Barbara Chilcott Davis (September 10, 1922 – January 1, 2022) was a Canadian actress.

Career

After the war she studied at the

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in London and made her West End debut in 1949. On her return to Canada in 1950, she soon became one of the country's leading actresses. In 1953, with her brothers Murray and Donald Davis, she founded the Crest Theatre in Toronto, which operated until 1966. Chilcott died in Toronto on January 1, 2022, at the age of 99.

Partial filmography

* 1960 ''

The Full Treatment ''The Full Treatment'' (released in the US as ''Stop Me Before I Kill!'') is a 1960 black-and-white British Thriller film, thriller film directed by Val Guest and starring Claude Dauphin (actor), Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento and Ronald Lewis (a ...

'' as Baroness de la Vailion * 1966 '' The Trap'' as Trader's Wife * 1975 ''

Lies My Father Told Me ''Lies My Father Told Me'' is a 1975 Canadian drama film made in Montreal, Quebec. It was directed by Ján Kadár and stars Jeffrey Lynas as an orthodox Jewish boy growing up in 1920s Montreal. The film received the Golden Globe Award for Best Fo ...

'' as Mrs. Tannenbaum * 1993 ''

M. Butterfly ''M. Butterfly'' is a play by David Henry Hwang. The story, while entwined with that of the opera '' Madama Butterfly'', is based most directly on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a Beijing opera sin ...

'' as Critic at Garden Party * 1996 ''

No Contest II ''No Contest II'' is a 1996 action film directed by Paul Lynch and written by Michael Stokes and Richard Beattie and starring Shannon Tweed, Bruce Payne and Lance Henriksen. It is a sequel to ''No Contest''. Plot Erich Dengler (Lance Henriksen ...

'' as Mrs. Holman

References

External links

*
Entry at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
* Archives of Barbara Chilcot
(Barbara Chilcott fonds, R11210)
are held at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chilcott, Barbara 1922 births 2022 deaths Actresses from Toronto Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses Canadian stage actresses 20th-century Canadian actresses Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama