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name: "Barbara Everest"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 June 1890"
died: "9 February 1968"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-20T01:16:08.244732+00:00"
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# Barbara Everest

Actor. Born 18 June 1890 in Southfields, Surrey, England, UK. Died 9 February 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 June 1890, Southfields, Surrey, England, UK
- **Died:** 9 February 1968
- **Also known as:** Barbara Mary Everest, Barbara Everst
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Everest, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q807414, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263481/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74622

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Gaslight*](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md) (81)

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## Biography

Barbara Everest was a British stage and film actress. She made her screen debut in the 1916 film *The Man Without a Soul* and appeared in numerous films over five decades.

She is known for roles including Elizabeth in *Gaslight* (1944), Lizzie Flynn in *The Uninvited* (1944), the Aunt in *Phantom of the Opera* (1943), Lady Ingram in *Jane Eyre* (1943), and the Mother Superior in *El Cid* (1961). On stage she played Queen Anne in the 1935 play *Viceroy Sarah* by Norman Ginsbury.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Gaslight* (1944), Fi1m 81, as Elizabeth — [page](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md)

## Complete filmography (60)

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

- *Rotten to the Core* (1965), as Mrs Dick
- *The Man Who Finally Died* (1963), as Martha
- *Nurse on Wheels* (1963), as Nurse Merrick
- *The Damned* (1962), as Miss Lamont
- *Z-Cars* (1962), series, Actor
- *El Cid* (1961), as Mother Superior
- *Dangerous Afternoon* (1961), as Mrs. Judson
- *Upstairs and Downstairs* (1959), as 2nd Old Lady
- *Heidi* (1959), series, as Clara's grandmamma
- *The Safecracker* (1958), as Mrs. Dawson
- *The Lady of the Camellias* (1958), as Nanine
- *Armchair Theatre* (1956), series, as Nanine
- *Jane Eyre* (1956), series, as Mrs Alice Fairfax
- *An Inspector Calls* (1954), as Committee Member - Mrs. Lefson
- *Madeleine* (1950), as Mrs. Smith
- *Children of Chance* (1949), as Francesca
- *Frieda* (1947), as Mrs Dawson
- *Wanted for Murder* (1946), as Mrs Colebrooke
- *The Fatal Witness* (1945), as Lady Elizabeth Ferguson / Vera Cavanaugh
- *The Valley of Decision* (1945), as Delia
- *Gaslight* (1944), as Elizabeth — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md)
- *The Uninvited* (1944), as Lizzie Flynn
- *Jane Eyre* (1943), as Lady Ingram
- *Phantom of the Opera* (1943), as The Aunt
- *Mission to Moscow* (1943), as Mrs. Litvinov
- *Commandos Strike at Dawn* (1942), as Mrs. Olav
- *The Patient Vanishes* (1941), as Mrs. Cardby
- *The Prime Minister* (1941), as Baroness Lehzen (uncredited)
- *The Second Mr. Bush* (1940), as Mrs. Windel-Todd
- *Meet Maxwell Archer* (1940), as Miss Duke
- *Inquest* (1939), as Mrs. Wyatt
- *Design for Murder* (1939), as Ursula
- *Pride and Prejudice* (1938), as Mrs. Bennet
- *Old Mother Riley* (1937), as Mrs. Briggs
- *Jump for Glory* (1937), as Mrs. Nolan
- *Love in Exile* (1936), as Ana
- *The Man Behind the Mask* (1936), as Lady Slade
- *Men of Yesterday* (1936), Actor
- *Scrooge* (1935), as Mrs. Cratchit
- *The Passing of the Third Floor Back* (1935), as Cook
- *Passing Shadows* (1934), as Mrs. Lawrence
- *The Warren Case* (1934), as (uncredited)
- *Love's Old Sweet Song* (1933), as Nurse
- *The Umbrella* (1933), as Mrs. Wynne
- *The Lost Chord* (1933), as Mother Superior
- *She Was Only A Village Maiden* (1933), as Agatha
- *The Roof* (1933), as Mrs. Foster
- *The World, the Flesh and the Devil* (1932), as Mrs. Brophy
- *There Goes the Bride* (1932), as Mme. Marquand (uncredited)
- *The Lodger* (1932), as Mrs. Bunting
- *When London Sleeps* (1932), as Madame Lamberti
- *Lily Christine* (1932), as Hempel
- *Fox Farm* (1922), as Kate Falconer
- *The Persistent Lovers* (1922), as Joyce
- *A Romance of Old Baghdad* (1922), as Mrs. Jocelyn
- *The Bigamist* (1921), as Blanche
- *Testimony* (1920), as Lucinda
- *The Lady Clare* (1919), as Alice
- *The Man Without a Soul* (1916), as Elaine Ferrier
- *The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol*, as Anne

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