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Helen Horton

Helen Horton

Actor · 1923 – 2007 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Helen Virginia Horton (November 21, 1923 – September 28, 2007) was an American actress. She was born in Chicago and had a brief career in New York. She married Hamish Thomson and lived near London. She worked extensively in British television, radio and theatre, and had three children; her granddaughter is the English actress Lily James. Horton voiced the ship's computer, "Mother", in the 1979 film Alien. Horton attended Northwestern University where she became lifelong friends with Patricia Neal (Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still). She was well thought of in the drama department and was cast as Viola, the lead role in Twelfth Night, with Neal cast as Olivia, in a university production of the Shakespeare play. In September 1945, Horton and Neal took a shared apartment in New York and looked for work. They both got parts in a production of Seven Mirrors at the Blackfriars Theatre. Horton took over from Vivien Leigh as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire after the play's London run was completed and it began to tour the United Kingdom. When Neal mentioned the connection to Leigh, she remarked "No one takes over for me, dear. When I leave a play, it's over."

Movies18

  • Movie8.2

    Alien

    1979 · 16K votes

  • Movie5.5

    Superman III

    1983 · 1.9K votes

  • Movie6.3

    Phase IV

    1974 · 309 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Endless Night

    1972 · 67 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Razor's Edge

    1984 · 89 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Chairman

    1969 · 26 votes

  • Movie10.0

    The Woman He Loved

    1988 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie3.4

    The Mark of the Hawk

    1957 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Let's Be Happy

    1957 · 4 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie5.8

    Reunion at Fairborough

    1985 · 5 votes

  • Movie10.0

    The Last Shot You Hear

    1969 · 1 votes

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  • Movie7.0

    Nido de viudas

    Widows' Nest

    1977 · 1 votes

  • Movie

Series12

  • TV8.2

    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    1989 · 584 votes

  • TV7.1

    Minder

    1979 · 30 votes

  • TV6.7

    Tales of the Unexpected

    1979 · 54 votes

  • TV5.2

    BBC Play of the Month

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV7.3

    Danger Man

    1960 · 25 votes

  • TV7.1

    Out of the Unknown

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV6.2

    Van der Valk

    1972 · 10 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Benny Hill Show

    1969 · 181 votes

  • TV7.0

    Centre Play

    1973 · 1 votes

  • TV10.0

    Espionage

    1963 · 1 votes

  • TV7.3

    Two's Company

    1975 · 6 votes

  • TV5.0