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Freda Dowie was born on 22 July 1928 in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Omen (1976), The Old Curiosity Shop (1979) and Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988). She was previously married to David Thompson, John Harding Goodrich and Lionel Tolson Butterworth.
Aug 10, 2019 · Early life. Freda Mary Dowie was born in Carlisle, Cumbria on 22 July 1928 to John Dowie, a fried fish seller, and his wife Emily Davidson. She attended Barrow Girls Grammar School, where she excelled in Latin, English Literature and foreign languages including French and German.
Freda Dowie is the author of Wuthering Heights (3.89 avg rating, 1781704 ratings, 60327 reviews, published 1847), Silas Marner (3.68 avg rating, 86374 ra...
Freda Dowie was born on 22 July 1928 in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Omen (1976), Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1979). She was married to David Thompson, John Harding Goodrich and Lionel Tolson Butterworth.
Aug 10, 2019 · Freda Dowie was a British character actress who died in 2019 at age 91. She starred in many TV shows and films, including Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Omen, and Fragile.
Distant Voices, Still Lives is a 1988 British period drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. It evokes working-class family life in Liverpool during the 1940s and early 1950s, paying particular attention to the role of popular music, Hollywood cinema, light entertainment and the public house within this tight-knit community.
Aug 19, 2019 · Freda Dowie, who has died aged 91, was a character actress who specialised in long-suffering, put-upon characters, most notably as the abused mother in Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), Terence Davies’s stunning debut feature film which won the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes.
