Rosamund Mary Von Pokorny (12 June 1907 – 15 July 1997) better known as Rosamund Greenwood, was a British

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who was active on screen from 1935 until 1990.

Biography

After training at London's

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, she was on stage from the late 1920s. Her theatre work included starring in the original West End and Broadway productions of

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's '' The Matchmaker'' from 1954 until 1957. In a career spanning 60 years, Greenwood's screen work included ''

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'', '' Night of the Demon'', '' Upstairs, Downstairs'', '' All Creatures Great and Small'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' A Perfect Spy'', and ''Hallelujah!'' in 1983. Her final role came in 1990, when aged 83, she played a

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in the screen adaptation of

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's novel ''The Witches''.

Personal life and death

Greenwood married the actor Leo Von Pokorny in 1934. The marriage produced one child, a son, who was born in 1935. Her husband Von Pokorny died in 1951, aged 58. Greenwood died on 15 July 1997, aged 90, in Malvern,

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Filmography

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwood, Rosamund 1907 births 1997 deaths English stage actresses English film actresses English television actresses Actresses from Leeds 20th-century English actresses Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama