Born 1933 in Glasgow, British actress Mary Ure made her London debut as Amanda in “Time Remembered” (1954). She first appeared on screen in Storm Over The Nile (1955) playing the love interest of hero Anthony Steel. She played a leading role as Alison Porter in John Osborne’s new play Look Back in Anger (1956). She and Osborne married and in 1958, she was in the Broadway production of Look Back in Anger and earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Dramatic Actress.
Ure was the second Scottish-born actress (after Deborah Kerr) to be nominated for an Academy Award, for her role in the 1960 film Sons and Lovers. After 1968’s Where Eagles Dare it would be three years before Ure’s next and last film appearance, in 1971’s A Reflection of Fear.
Her growing alcoholism affected her stage career to the point that she was fired from the 1974 pre-Broadway production of Love for Love and was replaced by her understudy, Glenn Close. Her last screen appearance was on TV in The Break (1974). She was found dead, aged 42, from an accidental overdose of alcohol and barbiturates.
Take a look at these fabulous photos to see portraits of Mary Ure in the 1950s and 1960s.
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