British actress Googie Withers, who was best known for her appearance in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, has died at her home in Australia, aged 94.

Born Georgette Lizette Withers in what was then British India, she was given her lifetime nickname by her Indian nanny.

Her family moved back to Britain where she began acting at the age of 12. She was a dancer in a West End production in London when she was offered work in 1935 as a film extra in The Girl in the Crowd.

Soon after starting work, director Michael Powell fired one of the female leads and she stepped into the role.

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