# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daphne-courtney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:58:10.984Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daphne-courtney"
name: "Daphne Courtney"
slug: "daphne-courtney"
description: "Daphne R. Courtenay-Hicks, better known as Daphne Courtney, is a South African actress, who performed in B-movie British \"quota quickies\" during the 1930s and 1940s. She had a supporting role in at least one French film, Le battalion du ciel, directed by Alexander Esway. She also had a stage career, and stage credits include the first British performance of The Man Who Came to Dinner – pre-dating its London debut by three weeks – in which she appeared with her husband the Scottish actor Hugh McDermott."
tagline: "South African actress"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/11/Daphnecourtney.svg/330px-Daphnecourtney.svg.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1917"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.936897333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183903/"
    handle:    "nm0183903"
sources:
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    title: "ڈیفنی کورٹنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Daphne Courtney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دافني كورتني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "دافنى كورتنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Courtney"
    title: "Daphne Courtney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%86%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "دفنی کورتنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Courtney"
    title: "Daphne Courtney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ഡാഫ്‌നെ കോർട്ട്‌നി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Daphne Courtney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16082004"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1179259"
    title: "Daphne Courtney"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump