Mary Mackenzie

{{Short description|English actress (1922–1966)}} {{about|the English actress|the American mezzo-soprano and voice teacher|Mary Mackenzie (mezzo-soprano)|the Scottish noble|Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Mary Mackenzie | image = Actress_Mary_Mackenzie.png | image_size = | caption = in ''Doctor in Love'' (1960) | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|5|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Burnley, Lancashire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1966|9|20|1922|5|3|df=y}} | death_place = London, England | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1946–1963 | spouse = | partner = | website = }}

'''Mary Mackenzie''' (3 May 1922 – 20 September 1966) was an English actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3511a50|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312050741/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3511a50|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 March 2016|title=Mary Mackenzie|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref> One of her earliest credited TV roles was in 1950 on BBC's ''Sunday Night Theatre'', as Miriam in an adaptation of H. G. Wells' ''The History of Mr Polly'', a role she returned to in the 1959 BBC serialization.

==Early and personal life == Mackenzie was born in Burnley, Lancashire, where she spent her early years. She died at the age of 44 in a car accident in London in 1966.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/lookingback/698857.Burnley__World_s_a_stage_for_local_actors/ |title=Burnley: World's a stage for local actors |author=Gill Johnson |date=2 March 2006 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |accessdate=7 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007052919/http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/lookingback/698857.Burnley__World_s_a_stage_for_local_actors/ |archivedate=7 October 2012}}</ref>

== Acting career== {{Incomplete list|date=February 2011}}

===Television=== *''Ghost Squad'' (1963) as Gertrude in the Episode "Gertrude" (season 2, episode 16) *''Z-Cars'' (1963) as Martha Mather in the Episode "The Listeners" (season 2, episode 22) *''The History of Mr Polly'' (1959) as Miriam *''Sunday Night Theatre'' (1950) as Marjorie Radley in the episode "Miss Hargreaves" *''Sunday Night Theatre'' (1950) as Miriam in the Episode "The History of Mr Polly"

===Film=== *''Wanted for Murder'' (1946) as first victim *''Lady in the Fog'' aka ''Scotland Yard Inspector'' (1952) as Marilyn Durant *''The Man Who Watched Trains Go By'' (1952) as Mrs. Lucas *''Stolen Face'' (1952) as Lily Conover, before surgery *''The Long Memory'' (1952) as Gladys *''Trouble in the Glen'' (1954) as Kate Carnoch * ''Duel in the Jungle'' (1954) as junior secretary *''The Harassed Hero'' (1954) as Estelle Logan *''Cloak Without Dagger'' (1956) as Kyra Gabaine *''Yield to the Night'' (1956) as Matron *''A Question of Adultery'' (1958) as Nurse Parsons *''The Man Who Liked Funerals'' (1959) as Hester Waring

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0533367|Mary Mackenzie}}

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