# Barbara Waring

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**Barbara Waring** ( Barbara Alice Waring Gibb; 1 August 1911 – April 1990) was an English [actress](/source/Actor), screenwriter, and playwright.

## Biography

**Barbara Alice Waring Gibb** was born on 1 August 1911 in [Kent](/source/Kent), England, the daughter of Dr. J. A. Gibb.[1] She attended the [Royal Academy of Dramatic Art](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Dramatic_Art),[2] and was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s.

In the late 1930s she married Laurence A. Evans, a theatrical agent.[1] They divorced and in 1947 she married the Hon. Geoffrey Cunliffe, son of [Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe](/source/Walter_Cunliffe,_1st_Baron_Cunliffe), and Edith Cunningham Boothby, and Chairman of British Aluminium.[2][1]

In 1963, she wrote the script for *Two by the Sea* and in 1974 that for *Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies*.[3] In 1967, she wrote the play *The Jaywalker*, performed at Coventry Cathedral with music by [Duke Ellington](/source/Duke_Ellington).[2]

She died in April 1990, aged 78, in [Surrey](/source/Surrey), England.[citation needed]

## Appearances

- 1935: *[His Majesty and Company](/source/His_Majesty_and_Company)* as Princess Sandra
- 1935: *[The Girl in the Crowd](/source/The_Girl_in_the_Crowd)* as Mannequin
- 1942: *In Which We Serve* as Mrs MacAdoo, written by [Noël Coward](/source/No%C3%ABl_Coward) and directed by [Noël Coward](/source/No%C3%ABl_Coward) and [David Lean](/source/David_Lean)
- 1943: *[The Gentle Sex](/source/The_Gentle_Sex)* as Joan Simpson, directed and narrated by [Leslie Howard](/source/Leslie_Howard_(actor))
- 1944: *A Canterbury Tale* as Polly Finn
- 1944: *[Heaven Is Round the Corner](/source/Heaven_Is_Round_the_Corner)* as Dorothy Trevor
- 1945: *[Twilight Hour](/source/Twilight_Hour)* as Gladys
- 1947: *[Hungry Hill](/source/Hungry_Hill_(film))* as Barbara Brodrick, with a screenplay by [Terence Young](/source/Terence_Young_(director)) and [Daphne du Maurier](/source/Daphne_du_Maurier), from the novel by Daphne du Maurier[4]

## References

1. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

1. ["Barbara Waring, Cavalcade, The Gentle Sex and Duke Ellington"](https://elvirabarney.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/barbara-waring-cavalcade-the-gentle-sex-and-duke-ellington/). *elvirabarney*. Retrieved 23 January 2018.

1. ["Barbara Waring"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180124135713/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bca641e6f). *British Film Institute*. Archived from [the original](http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bca641e6f) on January 24, 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.

1. ["Barbara Waring"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180124070857/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f70dfe7). *British Film Institute*. Archived from [the original](http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f70dfe7) on January 24, 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.

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