Barbara Waring

Barbara Waring (1 August 1911 – April 1990) was an English actress.

Barbara Waring

Biography

Barbara Alice Waring Gibb was born on 1 August 1911 in Kent, England, the daughter of Dr. J. A. Gibb.[1]

She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,[2] and was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s.

In the late 1930s she married Laurence A. Evans, a theatrical agent.[1] They divorced and in 1947 she married the Hon. Geoffrey Cunliffe, son of Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, and Edith Cunningham Boothby, and Chairman of British Aluminium.[2][1]

In 1963 she wrote the script for Two by the Sea and in 1974 that for Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies.[3]

In 1967 she wrote the play The Jaywalker, performed at Coventry Cathedral with music by Duke Ellington.[2]

She died in April 1990 in Surrey, England.

Appearances

References
  1. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
  2. "Barbara Waring, Cavalcade, The Gentle Sex and Duke Ellington". elvirabarney. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  3. "Barbara Waring". British Film Institute. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  4. "Barbara Waring". British Film Institute. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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