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- A veteran comedienne and character actress, Miss Gingold often described herself as one of the last of a dying generation of British theater eccentrics. Well into her 70s, she played grand, flinty dowagers in stage revivals and on television drama and comedy shows and was always in demand on talk shows for her prickly repartee.
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Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ ŋ ɡ oʊ l d /; [1] 9 December 1897 – 24 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric character. Her signature drawling, deep voice was a result of nodules on her vocal cords she developed in the 1920s and early 1930s.
May 25, 1987 · British-born actress Hermione Gingold, whose 70-year career in theater and films took her from the English music hall circuit to a memorable duet with Maurice Chevalier in the classic screen...
May 25, 1987 · Hermione Gingold, the irrepressible English-born comedienne whose tart, quick-witted repartee became her trademark, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital. She was 89 years old and lived on the...
Gingold was a delightfully ribald raconteur and became a very popular TV talk show guest, particularly on The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957). She was finishing up the last touches on her autobiography when she passed away in New York City of pneumonia and a heart ailment on May 24, 1987.
- December 9, 1897
- May 24, 1987
Captivated by her in Slings and Arrows (1948), Harold Hobson noted: "Miss Gingold blossoms into gargoyles as if she were Notre Dame itself."
Gingold was a delightfully ribald raconteur and became a very popular TV talk show guest, particularly on The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957). She was finishing up the last touches on her autobiography when she passed away in New York City of pneumonia and a heart ailment on May 24, 1987.
She appeared in cameo roles in British films, of which Sherrin singles out The Pickwick Papers (1952), in which she played the formidable schoolmistress, Miss Tompkins. [5] Gingold became well known to BBC radio audiences in "Mrs Doom's Diary" in the weekly show Home at Eight; this was a parody of the radio soap opera Mrs Dale's Diary in the ...
