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Name | Moira Lister |
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Birth date | August 06, 1923 |
Birth place | Cape Town, South Africa |
Death date | October 27, 2007 |
Death place | Cape Town, South Africa |
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse | Jacques de Gachassin-Lafite, Vicomte d’Orthez |
Born in Cape Town to Major James Lister and Margaret (née Hogan), she was educated at the Parktown Convent of the Holy Family, Johannesburg.
She had a regular role in the first series of the BBC radio comedy Hancock's Half Hour in 1954-55. She starred in the BBC television series The Whitehall Worrier and The Very Merry Widow from 1967 to 1968. (Later series of this programme were titled The Very Merry Widow — and How!) Lister also appeared on various other British TV series such as Danger Man.
Lister was performing until three years before her death, touring with her highly successful one-woman show about Noël Coward.
Both she and her husband are buried in the churchyard of St. Edward's Catholic church in Sutton Green, Surrey.
She used to babysit cousin Paul Joseph sometimes (now age 67) before she started acting.
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