Mary Ure


1933 - 1975

Actress. Born in the Kelvinside district of Glasgow, Ure was educated there at Laurel Bank School and then in York. Her father was an engineer and her mother a history teacher, who died when she was just 12 years of age, and her great grandfather was John Ure, Lord Provost of Glasgow. Her father remarried in 1955, and moved to a mansion in Kilcreggan, where Ure was a regular guest. She trained as an actress at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Ure was married twice, to the playwright John Osborne and later to actor Robert Shaw (1927-78). Her stage roles included Shakespeare's Hamlet and films such as Storm over the Nile (1955), with fellow Scot James Robertson Justice (1905 - 75), Look back in Anger (1958), with Richard Burton, Sons and Lovers (1960), for which she received an Oscar nomination, Custer of the West (1967), with her husband Robert Shaw, and Where Eagles Dare (1969), with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.

Having suffered from depression and alcohol dependence, she died in London following an accidental sleeping-pill overdose.


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