Janet Alexander (16 July 1878 in Ewell, Surrey, England, UK – 28 June 1961 in Kensington, London, England, UK) was a British actress.
Born as Kate Janet Alexander, she was the daughter of schoolmaster Charles Dallas Alexander and Helen Kate ''née'' Shuldham. She was married to the actor
Lauderdale Maitland
Lauderdale Valentine John Maitland (1878 – 28 February 1929) was a British stage and film actor.
He was born in 1878 in Merton, at that time in Surrey, the son of Adele and William Lauderdale Maitland, a florist. On 29 April 1905 he married ...
from 1907 to his death in 1929. Secondly, she was briefly married to the writer and editor
Sir John Alexander Hammerton from February 1949 to his death in May of the same year.
In 1901 she appeared at the
Imperial Theatre
The Imperial Theatre is a Broadway theater at 249 West 45th Street ( George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Opened in 1923, the Imperial Theatre was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and ...
in London as Kate Meredith in Boyle Lawrence's military drama ''A Man of His Word'' opposite
H. B. Irving.
[ J. P. Wearing]
''The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''
Scarecrow Press (2013), pp 69/70
Selected filmography
* ''
The Secret Woman'' (1918)
* ''
Queen's Evidence
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'' (1919)
* ''
God's Clay'' (1919)
* ''
The Hour of Trial'' (1920)
* ''
Henrietta Maria; or, The Queen of Sorrow'' (1923)
* ''
Empress Josephine; Or, Wife of a Demigod'' (1923)
* ''
Not Quite a Lady
''Not Quite a Lady'' is a 1928 British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Mabel Poulton, Janet Alexander and Barbara Gott. The screenplay concerns a wealthy woman who, unhappy with her son's choice of fiancée, holds a ...
'' (1928)
* ''
High Seas
The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regiona ...
'' (1929)
* ''
The Compulsory Husband
''The Compulsory Husband'' is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and Harry Lachman and starring Banks, Lillian Manton and Clifford Heatherley. It was based on a novel of the same title by John Glyder.
Cast
* Monty Banks as Monty ...
'' (1930)
* ''
No Exit
''No Exit'' (, ) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944. The play centers around a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters a ...
'' (1930)
References
External links
*
Janet Alexander on Great War Theatre
1878 births
1961 deaths
Actresses from Surrey
English film actresses
English stage actresses
People from Ewell
20th-century English actresses
Actors from Epsom and Ewell
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