Barbara Everest


Barbara Everest 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.

Selected filmography

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