Helen Horton
Actor/Actriz
19
Movies
12
TV Shows
Helen Virginia Horton (November 21, 1923 – September 28, 2007) was an American actress. She was born in Chicago and had a brief career in New York. She married Hamish Thomson and lived near London. She worked extensively in British television, radio and theatre, and had three children; her granddaughter is the English actress Lily James. Horton voiced the ship's computer, "Mother", in the 1979 film Alien.
Horton attended Northwestern University where she became lifelong friends with Patricia Neal (Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still). She was well thought of in the drama department and was cast as Viola, the lead role in Twelfth Night, with Neal cast as Olivia, in a university production of the Shakespeare play.
In September 1945, Horton and Neal took a shared apartment in New York and looked for work. They both got parts in a production of Seven Mirrors at the Blackfriars Theatre.
Horton took over from Vivien Leigh as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire after the play's London run was completed and it began to tour the United Kingdom. When Neal mentioned the connection to Leigh, she remarked "No one takes over for me, dear. When I leave a play, it's over."
As Actor/Actress
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Julia Olivera
Minder
Judge's Wife
BBC Play of the Month
Grace Torrence
Alien: El Octavo Pasajero
Mother (voice)
Tales of the Unexpected
American Passenger
Danger Man
Helen
The Benny Hill Show
Van der Valk
Mrs Lovell Wallace
Centre Play
Nancy
Espionage
Mrs Quade
Out of the Unknown
Brenda Claffern
Superman III
Miss Henderson
Two's Company
Clare
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Nurse at Playhouse
The Razor's Edge
Red Cross Lady
Phase IV
Mildred Eldridge
Endless Night
Aunt Beth
The Woman He Loved
Martha
Contratado para morir
Susan Wright
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Brenda Claffern
La marca del halcón
Barbara Craig
Let's Be Happy
Sadie Whitelaw
Nido de viudas
Ana
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Sylvia Kingsley
The Last Shot You Hear
Dodie Rubens
The Best of Friends
Mrs Lovsky
Reunion at Fairborough
Mrs Bigard
Strange Stories
Marie ('Strange Journey')
Thunder on Sycamore Street
Clarice Morrison
Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
ALA Group Leader