Rene Ray, Countess of Midleton (born Irene Lilian Creese, 22 September
1911 â€" 28 August 1993) was a British stage and screen actress of the
1930s, 1940s and 1950s and also a novelist.Ray made her screen début
in the 1929 silent film High Treason and first appeared on the West
End stage on 5 December 1930 in the André Charlot production of
Wonder Bar at the Savoy Theatre. In 1935 she starred with Conrad Veidt
in the Gaumont British film The Passing of the Third Floor Back. Other
film co-stars included George Arliss (His Lordship, 1936), John Mills
(The Green Cockatoo, 1937), Gordon Harker (The Return of the Frog,
1938) and Trevor Howard (They Made Me a Fugitive, 1947).At London's
Lyric Theatre in 1936 she appeared with Laurence Olivier and Ralph
Richardson in JB Priestley's short-lived play Bees on the Boat Deck.
Other West End credits included Yes and No (1937), They Walk Alone
(1939) and Other People's Houses (1941). Her single Broadway
appearance was in Cedric Hardwicke's production of Priestley's An
Inspector Calls, which ran at the Booth Theatre from October 1947 to
January 1948. In 1951â€"52 she starred in the London production of
Sylvia Rayman's Women of Twilight, playing the central role nearly 450
times and reprising her performance in the subsequent film version.
1911 â€" 28 August 1993) was a British stage and screen actress of the
1930s, 1940s and 1950s and also a novelist.Ray made her screen début
in the 1929 silent film High Treason and first appeared on the West
End stage on 5 December 1930 in the André Charlot production of
Wonder Bar at the Savoy Theatre. In 1935 she starred with Conrad Veidt
in the Gaumont British film The Passing of the Third Floor Back. Other
film co-stars included George Arliss (His Lordship, 1936), John Mills
(The Green Cockatoo, 1937), Gordon Harker (The Return of the Frog,
1938) and Trevor Howard (They Made Me a Fugitive, 1947).At London's
Lyric Theatre in 1936 she appeared with Laurence Olivier and Ralph
Richardson in JB Priestley's short-lived play Bees on the Boat Deck.
Other West End credits included Yes and No (1937), They Walk Alone
(1939) and Other People's Houses (1941). Her single Broadway
appearance was in Cedric Hardwicke's production of Priestley's An
Inspector Calls, which ran at the Booth Theatre from October 1947 to
January 1948. In 1951â€"52 she starred in the London production of
Sylvia Rayman's Women of Twilight, playing the central role nearly 450
times and reprising her performance in the subsequent film version.
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