Editing Phyllis Calvert (section)

{{short description|English film actress (1915–2002)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name          = Phyllis Calvert
| image         = Phyllis Calvert.jpg
| caption       = Calvert in 1974
| birthname     = Phyllis Hannah Bickle
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1915|2|18|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Chelsea, London]], England
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|2002|10|8|1915|2|18|df=y}}
| death_place   = London, England
| yearsactive   = 1927–2000
| alma_mater    = [[Royal Central School of Speech and Drama]]
| spouse        = {{marriage|[[Peter Murray-Hill]]|1941|1957|reason=died}}
| children      = 2<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/12/movies/phyllis-calvert-87-virtuous-heroine-of-wartime-melodramas.html |title=Phyllis Calvert, 87, Virtuous Heroine of Wartime Melodramas |first=Paul |last=Lewis |date=12 October 2002 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
}}

'''Phyllis Hannah Murray-Hill''' (née '''Bickle'''; 18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002), known professionally as '''Phyllis Calvert''', was an English film, stage and television actress.<ref name=obituaries>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3rGCwAAQBAJ&q=phyllis+calvert+obituary&pg=PA49 |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2002: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture |first=Harris M. Lentz |last=III |date=9 April 2003 |publisher=McFarland |via=Google Books |isbn=9780786452071}}</ref> She was one of the leading stars of the [[Gainsborough melodramas]] of the 1940s such as ''[[The Man in Grey]]'' (1943) and was one of the most popular movie stars in Britain in the 1940s.<ref name="screen">{{cite web|last=Brooke|first=Michael|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446920/ |title=BFI Screenonline: Calvert, Phyllis (1915–2002) Biography |work=BFI Screenonline|date=2003–2014}}</ref> She continued her acting career for another 50 years.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4e655e |title=Phyllis Calvert |publisher=[[BFI]] |access-date=1 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101114051/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4e655e |archive-date=1 January 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the words of an article by Michael Brooke for the BFI's [[Screenonline]] website: "Most of the time she drew what looked like the short straw, playing the 'good girl' in films that revelled in the exploits of her wicked opposite number, and it says much for her talent and charisma that she was able to hold attention in what must have seemed thankless parts – she herself acknowledged that 'I do think it is much more difficult to establish a really charming, nice person than a wicked one – and make it real'."<ref name="screen"/>