Faith Brook

Faith Brook (16 February 1922 – 11 March 2012) was an English actress who appeared on stage, in films and on television, generally in upper-class roles. She was the daughter of actor Clive Brook.

Early years Although she was born in York, England, she was raised in Hollywood. Her father was the actor Clive Brook, and her brother Lyndon Brook was also an actor.

Brook was educated in Los Angeles, London and Gstaad, Switzerland. As a teenager, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Stage In September 1941, Brook debuted on stage in Lottie Dundass in Santa Barbara.

She performed on Broadway, in Letters to Lucerne (1941), You Never Can Tell (1947) and The Cocktail Party (1949).

Television Brook portrayed Julia Naughton in the American television series Claudia (1952). In Britain, she appeared in War and Peace (1972) on the BBC and The Irish RM on Channel 4, among other programmes. Nance Oldfield TV movie 1957 White Hunter Patricia "Big Bwana Brady " 1958 Saturday Playhouse Connie Crawford "Heroes Don't Care" 1958 Sunday Night Theatre Ida Hay "Honour Bright" 1959 The Invisible Man Carol Norton "Picnic with Death" 1961 Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond Nurse "The Prisoner" 1961 Maigret Aline Calas “The Simple Case” 1964 Dr. Finlay's Casebook Fanny Senlac "A Present from Father" 1964 The Human Jungle Mrs Thomas "Wild Goose Chase" 1974 Thriller Betty Cornfield "In the Steps of a Dead Man" 1984 The Weather in the Streets Lady Spencer TV movie 1991 Miss Marple Ruth van Rydock "They Do It With Mirrors" 1993 Zorro Ynez Risendo "The Arrival""Conundrum""The Discovery" 2000 Paul the Apostle Sara TV movie

Selected radio The Reluctant Peer by William Douglas-Home broadcast on BBC (1967)