Freda Dowie - 15116

British actress. Dowie enjoyed a very long career playing punished, put-upon characters. She had the perfect face for such roles and was especially effective playing the Mother in the 1988 film Distant Voices, Still Lives, for which she was nominated for a European Film Award. Her film career also includes roles in Subterfuge (1968), The Omen (as the nervous nun who confronts Gregory Peck about his satanic son,1976), The Monk (1990), Butterfly Kiss (1995), Jude (1996), Cider with Rosie (1998), and Fragile (2005). Her many television credits include Dixon of Dock Green, Doomwatch, Edna, the Inebriate Woman, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Carnforth Practice, I, Claudius, The Old Curiosity Shop, Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland, The Pickwick Papers, Lillie, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Our Friends in the North, Common As Muck, Lovejoy, Agatha Christie's Poirot and Heartbeat. This is a magnificent borderless black and white photograph (8" x 10"), nicely (and considerately) signed and inscribed to the reverse ("To John Street, with my warmest good wishes, Freda Cowie") in black ink. In mint condition. RARE.