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Dulcie Gray, CBE (born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey, 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011) was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist.

Early life and career[]

Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1915, although she would later shave four years off her age, and attended school in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, later returning to Malaya to teach. After her father's death, she came back to England. Following a brief period at art school, she enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where she met fellow actor Michael Denison, whom she married in 1939. The couple were together for 59 years before his death from cancer in 1998. They had no children. The couple's professional careers were intertwined and they frequently appeared on stage together. Between them they starred in more than 100 West End plays and in the 1940s and 1950s, were familiar figures in British films. Onscreen they co-starred in My Brother Jonathan and The Glass Mountain in 1948, The Franchise Aff

Gray, Dulcie

Dulcie Gray (1919-2011) is a pseudonym and stage name for British actress Dulcie Winifred Catherine Savage Denison nee Bailey. She was born in Kuala Lumpur and educated in England and Malaya, then at the Academy des Beaux Arts, London and the Webber-Douglas Dramatic School. She married the actor Michael Denison in 1939. Her series character is Inspector Cardiff.

 

Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, the daughter of a solicitor. After being educated in Britain she returned to Malaya to teach. Following the death of her father she returned to England. After a brief spell at art school she enrolled at the Webber-Douglas drama school. She married shortly after leaving drama school in Spring 1939, having changed her stage name to Gray as there was already a Dulcie Savage in the profession. 

 

 

 

Murder on the Stairs (1957)

Murder in Melbourne (1958)

Baby Face (1959)

Epitaph For A Dead Actor (1960)

Murder on A Saturday (1961)

Murder in Mind (1963)

The Devil Wore Scarlet (1964)

No Quarter For A Star (1964)

The Murder of L

Gray, Dulcie

GRAY, Dulcie. (Dulcie Denison). British (born Malaysia), b. 1920. Genres: Novels, Mystery/Crime/Suspense, Plays/Screenplays, Autobiography/Memoirs, Novellas/Short stories. Career: Actress, 1939-. Publications: Murder on the Stairs, 1957; Love Affair (play), 1957; Murder in Melbourne, 1958; Baby Face, 1959; Epitaph for a Dead Actor, 1960; Murder on a Saturday, 1961; Murder in Mind, 1963; The Devil Wore Scarlet, 1964; (with M. Denison) The Actor and His World, 1964; No Quarter for a Star, 1964; The Murder of Love, 1967; Died in the Red, 1968; Murder on Honeymoon, 1969; For Richer for Richer, 1970; Deadly Lampshade, 1971; Understudy to Murder, 1972; Dead Give Away, 1974; Ride on a Tiger, 1975; Stage-Door Fright (stories), 1977; Death in Denims, 1977; Butterflies on My Mind (nonfiction), 1978; Dark Calypso, 1979; The Glanville Women, 1982; Anna Starr, 1984; Mirror Image, 1987; Looking Forward, Looking Back (autobiography), 1991; J.B. Priestley, 2000. Address: c/o Barry Burrelt Associates, Prince of Wales Theatre, 31 Coventry St, London W1V 8AS, England.

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