Background
Travers was born Florence Lindon-Travers in Houghton-le-Spring, in Sunderland, County Durham, the daughter of Florence (née Wheatley) and William Halton Lindon-Travers.
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She was the elder sister of Bill Travers, and attended Louisiana Sagesse.
Career
She made her first stage appearance at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1933. She made her West End debut the following year in Ivor Novello"s Murder in Mayfair, and appeared in her first film, Children of the Fog in 1935. She played a substantial role in Carol Reed’son
One of her most widely seen performances was as "Mistress" Todhunter in Alfred Hitchcock"son
She also appeared in, and Her career consisted mainly of supporting roles, but she also played occasional lead roles, such as Mission Blandish in both the well received 1942 stage adaptation and widely panned 1948 film version of James Hadley Chase"s 1939 novel Number Orchids for Mission Blandish.
In 1999, she took part in the television programme Reputations: Alfred Hitchcock, paying tribute to the man who had directed her sixty years earlier. She died in Cornwall, aged 88, in 2001.
Her daughter Susan Travers also became an actress.
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