# Carla Lehmann

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{{Short description|Canadian actress (1917–1990)}}
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| image        = Actress_Carla_Lehmann.jpg
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| name         = Carla Lehmann
| birth_date   = 26 February 1917
| birth_place  = [Winnipeg](/source/Winnipeg), Manitoba, Canada
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1990|12|1|1917|2|26|df=y}}
| death_place  = [Berkshire](/source/Berkshire), England, United Kingdom
| other_names  = Carla Hillerns Lehmann<br>Carla Hillerns Townsend
| alma_mater   = [RADA](/source/RADA)
| occupation   = [Stage actress](/source/Stage_actress) <br> [Film actress](/source/Film_actress) <br> [Television actress](/source/Television_actress)
| years_active = 1938–1952 
}}

'''Carla Lehmann''' (26 February 1917 – 1 December 1990) was a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) [stage](/source/stage_actress), [film](/source/film_actress) and [television actress](/source/television_actress).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114165758/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/19803 Profile], ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 12 September 2015.</ref><ref name=encyclopaediabritishfilm>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&dq=carla+lehmann+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA446|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111975}}</ref>

==Career==
Born in [Winnipeg](/source/Winnipeg), Manitoba in Canada, Lehmann was the youngest of the five children of Dr Julius Lehmann and Elsa Hillerns. She was educated at Riverbend School (now [Balmoral Hall](/source/Balmoral_Hall_School)), where she edited the school newspaper, and from the age of fifteen appeared at the Little Theatre, Winnipeg. Gaining a place to train for an acting career at [RADA](/source/RADA) in London, she then joined the Croydon Repertory Company for a year before first appearing in the West End.<ref name=encyclopaediabritishfilm/> Her stage work included appearances in several [Aldwych farces](/source/Aldwych_farces).<ref name=encyclopaediabritishfilm/> During the [Second World War](/source/World_War_II) she starred in war films opposite [Stewart Granger](/source/Stewart_Granger) and [James Mason](/source/James_Mason).<ref name=west/> She also played in [Cottage to Let](/source/Cottage_to_Let) opposite [John Mills](/source/John_Mills) and [Alistair Sim](/source/Alistair_Sim) in 1941.

Lehmann notably played Susan Foster in the film ''[Candlelight in Algeria](/source/Candlelight_in_Algeria)'' (1944) and Lady Mary Hannay in the BBC television series ''[The Three Hostages](/source/The_Three_Hostages_(TV_series))'' (1952).<ref name=west/>

==Private life==
Lehmann spent most of her adult life living in England. In 1941 she married George Anderson McDowell Elliot,<ref>Register of Marriages for Surrey South West, volume 2a, p. 1633.</ref> a former Royal Marine officer recently commissioned into the [Royal Army Service Corps](/source/Royal_Army_Service_Corps),<ref>''[The London Gazette](/source/The_London_Gazette)'' dated 10 May 1940 (Supplement), [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34846/supplement/2795/data.pdf p. 2795]</ref> but they later divorced. In 1947 she married her second husband, John R. Townsend, an insurance broker, in [Westminster](/source/City_of_Westminster),<ref>Register of Marriages for Westminster, volume 5c, p. 736</ref> and they had three sons, John Anthony (born 1948), Nicholas (born 1949),<ref name=west>[http://westenddumplings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/look-back-at-winnipeg-actress-carla.html Carla Lehmann: From Winnipeg Little Theatre to London's Stage UPDATE], accessed 3 October 2016</ref> and Alain (1954).<ref>Register of Births for Ealing registration district: Jan-Mar 1948, volume 5e, p. 201; July-Sept 1949, volume 5e, p. 152; April–June 1954, volume 5e, p. 151</ref> She died in Berkshire in 1990.

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1938|| ''[Luck of the Navy](/source/Luck_of_the_Navy)'' || || Uncredited
|-
|1939|| ''[So This Is London](/source/So_This_Is_London_(1939_film))'' || Elinor Draper ||
|-
|1940|| ''[Sailors Three](/source/Sailors_Three)'' || Jane ||
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1941|| ''[Cottage to Let](/source/Cottage_to_Let)'' || Helen Barrington ||
|-
| ''[Once a Crook](/source/Once_a_Crook_(film))'' || Estelle ||
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1942|| ''[Flying Fortress](/source/Flying_Fortress_(film))'' || Sydney Kelly ||
|-
| ''[Secret Mission](/source/Secret_Mission)'' || Michèle de Carnot ||
|-
| ''[Talk About Jacqueline](/source/Talk_About_Jacqueline)'' || Jacqueline Marlow ||
|-
|1944|| ''[Candlelight in Algeria](/source/Candlelight_in_Algeria)'' || Susan Foster ||
|-
|1945|| ''[29 Acacia Avenue](/source/29_Acacia_Avenue)'' || Fay Jones ||
|-
|1947|| ''[Fame Is the Spur](/source/Fame_Is_the_Spur_(film))'' || Lady Lettice ||
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0499676}}

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Category:1917 births
Category:1990 deaths
Category:20th-century Canadian actresses
Category:Actresses from Winnipeg
Category:Canadian stage actresses
Category:Canadian film actresses
Category:Canadian television actresses
Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Category:Balmoral Hall School alumni

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