Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father worked as Director of Music. She made her first stage appearance at Dundee in 1939, in John Drinkwater's Bird in Hand, then moved to Oxford in 1942 and three years later made her London debut at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage. In 1947 she appeared in the comedy Jane at the Aldwych Theatre. After several years in ...
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Assignment K
As Estelle
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
As Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf")
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
As Mumsy
Time After Time
As May Swift
Now Let Him Go
As Nurse Judith
Account Rendered
As Lucille Ainsworth
Crossplot
As Maggi Thwaites
Father Dear Father
As Barbara
Track the Man Down
As Mary Dennis
The Gilded Cage
As Brenda Lucas
The Cocktail Party
80,000 Suspects
As Joanna Duten
Miss Nightingale
As Aunt May
The Long Arm
As Mrs. Elliot / Mrs. Gilson
West of Suez
As Eileen
Torture Garden
As Miss Maxine Chambers (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")
Gentle Folk
As Mrs Menant
Two Letter Alibi
As Louise
Franklin's Farm
As Prue
Little Fears
As The Older Woman
The Sicilians
As Mme. Perrault
A Rather English Marriage
As Mary
They Can't Hang Me
As Antonia Pitt
Flesh and Blood
As Harriet Marshall
The Tichborne Claimant
As Lady Doughty
A Pinch of Snuff
As Alice Andover
The Oracle
As Peggy
The Constant Husband
As Ann
The Weak and the Wicked
As Pam Vickers
Keep It Clean
As Pat Anstey
The Madhouse on Castle Street
As Martha Tompkins
The Cold Room
As Headmistress
I Believe in You
As Hon. Ursula
Midsomer Murders
As Lady Isabel Aubrey
Bergerac
As Elizabeth Fouchet
Heartbeat
As Miriam Wakefield
Lovejoy
As Olive Nettleton
Sherlock Holmes
Bulman
Father, Dear Father
As Barbara
Interpol Calling
As Miki
No Hiding Place
Fall of Eagles
As Empress Maria Fyodorovna
Man in a Suitcase
Lilli Palmer Theatre
As Mary
Hard Times
As Mrs Gradgrass
Ryan International
The Many Wives Of Patrick
The Cazalets
The Human Jungle
As Julia Gray
Play for Today
As Sarah Chandler
Ooh La La!
As Mme Pontagnac
Upstairs, Downstairs
As Duchess of Buckminster
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
As Miss Blacklock
Cousin Bette
As Adeline
Jewels
As The Duchess
Miss Marple
As Miss Blacklock
Father, Dear Father
As Barbara Mossman
Sunday-Night Play
Armchair Theatre
As Margaret