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Margaret Leighton

1922 - 1976

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Margaret Leighton (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was an English actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, her film appearances included Anthony Asquith's The Winslow Boy (her first credited film role), Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, Powell and Pressburger's The Elusive Pimpernel, George More O'Ferrall's The Holly and the Ivy, Martin Ritt's The Sound and the Fury, John Guillermin's Waltz of the Toreadors, Franklin J. Schaffner's The Best Man, Tony Richardson's The Loved One, John Ford's 7 Women, and Joseph Losey's The Go-Between and Galileo. For The Go-Between, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Leighton began her career on stage in 1938, before joining the Old Vic and making her Broadway debut in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Leighton is the 5,429th most popular actor (up from 5,570th in 2019), the 4,315th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,176th in 2019) and the 622nd most popular British Actor.

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Among actors, Margaret Leighton ranks 5,429 out of 13,578. Before her are Tobias Menzies, Kaan Urgancıoğlu, Tommy Noonan, Lana Clarkson, Tor Johnson, and Kenjiro Tsuda. After her are Mitzi Gaynor, Erik King, Julie Bowen, Jared Martin, June Lockhart, and Terry Kinney.

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Among people born in 1922, Margaret Leighton ranks 343. Before her are Elsa Joubert, Kathryn Grayson, Milton H. Greene, María Luisa Bemberg, Ria Baran, and Per Olof Sundman. After her are Jean Malaurie, Jacques Pollet, André Buffière, Musa Gareyev, Héctor Rossetto, and Carl Amery. Among people deceased in 1976, Margaret Leighton ranks 220. Before her are Zoltán Latinovits, Mario Alborta, Achille Souchard, Humberto Elgueta, María Corda, and Edgar Moon. After her are Alfredo Porzio, Hisakichi Toyoda, Busby Berkeley, Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Muhammad Sakizli, and Lawrence Shields.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Leighton ranks 4,316 out of 8,785. Before her are Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), Anne V. Coates (1925), Mark Williams (1975), Simon Davies (1979), and Henry Liddell (1811). After her are Gerry Anderson (1929), Liam Howlett (1971), Amlaíb Cuarán (1000), Nick Park (1958), Donald Rayfield (1942), and Estelle Winwood (1883).

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Among actors born in United Kingdom, Margaret Leighton ranks 622. Before her are Bill Paterson (1945), Emily Mortimer (1971), Hugh Dancy (1975), Sadie Frost (1965), Burt Kwouk (1930), and Tobias Menzies (1974). After her are Estelle Winwood (1883), John Callen (1946), Stephen Mangan (1968), Virginia McKenna (1931), Alan Napier (1903), and Jamie Campbell Bower (1988).

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