Carla Lehmann

Carla Lehmann was a Canadian stage, film and television actress.

Career

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada, Lehmann was the youngest of the five children of Dr Julius Lehmann and Elsa Hillerns. She was educated at Riverbend School, where she edited the school newspaper, and from the age of fifteen appeared at the Little Theatre, Winnipeg. Gaining a place to train for an acting career at RADA in London, she then joined the Croydon Repertory Company for a year before first appearing in the West End. Her stage work included appearances in several Aldwych farces. During the Second World War she starred in war films opposite Stewart Granger and James Mason. She also played in Cottage to Let opposite John Mills and Alistair Sim in 1941.
Lehmann notably played Susan Foster in the film Candlelight in Algeria and Lady Mary Hannay in the BBC television series The [Three Hostages (TV series)|The Three Hostages].

Private life

Lehmann spent most of her adult life living in England. In 1941 she married George Anderson McDowell Elliot, a former Royal Marine officer recently commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps, but they later divorced. In 1947 she married her second husband, John R. Townsend, an insurance broker, in Westminster, and they had three sons, John Anthony, Nicholas, and Alain. She died in Berkshire in 1990.