# Barbara Everest

Barbara Everest (19 June 1890 – 9 February 1968) was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film The Man Without a Soul. On stage she played Queen Anne in the 1935 historical play Viceroy Sarah by Norman Ginsbury. Her most famous rôle was Elizabeth, the rather deaf servant in Gaslight (1944).

## Selected filmography

* The Hypocrites (1916) – Helen Plugenet
* The Man without a Soul (1916) – Elaine Ferrier
* Whosoever Shall Offend (1919) – Maddalena
* Not Guilty (1919) – Hetty Challis
* The Lady Clare (1919) – Alice
* Calvary (1920) – Rachel Penryn
* The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol (1920) – Anne
* Testimony (1920) – Lucinda
* The Bigamist (1921) – Blanche Maitland
* A Romance of Old Baghdad (1922) – Mrs. Jocelyn
* The Persistent Lovers (1922) – Joyce
* Fox Farm (1922) – Kate Falconer
* Lily Christine (1932) – Hempel
* When London Sleeps (1932) – Madame Lamberti
* The Lodger (1932) – Mrs. Bunting
* There Goes the Bride (1932) – Mme. Marquand (uncredited)
* The Roof (1933) – Mrs. Foster
* She Was Only a Village Maiden (1933) – Agatha
* The Lost Chord (1933) – Mother Superior
* The Umbrella (1933) – Mrs. Wynne
* Love's Old Sweet Song (1933) – Nurse
* Home Sweet Home (1933)
* The River Wolves (1934)
* The Warren Case (1934) – (uncredited)
* Passing Shadows (1934) – Mrs. Lawrence
* Song at Eventide (1934)
* The Lad (1935) – Mrs. Lorraine
* Royal Cavalcade (1935) – Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
* The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) – Cook
* Scrooge (1935) – Mrs. Cratchit
* Love in Exile (1936) – Anna
* Men of Yesterday (1936)
* The Man Behind the Mask (1936) – Lady Slade
* Jump for Glory (1937) – Mrs. Nolan
* Old Mother Riley (1937) – Mrs. Briggs
* Death Croons the Blues (1937)
* Trunk Crime (1939) – Ursula
* Discoveries (1939) – Mrs. Venters
* Inquest (1939) – Mrs. Wyatt
* Meet Maxwell Archer (1940) – Miss Duke
* The Second Mr. Bush (1940) – Mrs. Windel-Tod
* The Prime Minister (1941) – Baroness Lehzen (uncredited)
* This Man Is Dangerous (1941) – Mrs. Cardby
* He Found a Star (1941) – Mrs. Cavour
* Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) – Mrs. Olav
* Forever and a Day (1943) – Girl's Mother in Air Raid Shelter
* Mission to Moscow (1943) – Mrs. Litvinov
* Phantom of the Opera (1943) – Aunt
* Jane Eyre (1943) – Lady Ingraham
* The Uninvited (1944) – Lizzie Flynn
* Gaslight (1944) – Elizabeth
* The Valley of Decision (1945) – Delia
* The Fatal Witness (1945) – Lady Elizabeth Ferguson / Vera Cavanaugh
* Wanted for Murder (1946) – Mrs. Colebrooke
* Frieda (1947) – Mrs Dawson
* The Long Mirror (1948) - Mrs.Tenbury
* Children of Chance (1949) – Francesca
* Madeleine (1950) – Mrs. Smith
* Tony Draws a Horse (1950) – Mrs. Parsons
* An Inspector Calls (1954) – committee member
* The Safecracker (1958) – Mrs. Dawson
* The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) – Mrs. Brophy
* Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) – 2nd Old Lady
* El Cid (1961) – Mother Superior
* Dangerous Afternoon (1961) – Mrs. Judson
* The Damned (1963) – Miss Lamont
* Nurse on Wheels (1963) – Nurse Merrick
* The Man Who Finally Died (1963) – Martha Gelman
* Rotten to the Core (1965) – Mrs. Dick
* Trouble with Junia (1967) – Ada
* Franchette: Les Intrigues (1969) – (final film role)