British character actress Sheila Burrell died in England on July 19, 2011. She was 89. She was born in Blackheath, London, England, on May 9, 1922. She trained as an actress and began performing on stage entertaining the troops in 1942. She made her London debut two years later, and earned acclaim in Peter Brook’s 1949 production of the controversial play of black magic, “Dark of the Moon”. She also appeared frequently on television from the 1950s in such episodes as “Fabian of the Yard”, “Colonel March of Scotland Yard” with Boris Karloff, “Adam Adamant Lives!”, “Out of the Unknown”, “The Avengers”, “Tales of the Unexpected”, and “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”. Burrell also appeared in a handful of films
including the 1949 Hammer thriller “Man In Black” (1949),
the Hammer psychological horror “Paranoiac” (1960) with Oliver Reed, “Hell Is Empty” (1967), “Afraid of the Dark” (1991), and Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 version of “Jane Eyre” (1996). She starred as Aunt Ada Doom in John Schlesinger's 1995 adaptation of the creepy classic "Cold Comfort Farm".
British character actress Sheila Burrell died in England on July 19, 2011. She was 89. She was born in Blackheath, London, England, on May 9, 1922. She trained as an actress and began performing on stage entertaining the troops in 1942. She made her London debut two years later, and earned acclaim in Peter Brook’s 1949 production of the controversial play of black magic, “Dark of the Moon”. She also appeared frequently on television from the 1950s in such episodes as “Fabian of the Yard”, “Colonel March of Scotland Yard” with Boris Karloff, “Adam Adamant Lives!”, “Out of the Unknown”, “The Avengers”, “Tales of the Unexpected”, and “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”. Burrell also appeared in a handful of films 
including the 1949 Hammer thriller “Man In Black” (1949),
the Hammer psychological horror “Paranoiac” (1960) with Oliver Reed, “Hell Is Empty” (1967), “Afraid of the Dark” (1991), and Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 version of “Jane Eyre” (1996). She starred as Aunt Ada Doom in John Schlesinger's 1995 adaptation of the creepy classic "Cold Comfort Farm".
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