Career
She was a star of the London stage in the 1930s before emigrating to New Zealand in 1952, finding work in radio, theatre and television (see filmography below). In Australia, she had a successful career, particularly in the genre of soap opera, having appeared in numerous of the Crawford Productions series, and having a more prominent role in Prisoner as Maggie May Kennedy Whitehouse died on Christmas Day, 2002 in Auckland, New Zealand, aged 90, following a series of strokes. There are two misconceptions regarding Davina Whitehouse.
The first is that she was a Dame (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire).
While some Internet sources refer to her as "Dame Davina" or "Dame Davina Whitehouse", she was, in fact, never knighted, but she was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her services to the arts The second is that she appeared as an extra in the pre-Code film, Night Nurse (1931), which starred Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable and Joan Blondell.
This is a mistake – she actually appeared in a television movie in 1978 of essentially the same name, The Night Nurse.