Margaret Scudamore

Margaret Scudamore was an English theatre and film actress who began in ingenue roles before achieving a prolonged career in stage and screen support roles. She and her first husband, Roy Redgrave , are considered to be the first members of the now renowned Redgrave acting dynasty.

Margaret was born Daisy Bertha Mary Scudamore in Portsmouth, the youngest of five children of Clara and William George Scudamore, a shipwright at HM Portsmouth, all residing atMelbourne Place, Southsea. She left home agedand found her way to the London offices of theatrical agent Sir John Denton. Mistaking her for Mary Scudamore, the young daughter of a wellknown actorplaywrightmanager Fortunatus Augustine Davis who had added Scudmore to his surname many years before, Sir John gave Daisy the unrelated Scudamores address at Castelnau Mansions, Barnes. Fortunatus, a most cheerful man, welcomed Daisy into the household and she lived with his wife and children for a time until he found work for her as an actress in London. Over half a century later, an erroneous report that she was the daughter of Fortunatus in her Times obituary ofOctober 1958 was frequently repeated in other articles, even as late as 2003 in The Daily Telegraph until new Scudamore family research a few years a

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