GOOGIE WITHERS AWAY AT THE AGE OF 94

Actress Googie Withers, best known for starring in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and TV series Within These Walls, has died in Australia aged 94.


The star of such classic movies as Dead of Night, It Always Rains on Sunday, Night and the City and The Browning Version, Withers was also a formidable presence on stage and on the small screen.

Indeed for many her most memorable role was that of prison governor Faye Boswell in the TV drama, Within These Walls, which ran for three seasons from 1974 to 1975 and was an international hit.

Withers continued to work well into the 1990s, appearing in the Oscar-winning bio-pic, Shine (1996), and at the age of 85 she was still leading the way with a powerful performance in a West End production of Lady Windermere's Fan. She is survived by her children, Joanna, Amanda and Nicholas.