Alison Skipworth: Alison Skipworth. Actress: Raffles. In her younger days, auburn-haired Alison Skipworth had been a celebrated patrician beauty. She was the favorite model of English artist Frank Markham Skipworth (1854-1929) who would later become her husband. A physician's daughter, Alison did not make her professional acting debut until the age of thirty-one, having been privately tutored by academics from Oxford University. Her eventual move to stage acting was ostensibly to supplement...
Known For: Raffles (Lady Kitty Melrose), Six of a Kind (Mrs. K. Rumford), Madame Racketeer (Countess von ClaudwigMartha Hicks), Night After Night (Miss Mabel Jellyman)