Barbara Waring

Barbara Waring (née Barbara Alice Waring Gibb; 1 August 1911 – April 1990) was an English actress, screenwriter, and playwright.

Barbara Alice Waring Gibb was born on 1 August 1911 in Kent, England, the daughter of Dr. J. A. Gibb.¹ She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,² and was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s.

In the late 1930s she married Laurence A. Evans, a theatrical agent.¹ They divorced and in 1947 she married the Hon. Geoffrey Cunliffe, son of Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, and Edith Cunningham Boothby, and Chairman of British Aluminium.²¹

In 1963, she wrote the script for Two by the Sea and in 1974 that for Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies.³ In 1967, she wrote the play The Jaywalker, performed at Coventry Cathedral with music by Duke Ellington.²

She died in April 1990, aged 78, in Surrey, England.

• 1935: His Majesty and Company as Princess Sandra
• 1935: The Girl in the Crowd as Mannequin
• 1942: In Which We Serve as Mrs MacAdoo, written by Noël Coward and directed by Noël Coward and David Lean
• 1943: The Gentle Sex as Joan Simpson, directed and narrated by Leslie Howard
• 1944: A Canterbury Tale as Polly Finn
• 1944: Heaven Is Round the Corner as Dorothy Trevor
• 1945: Twilight Hour as Gladys
• 1947: Hungry Hill as Barbara Brodrick, with a screenplay by Terence Young and Daphne du Maurier, from the novel by Daphne du Maurier⁴