Barbara Ferris obituary by Michael Coveney

Actor who began her career in 'dolly bird' roles and became the star of plays by Edward Bond and David Hare It was once said of the actor Barbara Ferris, who has died aged 85, that she was the only one of Joan Littlewood's girls at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in London, who started out working-class and ended up middle-class. Her father had a milk round in Soho after the second world war. Barbara progressed fr…

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