Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller
(1912-2003), ActressSitter in 19 portraits
Sacked as assistant stage manager from the Manchester Repertory Theatre, Hiller was recalled when a Lancashire accent was required for the heroine in Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole (1934). In 1935, George Bernard Shaw saw her in London and invited her to play the title role in St Joan at the Malvern Festival and Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, in 1936. She later appeared in films of Pygmalion (1938), for which she received an Oscar nomination, and Major Barbara (1940). Hiller won an Oscar in the film of Rattigan's Separate Tables (1958). Other films included Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Elephant Man (1980).
by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
oil on canvas, circa 1935
NPG 6656
by Peter Lambda
bronze bust, 1997, based on a work of 1950s
On display in the Weston Wing Café at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6389
by Baron Studios
bromide print, November 1940
NPG x194105
by Baron Studios
bromide print, November 1940
NPG x194106
George Bernard Shaw discussing the production of 'Major Barbara'
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 1940
NPG x139868
by Bertram Park
gelatin silver print, early 1940s
NPG x199922
by Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum)
gelatin silver print, 1940-1945
NPG x196103
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1940
NPG x18480
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller on the set of 'Major Barbara'
by Davis Claude Boulton
bromide print, 1941
NPG x34566
by Vivienne
chlorobromide print, 1944
NPG x6046
by Vivienne
bromide print, circa 1945
NPG x194103
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, late 1940s
NPG x14106
Julie Christie; Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 10 April 1967
NPG x194465
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller as Queen Mary in 'Crown Matrimonial'
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1972
NPG x76263
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1972
NPG x76264
by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
bromide fibre print, 1988
NPG x31844
by Nicholas Sinclair
selenium-toned silver print, 1989
NPG x38829
published by Columbia Pictures Corporation
colour offset lithograph, published 1967
NPG D48104
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