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Miriam Karlin Biography (1925-)

Born June 23, 1925, in London, England; daughter of Harry Samuels and Celine(maiden name, Aronowitz) Karlin.

Nationality

British

Gender

Female

Occupation

Actress

Birth Details

June 23, 1925

London, United Kingdom

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• (London debut) Lorene, The Time of Your Life, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 1946
• Miss Sharp, Separate Rooms, Strand Theatre, London, 1947
• Maid to Measure (revue), Embassy Theatre, London, 1951
• Olga, Women of Twilight, Vaudeville Theatre, London, 1951 then (Broadway debut) Plymouth Theatre, 1952 later Victoria Palace Theatre, London, 1952
• Sadie Thompson, Rain, Embassy Theatre, 1953
• Mrs. Solomons, Spring Song, 1953
• Sadie, The Boychik, 1954
• Cockles and Champagne (revue), Saville Theatre, London, 1954
• The angel Rochele, "A Tale of Chelm," the first angel, "Bentche Schweig,"and Hannah, "The High School," The World of Sholom Aleichem, EmbassyTheatre, 1955
• Mrs. Daigle, The Bad Seed, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1955
• Miranda, Listen to the Wind, Arts Theatre, London, 1955
• Lina Szczepanowska, Misalliance, Lyric Theatre, 1956
• Mrs. Van Daan, The Diary of Anne Frank, Phoenix Theatre, London, 1956
• Annie Angel, All Kinds of Men, Arts Theatre, 1957
• Rose, The Egg, Saville Theatre, 1957
• For Adults Only (revue), Strand Theatre, 1958
• Lilly Smith, Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'Be, Theatre Royal, Stratford, England, 1959 then Garrick Theatre, London, 1960
• Marian Alexander, The Secret of the World, Theatre Royal, 1962
• Paddy, The Rag Trade, Piccadilly Theatre, London, 1962
• Flora Molar, "Out from Under," Hilda, "Orange Souffle," and Marcella Vankuchen, "The Wen," The Bellow Plays, Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London,then Fortune Theatre, London, 1966
• Golde, Fiddler on the Roof, Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1967
• Hilda, It's the Underneath That Counts, King's Theatre, Edinburgh,Scotland, 1970
• Mrs. Baker, Butterflies Are Free, Playbox Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, 1971
• Vera, High Time, Hampstead, England, 1972
• Nora Scrubbs, Alpha Alpha, Open Space Theatre, London, 1972
• Title role, Mother Courage, Palace Theatre, Watford, England, 1972
• Madame Hortense, Zorba, Greenwich, England, 1973
• The mother, Tonight We Improvise, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester, England, 1974
• Liselotte, Diary of a Madame (solo show), Phoenix Theatre, London,then Vienna, Austria, and Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, 1975 later HaymarketTheatre, Leicester, England, 1976
• Jocasta, Oedipus Rex, Haymarket Theatre, 1975
• Madame Dubonnet, The Seagull, Haymarket Theatre, 1975
• Grace Hoyland, Bus Stop, Phoenix Theatre, 1976
• Arkadina, The Seagull, Haymarket Theatre, 1976
• Judith Bliss, Hay Fever, Haymarket Theatre, 1976
• The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella, Palace Theatre, 1977
• We Can't Pay, We Won't Pay, Gardner Centre, Brighton, England, 1978
• Alma, The Bed before Yesterday, Leicester, England, 1978 then HongKong Festival, Hong Kong, 1979
• Sheila, Relatively Speaking, Bromley, England, 1979
• Ernestine Wilton, The Undertaking, Greenwich, England, 1979
• Golde, Fiddler on the Roof, Scottish Opera Company, 1979
• Heresies, Pit Theatre, London, 1987
• Separate Tables, Albery Theatre, London, 1993
• Zofia, Tongue of a Bird, Almeida Theatre, London, 1997
• Mrs. Steinberg, Mrs. Steinberg and the Byker Boy, Bush Theatre, London, 2000
• Major Tours
• (Stage debut) Miss Callaghan, The Family Upstairs, British cities,1943
• Miss Myers, No Escape, British cities, 1954
• Is Australia Really Necessary?, Australian cities, 1964-1965
• Martha, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, British cities, 1974
• Ernestine Wilton, The Undertaking, British cities, 1979
• Film Appearances
• Down among the Z Men (also known as The Goon Show Movie), E. J. Fancey Productions, 1952
• Barmaid, The Deep Blue Sea, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955
• Gladys, The Woman for Joe, Rank, 1955
• Mildred, Fun at St. Fanny's, Grand Alliance, 1956
• A Touch of the Sun, Eros, 1956
• Bus conductress, Carve Her Name with Pride, 1958
• Gertrude, Room at the Top, Romulus, 1959
• Connie Williams, Crossroads to Crime, Allied Artists, 1960
• Soubrette, The Entertainer, Bryanston-British Lion, 1960
• Mrs. Mathias, Hand in Hand, Columbia, 1960
• Mrs. Joe, The Millionairess, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960
• Josetta Alvarez, The Fourth Square (also known as Edgar WallaceMysteries: The Fourth Square), Allied Artists, 1961
• Mrs. Lack, Watch It, Sailor!, Columbia, 1961
• Woman in the Black Maria, I Thank a Fool, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962
• Charwoman, The Phantom of the Opera, Universal, 1962
• Winnie Smith, Heavens Above!, Janus, 1963
• Milly, The Small World of Sammy Lee, Seven Arts, 1963
• Nellie Marsh, The Bargee, Warne-Pathe, 1964
• Mrs. Higgins, Ladies Who Do, Continental Distributing, 1964
• WAAF Sergeant, Operation Snafu (also known as On the Fiddleand Operation War Head), 1961 American International Pictures, 1965
• Ellen Newman, Just like a Woman, Monarch, 1967
• Cat Lady, A Clockwork Orange (also known as Stanley Kubrick's AClockwork Orange), Warner Bros., 1971
• Aunt Rosa, Mahler, Visual Programme Systems, 1974
• Voice, Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done, 1975
• Grandmother Utz, Utz, Castle Hill Productions, 1992
• Marina, Incognito, Warner Bros., 1997
• Madame Goldstein, The Man Who Cried (also known as The Man WhoCried--Les larmes d'un homme), 2000 Universal Focus, 2001
• Television Appearances
• Movies
• Mrs. Samson, Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank, CBS, 1988
• Mrs. Schneider (some sources cite Mrs. Hackett), Jekyll and Hyde,ABC, 1990
• Series
• Paddy, The Rag Trade, 1961 and 1977
• The Mavis Bramston Show, 1965
• Yetta Feldman, So Haunt Me, 1992
• Episodic
• Rachel, "You Can Choose Your Friends," Holby City, 1999
• Hag, "The End of the World," Dark Ages, 1999
• Other
• Cook, Alice, 1946
• The queen, Salve Regina, 1969