Barbara Murray on AllMovie

A London stage veteran at 19, British actress Barbara Murray launched her film career with 1948's Anna Karenina. Murray flourished in movies for nearly three decades, starring or costarring in such productions as Passport to Pimlico (1948), Another Man's Poison (1951) (which top-billed Bette Davis and Gary Merrill), Meet Mr. Lucifer (1954) and Tales from the Crypt (1972). On television, Ms. Murray was a regular on the British series Power Game, which ran from 1966 to 1968. American audiences saw Barbara Murray as star of The Bretts, an eight-part saga of the London theatre world of the '20s which ran as the first offering of Masterpiece Theatre's 1987-88 season.