Her acting began with the Birmingham Repertory Company and she soon became the toast of the West End.

Her nephew, the " well-known author " Raymond West appears in Vicarage, his wife Joan ( initially Joyce ), a modern artist, in The Thirteen Problems.

Her father claims descent from the West Virginia Hatfields of the Hatfield-McCoy feud following the Civil War.

The West End production opened on February 11, 1953 at Her Majesty's Theatre and ran for 477 performances.

Her $ 12, 000 award was reversed by the Supreme Court of West Virginia because she was outside the statutes of limitation when she filed and could not prove that the doctor concealed knowledge of his error.

Her performance in the West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, described by the theatre writer Phyllis Hartnoll as " proof of greater powers as an actress than she had hitherto shown ", led to a lengthy period during which she was considered one of the finest actresses in British theatre.

The 1958 European premiere at the Manchester Opera House transferred to London, where it opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End on Friday December 12, 1958 and ran until June 1961 with a total of 1, 039 performances.

Her dismembered body is found on December 19, prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman, who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon.

Her tour aboard Britannia to the British colonies in the Caribbean in 1955 created a sensation throughout the West Indies, and calypsos were dedicated to her.

The musical's original West End production opened on April 14, 1949, at Her Majesty's Theatre, running for 685 performances.

She has made numerous appearances in the West End including the role of Miss Trant in the 1974 musical version of The Good Companions at Her Majesty's Theatre.

Her first film appearance was in The Golden West ( 1932 ), as a maid ; her second was in the highly successful Mae West film I'm No Angel ( 1933 ), as one of the black maids West camped it up with backstage.

" Her son, Charles West McNab, who had farmed the land until 1927 and was the only grandson of the original owner, sold the last of family property there in 1956.

Her 1998 follow-up, Seven & Seven, however, wasn't as successful and she left East West by the end of the decade.

Her roots are in West Wales, and she was born in Pretoria while her parents were performing on tour there.

Her close friend Fairouz was the other major artist to be crossing the boundaries from East to West, with her immense success throughout Europe, North and South America, and Australia.

Her life story was published in book form, before being turned into musical which had a run in London's West End.

Her last West End appearance was in Sweet Panic, the 2003 Stephen Poliakoff drama in which she portrayed a neurotic mother locked in a battle of wills with her disturbed son's psychologist.

Her father was a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 became County Surveyor.

Her film appearances also include The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne ( 1987 ), Stiff Upper Lips ( 1997 ), Howards End ( 1992 ), and BBC Theatre Night in Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw ( 1987 ) playing Mrs Prentice, where the cast included husband Timothy West with Dinsdale Landen and Tessa Peake-Jones, as well as a cameo in The Boys From Brazil ( 1978 ).

Samuel West has received seven AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham ( 1996 ), Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie ( 1997 ), Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks ( 1999 ), The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain ( 2000 ), The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst ( 2007 ), Faust by Goethe ( 2011 ) and A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman ( 2011 ).

The West End production opened on March 22, 1979 at Her Majesty's Theatre.

Her stage credits include Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson ( in a role requiring her to appear completely nude on stage with only a pair of high heels ) and Tennessee Williams ' Summer and Smoke, both in London's West End, and Gaslight at London's Old Vic Theatre.

Her television credits include Sarah, Plain and Tall, Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, In the Gloaming and The Lion in Winter.

Her song " Secret Side " from the album The End, made oblique references to this.

Her production of Fings Ain't Wot They Used T ' Be, a musical about the London underworld, became a hit and ran from 1959 to 1962, transferring to the West End.

Her last major success on the stage was at age 82, in 1970 – 71 in the role of Mrs. St. Maugham in Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden, a role she had created on Broadway and in the West End in 1955 – 56.

Her stage work also included Edward Bond's Early Morning at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in which she played a lesbian Florence Nightingale, The Collector at St Martin's Theatre in the West End opposite Simon Williams, Mad Dog at Hampstead Theatre opposite Denholm Elliott, A Patriot for Me by John Osborne, at the Palace Theatre, Watford and the role of Lizzie Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, which toured the UK and in which Faithfull's co-star was Peter Gilmore.

Her stage career flourished after the war, and as a Shakespearean leading lady at Stratford, in London's West End and on tour in Australia, she had her pick of star parts.

Her father Frank was a head waiter at Jacala, a Mexican restaurant in the West End.

Her story was the topic of the 1998 feature film At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story.

Queercore became an increasingly international phenomenon in the early 2000s, with bands such as Low End Models and Rhythm King And Her Friends from Germany, Kids Like Us out of Norway and She Devils, from Argentina.

The first show – titled by Cleese A Poke in the Eye ( With a Sharp Stick ) – took place on 1 – 3 April 1976 as a series of late-night galas at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End theatre district.

Her intention is to capture all of the Doctor's selves in a time loop, trapping him in London's East End ; she has already captured the First and Second Doctor in the time hole.

Her late mother, Mary, owned a highly successful brothel in London's West End.

Her appearance in the 1968 production of Hair marked her West End debut.

Her film credits also include a featured role in Marked For Death opposite Steven Seagal, Pass The Ammo with Tim Curry, and the CBS feature 83 Hours Till Dawn with Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.

Her other recent credits include Funny Bones ( 1995 ) with Jerry Lewis and Oliver Platt, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( 2000 ) with Judi Dench and Cleo Laine, and Le Divorce ( 2003 ) by Merchant / Ivory with Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts.

Her credits include the TV series Ready or Not, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Seasons of Love, and Andromeda as Trance Gemini, and the movies Night of the Twisters, and Dear America: So Far From Home.

Her film credits also include Robert Altman's Kansas City ( 1996 ), Robert Duvall's The Apostle ( 1997 ) and Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah ( 2005 ).

Her relationship with Gilbert became acrimonious soon after the album was released, and disputes arose about songwriting credits.

Her stage name derives from Mitch Ryder, a soul and rock singer her father happened to be listening to when her agent called and asked how she wanted to appear on the credits of her first film.

Her many credits include Picnic, The Bad Seed, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Family Affair, Barefoot in the Park, Butterflies Are Free, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, Ladies at the Alamo and The Cemetery Club.

Her post-war theatre credits included Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest again at the Haymarket Theatre in 1946 and Lady Bracknell when the same play transferred to New York in 1947.

Her modeling credits included Glamour, the December 1985 supplement cover of Vogue and the May 1985 cover of British Vogue when she was only 15 years old.

Her credits include Pirates of the Caribbean ( 2003, 2006 ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ( 2005 ), Star Trek ( film ) ( 2009 ), and Avatar ( 2009 film ).

Her second Twilight Zone appearance, with billing in the closing credits, came in the episode broadcast the following week, " Dust ", in which she portrays another pleading child, Estrelita, a little Mexican girl, helping her father beg for the life of her condemned brother.

Her 1963 cover of " Fly Me to the Moon " is used in the end credits of the 2010 video game, Bayonetta.

Her film credits include comedic roles in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Hanging Up, Marci X, Analyze This and its sequel Analyze That.

Her many credits include Adam Adamant Lives !, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder,

Her last film was Anger Management ( 2003 ) starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson ( which was released only a month following her death and paid tribute to her in the end credits ).

Her stage credits include Norman Mailer's " The Deer Park ", Israel Horovitz's " The Indian Wants the Bronx ", Neil Simon's " The Good Doctor " and " King Richard III " at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

His other movie credits include The Young Savages ( 1961 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), The Scalphunters ( 1968 ), supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Kelly's Heroes ( 1970 ), Pretty Maids All in a Row ( 1971 ), Inside Out ( 1975 ), and Escape to Athena ( 1979 ).

Her billboards have gained more fame than she has, and have appeared in several television shows and movies, including the opening titles of the 1980s television series Moonlighting, in the movie Get Shorty, and a quick parody during the credits of Futurama.

Her contribution to the film's soundtrack, " The Dream ( Hold On To Your Dream )" played over the closing credits of the film, and proved to be a minor hit, peaking at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1984.

Her screen credits include Green Card, Bugsy, Say Anything ..., Jumanji, Summer of Sam, Liberty Heights, Tadpole ( for which the Seattle Film Critics named her Best Supporting Actress ), The Associate, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Malice, The Big Bounce, The Faculty and Woody Allen's Celebrity.

Her recording and touring credits include and not limted to are, Ice Cube, Boyz n the Hood, Roy Ayers, Snoop Dogg, Coolio, B. B.

Her most recent film credits include Spread ( 2009 ), The Other Guys ( 2010 ), and Cedar Rapids ( 2011 ).