Ena Soutar

(b.**/**/1873? - d. **/**/****). Actress. Little is known about Ena Soutar, though someone by that name seems to have been a member of the Metropolitan Operatic Quartette that performed at the Standard Theatre in Shoreditch, the Music Hall in Hull and the Theatre Royal in Manchester, between 1907 and 1908. In South Africa Ena Soutar played Willemien Botmar, Joan Morgan’s mother (and Dick Cruikshanks’s wife) in Swallow (1922), the film based on a novel by H. Rider Haggard and directed by Leander De Cordova for African Film Productions. (FO)

Sources

Le Roux, André I. & Fourie, Lilla – Filmverlede: geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse speelfilm

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