One of the great lady character actresses of our time.

Going from two consecutive adaptations of Agatha Christie mysteries, Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun; the titular character in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie; the muse Thetis in the original Clash of the Titans; the stiff and traditional but ultimately good Mother Superior in the Sister Act movies; and her work in Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham... she did a lot. And that was just her movies! She was on television, and in the theatre, as well.

(Yes, I know I missed an eight-movie set she was prominent in; I have a personal reason for not mentioning them.)

She was genteel and very civilized, but always with a glint of humor in her eye.

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> she did a lot.

The first thing that I remember ever seeing her in is Murder by Death, as Dora Charleston. I may be one of the few people who knew her as a comic actress first, and a dramatic actress second.

And I simply cannot forget her turn as a Southern grande dame on a portable oxygen tank in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

-- Bob
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