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name: "Ambrosine Phillpotts"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ambrosine-phillpotts"
roles: []
born: "13 September 1912"
died: "12 October 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T03:40:34.140030+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ambrosine Phillpotts

Actor. Born 13 September 1912 in St George's Hanover Square, London, England, UK. Died 12 October 1980.

## Details

- **Born:** 13 September 1912, St George's Hanover Square, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 12 October 1980
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosine_Phillpotts, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4741902, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680916/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84406

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Room at the Top*](https://film.one/film/room-at-the-top.md) (82)

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## Biography

Ambrosine Phillpotts (13 September 1912 – 12 October 1980) was a British actress of stage, film, television and radio. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her stage debut in 1930. Her screen career began in the mid-1940s and continued until 1980.

She is known for roles including Mrs Brown in *Room at the Top* (1958) and its sequel *Life at the Top* (1965), Mrs Millington-Drake in *The Battle of the River Plate* (1956), the Aristocratic Lady in *Carry On Cabby* (1963), Yoki's Owner in *Carry On Regardless* (1961), Miss Burrows in *Berserk!* (1967) and Miss Grey in *The Reluctant Debutante* (1958). She frequently played upper-class or eccentric characters on stage and screen.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Room at the Top* (1958), Fi1m 82, as Mrs. Brown — [page](https://film.one/film/room-at-the-top.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Wildcats of St Trinian's* (1980), as Mrs Mowbray
- *Wilde Alliance* (1978), series, as Mrs. Tregaskis
- *Screamer* (1974), as Lady
- *Men of Affairs* (1973), series, as Lady Mary Fell
- *Diamonds on Wheels* (1973), as Lady Truesdale
- *Ooh...You Are Awful* (1972), as Lady Penelope Missenden Green
- *It's Murder. But Is It Art?* (1972), series, as Lady Skerrington-Mallet
- *Hadleigh* (1969), series, as Lady Helen Hadleigh
- *W. Somerset Maugham* (1969), series, as Mrs. Croxton
- *Berserk!* (1967), as Miss Burrows
- *The Idiot* (1966), series, as Lizaveta Epanchin
- *Life at the Top* (1965), as Mrs. Margaret Brown
- *HMS Paradise* (1964), series, as Mrs. Turvey
- *Carry On Cabby* (1963), as Aristocratic Lady
- *Two and Two Make Six* (1962), as Lady Smith-Adams
- *Raising the Wind* (1961), as Mrs. Featherstone
- *Carry On Regardless* (1961), as Yoki's Owner
- *Doctor in Love* (1960), as Lady Spratt
- *Lord Arthur Savile's Crime* (1960), as Lady Julia
- *Expresso Bongo* (1959), as Lady Rosemary
- *Operation Bullshine* (1959), as Reporter
- *Room at the Top* (1958), as Mrs. Brown — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/room-at-the-top.md)
- *The Reluctant Debutante* (1958), as Miss Grey (uncredited)
- *The Duke Wore Jeans* (1958), as Duchess Cynthia Whitecliffe
- *The Truth About Women* (1957), as Lady Tavistock
- *Up in the World* (1956), as Lady Sybil Banderville
- *The Battle of the River Plate* (1956), as Mrs. Millington-Drake, Montevideo
- *The Captain's Paradise* (1953), as Marjorie
- *Father's Doing Fine* (1952), as Nurse Pynegar
- *Stolen Face* (1952), as Miss Patten - Fur Department Clerk
- *Angels One Five* (1952), as Mrs. Falk (Uncredited)
- *Mr. Denning Drives North* (1951), as Miss Blade
- *Happy Go Lovely* (1951), as Lady Martin
- *The Franchise Affair* (1951), as Miss Spence
- *The Chiltern Hundreds* (1949), as Lady Fielding
- *This Man Is Mine* (1946), as Lady Daubney

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