Dinah sheridan

Born in London on September 17, 1920, Dinah Mec was the daughter of a Russian and a German, who worked as photographers for the English royal family. She made her stage debut at the age of 12, when she played Wendy in a luxurious version of “Peter Pan”, where Elsa Lanchester played the boy who didn’t want to grow up, while her husband, Charles Laughton , played Captain Hook. .

At 17, Dinah made her film debut with a starring role in Landslide, a totally forgotten thriller. When she decided to change her real name, and find a stage name, she randomly opened the phone book and chose the first one she read: Sheridan. At the outbreak of the Second World Cup, she took a brief hiatus in her professional career to work as an ambulance driver.

After the conflict ended, Dinah Sheridan gained notoriety in Great Britain with various titles, such as The Sound Barrier , by David Lean, where she was the wife of the pilot who had problems in the opening sequence.

Married to fellow actor Jimmy Hanley ( The Blue Lantern ) with whom they had three children, Dinah Sheridan divorced in 1952. She achieved her greatest success as the lead in Genoveva , a film for all audiences that was a worldwide success. Right after filming, Ella Sheridan married film mogul Sir John Davis, and she decided to retire from acting abruptly.

After breaking up with him, Sheridan returned to the big screen with another family film, The Railway Children , adapted from a novel by E. Nesbit, where she was a mother who has to take care of her three children alone after her husband has been jailed for selling state secrets. She then concentrated almost entirely on television, except for some theatrical production and her appearance in the film The Broken Mirror , an adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel where she played a lady from high society.

In the last years of her life, Dinah Sheridan was married to actor John Merivale ( Arabesque ), and after his death she had a fourth husband, Aubrey Ison.