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Vivien Merchant
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BIRTHDAY
July 22, 1929
Manchester, Lancashire, England
DIED
October 03, 1982
RECENT CREDITS
The Maids
(FILM)
Apr. 21, 1975
The Offence
(FILM)
May. 11, 1973
The Homecoming
(FILM)
Jan. 1, 1973
Frenzy
(FILM)
Jan. 1, 1971
Under Milk Wood
(FILM)
Jan. 1, 1971
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BIOGRAPHY
On stage from the age of 14 (she played a much-younger orphanage resident in a Peterborough Repertory staging of Jane Eyre) British actress Vivien Merchant hit her stride in the mid-1950s. From 1956 through 1980, Vivien....
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On stage from the age of 14 (she played a much-younger orphanage resident in a Peterborough Repertory staging of Jane Eyre) British actress Vivien Merchant hit her stride in the mid-1950s. From 1956 through 1980, Vivien was married to playwright Harold Pinter; she starred or was co-starred in several of his plays, notably as Ruth in The Homecoming. The actress made her first film appearance in Alfie (1966), winning an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lily, the bored housewife whose fling with hedonistic Michael Caine culminates in a painful abortion. One of Merchant's most delightful screen turns was also one of the least typical: the air-headed gourmet-cook wife of long-suffering Scotland Yard inspector Alec McCowan in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972). Merchant left acting in 1980 after she and Pinter divorced. She died in 1982.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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