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{{short description|Australian actress}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}
{{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}}
{{More citations needed|date=July 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mavis Villiers
| title =
| image = Mavis Villiers (actress), promotional photograph - APR 14 1966.jpg
| caption = Press photo 1966
| alt =
| birth_name = Mavis Clare Cooney
| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|12|10|df=y}}<ref name="MVBC" />
| birth_place = [[Neutral Bay, New South Wales|Neutral Bay]], [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|2|23|1909|12|10|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Paddington]], [[London]], [[England]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Donald Everett Miller|1945|1946|end=died}}
| children =
| yearsactive = 1921–1975
}}

'''Mavis Villiers''' (born '''Mavis Clare Cooney'''; 10 December 1909{{spaced ndash}}23 February 1976)<ref name="MVBC">{{cite web |title=Ancestry.com |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/mediaui-viewer/tree/169274614/person/142194153726/media/f2f8f20a-3690-4cd8-a3db-625b527ff8b7 |website=www.ancestry.com.au}}</ref><ref name="MVDC">{{cite web |title=Ancestry.com |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/mediaui-viewer/tree/169274614/person/142194153726/media/b5a81d7f-102f-4fcc-aa2d-967f1859daf6 |website=www.ancestry.com.au}}</ref> was an Australian-born British actress of stage, film and television. Her parents were John Cooney and Clara Smythe. Her brother, Cecil Cooney, was a camera operator and cinematographer.<ref name=CSR>[http://search.ancestry.com.au/iexec/?htx=View&r=5544&dbid=1263&iid=CANIMM1913PLIST_2000909515-00462&fn=Mavis&ln=Cooney&st=r&ssrc=&pid=1320339 Canadian Passenger Lists, 'Niagra' May 1921], Ancestry.com; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref> Her stage name, Villiers, was taken from her maternal grandfather.<ref>[http://www.omnilexica.com/?q=mavis+villiers+(actress)#.VbQw9rNVh8N Profile], omnilexica.com; accessed 25 July 2015</ref><ref name="JC/CSMC">{{cite web |title=Ancestry.com |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/mediaui-viewer/tree/169274614/person/142194152444/media/9c9d0ce7-7cc8-480d-a217-2fe414748a88 |website=www.ancestry.com.au}}</ref>

==Life and career==
Mavis emigrated to the [[United States]] with her family in 1921, aged 11.<ref name=CSR/> The family settled in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], where her father became a technician at a film company.<ref>[http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5544&indiv=try&db=1930usfedcen&h=90242314 Ancestry.com]; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/cs/offers/join?sub=2550866976735232&dbid=6224&url=https%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com.au%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fti%3d5544%26indiv%3dtry%26db%3d1930usfedcen%26h%3d90128470%26requr%3d2550866976735232%26ur%3d0&gsfn=&gsln=&h=90128470|title=Ancestry Join|website=www.ancestry.com.au}}</ref> Both Mavis and her brother Cecil began their careers in the silent era. Much of her activity as a child actress in Hollywood is lost or uncredited; her first accredited film role was as 'the Girl' in a 1927 short comedy, ''The Bum's Rush'', featuring expat Australian star [[Snub Pollard]]. Following her parents' divorce, Mavis and her mother Clara migrated to London in 1933.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/cs/offers/join?sub=281767034519552&dbid=1518&url=https%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com.au%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fti%3d5544%26indiv%3dtry%26db%3dbt26%26h%3d13553684%26requr%3d281767034519552%26ur%3d0&gsfn=&gsln=&h=13553684|title=Ancestry Join|website=www.ancestry.com.au}}</ref> Her brother Cecil followed at some stage; her father remained in [[California]] where he died at Ventura in 1960.<ref>[http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5544&indiv=try&db=cadeath1940&h=1477020 Ancestry.com]; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref>

Her stage roles included that of Mrs Van Mier in the 1962 London production of [[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[Sail Away (musical)|Sail Away]]'' at the [[Savoy Theatre]].<ref>[http://broadwayworld.com/bwidb/sections/audio/index.php?var=66165 Broadwayworld.com]</ref> She was also in the cast of the 1957 West End production of ''[[Damn Yankees]]'' at the [[London Coliseum]]; this production featured Australian actor [[Bill Kerr]] as Mr. Applegate.<ref>[http://www.kent.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/theatre/r.php/34001/show.html University of Kent Library-Theater Collection], kent.ac.uk; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref> Her sole appearance on the American Broadway stage, was in the role of Aunt Lizzy Sweeney, in the first Broadway production of [[Brian Friel]]'s ''[[Philadelphia Here I Come!]]'' at the [[Helen Hayes Theatre]] in 1966;<ref>[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=2315 Profile], IBDb.com; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref><ref>[http://search.ancestry.com.au/browse/view.aspx?dbid=6788&iid=NEWS-CT-TH_BR_PO.6788_1966_02_17_0014&rc=311,2100,381,2129;395,2100,507,2129&pid=506545166&ssrc=&fn=Mavis&ln=Villiers&st=g Profile], ''The Bridgeport Post'', 17 February 1966, Connecticut, p. 14], Ancestry.com; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref> she also played the same role in the 1975 film version of that play, her last role before her death.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba52e1c84|title=Mavis Villiers|website=BFI}}</ref>

She had appeared in films from 1927 to 1975. Some of her more prominent film roles were in:<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313330/ ''The Bum's Rush'']</span> (1927), ''[[Saloon Bar]]'' (1940), ''[[South American George]]'' (1941)<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037152 ''One Exciting Night'']</span> (1944), ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (film)|Suddenly, Last Summer]]'' (1959), ''[[Victim (1961 film)|Victim]]'' (1961), and ''[[Philadelphia, Here I Come!#Film|Philadelphia, Here I Come!]]'' (1975).<ref name=bfi/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/mavis-villiers-p73586|title=Mavis Villiers | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}</ref>

Her television appearances between 1938 and 1972, include roles in various productions, series and episodes. They include the BBC's ''[[Sunday Night Theatre]]'', ''[[Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents]]'', ''[[Educated Evans (TV series)|Educated Evans]], ''The Vise'', ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', ''[[The Saint (TV series)]]'', ''[[From a Bird's Eye View]]'' and ''[[Night Gallery]]''.<ref name=bfi/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=43172|title=Mavis Villiers|website=www.aveleyman.com}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Mavis met her future husband, Captain Donald E. Miller, at the American Eagle Club in Charing Cross Road, London, in 1941. She was working at American Eagle Club at the time. Miller was a [[Pilot Officer]] in the American [[Eagle Squadrons]] attached to the [[Royal Air Force]]. He was subsequently shot down over [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and taken prisoner for two years until released on [[VE day]] in 1945. The couple were married in London on 16 June 1945 and planned to settle in the United States after Mavis had completed a contractual obligation to appear in a French film, ''Le Battalion du ciel'' (1946) (1946).<ref name=DET1>[http://search.ancestry.com.au/Browse/View.aspx?dbid=6776&path=1945.9.7.3 ''Dixon Evening Telegraph'' (7 September 1945), Dixon, Illinois, p. 3], Ancestry.com; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref>

Before they could be reunited, Donald, now working for [[Pan-American Airways]] in [[San Francisco]], died from injuries sustained in a car accident on 4 April 1946, nine months after their marriage. The union was childless; she did not remarry.<ref name="MVDC" />

Mavis Villiers died from [[pneumonia]] at her Paddington flat in 1976, aged 65.<ref name="MVDC" />

==Selected filmography==
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* ''[[Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921 film)|Little Lord Fauntleroy]]'' (1921) - Little Girl (uncredited)
* ''[[Tess of the Storm Country (1922 film)|Tess of the Storm Country]]'' (1922) - Girl in Church (uncredited)
* ''[[Old Age Handicap]]'' (1928)
* ''[[A Lady's Morals]]'' (1930) - Selma
* ''[[King of the Castle (1936 film)|King of the Castle]]'' (1936) - Billie
* ''[[Double Alibi]]'' (1937) - Miss Grant
* ''[[It's Never Too Late to Mend]]'' (1937) - Betty
* ''[[The Nursemaid Who Disappeared]]'' (1939)
* ''[[An Englishman's Home]]'' (1940) - Dolly
* ''[[Saloon Bar]]'' (1940) - Joan
* ''[[Sailors Don't Care (1940 film)|Sailors Don't Care]]'' (1940) - Blondie
* ''[[Gasbags]]'' (1941) - American Girl (uncredited)
* ''[[South American George]]'' (1941) - Mts. Durrant
* ''[[Hi Gang! (film)|Hi Gang!]]'' (1941) - Botticelli's Secretary
* ''[[Went the Day Well?]]'' (1942) - Violet (uncredited)
* ''[[One Exciting Night (1944 film)|One Exciting Night]]'' (1944) - Mabel
* ''[[Corridor of Mirrors (film)|Corridor of Mirrors]]'' (1948) - Babs
* ''[[I Was a Male War Bride]]'' (1949) - Dependents' Hotel Reception Clerk (uncredited)
* ''[[Pool of London (film)|Pool of London]]'' (1951) - Drinking Club Blonde (uncredited)
* ''[[Cheer the Brave]]'' (1951)
* ''[[I Believe in You (film)|I Believe in You]]'' (1952) - Prostitute (uncredited)
* ''[[Time Is My Enemy]]'' (1954) - Gladys
* ''[[The Mouse That Roared (film)|The Mouse That Roared]]'' (1959) - Telephone Operator (uncredited)
* ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (film)|Suddenly, Last Summer]]'' (1959) - Miss Foxhill
* ''[[A Touch of Larceny]]'' (1959) - Adele Parrish
* ''[[Victim (1961 film)|Victim]]'' (1960) - Madge
* ''[[The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone]]'' (1961) - Mrs. Coogan
* ''[[The Boys (1962 British film)|The Boys]]'' (1962) - Celia Barker
* ''[[The Haunting (1963 film)|The Haunting]]'' (1963) - Landlady (uncredited)
* ''[[Promise Her Anything]]'' (1966) - Rusty's Mother
* ''[[Straight On till Morning (film)|Straight On till Morning]]'' (1972) - Indian Princess
* ''[[Baxter!]]'' (1973) - Woman in Aircraft
* ''[[No Sex Please, We're British (film)|No Sex Please, We're British]]'' (1973) - American Lady
* ''[[Philadelphia, Here I Come!#Film|Philadelphia, Here I Come!]]'' (1975) - Liz Sweeney (final film role)
{{div col end}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0898380}}
*{{IBDB name|100377}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090115041937/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/196719 BFI.org]
*[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=91832 TCM.com]

==Footnotes==
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[[Category:Actresses from Sydney]]
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[[Category:Australian film actresses]]
[[Category:Australian stage actresses]]
[[Category:Australian television actresses]]
[[Category:British film actresses]]
[[Category:British stage actresses]]
[[Category:British television actresses]]
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