Helen Horton
Known for: Acting
Born: September 27, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, USA - Died: September 27, 2007
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."
Known for
Showing 24 of 29 titles
The Mark of the Hawk
Barbara Craig
Endless Night
Aunt Beth
Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
ALA Group Leader
The Razor's Edge
Red Cross Lady
Strange Stories
Marie ('Strange Journey')
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Sylvia Kingsley
The Pueblo Affair
Mrs. Bucher
Alien
Mother (voice)
Let's Be Happy
Sadie Whitelaw
Widows' Nest
Ana
Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes
Nancy
Reunion at Fairborough
Mrs Bigard
Thunder on Sycamore Street
Clarice Morrison
The Woman He Loved
Martha
The Chairman
Susan Wright
Superman III
Miss Henderson
The Best of Friends
Mrs Lovsky
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Brenda Claffern
The Benny Hill Show
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Nurse at Playhouse
Hurricane
Mrs. Van Diemen
Minder
Judge's Wife
Van der Valk
Mrs Lovell Wallace
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Julia Olivera