Beryl Reid

About Beryl Reid

Who is it?: Actress, Music Department, Soundtrack
Birth Day: June 17, 1919
Birth Place:  Hereford, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom
Died On: 13 October 1996(1996-10-13) (aged 77)\nSouth Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Birth Sign: Cancer
Cause of death: pneumonia and osteoporosis
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1940-1994
Spouse(s): Bill Worsley (1949-1953; divorced) Derek Franklin (1954–1966; divorced)

Beryl Reid Net Worth

Beryl Reid was born on June 17, 1919 in  Hereford, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, is Actress, Music Department, Soundtrack. Beryl Reid was the daughter of Scottish parents and grew up in industrial Manchester, England. She left home at the age of 16 to go and work in a shop. She lasted 6 weeks. She applied for and was accepted in a revue in the Summer season in Bridlington. She had no formal training but joined the National Theater in London as a comedy actress. Her first big success came in the BBC radio show "Educating Archie" (a ventriloquist - on the radio). She played the naughty schoolgirl, Monica, and later, the Brummie Marlene. Her film roles were few and far between, but always well received. She transferred her Tony award winning performance of the lesbian radio star to the screen in The Killing of Sister George (1968). But she was best known and loved for her (slightly tipsy) older ladies such as in The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979).
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💰 Net worth: Under Review

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Biography/Timeline

1919

Born in Hereford, Herefordshire in 1919, Reid was the daughter of Scottish parents, and grew up in Manchester, where she attended Withington and Levenshulme High Schools.

1936

Leaving school at 16, she made her debut in 1936 as a music hall performer at the Floral Hall, Bridlington. Before and during the Second World War, she took part in variety shows and pantomimes. She had no formal training but later appeared at the Royal National Theatre in London as a comedy Actress. Her first big success came in the BBC radio show Educating Archie as naughty schoolgirl Monica and later as the Brummie, "Marlene."

1976

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1976 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the car park of Thames Television’s Teddington Studios.

1981

Between 1981 and 1983, she co-presented the Children's TV programme Get up and Go for Yorkshire Television, her co - presenter "Mooncat" being a green, talking, puppet cat. Stephen Boxer was her human co-star. After she left the show it became titled simply Mooncat and Co.

1987

In both Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People, Reid played Connie Sachs. For Smiley's People she won a BAFTA for Best Actress on Television. She also wrote an autobiography, So Much Love, which was well received. She played the part of an elderly feminist and political subversive in the 1987 television drama, The Beiderbecke Tapes.

1996

Beryl Reid died on 13 October 1996 from pneumonia and osteoporosis at a South Buckinghamshire hospital following knee surgery. She was 77 years old.

2016

An authorized biography, Roll Out the Beryl, is due for publication by Fantom Films on 22 August 2016. Written by Kaye Crawford, it is the first biography to be written of the Actress and coincides with the twentieth anniversary of her death.