Delia Williams

 One of my favourite actors from this period. I wonder what happened to her?

According to IMDB she was born 5 Feb 1930. She was born in London but grew up in Wales and considered herself Welsh. 

Williams studied at the Old Vic School when only 17. She appeared in the Old Vic season in 1950.  She toured Europe with them appearing in Hamlet, She Stoops to Conquer, and Love's Labour Lost.

She had two years experience on West End, appearing in the revue Penny Plain'. She did a lot of modelling.

August 1956 report she was going to leave London, where she'd been modelling, and go travelling. She said Australia was the country she most wanted to visit. She spent 10 months in South Africa, working in radio and modelling.

She arrived in Australia in July 1957 - within two weeks had three radio and one TV booking. 

She toured the country in an Australia Council production of Dial M for Murder - after which she was ill for seven months.

Credits

*The Second Show (May 1949) - Old Vic student show

*She Stoops to Conquer (Oct 1949) - stage (with Michael Redgrave)

*Old Vic Tour - Hamlet, She Stoops to Conquer, Loves Labor Lost - Hamlet performed Elsinore

*Penny Plain (May 1951 - 1953)- two years revue

*Paradise Place (Aug 1957) - radio serial

*The Brontes (Aug 1957) -radio serial

*Days without End (Aug 1957) - radio

*Dial M for Murder (Oct 1957) - on stage - she disliked acting on stage but agreed to go on a tour of this play throughout Australia

*My Lord Cardinal (May 1958) - radio

*Quality Street (Sept 1958) - read poetry

*The Moon and Sixpence (Dec 1958) - radio

*The Seagull (22 April 1959) - TV - as Nina

*Hamlet (13 June 1959) - TV - as Ophelia

*Point of Departure (Aug 1959) - radio

*Home at Seven (Sept 1959) - radio

*Remember Bluey (Oct 1959) - radio play

*Wuthering Heights (28 Oct  1959) - TV - as Cathy

*Richard II (Nov 1959) - radio

*Stormy Petrel (9 May 1960) - TV series - as Mary Bligh

*Whiplash - "Rider on the Hill", "Fire Rock" (1960) - TV series

*The Outcasts (May 1961) - TV series - as Mary Bligh

*The Loquat Tree (Nov 1961) - radio

Then she... vanishes.

The NFSA says she appeared in a 1960 documentary called Birthright. "The more that women begin to share the experiences of giving birth, the stronger grows the anger at the way that men, and the medical profession have taken childbirth out of women's hands to control and manipulate this most basic fact of life's experiences."

It appears she got married in December 1960 to Peter Gatti which stage Delia's father John had died.  Delia and Peter had a son on July 27, 1961 - so... shotgun marriage? In 1966 Delia Gatti was mentioned as an entrant in a poetry competition. No idea what happened to her.

ABC Weekly 17 Sept 1958

Western Mail 30 Nov 1956

SMH 11 Dec 1960