The Unofficial Appreciation Page for lovely English actress Muriel Pavlow Muriel was married to the actor Derek Farr from 1947 until his death in 1986.
Muriel Lilian Pavlow was born on 27th June 1921 in Lee, Kent, England, to a French mother and a Russia father. She began working as a child actor with John Gielgud and the Royal Shakespeare Company and during the war, she enrolled in ENSA and also made the crossover from theatre to screen. Muriel's roles include the Maltese girl Maria in Malta Story (1953), where she played alongside Alec Guinness
, Joy, the girlfriend of Simon Sparrow, in Doctor in the House (1954) and Doctor At Large (1957), Thelma Bader, the wife of World War II fighter pilot Douglas Bader in Reach for the Sky (1956) and the daughter of an irascible curmudgeon (played by fellow Doctor in the House cast member, James Robertson Justice) in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple mystery Murder, She Said (1961). They met in 1941 during the shooting of Quiet Wedding and again at the set of The Shop at Sly Corner in 1947. They continued to play together regularly on stage and in films. More recently, she has appeared in the television drama "The Final Cut", part 3 of the House of Cards political trilogy lobbying the Prime Minister as an Age Concern campaigner, the serial Belonging (2004), starring Brenda Blethyn, and was interviewed for the documentary series on BBC 2, British Film Forever. In 2007, she guest-starred in the audio play Sapphire and Steel: Cruel Immortality and had a cameo in the movie Glorious 39 in 2009.
