 2004 she played Eurycleia in BBC Radio 4's acclaimed dramatisation of The Odyssey. In The Archers in 1951 her character Jane Maxwell was the original stumbling block to the engagement of Phil Archer and his future (first) wife Grace. In 1965 she played schoolteacher Elsie Catcher, and was a regular on the programme for two years until the character retired. In 1969 she returned for a time as Lady Isabel Lander and she finally came back in 1992 as Julia Pargetter.
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