Mary Ure
Overview
- Occupation Actress
- Birthdate February 18, 1933
- Birthplace Glasgow, Scotland
- Education Central School of Speech and Drama, London
- Died April 5, 1975 (London, Great Britain)
- Character Mary Ellison
Biography
Mary Ure was born in Glasgow 1933. She starred in only 9 films, when she loved the theathre. She starred in most of her films just to please her husbands. In 1959 she starred as Alison Porter in Look Back in Anger, written by her first husband John Osborne. She had already played that part on stage. In Custer of the West she showed up as Mrs George Armstrong. In that film Robert Shaw, her second husband, also starred. For her performance in the film version of Sons and Lovers, she was nominated for an Academy Award 1960. She starred in American plays, like A View from the Bride and the Crucible, on London stages. Short after the first opening of a play in London 1975, Mary Ure died accidently after consuming whisky and tranquilizers. When she died she was 43-years-old.
Selected films
- Storm Over the Nile - 1956
- Windom's Way - 1957
- Look Back in Anger - 1958
- Sons and Lovers - 1960
- Mind Benders, The - 1962
- Luck of Ginger Coffey, The - 1964
- Custer of the West - 1968
- Where Eagles Dare - 1969
- Reflection of Fear, A - 1973
Curiosa
- Mary Ure has been nominated for an Academy Award® one time.
- She had 4 children with Robert Shaw, and 4 stepchildren.