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name: "Wendy Barrie"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 April 1912"
died: "2 February 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T23:30:08.670181+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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# Wendy Barrie

Actor. Born 18 April 1912 in Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]. Died 2 February 1978.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 April 1912, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
- **Died:** 2 February 1978
- **Active:** 1933–1937
- **Also known as:** Marguerite Wendy Jenkins, Маргарита Венди Дженкинс
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Barrie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449766, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057412/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106089

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Dead End*](https://film.one/film/dead-end.md) (73)

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## Biography

Wendy Barrie was a British actress. She made her screen debut in 1932 and appeared in several films for London Films, including *The Private Life of Henry VIII* (1933) as Jane Seymour.

She moved to the United States in the mid-1930s and worked in Hollywood films such as *Dead End* (1937) as Kay, *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1939) as Beryl Stapleton and *Five Came Back* (1939) as Alice Melbourne. Barrie also appeared on television, hosting *The Wendy Barrie Show*, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She was married to David L. Meyer and died in 1978.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dead End* (1937), Fi1m 73, as Kay — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-end.md)

## Complete filmography (53)

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

- *It Should Happen to You* (1954), as Guest Panelist
- *Your Show of Shows* (1950), series, Actor
- *Submarine Alert* (1943), as Ann Patterson
- *Follies Girl* (1943), as Anne Merriday
- *Forever and a Day* (1943), as Edith Trimble-Pomfret
- *Eyes of the Underworld* (1942), as Betty Standing
- *A Date with the Falcon* (1942), as Helen Reed
- *Gangs Of The City* (1941), as Bonnie Parker
- *The Gay Falcon* (1941), as Helen Reed
- *Repent at Leisure* (1941), as Emily Baldwin
- *The Saint In Palm Springs* (1941), as Elna Johnson
- *Who Killed Aunt Maggie?* (1940), as Sally Ambler
- *Men Against the Sky* (1940), as Kay Mercedes
- *Cross-Country Romance* (1940), as Diane North
- *The Saint Takes Over* (1940), as Ruth Summers
- *Women in War* (1940), as Pamela Starr
- *Day-time Wife* (1939), as Kitty Fraser
- *The Witness Vanishes* (1939), as Joan Marplay
- *Five Came Back* (1939), as Alice Melbourne
- *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1939), as Beryl Stapleton
- *The Saint Strikes Back* (1939), as Valerie 'Val' Travers
- *Pacific Liner* (1939), as Ann Grayson
- *Newsboys' Home* (1938), as Gwen Dutton
- *I Am the Law* (1938), as Frances 'Frankie' Ballou
- *Prescription for Romance* (1937), as Valerie Wilson
- *A Girl with Ideas* (1937), as Mary Morton
- *Dead End* (1937), as Kay — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-end.md)
- *What Price Vengeance* (1937), as Polly Moore
- *Wings Over Honolulu* (1937), as Lauralee Curtis
- *Breezing Home* (1937), as Gloria Lee
- *Under Your Spell* (1936), as Cynthia Drexel
- *Ticket to Paradise* (1936), as Jane Forbes
- *Speed* (1936), as Jane Mitchell
- *Love on a Bet* (1936), as Paula Gilbert
- *Millions in the Air* (1935), as Marion Keller
- *A Feather in Her Hat* (1935), as Pauline Anders
- *The Big Broadcast of 1936* (1935), as Sue
- *College Scandal* (1935), as Julie Fresnel
- *It's A Small World* (1935), as Jane Dale
- *There Goes Susie* (1935), as Madeleine Sarteaux
- *Freedom of the Seas* (1934), as Phyllis Harcourt
- *Give Her a Ring* (1934), as Karen Svenson
- *It's a Boy* (1934), as Mary Bogle
- *This Acting Business* (1933), as Joyce
- *The House of Trent* (1933), as Angela Fairdown
- *Cash* (1933), as Lilian Gilbert
- *The Private Life of Henry VIII* (1933), as Jane Seymour
- *Where Is This Lady?* (1932), as Lucie Kleiner
- *The Barton Mystery* (1932), as Phyllis Grey
- *Wedding Rehearsal* (1932), as Lady Mary Rose Wroxbury
- *Collision* (1932), as Joyce Maynard
- *The Callbox Mystery* (1932), as Iris Banner
- *Threads* (1932), as Olive Wynn

## Gallery

- ![Wendy Barrie](https://film.one/media/person/1226563/gallery-ca1c895bc0b8.jpg) Wendy Barrie — NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Wendy_Barrie_1950.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Wendy Barrie](https://film.one/media/person/1226563/gallery-41f58e3b9a89.jpg) Wendy Barrie — Image via TMDB
- ![Wendy Barrie](https://film.one/media/person/1226563/gallery-9a57f4145298.jpg) Wendy Barrie — Image via TMDB
- ![Wendy Barrie](https://film.one/media/person/1226563/gallery-dbce655a7d97.jpg) Wendy Barrie — Image via TMDB
- ![Wendy Barrie](https://film.one/media/person/1226563/gallery-4f84836ec0e4.jpg) Wendy Barrie — Image via TMDB
- ![Wendy Barrie](https://film.one/media/person/1226563/gallery-7f118defa8bc.jpg) Wendy Barrie — Image via TMDB
- ![Wendy Barrie](https://film.one/media/person/1226563/gallery-cb91eae59a15.jpg) Wendy Barrie — Image via TMDB

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