Background
Maxine Audley was born in London, England on 29 April 1923.
Maxine Audley was born in London, England on 29 April 1923.
Audley attended the Westonbirt School in Gloucestershire.
She made her professional stage debut in July 1940 at the Open Air Theatre. Throughout her career, Audley performed with both the Old Vic company and the Royal Shakespeare Company multiple times. She appeared in more than 20 films, the first of which was the 1948 adaptation of Anna Karenina.
Her parents were Henry Julius Hecht and Katherine Arkandy, the coloratura soprano.
She trained for the stage at the Tamara Daykharhanova School in New York and the London Mask Theatre School. Maxine Audley was married four times: to the pianist Leonard Cassini, to company manager Andrew Broughton, to Frederick Granville the impresario, with whom she had a daughter, Deborah Jane, and to the Irish singer,songwriter,actor and lyricist Leo Maguire.
Audley died in London on 23 July 1992. Maxine Audley appeared in more than 20 films, her first appearance being in the 1948 adaptation of Anna Karenina.
She then appeared in The Prince and the Showgirl, A King in New York (1957), The Vikings, Dunkirk (1958) and Our Manitoba in Havana in 1959.
The following year, she created arguably her most famous film role, Mistress Stephens in Peeping Tom. Her other films include The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) as Ada Leverson, The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967), House of Cards (1968), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Sinful Davey, The Looking Glass War (1969) and Running Scared (1972).
Her television appearances included International Detective, Danger Manitoba in 1960, The Adventures of Black Beauty in 1972 and the television miniseries adaptations of Zastrozzi: A Romance (1986) and A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990).