Vickery Turner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vickery Turner

British actress

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1945

Place of Birth: Sunbury-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Apr-2006

Profession: screenwriter, actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Vickery Turner

  • Vickery Turner (3 April 1940 in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey – 4 April 2006), born Christine Hazel Turner, was a British actress, playwright, author and theatre director.She started out on stage and her first breakthrough role was in the first production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie opposite Vanessa Redgrave.
  • For that role Turner received the Clarence Derwent Award for the best supporting performance and the London Critics Award for the most promising newcomer. Her television work began with Ken Loach's once controversial Up The Junction (1965) for the BBC's Wednesday play series.
  • She acted in many of the more famous British plays of the 1960s.
  • The plays she wrote for the BBC's Thirty-Minute Theatre series were "Keep on Running" and "Magnolia Summer" and for The Wednesday Play "Kippers & Curtains".
  • Her film career included roles in Prudence and the Pill (1968), Crooks and Coronets (1969), The Mind of Mr.
  • Soames (1970), Chandler (1971), Ruby and Oswald (1978), The Good Soldier (1981), and The Return of the Soldier (1982). In 1969 she met Warren Oates while filming Crooks and Coronets and they married.
  • They were divorced in 1974.
  • She was also a successful novelist and her published novels included Focussing, Lovers of Africa (Love & Hunger in the USA), The Testimony of Daniel Pagels and Delicate Matters.
  • Turner's fifth novel—Lost Heir—was scheduled to be published around the time of her death. Another role that she was famous for was "The Brontes of Haworth”, where she played Charlotte BrontĂ«. Her second husband was the actor Michael J.Shannon, whom she met and fell in love with during the American season of Frith Banbury's production of Frank Harvey's The Day After the Fair, in which they both acted.
  • Their daughter Caitlin is an actress and writer.

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