Peggy Ashcroft

Academy Award-winning, legendary English actress - who maintained her status in the British acting elite for decades. Made a Dame of the British Empire by 'Queen Elizabeth II' (qv) in 1956. Almost always on stage, she appeared rarely in film, her first being _The Wandering Jew (1933)_ (qv). On stage she was cast in many a Shakespearean role, but in film she usually played sympathetic characters. She won an Oscar for _A Passage to India (1984)_ (qv), and her last TV film was _Screen One: She's Been Away (1989)_ (qv).  She died from a stroke.::Bobby G