Hazel Terry

Hazel Terry (23 January 1918 – 12 October 1974) was an English actress. A member of the theatrical dynasty the Terry family she had a successful stage career, and also made some cinema films. Among her roles was Ophelia in Hamlet opposite her cousin John Gielgud.

Life and career

Terry was born in London, the daughter of the actor Dennis Neilson-Terry and his wife Mary Glynne.^[1] Her first role was at the age of 17 as the page in Henry IV, Part I with George Robey as Falstaff at His Majesty's in 1936. Later in that year she played Beauty in Everyman.^[1] As her cousin John Gielgud had done early in his career,^[2] she joined the Oxford Repertory company; her roles included Olivia in Twelfth Night. In 1938 she made her New York debut playing Hazel in J B Priestley's Time and the Conways, later repeating the role on tour in Britain. She made her film debut in 1935 in The Marriage of Corbal.^[1]

In the 1938 Malvern Festival season she appeared in The Last Trump, which transferred to the West End. Following what The Times called "various unremarkable engagements" she starred in a year-long ENSA tour as Amanda in Noël Coward's Private Lives.^[3] In 1944 she understudied Peggy Ashcroft as Ophelia in Gielgud's last London Hamlet, and had the chance to play the role in Manchester and London.^[1]

After the Second World War Terry's roles included Lydia in Coward's Peace in Our Time (1947), the Queen in Terence Rattigan's Adventure Story (1949), and Mesita in The Seagull (1949). The obituarist in The Times wrote, "After absence from the theatre during much of the fifties, she was uncommonly good as the housekeeper, an exacting part, in the fine cast (John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson among it) that brought Enid Bagnold's The Last Joke to the Phoenix in September, 1960." In 1961 she played Rachel in The Irregular Verb To Love in the West End.^[1]

Private life

Terry was married, first to the actor Geoffrey Keen and then to David Evans.^[3] Her daughter, Jemma Hyde (born 1939),^[4] became an actress. Hazel Terry died in London at the age of 56.^[3]

Selected filmography

The Marriage of Corbal (1935)
Our Fighting Navy (1937)
Missing, Believed Married (1937)
Kill or Cure (1962)
The Servant (1963)

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 Gaye, p. 1237
↑ Gaye, p. 643
1 2 3 "Obituary", The Times, 17 October 1974, p. 18
↑ "Jemma Hyde". IMDb. Retrieved 28 December 2014.

References

Gaye, Freda (ed.) (1967). Who's Who in the Theatre (fourteenth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. OCLC 5997224.

External links

Hazel Terry at the Internet Movie Database

Terry family tree

Benjamin Terry^{[lower-roman 1]}
(1817–96)

Sarah Ballard
(1819–92)

Kate Terry
(1844–1924)

Arthur Lewis
(1824–1901)

George Terry
(1852–1928)

Marion Terry
(1853–1930)

Charles Terry
(1857–1933)

Margaret Pratt
(1862–1941)

Fred Terry
(1863–1933)

Julia Neilson
(1868–1957)

Dame Ellen Terry
(1847–1928)

Edward Godwin
(1833–86)

William Morris
(1856–19??)

Florence Terry
(1856–96)

Frank Gielgud
(1860–1949)

Kate Terry-Lewis
(1868–1958)

Mabel Terry-Lewis
(1872–1957)

Edmund Gwenn
(1877–1959)

Minnie Terry
(1882–1964)

Horace Terry
(1887–1957)

Beatrice Terry
(1890–1970)

Phyllis Neilson-Terry
(1892–1977)

Edith Craig
(1869–1947)

Helen Gibson
(1872–1949)

Gordon Craig
(1872–1966)

Elena Meo
(1879–1957)

Jack Morris
(1887–19??)

Olive Terry
(1884–1969)

Sir Charles Hawtrey
(1858–1923)

Dennis Neilson-Terry
(1895–1932)

Mary Glynne
(1895–1954)

Val Gielgud
(1900–81)

Sir John Gielgud
(1904–2000)

Rosemary Gordon Craig
(1894–19??)

Robin Craig
(1895–1992)

Anthony Hawtrey
(1909–54)

Geoffrey Keen
(1916–2005)

Hazel Terry
(1918–74)

Lewis Gielgud
(1894–1953)

Zita Gordon
(1911–2006)

Eleanor Gielgud
(1907–98)

Edward Carrick
(1905–98)

Helen Godfrey
(1899–1960)

Maina Gielgud
(born 1945)

Helen Craig
(born 1934)

Jemma Hyde
(born 1939)

Notes:

↑ The family members who were actors, or associated with the theatre, are highlighted in amber

Family tree of the Terry family

Hanbury & Neilson family tree

John Albert Davis
(c.1818–c.1885)

Julia Keesing
(c.1818–c.1895)

Benjamin Terry^{[lower-roman 1]}
(1817–1896)

Sarah Ballard
(1819–1892)

Matthew Hanbury
(1841–1911)

Elizabeth Davis
(1845–1916)

Jane Davis
(1852–1920)

Charles Kerin
(1847–1886)

Alexander Neilson
(1840–1889)

Emilie Davis
(1848–1941)

William Morris
(1856–19??)

Florence Terry
(1856–1896)

Josephine Davis
(1850–1898)

Abraham Jamieson
(1844–????)

Louisa Davis
(1856–1909)

Solomon Jacobson
(1844–19??)

Abraham Guedalla
(1874–1940)

Lily Hanbury
(1873–1908)

Hilda Louise Alcock
(1875–1961)

Arthur William Fox
(1870–1956)

Julia Neilson
(1868–1957)

Fred Terry
(1863–1933)

Florence Jamieson
(1880–19??)

Norah Kerin
(1881–1970)

Eileen Kerin
(1885–1933)

Hilda Jacobson
(1882–1954)

Angela Worthington
(1912–1999)

Robin Fox
(1913–1971)

Cecil King-Ogden
(c.1893-19??)

Phyllis Neilson-Terry
(1892–1977)

Heron Carvic
(1911–1980)

Dennis Neilson-Terry
(1895–1932)

Mary Glynne
(1895–1954)

Edward Fox
(born 1937)

James Fox
(born 1939)

Robert Fox
(born 1952)

Geoffrey Keen
(1916–2005)

Hazel Terry
(1918–1974)

Notes:

↑ The family members who were actors, or associated with the theatre, are highlighted in amber

Family tree of the Hanbury and Neilson families

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