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Gabrielle Brune

British actress

Gabrielle Brune (12 February 1912 in Bournemouth, Hampshire – 18 January 2005 in Chichester, Sussex) was a British actress.

Contents

  • 1 Career
  • 2 Personal life
  • 3 Marriages
  • 4 Selected filmography
  • 5 References
  • 6 External links

Career

On stage from 1930, her work included appearances in cabaret, the West End, on Broadway, in films and on television.

Personal life

Gabrielle Brune was born Gabrielle Hudson, the only child of Thomas Habgood Hudson and Adrienne Brune; both parents were theatre professionals from Australia. Her mother was an actress and singer. She used her mother's surname professionally.

In 1941, she was reported as recovering from appendicitis and double pneumonia in a river house at Datchet on the Thames.

Marriages

In 1938, Brune was described as "Mrs. G. M. Thompson, wife of an English actor" in a news report about her first professional trip to America: (NB: Raymond Francis). In 1942, she married an American Army officer, Maj. Walter J. Currie, in London.

She died in 2005, aged 92 years.

Selected filmography

  • Red Pearls (1930)
  • The Penny Pool (1937)
  • The Wife of General Ling (1937)
  • He Found a Star (1941)
  • Tomorrow We Live (1943)
  • A Run for Your Money (1949)
  • Mandy (1952)
  • Hot Ice (1952)
  • The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)
  • The *field Thunderbolt (1953)
  • Three Steps to the Gallows (1953)
  • The Har*ed Hero (1954)
  • Touch and Go (1955)
  • Fun at St. Fanny's (1956)
  • Girl in the Headlines (1963)

References

    External links

    • Gabrielle Brune at IMDb
    • Gabrielle Brune at the Internet Broadway Database