Rosemary Leach on AllMovie

Seasoned British actress Rosemary Leach wasn't seen much in films until the early 1970s. In 1974, she made her first major impression on movie audiences with her portrayal of the mother of the John Lennon counterpart (David Essex) in That'll Be the Day. Since then she has been well represented by such films as SOS Titanic (1979) and Turtle Diary (1985). In the Oscar-winning Merchant/Ivory effort Room with a View (1985), Rosemary Leach was seen as Mrs. Honeychurch, the blinkered aristocratic mother of idealistic Helena Bonham-Carter and ne'er do well Rupert Graves.