{{Short description|British actress (1895–1981)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{infobox person | image = Actress_Marie_Ney.jpg | name = Marie Ney | birth_name = Marie Fix | birth_place = Chelsea, London, England | birth_date = {{birth date|1895|7|18|df=y}} | death_place = London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|4|11|1895|7|18|df=y}} | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1919–1969 | spouse = Thomas Menzies (1930–1962) (his death) }} '''Marie Ney'''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSIhzKnNUf4C&dq=marie+ney+actress&pg=PA348|title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms|isbn=9780786457632|last1=Room|first1=Adrian|date=10 January 2014}}</ref> (18 July 1895 — 11 April 1981) was a British character actress who had an acting career spanning five decades, from 1919 to 1969, encompassing both stage and screen.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f560f0c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311165021/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f560f0c|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 March 2016|title=Marie Ney|work=BFI}}</ref>
==Early life == Ney was born in London, and as a young child, went with her family to live in New Zealand. She began her acting career in that country, and continued it in Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swalwelluk.co.uk/picpages/pic-radiono.html|title=Radio and TV personalities - letter N and O|author=mm}}</ref> ==Early roles== After several years of performing in those two countries, she moved back to her native Britain, where she acted at the Old Vic with many famous actors of the day such as Michael Redgrave and Robert Donat.<ref name=ney>{{cite web|url=http://www.hat-archive.com/marie_ney_in_sydney.htm|title=Marie Ney in Sydney|access-date=16 December 2009|archive-date=23 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923153420/http://www.hat-archive.com/marie_ney_in_sydney.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 1930, Ney played Lady de Winter in the musical ''The Three Musketeers'' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3375083/Hulton-Archive|title=English actress Marie Ney as Lady de Winter in a production of 'The...|author=Sasha|work=Getty Images}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_t/three_musketeers.htm|title=The Three Musketeers}}</ref>
==Career: Film and stage == Ney's first film appearance was in ''Desert Gold'' (1919), a silent film made in Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187811/|title=Desert Gold (1919)|date=24 March 1919|work=IMDb}}</ref> She appeared in 11 films during the 1930s, including ''The Wandering Jew'', ''Scrooge'' (1935), ''Brief Ecstasy'' (1937), ''Jamaica Inn'' (1939), and ''A People Eternal'' (1939).<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628638/|title=Marie Ney|work=IMDb}}</ref> In 1941, Ney returned to Australia for a six-month season, appearing in the plays ''No Time for Comedy'', Noël Coward's ''Private Lives'', and ''Ladies in Retirement'' in Sydney and Melbourne.<ref name=ney/> She appeared in the 1948 play ''Rain on the Just'' in London, and in 1959 ''The Last Word'' at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh.
In the 1950s, she appeared in the films ''Shadow of the Past'' (1950), ''Seven Days to Noon'' (1950), ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' (1951), ''Simba'' (1955), ''Yield to the Night'' (1956), and ''The Surgeon's Knife'' (1957).<ref name=bfi/> In the 1950s, Ney had also moved into television roles, appearing in episodes of ITV's ''ITV Television Playhouse'', ''ITV Play of the Week'', and ''Armchair Theatre''.
In 1960, she appeared in the Greek film ''Eroica'', and in an episode of ''Maigret''. Her last credited screen appearance was in the ''ITV Playhouse'' episode ''Remember the Germans'' (1969).<ref name=imdb/>
==Personal life == Ney was married to Thomas Menzies, and was active in the union Equity. She was a collector of art and books.<ref name=ney/> Ney died in London in April 1981 aged 85.<ref name=bfi/>
==Partial filmography== * ''Desert Gold'' (1919) * ''Escape'' (1930) as Grace * ''Stürmisch die Nacht'' (1931) * ''The Wandering Jew'' (1933) as Judith * ''Home, Sweet Home'' (1933) as Constance Pelham * ''Scrooge'' (1935) as Spirit of Christmas Past (uncredited) * ''Brief Ecstasy'' (1937) as Martha Russell * ''Jamaica Inn'' (1939) as Patience Merlyn * ''Uneasy Terms'' (1948) as Honoria Wymering * ''Conspirator'' (1949) as Lady Pennistone * ''The Romantic Age'' (1949) as Miss Hallam * ''Shadow of the Past'' (1950) as Mrs. Bentley * ''Seven Days to Noon'' (1950) as Mrs. Willingdon * ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' (1951) as School Headmistress (uncredited) * ''Night Was Our Friend'' (1951) as Emily Raynor * ''Simba'' (1955) as Mrs. Crawford * ''Yield to the Night'' (1956) as Governor * ''The Surgeon's Knife'' (1957) as Matron Fiske * ''Our Last Spring'' (1960) * ''West 11'' (1963) as Mildred Dyce * ''Witchcraft'' (1964) as Malvina Lanier
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0628638|Marie Ney}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110607134941/http://www.timeout.com/film/people/317905/marie-ney.html Ney Film Biography] on ''Time Out'' * [http://www.swalwelluk.co.uk/picpages/pic-radiono.html Ney on 'Radio and TV Personalities'] * [http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-US&family=editorial&assetType=image&p=marie%20ney# Images of Ney] on Getty Images
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