Florence Lindon Travers, known professionally as Linden Travers (27
May 1913 â€" 23 October 2001), was a British actress.Travers was born
in County Durham, England, the daughter of Florence (née Wheatley)
and William Halton Lindon Travers. The elder sister of Bill Travers,
she attended La Sagesse School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She made her
first stage appearance at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1933. She made
her West End debut the following year in Ivor Novello's Murder in
Mayfair, and appeared in her first film, Children of the Fog in
1935.She played a substantial role in Carol Reed’s Bank Holiday
(1938). One of her most widely seen performances was as "Mrs."
Todhunter in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). She also
appeared in The Stars Look Down (1940) The Ghost Train (1941), and
Quartet (1948).Her career consisted mainly of supporting roles, but
she also played occasional lead roles, such as Miss Blandish in both
the well received 1942 stage adaptation and widely panned 1948 film
version of James Hadley Chase's 1939 novel No Orchids for Miss
Blandish.
May 1913 â€" 23 October 2001), was a British actress.Travers was born
in County Durham, England, the daughter of Florence (née Wheatley)
and William Halton Lindon Travers. The elder sister of Bill Travers,
she attended La Sagesse School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She made her
first stage appearance at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1933. She made
her West End debut the following year in Ivor Novello's Murder in
Mayfair, and appeared in her first film, Children of the Fog in
1935.She played a substantial role in Carol Reed’s Bank Holiday
(1938). One of her most widely seen performances was as "Mrs."
Todhunter in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). She also
appeared in The Stars Look Down (1940) The Ghost Train (1941), and
Quartet (1948).Her career consisted mainly of supporting roles, but
she also played occasional lead roles, such as Miss Blandish in both
the well received 1942 stage adaptation and widely panned 1948 film
version of James Hadley Chase's 1939 novel No Orchids for Miss
Blandish.
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