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Davina Whitehouse, OBE (16 December 1912 - 25 December 2002) was a stage, film and television actress acclaimed in both her native UK as well as Australasia
Australasia

Australasia is a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes ....
.

She was a star of the London stage
West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
 in the 1930s before emigrating to New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 in 1952, finding work in radio, theatre and television (see filmography below).

Davina Whitehouse died in Auckland, New Zealand, aged 90, following a series of strokes.






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Davina Whitehouse, OBE (16 December 1912 - 25 December 2002) was a stage, film and television actress acclaimed in both her native UK as well as Australasia
Australasia

Australasia is a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes ....
.

She was a star of the London stage
West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
 in the 1930s before emigrating to New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 in 1952, finding work in radio, theatre and television (see filmography below).

Davina Whitehouse died in Auckland, New Zealand, aged 90, following a series of strokes. She was predeceased by her husband, Archie Whitehouse, and survived by her two children.

Filmography

  • Dark Knight (TV series) (1 episode, 2001)
  • A Twist in the Tale (TV series)
    A Twist in the Tale (TV series)

    A Twist in the Tale is a 1998 TV series starring William Shatner.External links ...
     (1 episode, 1999)
  • The Legend of William Tell (TV series) (1 episode)
  • Rugged Gold (TV movie, 1994)
  • Braindead (1992 film)
    Braindead (1992 film)

    Braindead , released as Dead Alive in North America, is a zombie comedy splatter film horror film directed by Peter Jackson.Braindead is in the same vein as Jackson's earlier works Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles but Braindead is rather more polished, with a budget of around $3 million....
  • Prisoner (TV series)
    Prisoner (TV series)

    Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a List of fictional prisons women's prison....
     (soap opera aka Prisoner: Cell Block H; 6 episodes, 1983)
  • Solo (film) (1978)
  • The Night Nurse (1978) (TV movie)
  • Young Ramsay (TV series) (1 episode, 1977)
  • Bluey
    Bluey

    Bluey is a 39 episode Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network in 1976.The series was another crime show from Crawford's, but was different from previous shows - Homicide , Division 4, Matlock Police - in that it focused on a single detective rather than an ensemble, and that the charac...
     (TV series) (1 episode, 1977)
  • Sleeping Dogs (1977)
  • Division 4
    Division 4

    Division 4 was an Australian police procedural television series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes....
     (TV series) (1 episode, 1975)
  • Matlock Police
    Matlock Police

    Matlock Police was an Australian Police procedural television series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network between 1971 and 1975....
     (TV series) (1 episode, 1975)
  • The Box (1974) (TV series) (unknown number of episodes)


Misconceptions

There are two misconceptions regarding Davina Whitehouse. The first is that she was a Dame (DBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
); while some Internet sources refer to her as "Dame Davina" or "Dame Davina Whitehouse", she was, in fact, never knighted, but she was awarded an OBE for her services to the arts.

The second is that she appeared as an extra in the pre-Code
Pre-Code

Pre-Code films were created before the United States Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 or Hays Code - censorship guidelines - took effect on 1 July 1934 in the United States of America....
 film, Night Nurse (1931), which starred Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
, Clark Gable
Clark Gable

Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
 and Joan Blondell
Joan Blondell

Rose Joan Blondell, known as Joan Blondell, was an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Production Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 film and television productions....
. This is a mistake - she actually appeared in a TV movie in 1978 of essentially the same name, The Night Nurse.

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