{{Short description|Canadian actress (1922–2022)}} {{Infobox person | name = Barbara Chilcott | image = Portrait_of_Barbara_Chilcott.jpg | birth_name = Barbara Chilcott Davis | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|9|10}} | birth_place = Newmarket, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|1|1|1922|9|10}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | alma_mater = Royal Central School of Speech and Drama | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1949–1999 | spouse = {{marriage|Max Helpmann<br>|1952|end=div}} {{marriage|Harry Somers<br>|1967|}} | children = }}
'''Barbara Chilcott Davis''' (September 10, 1922 – January 1, 2022) was a Canadian actress.
==Career== After the war she studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and made her West End debut in 1949. On her return to Canada in 1950, she soon became one of the country's leading actresses.<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/barbara-chilcott Barbara Chilcott]</ref> In 1953, with her brothers Murray and Donald Davis, she founded the Crest Theatre troupe in Toronto, which operated until 1966.<ref>[https://torontoist.com/2015/07/historicist-patrick-macnee-before-the-bowler/ Historicist: Patrick Macnee, Before the Bowler]</ref>
Chilcott died in Toronto on January 1, 2022, at the age of 99.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Theatre actress and 'real national treasure' Barbara Chilcott dead at 99|work=|agency=The Canadian Press|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/barbara-chilcott-dead-at-99-1.6302602|via=CBC News}}</ref>
==Partial filmography== * 1960 ''The Full Treatment'' as Baroness de la Vailion * 1966 ''The Trap'' as Trader's Wife * 1975 ''Lies My Father Told Me'' as Mrs. Tannenbaum * 1993 ''M. Butterfly'' as Critic at Garden Party * 1996 ''No Contest II'' as Mrs. Holman
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0157443}} * [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/barbara-chilcott Entry at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca] * Archives of Barbara Chilcott [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=212522&lang=eng (Barbara Chilcott fonds, R11210)] are held at Library and Archives Canada
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chilcott, Barbara}} Category:1922 births Category:2022 deaths Category:Actresses from Toronto Category:Canadian film actresses Category:Canadian television actresses Category:Canadian stage actresses Category:20th-century Canadian actresses Category:Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama