# Olga Edwardes

Olga Edwardes (born Olga Florence Solomon; 20 May 1915 – 23 July 2008) was an English actress.

## Personal life

Edwardes father was Joseph Michael Solomon, an architect of Herbert Baker, but he committed suicide in 1920 at the age of 33 in Cape Town.
Her mother was Jean Cox, a South African actress who was a divorcée when she married Solomon in 1914 in Cape Town. Olga hd a brother named Paul.
Her mother married again in Cape Town in 1922 to Hugh Edwards, a company secretary, who became Olga and Paul's stepfather.
Olga married P/O Anthony Max Baerlein in 1941; he was killed in action later the same year.
In 1946, she married her second husband Nicholas Davenport. an economist and journalist who was more than twenty years her senior. He died in 1979; she died in Elstree, England, in 2008.

### Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1936 | The Amateur Gentleman | Maid at inn | Uncredited |
| 1936 | The Man Who Could Work Miracles | minor role | Uncredited |
| 1937 | The Dominant Sex | Lucy Webster | |
| 1937 | Over She Goes | Reprimanded maid | Uncredited |
| 1940 | Contraband | Mrs Abo | |
| 1945 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Cleopatra's lady attendant | |
| 1950 | The Angel with the Trumpet | Monica Alt | |
| 1951 | The Six Men | Christina | |
| 1951 | Scrooge | Fred's wife | She played the unnamed wife of Scrooge's nephew Fred |
| 1953 | Black Orchid | Christine Shaw | She was a principal character |

### Theatre work
#### Repertory

* This is where Edwardes learned stagecraft. In Oxford rep there is a new play every week, including one that she took a bow in Romeo and Juliet with John Byron.
* In the Royal Shakespeare Company, during the first half of 1936, at the new Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon:
       Twelfth Night Olivia Much Ado About NothingHero The Taming of the ShrewBianca The RivalsJulia Melville Richard IIQueen Isabella The TempestMiranda The Merchant of VeniceJessica
* During the war, she spent a year with the BBC Repertory Company.

#### West End

* As You Like It – Open Air 1934 – the stage débuts of Olga Edwardes and Frank Tickle
* Party 1860 – Open Air 1934
* Androcles and the Lion – Open Air 1934 – George Bernard Shaw watched it on its first night
* Romeo and Juliet – Open Air 1934
* Young Madame Conti – Savoy 1936
* Tsar Lenin – Westminster Theatre, 1936 – 1937
* Punch without Judy – New Theatre 1939
* Peril at End House, "Nick" Buckley, opened at Brighton, then Richmond and then moved to Vaudeville but only 38 performances in May 1940
* Twelfth Night – just two matinees for Twelfth Night holiday, on 30 Dec 1940 and 31 Dec 1940
* Landslide, Marian, Westminster – opened in 5 Oct 1943 until 6 Nov 1943
* Grand National Night – Apollo, 1946 – 1947

### TV work
#### Before the war

Edwardes was an early player in the fledgling BBC television service, which started in November 1936 until it closed at the beginning of the War, and didn't restart until 1946. She also deputised as a television announcer when Elizabeth Cowell was on leave in 1939.
| Full Moon | (25 Oct 1937) | |
| A revue for television, written by Archie Harradine | A revue for television, written by Archie Harradine | A revue for television, written by Archie Harradine |
| Writer | Archie Harradine | Archie Harradine |
| Music composed by | Herbert Murrill | Herbert Murrill |
| Producer | Eric Crozier | Eric Crozier |
| [Actor] | Guy Glover | Guy Glover |
| [Actor] | Rudolf Brandt | Rudolf Brandt |
| [Actress] | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| [Actor] | Archie Harradine | Archie Harradine |
| Pianist | Margaret Good | Margaret Good |
| Pianist | Herbert Murrill | Herbert Murrill |
| The Sacred Cat | (12 Feb 1938) | |
| A comedy by F. Sladen-Smith. | A comedy by F. Sladen-Smith. | A comedy by F. Sladen-Smith. |
| Author | F. Sladen-Smith | F. Sladen-Smith |
| Starring | The Lanchester Marionettes | The Lanchester Marionettes |
| Gallows Glorious | (18 Nov 1938) | |
| Adaptation for television of the play by Ronald Gow. The action takes place in America in 1859 and moves between John Brown's house in the Adirondack mountains in the North, and the Maryland–Virginia border in the South. | Adaptation for television of the play by Ronald Gow. The action takes place in America in 1859 and moves between John Brown's house in the Adirondack mountains in the North, and the Maryland–Virginia border in the South. | Adaptation for television of the play by Ronald Gow. The action takes place in America in 1859 and moves between John Brown's house in the Adirondack mountains in the North, and the Maryland–Virginia border in the South. |
| Writer | Ronald Gow | Ronald Gow |
| Production | Jan Bussell | Jan Bussell |
| John Brown | Neil Porter | Neil Porter |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | Audrey CameronDeirdre DoyleOlga EdwardesMorland GrahamWalter HorsburghStephen JackEugene LeahyBrian MellandBernard MerefieldRupert SiddonsLarry Silverstone | Audrey CameronDeirdre DoyleOlga EdwardesMorland GrahamWalter HorsburghStephen JackEugene LeahyBrian MellandBernard MerefieldRupert SiddonsLarry Silverstone |
| Hay Fever | (25 Dec 1938) | |
| A light comedy in three acts by Noël Coward The action of the play takes place in the hall of the Blisses' house at Cookham, in June. | A light comedy in three acts by Noël Coward The action of the play takes place in the hall of the Blisses' house at Cookham, in June. | A light comedy in three acts by Noël Coward The action of the play takes place in the hall of the Blisses' house at Cookham, in June. |
| Writer | Noël Coward | Noël Coward |
| Settings | Malcolm Baker-Smith | Malcolm Baker-Smith |
| Production | Reginald Smith | Reginald Smith |
| Judith Bliss | Kitty De Legh | Kitty De Legh |
| David Bliss | Maurice Denham | Maurice Denham |
| Sorel Bliss | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Simon Bliss | Guy Verney | Guy Verney |
| Myra Arundel | Fabia Drake | Fabia Drake |
| Richard Greatham | Noël Howlett | Noël Howlett |
| Jackie Coryton | Doreen Oscar billed Jenny Laird | Doreen Oscar billed Jenny Laird |
| Sandy Tyrrell | John Byron | John Byron |
| Clara | Veronica Brady | Veronica Brady |
| Dance Without Music | (23 Mar 1939) | |
| A play based upon episodes in the life of Jack Sheppard, by Mervyn Mills. | A play based upon episodes in the life of Jack Sheppard, by Mervyn Mills. | A play based upon episodes in the life of Jack Sheppard, by Mervyn Mills. |
| Writer | Mervyn Mills | Mervyn Mills |
| Settings | Malcolm Baker-Smith | Malcolm Baker-Smith |
| Production | Denis Johnston | Denis Johnston |
| Jack Sheppard | Guy Glover | Guy Glover |
| Jonathan Wild | Frank Birch | Frank Birch |
| 'Edgeworth Bess' | Kathleen Edwardes | Kathleen Edwardes |
| 'Blueskin' Blakov | George Merritt | George Merritt |
| Joseph Hind | Ben Field | Ben Field |
| Mrs Wallop | Margaret Yarde | Margaret Yarde |
| Polly Maggot | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Daniel Defoe | Ian Dawson | Ian Dawson |
| Jenkin | Basil Cunard | Basil Cunard |
| Lumley Davis | Stuart Latham | Stuart Latham |
| John Gay | James Hayter | James Hayter |
| Abraham Mendez | Don Gemmell | Don Gemmell |
| Austin | Adrian Byrne | Adrian Byrne |
| Ballad Singer | Elton Hayes | Elton Hayes |
| Sir James Thornhill | Arthur Owen | Arthur Owen |
| Ben Hind | Russell Howarth | Russell Howarth |
| Constable | Kenneth Barton | Kenneth Barton |
| The Young Idea | (24 Feb 1939) | |
| A comedy in three acts by Noël Coward The scene is laid in George Brent's house in England, and Jennifer Brent's villa in Italy | A comedy in three acts by Noël Coward The scene is laid in George Brent's house in England, and Jennifer Brent's villa in Italy | A comedy in three acts by Noël Coward The scene is laid in George Brent's house in England, and Jennifer Brent's villa in Italy |
| Writer | Noël Coward | Noël Coward |
| Settings | Malcolm Baker-Smith | Malcolm Baker-Smith |
| Production | Reginald Smith | Reginald Smith |
| George Brent | Cecil Winter | Cecil Winter |
| Gerda | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Sholto | Kenneth Morgan | Kenneth Morgan |
| Jennifer | Kitty De Legh | Kitty De Legh |
| Cicely | Dorothy Black | Dorothy Black |
| Priscilla Hartleberry | Phoebe Kershaw | Phoebe Kershaw |
| Claude Eccles | William Hutchison | William Hutchison |
| Julia Cragworthy | Lena Maitland | Lena Maitland |
| Eustace Dabbit | Alban Blakelock | Alban Blakelock |
| Sibyl Blaith | Audrey Cameron | Audrey Cameron |
| Rodney Masters | Thorley Walters | Thorley Walters |
| Huddle | Hugh Casson | Hugh Casson |
| Hiram J. Walkin | Morris Harvey | Morris Harvey |
| Condemned to be Shot | (4 Mar 1939) | |
| A play in the first person by R. E. J. Brooke | A play in the first person by R. E. J. Brooke | A play in the first person by R. E. J. Brooke |
| Writer | R. E. J. Brooke | R. E. J. Brooke |
| Production | Jan Bussell | Jan Bussell |
| Officer | Reginald Brooke | Reginald Brooke |
| Maria Walska | Zoe Davies | Zoe Davies |
| Sonya Pavlovna | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Volberg | Wilfred Fletcher | Wilfred Fletcher |
| Voice of Gregor Walievski | Neil Porter | Neil Porter |
| Vasiloff | Hilary Pritchard | Hilary Pritchard |
| Borgoff | Ben Soutten | Ben Soutten |
::(She was also listed as an announcer on 30 March 1939, until her last appearance on 20 August 1939.
| Two Gentlemen of Soho | (28 Apr 1939) | |
| Writer | A. P. Herbert | A. P. Herbert |
| Production | Stephen Thomas | Stephen Thomas |
| Plum | Robert Atkins | Robert Atkins |
| Sneak | Harold Scott | Harold Scott |
| Hubert | Charles Peters | Charles Peters |
| Laetitia | Nadine March | Nadine March |
| Topsy | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Waiter | Roy Graham | Roy Graham |
| Duchess of Canterbury | Barbara Everest | Barbara Everest |
| The Parnell Commission | (18 Jul 1939) | |
| A reconstruction of the famous forgery investigation of 1888–89 | A reconstruction of the famous forgery investigation of 1888–89 | A reconstruction of the famous forgery investigation of 1888–89 |
| Producer | Denis Johnston | Denis Johnston |
| Piggott | Eliot Makeham | Eliot Makeham |
| Sir Charles Russel | Felix Aylmer | Felix Aylmer |
| Parnell | Mark Dignam | Mark Dignam |
| Attorney General | Wilfrid Walter | Wilfrid Walter |
| Eye Witness | Brefni O'Rorke | Brefni O'Rorke |
| Mrs O'Shea | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| President of the Court | Graveley Edwards | Graveley Edwards |
| Timothy Harrington | Blake Giffard | Blake Giffard |
| Doctor Maguire | Nigel Fitzgerald | Nigel Fitzgerald |
| Henniker Heaton | Lionel Dymoke | Lionel Dymoke |
| Frank Hugh O'Donnell | Harry Hutchinson | Harry Hutchinson |
| Court Registrar | Leo McCabe | Leo McCabe |
| Captain O'Shea | Charles Oliver | Charles Oliver |
| Friend | Micheline Patton | Micheline Patton |
| Servant at Eltham | Moya Devlin | Moya Devlin |
| Solicitor's Clerk | Russell Hogarth | Russell Hogarth |
| Spanish Policeman | Rafael Terry | Rafael Terry |
| Reporter Houston's Voice | Kenneth Barton | Kenneth Barton |
| [Actor] | Jack Clifford | Jack Clifford |

#### Restarting in 1946

| Lovers' Meeting OR A Handbook to Courting | (12 Nov 1947) | |
| A miscellany compiled and edited by Barbara Nixon. | A miscellany compiled and edited by Barbara Nixon. | A miscellany compiled and edited by Barbara Nixon. |
| Writer / Producer | Desmond Davis | Desmond Davis |
| Music arranger / conductor | William Cox-Ife | William Cox-Ife |
| Dances | Donald Journeaux | Donald Journeaux |
| Settings | James Bould | James Bould |
| Compiled and edited | Barbara Nixon | Barbara Nixon |
| Performers | Robert BeaumontBillie BakerGrey BlakeOlga EdwardesDennis BowenChristine LindsayHugh BurdenBarbara LottDick FrancisBarbara NixonRichard HurndallAmbrosine PhillpottsDesmond Walter-EllisJoan White | Robert BeaumontBillie BakerGrey BlakeOlga EdwardesDennis BowenChristine LindsayHugh BurdenBarbara LottDick FrancisBarbara NixonRichard HurndallAmbrosine PhillpottsDesmond Walter-EllisJoan White |
| The Middle Watch | (5 Feb 1948) | |
| A Romance of the Navy by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall The scene is laid in the Captain's lobby and day cabin on board H.M.S. Falcon, a cruiser on the China Station | A Romance of the Navy by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall The scene is laid in the Captain's lobby and day cabin on board H.M.S. Falcon, a cruiser on the China Station | A Romance of the Navy by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall The scene is laid in the Captain's lobby and day cabin on board H.M.S. Falcon, a cruiser on the China Station |
| Writer | Ian Hay Stephen King-Hall | Ian Hay Stephen King-Hall |
| Producer | Ian Atkins | Ian Atkins |
| Marine Ogg | Johnnie Schofield | Johnnie Schofield |
| Ah Fong | Milo Sperber | Milo Sperber |
| Captain Randall R.M. | Christopher Quest | Christopher Quest |
| Fay Eaton | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| A guest | Carol Peters | Carol Peters |
| Flag Lieutenant R.N. | Philip Howard | Philip Howard |
| Nancy Hewitt | Honor Shepherd | Honor Shepherd |
| Commander Baddeley R.N. | Richard Hurndall | Richard Hurndall |
| Charlotte Hopkinson | Rita Daniel | Rita Daniel |
| Admiral Sir Hercules Hewitt KCB | H. G. Stoker | H. G. Stoker |
| Mary Carlton | Miki Hood | Miki Hood |
| Lady Hewitt | Ruth Taylor | Ruth Taylor |
| An able seaman | Gerald Campion | Gerald Campion |
| Captain Maitland R.N. | Lawrence O'Madden | Lawrence O'Madden |
| Corporal Duckett R.M. | Frank Forsythe | Frank Forsythe |
| I Killed the Count | (14 Mar 1948) | |
| A comedy thriller by Alec Coppel Also at the bottom of p26 there are photos of five of the actors: Olga Edwardes, Arthur Goulett, Guy Poynter, Howard Douglas and Frank Foster | A comedy thriller by Alec Coppel Also at the bottom of p26 there are photos of five of the actors: Olga Edwardes, Arthur Goulett, Guy Poynter, Howard Douglas and Frank Foster | A comedy thriller by Alec Coppel Also at the bottom of p26 there are photos of five of the actors: Olga Edwardes, Arthur Goulett, Guy Poynter, Howard Douglas and Frank Foster |
| Writer | Alec Coppel | Alec Coppel |
| Producer | Ian Atkins | Ian Atkins |
| Polly | Freda Bamford | Freda Bamford |
| Count Victor Mattoni | Philip Leaver | Philip Leaver |
| Detective Sergeant Raines | Frederick Bradshaw | Frederick Bradshaw |
| Detective Inspector Davidson | Frank Foster | Frank Foster |
| Martin | Erik Chitty | Erik Chitty |
| P.C. Clifton | Diarmuid Kelly | Diarmuid Kelly |
| Louise Rogers | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Renee la Lune | Mildred Shay | Mildred Shay |
| Samuel Diamond | Val Norton | Val Norton |
| Johnson | Howard Douglas | Howard Douglas |
| Mullet | Arthur Goulett | Arthur Goulett |
| Bernard K Froy | Guy Kingsley Poynter | Guy Kingsley Poynter |
| Viscount Sorrington | Bruce Belfrage | Bruce Belfrage |
| At the Villa Rose | (28 Nov 1948) | |
| The detective story by A. E. W. Mason Adapted as a television play by Gilbert Thomas. | The detective story by A. E. W. Mason Adapted as a television play by Gilbert Thomas. | The detective story by A. E. W. Mason Adapted as a television play by Gilbert Thomas. |
| Author | A. E. W. Mason | A. E. W. Mason |
| Adapter | Gilbert Thomas | Gilbert Thomas |
| Producer | Ian Atkins | Ian Atkins |
| Settings | James Bould | James Bould |
| Julius Ricardo | Erik Chitty | Erik Chitty |
| Celia Harland | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Harry Wethermill | John Arnatt | John Arnatt |
| Madame Dauvray | Selma Vaz Dias | Selma Vaz Dias |
| Adele Rossignol | Ambrosine Phillpotts | Ambrosine Phillpotts |
| M. Hanaud | Antony Holle | Antony Holle |
| Servettaz | Robert Cawdron | Robert Cawdron |
| Sgt. Perrichet | David Ward | David Ward |
| M. Besnard | George de Warfaz | George de Warfaz |
| Helene Vauquier | Nicolette Bernard | Nicolette Bernard |
| Marthe Gobin | Helen Misener | Helen Misener |
| M. Lemerre | Percy Walsh | Percy Walsh |
| Other parts played by | Sheila BeckettEthel RamsayPatrick TroughtonPeter RaymondeGeorge Holst | Sheila BeckettEthel RamsayPatrick TroughtonPeter RaymondeGeorge Holst |
| October Horizon | (11 Jul 1950) | |
| A play by Lydia Ragosin | A play by Lydia Ragosin | A play by Lydia Ragosin |
| Author | Lydia Ragosin | Lydia Ragosin |
| Adapter | Gilbert Thomas | Gilbert Thomas |
| Settings | James Bould | James Bould |
| Producer | Kenneth M. Buckley | Kenneth M. Buckley |
| Edward Tarrant | Jack Livesey | Jack Livesey |
| Laura, his wife | Mary Hinton | Mary Hinton |
| Charles | Ian Lubbock | Ian Lubbock |
| Caroline | Ursula Howells | Ursula Howells |
| Joel | Cavan Malone | Cavan Malone |
| Louis Brahms | Fritz Krenn | Fritz Krenn |
| Sarah French | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Doctor | Arthur Lucas | Arthur Lucas |
| A Scandal in Bohemia | (27 Oct 1951) | |
| Adapted by C. A. Lejeune. | Adapted by C. A. Lejeune. | Adapted by C. A. Lejeune. |
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Adapted by | C. A. Lejeune | C. A. Lejeune |
| Settings | James Bould | James Bould |
| Producer | Ian Atkins | Ian Atkins |
| Sherlock Holmes | Alan Wheatley | Alan Wheatley |
| Dr Watson | Raymond Francis | Raymond Francis |
| The King of Bohemia | Alan Judd | Alan Judd |
| Irene Adler | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Godfrey Norton | John Stevens | John Stevens |
| Mrs Hudson | Iris Vandeleur | Iris Vandeleur |
| Housekeeper | Betty Turner | Betty Turner |
| Old cabby | Michael Raghan | Michael Raghan |
| Young cabby | Donald Kemp | Donald Kemp |
| Ostlers | Meadows White John Fitzgerald Vernon Gibb | Meadows White John Fitzgerald Vernon Gibb |
| Others taking part | Pamela BarnardAntony BeaumontJohn BoddingtonEric DodsonAlexis MilneFlorence VinerDonald Whittle | Pamela BarnardAntony BeaumontJohn BoddingtonEric DodsonAlexis MilneFlorence VinerDonald Whittle |
| Au Clair de la Lune | (29 Jul 1954) | |
| Au Clair de la Lune A play by Antonia Ridge France 1650 This is a story of two boys and a song. The first boy is Louis XIV, King of France; he is eleven years old, and must live a wearisome existence in great palaces under strict supervision from such eminent adults as his cousin, the great Mademoiselle, and his leading statesman, my Lord the Cardinal. Louis has learned painfully that little kings are not as other little boys. But our other boy, although older, is hardly less unhappy; he's Jean-Baptiste Lulli, one day to be a famous musician, but now an Italian orphan who earns a living by playing his violin for a travelling players' show. And this is also the story of a magnificent banquet which Mademoiselle gives for her young royal relative; for by a series of happy accidents the two boys meet at the banquet, and the occasion is marked by the first performance of one of the loveliest and most famous songs ever written. | Au Clair de la Lune A play by Antonia Ridge France 1650 This is a story of two boys and a song. The first boy is Louis XIV, King of France; he is eleven years old, and must live a wearisome existence in great palaces under strict supervision from such eminent adults as his cousin, the great Mademoiselle, and his leading statesman, my Lord the Cardinal. Louis has learned painfully that little kings are not as other little boys. But our other boy, although older, is hardly less unhappy; he's Jean-Baptiste Lulli, one day to be a famous musician, but now an Italian orphan who earns a living by playing his violin for a travelling players' show. And this is also the story of a magnificent banquet which Mademoiselle gives for her young royal relative; for by a series of happy accidents the two boys meet at the banquet, and the occasion is marked by the first performance of one of the loveliest and most famous songs ever written. | Au Clair de la Lune A play by Antonia Ridge France 1650 This is a story of two boys and a song. The first boy is Louis XIV, King of France; he is eleven years old, and must live a wearisome existence in great palaces under strict supervision from such eminent adults as his cousin, the great Mademoiselle, and his leading statesman, my Lord the Cardinal. Louis has learned painfully that little kings are not as other little boys. But our other boy, although older, is hardly less unhappy; he's Jean-Baptiste Lulli, one day to be a famous musician, but now an Italian orphan who earns a living by playing his violin for a travelling players' show. And this is also the story of a magnificent banquet which Mademoiselle gives for her young royal relative; for by a series of happy accidents the two boys meet at the banquet, and the occasion is marked by the first performance of one of the loveliest and most famous songs ever written. |
| Author | Antonia Ridge | Antonia Ridge |
| Designer | Richard Henry | Richard Henry |
| Producer | Campbell Logan | Campbell Logan |
| Louis | Michael Caridia | Michael Caridia |
| Jean-Baptiste Lulli | John Cairney | John Cairney |
| Hercule Cocarel | Raymond Rollett | Raymond Rollett |
| Françoise, his daughter | Perlita Neilson | Perlita Neilson |
| Mademoiselle de Montpensier | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| The Maestro | Anthony Pini | Anthony Pini |
| Master Bounaire | Charles Heslop | Charles Heslop |
| Frimousset, a clown | Ivan Staff | Ivan Staff |
| A footman | Charles Maunsell | Charles Maunsell |
| A kitchen lad | Anthony Marriott | Anthony Marriott |
| Cardinal Mazarin | Keith Pyott | Keith Pyott |
| First aristocrat | Sylvia Willoughby | Sylvia Willoughby |
| Second aristocrat | Philip Howard | Philip Howard |
| Family Business | (30 Oct 1955) | |
| The third in a cycle of four plays entitled "The Makepeace Story" by Frank and Vincent Tilsley. The action takes place in and around Shawcross, Lancashire, and in France, between the years 1914-1920. | The third in a cycle of four plays entitled "The Makepeace Story" by Frank and Vincent Tilsley. The action takes place in and around Shawcross, Lancashire, and in France, between the years 1914-1920. | The third in a cycle of four plays entitled "The Makepeace Story" by Frank and Vincent Tilsley. The action takes place in and around Shawcross, Lancashire, and in France, between the years 1914-1920. |
| Writer | Frank Tilsley Vincent Tilsley | Frank Tilsley Vincent Tilsley |
| Designer | Stephen Bundy | Stephen Bundy |
| Producer | Tony Richardson | Tony Richardson |
| Colonel Harry Makepeace | Charles Carson | Charles Carson |
| Mrs Dolly Makepeace | Rachel Kempson | Rachel Kempson |
| Sir Timothy Baines | D. A. Clarke-Smith | D. A. Clarke-Smith |
| Christine | Margherita Parry | Margherita Parry |
| Geoffrey Kenyon | Clive Revill | Clive Revill |
| Oswald Makepeace | Rodney Diak | Rodney Diak |
| Margery Baines | Helena Hughes | Helena Hughes |
| Peter Makepeace | Ian Bannen | Ian Bannen |
| Sichiro | Tom Tan | Tom Tan |
| Mill girl | Rosemary Davis | Rosemary Davis |
| Maggie | Jocelyn Page | Jocelyn Page |
| Military recruit | John OsborneStephen DartnellAlex Scott | John OsborneStephen DartnellAlex Scott |
| Sergeant at Recruiting Office | Reginald Hearne | Reginald Hearne |
| Doctor | Owen Berry | Owen Berry |
| Bill Holbrooke | Anthony Doonan | Anthony Doonan |
| Tyson | George A. Cooper | George A. Cooper |
| Sergeant in shell crater | Peter Duguid | Peter Duguid |
| French girl | Jacqueline D'Orsay | Jacqueline D'Orsay |
| People at party | Glen FarmerFanny CarbyDelia PatonHoward LangJulie Somers | Glen FarmerFanny CarbyDelia PatonHoward LangJulie Somers |
| Jackson | Nigel Davenport | Nigel Davenport |
| Waiter | Jeremy Geidt | Jeremy Geidt |
| Vera | Olga Edwardes | Olga Edwardes |
| Landlord of Pack Horse Inn | Charles Hersee | Charles Hersee |
| Mill operative | Howell Davies Alan Townsend James Wellman | Howell Davies Alan Townsend James Wellman |
| Bailiff's clerk | Lane Meddick | Lane Meddick |
| Other parts played by | Anthony BroughtonGrant DuprezPamela HernArthur HoskingCyril RenisonGeorge RicardeMaggie SmithCaspar WredeMargery CaldicottStuart Mitchell | Anthony BroughtonGrant DuprezPamela HernArthur HoskingCyril RenisonGeorge RicardeMaggie SmithCaspar WredeMargery CaldicottStuart Mitchell |

## Years 1956–2008

Since her marriage in 1946, she led a new career, as salonnière in the house of Hinton Waldrist manor. Her husband had bought it in 1922, and together they entertained and held court to influential and radical artists, economists, philosophers, and politicians of the day at grand gatherings. Both she and her husband were long-time leading Fabians – she had known Harold Laski for some time. Nicholas Davenport worked with Alexander Korda then joined Harold Wilson with the National Film Finance Corporation. Even though a Fabian, he still kept friendships with R. J. G. Boothby and was close to Winston Churchill.
Olga Davenport continued the social activity of salon gathering which had been part of history for more than 350 years. "She was, as a young woman, an astounding beauty. She was also an impressive creative force. It is a heady combination. Men chucked caution to the wind." There is a bust of 'Olga' by the sculptor F. E. McWilliam; two portrait drawings of her in her art collection by Theyre Lee‑Elliott, and another gouache drawing of her dancing also by Lee‑Elliott, with a verse by the artist on the reverse dedicated to her. His was not the only verse inspired by Olga's muse: another was from A. P. Herbert on the train to and back from Frinton-on-Sea.
Is he so mad who travels to the shore
Then back at once to where he was before?
Does not the ocean under Olga's sway,
Commit the same sweet folly twice a day?
Thus the mad fish pursue the moon in vain,
But will, as happily, pursue again.
Thus climbers, having made the steep ascent,
Salute the stars, and then return – content
She had been trained in painting, and returned to that art form following her acting career. In fact when she entered into the theatre, between performances she studied at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and through him and his wife, met Matthew Smith and Ivon Hitchens. In 1956, following a career as an actor with mostly minor roles in films, she returned to studying fine art and painting at the Chelsea Polytechnic; at the Royal College of Art; and at Peter Lanyon's school in St Ives, Cornwall. Davenport was not merely an accomplished artist, or a collector; but her deep friendships with British artists from the 1950s onwards placed Davenport as a key and perhaps surprisingly influential figure in the British art scene of the time. In St Ives, Davenport was to meet and befriend some of the greatest British artists of the 20th century and during her life she acquired important paintings for her own collection, including works by Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Terry Frost, and William Scott. She spent hours at Eagle's Nest, and Elm Tree Cottage. She sat on the board of the Bear Lane Gallery and formed relationships with influential people such as Clement Greenberg and Pauline Vogelpoel. She had a studio in the south of France.
She exhibited with the London Group and with the Women's International Art Club. She had shown in a number of group exhibitions including an Arts Council tour, at the Leicester Galleries, at the Whitechapel, the A. I. A., the Drian Gallery, Galerie Creuse, Paris, Athens School of Fine Arts, 'Women in the Arts Today' at the Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford, Grabowski Gallery, and at the Demarco Gallery.
She had two one-person shows at the Piccadilly Gallery in London's Cork Street in 1969, and in 1976; and in 1978 she had a solo show of oils at the Oxford Gallery.
Her later work was mainly concerned with the depiction of landscape, and is recognised for the use of gentle, yet dynamic colours which reduce forms to abstracted shapes. She used broad, fluid brushstrokes of colour to capture the outlines of natural environments. The painted landscapes embody a delicate compromise between the wholly self-involved abstraction of modernist formalism and a fascination with the experience and representation of the natural world. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Nuffield Foundation, St Anne's College, Oxford, University of Warwick, Department of the Environment, and in private collections in England, Switzerland, South Africa, Belgium and the United States of America.
After her death, her art collection auctioned around £550,000 (equivalent to £931,800 in 2023).