Madeleine Carroll
English actress (1906-1987) · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Died at 81
Edith Madeleine Carroll was an English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress.
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1987Died2 October 19871953
General Electric TheaterSeries, Nurse Johansen1950
Robert Montgomery PresentsSeries, Leslie Crosbie
What's My Line?Series, 1950
Your Show of ShowsSeries, 19501949
The FanFilm, Mrs. Erylnne1948
The Philco Television PlayhouseSeries1947
White Cradle InnFilm, Magda1942
My Favorite BlondeFilm, Karen Bentley1941
Bahama PassageFilm, Carol Delbridge1939
Cafe SocietyFilm, Christopher West1938
BlockadeFilm, Norma1937
It's All YoursFilm, Linda Gray1936
Lloyd's of LondonFilm, Elizabeth Stacy1934
The World Moves OnFilm, Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 19141933
I Was a SpyFilm, Martha Cnockhaert1931
FascinationFilm, Gwenda Farrell1929
AtlanticFilm, Monica1928
The First BornFilm, Lady Madeleine Boycott1906Born26 February 1906
General Electric TheaterSeries, Nurse Johansen1950Robert Montgomery PresentsSeries, Leslie CrosbieWhat's My Line?Series, 1950Your Show of ShowsSeries, 19501949The FanFilm, Mrs. Erylnne1948The Philco Television PlayhouseSeries1947White Cradle InnFilm, Magda1942My Favorite BlondeFilm, Karen Bentley1941Bahama PassageFilm, Carol Delbridge1939Cafe SocietyFilm, Christopher West1938BlockadeFilm, Norma1937It's All YoursFilm, Linda Gray1936Lloyd's of LondonFilm, Elizabeth Stacy1934The World Moves OnFilm, Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 19141933I Was a SpyFilm, Martha Cnockhaert1931FascinationFilm, Gwenda Farrell1929AtlanticFilm, Monica1928The First BornFilm, Lady Madeleine Boycott1906Born26 February 1906People around Madeleine
Michael Balcon Produced The 39 Steps and Secret Agent
Edward H. Griffith Directed One Night in Lisbon (1941)
Miles Mander Directed The First Born and Fascination
Virginia Van Upp Wrote Honeymoon in Bali and Cafe Society
Alfred Hitchcock Directed The 39 Steps and Secret Agent
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced Lloyd's of London and On the Avenue
Fred MacMurray Also in An Innocent Affair (1948)
Walter Wanger Produced Blockade and The Case Against Mrs. Ames
William A. Seiter Directed On the Avenue (1937)
Maurice Elvey Directed The School for Scandal (1930)- Victor Saville Directed I Was a Spy and The Dictator
- Thomas Bentley Directed The American Prisoner and Young Woodley
Cecil B. DeMille Directed North West Mounted Police (1940)
Akim Tamiroff Also in North West Mounted Police (1940)
C. Aubrey Smith Also in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Alma Reville Wrote The 39 Steps and Secret Agent- Victor Young Wrote North West Mounted Police (1940)
Brian Aherne Also in The W Plan and Madame Guillotine
Montagu Love Also in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Reginald Denny Also in The World Moves On and Blockade
Helen Haye Also in The 39 Steps, Atlantic and The Dictator- Gordon Harker Also in The Crooked Billet (1929)
John Hay Beith Wrote The 39 Steps, Secret Agent and I Was a Spy- Louis Levy Wrote Secret Agent and I Was a Spy
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The Prisoner of Zenda 1937
The 39 Steps 1935
Secret Agent 1936
Filmography 40
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Television 5
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Carroll and Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (1935)
Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll in The Prisoner of Zenda, 1937![Mrs Philip Astley, née Madeleine Carroll by Philip Alexius de László (oil on canvas, circa 1935); one of at least two portraits of Carroll by de László[25]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/%27Mrs_Philip_Astley%2C_n%C3%A9e_Madeleine_Carroll%27_-_Philip_Alexius_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.webp/1280px-%27Mrs_Philip_Astley%2C_n%C3%A9e_Madeleine_Carroll%27_-_Philip_Alexius_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.webp.png)
Mrs Philip Astley, née Madeleine Carroll by Philip Alexius de László (oil on canvas, circa 1935); one of at least two portraits of Carroll by de László[25]
Red Cross workers assembled at the IP, Avenue C and 7th Street, Camp Patrick Henry, left to right, front row, are Edna Elizabeth Dick of Williamsburg, Kentucky; Madeleine Carroll; Marcia Hinrichs, Alexandria, Virginia.
Carroll starred in a radio daytime drama, The Affairs of Dr. Gentry, from 1957 to 1959.
PFC Hiroshi Suyao, of Honolulu, a Japanese American soldier, wounded during an attack, receives cigarettes from Carroll. Seventh Army, Dompaire area, France. 1st November, 1944. 66th Hospital Train.Awards
About this person
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1906 to 1987 · aged 81
