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Beatrix Lehmann (1 July 1903, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire

Bourne End is a village predominantly in the parish of Wooburn and Bourne End, but also in the parish of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, England....
 - 31 July 1979, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
) was a British
United Kingdom

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 actress, theatre director and author.

Lehmannn trained at RADA and made her stage debut as Peggy in a 1924 production The Way of the World at the Lyric Theatre
Lyric Hammersmith

The Lyric Hammersmith is a theatre on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions....
, Hammersmith. As well as her extensive theatrical career she appeared in films, on television, and wrote short stories and two novels including Rumour of Heaven first published in 1934 (ISBN 014016166X).

In 1946 Lehmann became director and producer of the Arts Council Midland Theatre Company.

In 1978 she gave a memorable performance in the Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
 serial The Stones of Blood
The Stones of Blood

The Stones of Blood is a list of Doctor Who serials in the United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 28 to November 18, 1978....
 as Professor Emilia Rumford.






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Beatrix Lehmann (1 July 1903, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire

Bourne End is a village predominantly in the parish of Wooburn and Bourne End, but also in the parish of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, England....
 - 31 July 1979, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 actress, theatre director and author.

Lehmannn trained at RADA and made her stage debut as Peggy in a 1924 production The Way of the World at the Lyric Theatre
Lyric Hammersmith

The Lyric Hammersmith is a theatre on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions....
, Hammersmith. As well as her extensive theatrical career she appeared in films, on television, and wrote short stories and two novels including Rumour of Heaven first published in 1934 (ISBN 014016166X).

In 1946 Lehmann became director and producer of the Arts Council Midland Theatre Company.

In 1978 she gave a memorable performance in the Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
 serial The Stones of Blood
The Stones of Blood

The Stones of Blood is a list of Doctor Who serials in the United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 28 to November 18, 1978....
 as Professor Emilia Rumford. She also played Susan Calvin
Susan Calvin

Dr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. She was the chief Robopsychology at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men., the major manufacturer of robots in the 21st century....
 in two episodes of British science fiction series Out of the Unknown
Out of the Unknown

Out of the Unknown is a Great Britain television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Two in four series between 1965 and 1971....
. In 1979 she played Mrs Pleasant in a film version of The Cat and The Canary
The Cat and the Canary (1979 film)

The Cat and the Canary is a film released in 1979. It is a remake of the 1927 film of the The Cat and the Canary .Cast Plot ...
. Other roles include parts in Z-Cars
Z-Cars

Z-Cars was a United Kingdom television drama series centred on the work of beat police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool, Merseyside in north-west of England....
, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1965 in film film adaptation of the The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carr?. It was adapted by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper....
, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a Musical theatre with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart....
, War and Peace
War and Peace (TV series)

War and Peace was a made-for-television dramatization of the Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name. This 20 episode series began airing on September 28, 1972....
, Love for Lydia
Love for Lydia

Love for Lydia is a semi-autobiographical novel written by United Kingdom author H. E. Bates, first published in 1952....
, Staircase
Staircase (play)

Staircase is a two-character play by Charles Dyer about an aging gay couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer....
, and Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian literature Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866....
.

She came from a family of notable achievers: she was a daughter of humourist Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, and her great-uncle was the Henri Lehmann
Henri Lehmann

Henri Lehmann was a France historical and portrait Painting, born in Kiel, Schleswig. He was a pupil of his father, Leo Lehmann, and of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres in Paris, where he opened a studio in 1847, after having become naturalized....
 the artist. Her brother was writer John Lehmann
John Lehmann

John Frederick Lehmann was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and London Magazine....
 and her sister was novelist Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann

Rosamond Lehmann CBE , was a Great Britain novelist. Her first novel, Dusty Answer , was a succ?s de scandale; she subsequently became established in the literary world and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set....
.

There are 12 portraits of Lehmann in the British National Portrait Gallery Collection (see link below).

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