Well known to many as the mother of actress Jenny Hanley, Dinah Sheridan was one of the most beloved actresses of British cinema.

Filmed on location in Africa, “Where No Vultures Fly” was one of the most popular films of 1952. Selected for the Royal Command Performance at the Odeon Leicester Square on the 5th of November 1951, attended by The Queen & Princess Margaret, the film co-starred Anthony Steel.

Dinah was one of the pioneering actresses to appear on TV, first featuring on the newfangled medium in 1936, and starring in the first main TV play.

Other film credits include “Salute John Citizen” with Stanley Holloway & Peggy Cummins; “Get Cracking” with George Formby & Irene Handl; “Murder in Reverse” with William Hartnell; “The Story of Shirley Yorke” with Charles Hawtrey; “No Trace” with John Laurie & Dora Bryan; “Where No Vultures Fly”, released as “Ivory Hunter” in America, with Anthony Steel & Meredith Edwards; “The Huggetts Abroad” with Jack Warner & Eunice Gayson; “Appointment in London” with Dirk Bogarde; “Genevieve” with John Gregson & Joyce Grenfell; “The Railway Children” with Bernard Cribbins & Sally Thomsett; and “The Mirror Crack’d” with Elizabeth Taylor & Pierce Brosnan.

TV credits include “Play for Today” with Ian Carmichael; “Ooh La La!” with Patricia Routledge & Dennis Waterman; “Zodiac” with Anouska Hempel; “Sykes” with Hattie Jacques; “The Five Doctors”; “Don’t Wait Up”; and “Lovejoy”.