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Frieda Inescort

Acting

Born June 29, 1901 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Died February 26, 1976

Also known as Freida Inescourt · Frieda Inescourt

Biography

Frieda Inescort was a Scottish actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape and Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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Filmography31 titles

Meet Corliss Archer

1954

Perry Mason

1957as Hope Quentin

A Place in the Sun

1951as Mrs. Ann Vickers

The Letter

1940as Dorothy Joyce

Pride and Prejudice

1940as Miss Caroline Bingley

The Great O'Malley

1937as Mrs. Philips

Crossroads

1955

Four Star Playhouse

1952as Miss Proctor

Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

1943as Narrator

Thriller

1960as De Chantenay's Mother

Foxfire

1955as Mrs. Lawrence

Lux Video Theatre

1950as Mrs. Robbins

Letter to Loretta

1953as Mabel

You'll Never Get Rich

1941as Mrs. Julia Cortland

The Eddy Duchin Story

1956as Edith Wadsworth

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

1942as Olivia Nesbit

Mary of Scotland

1936as Mary Beaton

The Dark Angel

1935as Ann West

Casanova's Big Night

1954as Signora Di Gambetta

The Return of the Vampire

1943as Lady Jane Ainsley

Tarzan Finds a Son!

1939as Mrs. Lancing

Sunny

1941as Elizabeth Warren

Mission to Moscow

1943as Madame Molotov (uncredited)

The Alligator People

1959as Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne

Beauty for the Asking

1939as Flora Barton-Williams

Shadows on the Stairs

1941as Mrs. Stella Rosabelle Armitage

The Rebel

1959as Varina Davis

Never Wave at a WAC

1953as Lily Mae Gorham

The She-Creature

1956as Mrs. Chappel

Flame of the Islands

1955as Evelyn Hammond

Climax!

1954as Martha Hale