Barbara Hicks

Barbara Hicks (12 August 1924 – 6 September 2013) was an English film actress. She appeared in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil and Merchant Ivory Productions's 1992 Bafta award-winning Howards End.

Biography Hicks was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, and lived at Little Maplestead, Essex. She was educated at Adcote School, Shropshire. After training at the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art, she made her first appearance on stage in 1948 at the Royal Court, Liverpool in Leo Marks’ Written for a Lady, which transferred to the Garrick Theatre, and became her West End debut.

She was married for 40 years to Lieutenant Colonel Peter Taylor (25 January 1913 – 26 March 2010). He was an outstanding front line commander who won two MCs serving with the 2/6th Bn Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in Italy in 1944.

Hicks appeared in Happy Birthday, Sir Larry, a National Theatre birthday tribute to Laurence Olivier, on 31 May 1987 in the presence of Olivier.

She was the mother of actor Giles Taylor.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1953 Background Mrs. Young 1954 Conflict of Wings Mrs. Thompson Child's Play Policewoman 1956 Sailor Beware! Little Girl's Mother 1958 I Was Monty's Double Hester Nowhere to Go Agnes the maid uncredited 1959 Operation Bullshine Sergeant Merrifield 1960 A Touch of Larceny Miss Price uncredited 1961 His and Hers Woman Hand in Hand Miss Roberts A Matter of WHO Margery uncredited Petticoat Pirates Physical Training Instructor 1963 Doctor in Distress Health Farm Receptionist uncredited 1964 Smokescreen Miss Breen The Third Secret Police Secretary 1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade Mrs. Duberly's maid 1978 Death on the Nile Village schoolmistress uncredited 1980 The Wildcats of St Trinian's Miss Coke 1981 Memoirs of a Survivor Woman on Waste Ground 1982 Evil Under the Sun Flewitt's Secretary Britannia Hospital Miss Tinker: Administration A Shocking Accident Aunt Joyce 1983 Dombey and Son Mrs. Pipchin 1985 Brazil Mrs. Alma Terrain Morons from Outer Space Stenographer Cover Her Face Miss Molpass 1986 The Murder at the Vicarage Miss Hartnell 1988 We Think the World of You Residents Assoc. Lady 1 1989 Wilt Ms Clinch 1990 Press Gang Virginia Hume 1 episode The Witches Regina uncredited 1992 Howards End Miss Avery Orlando Second Older Woman L'accompagnatrice The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Miss Hartnell 1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Emily Garrideb 1997 Remember Me? Elderly sister FairyTale: A True Story City Woman Déjà Vu Housekeeper 2000 Up at the Villa Lulu Good final film role