About Barbara Waring
Lived 1911 – 1990 (aged 78–79). Barbara Waring was an actor.
Barbara Waring ( Barbara Alice Waring Gibb; 1 August 1911 – April 1990) was an English actress, screenwriter, and playwright.
Biography Barbara Alice Waring Gibb was born on 1 August 1911 in Kent, England, the daughter of Dr. J. A. Gibb. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s.
In the late 1930s she married Laurence A. Evans, a theatrical agent. In 1967, she wrote the play The Jaywalker, performed at Coventry Cathedral with music by Duke Ellington.
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English actress
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Barbara Waring was born on 1 August 1911.
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Barbara Waring died in 1990.
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Barbara Waring was an actor.
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