Rita Webb

Rita Webb
Born
Olive Rita Webb

(1904-02-25)25 February 1904
Died30 August 1981(1981-08-30) (aged 77)
London, England
OccupationComedy actress
Years active1950–1981
Spouse(s)Lionel Stanley "Thommie" Thompson
(m. 1926; sep. 19??)
RelativesGeorge Webb
(half-brother)
Leonard Keysor
(cousin)

Olive Rita Webb (25 February 1904 – 30 August 1981),[1] later known as Olive Rita Thompson, was an English character actress, mainly in comedy roles. She was the eldest child of Henry Augustus Webb (1880–1926) and Rose Jeannette Keysor.[2] She had a younger brother, Henry Richard Webb, also an actor, and two elder identical twin half-brothers, Leslie and Gordon Durlacher, from her mother's first marriage to Samuel Durlacher. She was the niece of Leonard Keysor, the first Jewish serviceman to win the Victoria Cross in the First World War.[citation needed] A half-brother was the actor George Webb.

  1. ^ GRO Register of deaths: SEP 1981 15 1754 WESTMINSTER - Olive Rita Thompson, DoB = 25 Feb 1904
  2. ^ "A Short Biography of Rita Webb".

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