Dinah Sheridan (born Dinah Mec in Hampstead, London on 17 September 1920) is a popular English-born actress who appeared in the film Genevieve (1954). One of her paternal forbears was Eastern European (probably Lithuanian), hence her surname (Mec). Hampstead is a place in the London Borough of Camden and is close to Hampstead Heath. ... This article is about the British city. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Genevieve (1953) is a British film directed by Henry Cornelius. ...

She has been married four times:

1. The actor Jimmy Hanley (1942–1952); (three children)
2. The business executive Sir John Davis (1954–1965)
3. The actor John Merivale (1986–1990)
4. Aubrey Ison (1992 to date)

Her son, Jeremy Hanley, became a successful accountant and Conservative Party politician, and her daughter, Jenny Hanley, became an actress and a co-presenter of the British television series Magpie. Jimmy Hanley (22 October 1918-13 January 1970) was an English actor. ... Sir John Davis (1906-1993) was an English accountant and film executive. ... John Herman Merivale, often known as Jack Merivale, (December 1, 1917 &ndash February 6, 1990) was an actor. ... The Right Honourable Sir Jeremy James Hanley (born November 17, 1945) is a politician in the United Kingdom and a chartered accountant. ...

Dinah Sheridan made her film debut in 1937, and has frequently appeared on television. She played Jane Huggett in 1949's The Huggetts Abroad and appeared as Steve in two Paul Temple films. Paul Temple is a fictional writer of crime-novels and private-detective invented by English author Francis Durbridge (1912-1998). ...

Her most successful mature roles include the mother in the 1970 film, The Railway Children, and as Angela in the 1980s British sitcom, Don't Wait Up. The Railway Children is a childrens book by Edith Nesbit. ... A British sitcom is a situation comedy (sitcom) produced in the United Kingdom. ... Dont Wait Up is a British television sitcom produced by the BBC between 1983 and 1990. ...

In 1983 she made a guest appearance in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as the Time Lady Flavia in the 20th anniversary special, The Five Doctors. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television) and the world. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Five Doctors was a special movie-length episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced in celebration of the programmes twentieth anniversary. ...

She is not related to British actresses Sally Sheridan (aka Sally Adams) or Nicollette Sheridan. As Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives. ...

External links

• Photo Gallery
• Dinah Sheridan at The Internet Movie Database