A former dancer and West End Revue performer, Kay Walsh entered films in 1934. Married for a time to director David Lean, Walsh appeared in Lean's In Which We Serve (1942) as Freda Lewis, This Happy Breed (1944) as Queenie Gibbons, The October Man (1947) as Molly, and Oliver Twist (1948) as Nancy Sykes. She returned to her music halls roots in the "Red Peppers" segment of Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 (1952). Active in films into the 1980s, Kay Walsh was also a semi-regular on the 1979 Anglo-Polish TV series Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide