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name: "Merle Tottenham"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 January 1901"
died: "18 July 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T22:02:01.498145+00:00"
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# Merle Tottenham

Actor. Born 22 January 1901 in Quetta, India. Died 18 July 1958.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 January 1901, Quetta, India
- **Died:** 18 July 1958
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Tottenham, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6819726, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0869428/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97218

## Biography

Merle Tottenham was a British stage and film actress. She was born on 22 January 1901 in Quetta, British India, and died on 18 July 1958 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex.

Her stage work included the original West End production of Noël Coward's *Cavalcade* in 1931; she reprised her role as Annie the servant in the 1933 film adaptation. She also appeared as Millie in *The Invisible Man* (1933), Dora in *Night Must Fall* (1937) and Edie in *This Happy Breed* (1944). Tottenham was active from the mid-1920s to around 1950 and frequently played supporting roles, often as maids or working-class characters in British productions.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cavalcade* (1933), Fi1m 57, as Annie — [page](https://film.one/film/cavalcade.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *The Woman in Question* (1950), as Neighbour
- *Room to Let* (1950), as Alice
- *The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery* (1950), as Mrs. Tavy's Neighbour (uncredited)
- *The Weaker Sex* (1948), as Woman in Fish Queue
- *Sleeping Car to Trieste* (1948), as Miss Smith
- *Calling Paul Temple* (1948), as Millie
- *My Brother Jonathan* (1948), as Alice Rudge
- *Caravan* (1946), as Tweeny (uncredited)
- *I Didn't Do It* (1945), as Tessie
- *This Happy Breed* (1944), as Edie
- *Headline* (1943), as Mrs. Deans
- *We Dive at Dawn* (1943), Actor
- *The Young Mr. Pitt* (1942), as Maid at Lord Auckland's
- *Rush Hour* (1941), Actor
- *A Girl Must Live* (1939), as College inmate
- *Poison Pen* (1939), as Mrs. Kemp
- *Dead Men Are Dangerous* (1939), as Gladys
- *Bank Holiday* (1938), as Milly
- *Night Must Fall* (1937), as Dora Parkoe
- *The Man in the Mirror* (1936), as Mary
- *Chick* (1936), as Maid
- *Borrowed Clothes* (1934), Actor
- *The Invisible Man* (1933), as Millie
- *Paddy the Next Best Thing* (1933), as Maid
- *Bondage* (1933), as Ruth
- *Cavalcade* (1933), as Annie — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/cavalcade.md)
- *Here's George* (1932), as Perkins
- *Immediate Possession* (1931), as Polly Baxter

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