Peggy Mount

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Margaret Rose Mount OBE (1915-26) was an English actress.

She found herself as an infant, running away from an unhappy home life.

She was recruited by a repertory company and spent nine years in various British towns, learning her craft after being involved in amateur productions.

Sailor Beware, a comedic play, was her first appearance in 1955. She was the leading role in a repertory performance and, though unknowing to London audiences, she was given the role as the play was performed in the West End.

In plays, films, and television shows, she became well-known for domineering middle-aged women. Mount performed in classic comedies, including Shakespeare, Jonson, Goldsmith, and Sheridan, as a member of The Old Vic, National Theatre, and Royal Shakespeare companies in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, respectively. Mount was more visible in serious roles, including the title role of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage on stage and several television dramas later in her career.

She went blind and spent her remaining years in Denville Hall, the actors' retirement home, in northwest London.

Personal life

Mount was first appointed OBE in 1996.

Mount's character was quite different from the ferocious women she encountered on stage and film, according to her own account and those who knew her well. "She was a warm-hearted and compassionate woman who loved nothing more than her fans and entertaining her guests," the Times described her. She never married. She severed links with her family in the 1940s; she learned about her a tiny adoptive family of close friends, one of whom she regarded as a son and unofficially adopted after his mother's death. She migrated to Denville Hall, the actors' retirement home in northwest London, where she lived until her death at the age of 86.

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Life and career

Mount was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, as the younger brother of Arthur John Mount, a shop assistant, and his wife, Rose Penney, were born. Her childhood was unhappy; her father was an invalid who struggled to assist his children; and her mother showed no affection for her younger daughter. Mount was educated at Leigh North Street School, Leigh-on-Sea, where she first discovered her passion for acting while playing Rose in Snow White and Rose Red. Her father died when she was 14 years old; her education came to an end, and she began as a secretary.

There were historical ancestors in the family: Mount's grandfather was the first minstrel show to be held on the end of Great Yarmouth's pier. She loved being a schoolgirl in the drama of her hometown Wesleyan chapel, and after she left school she worked with local amateur companies. At weekends, she took lessons from a drama coach, Phyllis Reader.

In Hindle Wakes, she made her first professional appearance. The eccentric Dowager Queen of The Sleeping Prince was included in Harry Hanson's touring company. She served with the company for three years and then for six years with a number of provincial repertory companies, portraying what The Times later described as "a thriving gallery of mainly working-class roles." Seasons in Colchester, Preston, Dundee, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Birmingham, and Worthing were all spent. Mount made her film debut in 1954 in the small role of Mrs Larkin in The Embezzler.

Mount was the central figure in a recent comedy called Sailor Beware! During the Worthing repertory season, she played Emma Hornett, the domestic tyrant. She was a natural performer in the role, but when a London company wanted to stage the play in the West End, they wanted a more well-known name than hers. When struggling to find someone more suitable, Mount, who became overnight popular after the first night, appeared at the Strand Theatre in February 1955. "The toast of the town is king," the Daily Mirror described her as "the actress to be raving about." "She scorches the earth about her," Kenneth Tynan wrote in The Observer. Miss Mount's ferocious impatience must be believed... At the curtain, the house respectfully rose to her.

Mount appeared in two films released in 1956: she appeared in Police Sergeant Fire in Dry Rot, an adaptation of the Whitehall farce, and she reprised Emma Hornett's role in a film adaptation of Sailor Beware! Her career included stage, cinema, and television work during the 1950s. In Diego Fabbri's religious drama Man on Trial, she appeared as the Charwoman in the Lyric Theatre, London. She appeared in the comedy film The Naked Truth with Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers in the same year. She became a regular television actress from 1958 to 2000. In The Adventures of Mr. Richard Hearne, she was cast as a landlady. Pastry, and then in a central role in The Larkins, an early ITV comedy film starring David Kossoff and Mount as a suburban London couple Alf and Ada Larkin and their family. Six series of the show were produced between 1958 and 1964, and the leading characters, the put-upon but wily Alf and the mighty Ada, appeared in three spin-off film series between 1958 and 1960. Mount was played against stereotype in the role of Abby Brewster, the well-meaning poisoner. Florence Povis, co-starring Margaret Rutherford, appeared in Farewell, Farewell, Eugene, the 1950s.

Mount was portrayed as the Nurse in Franco Zeffirelli's production of Romeo and Juliet at The Old Vic in 1960. The frog's (and the production) were mediocre, but the role was still one of her two favorite characters, as well as Emma Hornett. Mrs. Hardcastle was a member of the Old Vic Theatre and Conquer in which her notes were consistent. In a review for The Observer, Kenneth Tynan wrote: "We will not soon see a Mrs. Hardcastle who scolds, capers, coquettes, and bellows have anything like Peggy Mount's majestic, intimidating power." "I recommend a visit solely for the sake of her sake."

Mount appeared in another ITV sitcom called Winning Widows, co-starring Avice Landone as two sisters who have both survived three husbands in 1961–62. Mount was not included in a television series that rivaled The Larkins' fame until 1966; this was the sitcom George and the Dragon, with Sid James and John Le Mesurier. Between 1966 and 1968, four series were produced. Mount was cast in the comedy-thriller film John Browne's Body (1969), in which she appeared as a bungling amateur sleuth.

One Way Pendulum (1964) with George Cole, Eric Sykes and Jonathan Miller; Hotel Paradiso (1966) with Alec Guinness and Gina Lollobrigida; and Carol Reed's film of the musical Oliver! (1968) In which she played Mrs Bumble, she played Mrs Bumble. Mount appeared on BBC Radio from the 1960s to 1980s, on panel shows, Woman's Hour, and arts features. Emma Hornett in Sailor Beware's adaptations of Ted Willis' Big Bertha (1962), among her acting appearances on radio in the 1960s. Watch it. In Alice in Wonderland (1965), Sailor (both 1965) and the Queen of Hearts (both 1965) and the Queen of Hearts.

Mount appeared on stage in London and the immediate regions during the decade. Did You Feel It Move? At Bristol Old Vic in October 1962 she appeared in All Things Bright and Beautiful, later appearing in the same production; at the Arts Theatre, Ipswich, she appeared as Mrs. Spicer in Mother's Boy; in September 1964 she appeared as Mrs. Spicer in Mother's Boy; and in May 1965 she appeared in Did You Feel It Move? She toured with Naunton Wayne and Jon Pertwee in Oh, Clarence, a stage version of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle tales in 1968.

Mount played Clara Soppitt in J. in the West End of 1970. When We Are Married by B. Priestley, with Hugh Lloyd as her henpecked husband. Michael Billington called her appearance "a welcome addition to this actress' gallery of tyrannical matriarchs" on her website.

Mount appeared in the television comedy Lollipop Loves Mr. Mole, starring Hugh Lloyd and Pat Coombs from 1971 to 1972. Her character in this series was still strong, but it was much less subtle than those of her earlier roles. Mount appeared in Blesse Spirit (1972) and Opinionated Alice in Ben Jonson's The Silent Woman (1972), as Mistress Otter (1972).

Mount appeared in several touring shows in the 1970s, one of which was her Mrs Malaprop in Sheridan's The Rivals. She appeared on national Theatre companies from 1976 to 1979. Her Donna Pasqua in Il Campiello by Carlo Goldoni (1976), as did her Mrs Hewlett in Ben Travers' Plunder (1978), received positive feedback, as did her Mr Hewlett in Ben Travers' Plunder (1978).

The title role of Brecht's Mother Courage at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1977 was one of her most lauded performances. "Exceptional" and "fully Brechtian" is her portrayal, according to the Guardian. "Her acting revealed no trace of self-pity or laughter she had been accustomed to eliciting, and it revealed what a mature and emotional actress she could be if given the opportunity."

She appeared on the Yorkshire television sitcom You're Only Young Twice, as the forthright Flora Petty, from 1977 to 1981. She appeared in both The Dillen and Measure for Measure, as well as the company's production of The Happiest Days of Your Life as the headmistress of St. Swithin's.

Mount appeared as Ursula in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park in 1987. Madame Arcati was first Madame Arcati in a revival of Blithe Spirit at the Lyric Hammersmith, two years ago. Mount had a regular role as Aunt Fanny in the second series of All Change (1991), a children's program starring Frankie Howerd.

Mount's later television appearances in dramas such as Punishment Without Crime (1985) and the harrowing Trial of Klaus Barbie (1988) revealed just what a fine actress she was, and in an episode of Inspector Morse, she was the most fright Sister of Mercy." "The Monsoon Man" was Mount's later appearances on television, including Doctor Who ("in the cameo role of the Stallslady), Mrs. Weaver in 1991-1992), and The Tomorrow People (as Mrs. Butterworth in the second episode of the 1994 film "The Monsoon Man").

Mount's nanny in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1996, Chichester), a cast that included Derek Jacobi, Imogen Stubbs, Trevor Eve, and Frances Barber, gave "a fantastic portrayal as the play's most sympathetic and sensible character," according to Verena Wright. This performance appeared on a provincial tour and in the West End. It was Mount's last play. Her sight, which had been fading, suffered completely during a performance. She survived to finish the run, after which she resigned from the theatre.

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