Career
Born as Alison Joy Leggatt in the Kensington district of London, Leggatt spent the early part of her career primarily on the stage. Her first major film cr was as Aunt Sylvia in, Noël Coward"s homage to the British working class. She was known for playing a variety of disapproving in-laws, motherly landladies, nosy neighbours and helpful housekeepers.
She played opposite Petula Clark three times, in, and
In the John Schlesinger film version of she played Mrs Hurst while her final screen appearance was in the Sherlock Holmes film. Leggatt"s television credits include the 1975 mini-series Edward the Seventh, in which she portrayed Queen Victoria"s mother, the Duchess of Kent.
Alison Leggatt died of natural causes in London, aged 86.