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Biography of Ann Todd - Actress
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Ann Todd (January 24 1909-May 6 1993) was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St Winifrid's School in Eastbourne. She was married three times. Her first husband Victor Malcolm was a grandson of Lillie Langtry. Her second (Nigel Tangye) and third husband (Sir David Lean) were first cousins. She became a popular actress in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1947) (as a troubled concert pianist), as well as several of Lean's films including Madeleine (1949) and The Sound Barrier (film)|The Sound Barrier (1952). She later produced a series of travel films. She died from a stroke aged 84.

