Urquhart, Mary Sinclair (1906-1977), actress and theatre owner

Mary Sinclair Urquhart ( 1906-1977 ) adopted the name Molly Sinclair Urquhart as her professional name. She began her career as an actress with amateur clubs, joining the St George Players in the late 1920s. She joined the Tron Theatre Club, Glasgow, in 1931, and in 1932 she joined the Curtain Theatre, Glasgow. She married William McIntosh (1900-1959), a police officer, in 1934. In 1936 she joined the Sheldon-Browne Company . She founded her repertory theatre in 1939. The Molly S Urquhart Theatre was at East Main Street, Rutherglen and had been converted from a former church. In 1943 her son, James Urquhart McIntosh, was born. The MSU Theatre was closed in 1944 and Molly moved to the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, an association which would continue until 1956. Her husband became manager at the Citizens' in 1949. She had a starring role in the highly successful Tintock Cup, the Christmas show at the Citizens' in 1950. She was a member of the Five Past Eight Show review which performed at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow, which she joined in 1953. The show continued throughout the 1950s. Her career moved increasingly to film work and in 1959 she was in The Nun's Story, directed by Fred Zinneman. Her other films included The Sundowners, 1960, and A Man for All Seasons, 1966.

See Helen Murdoch, Travelling Hopefully (Edinburgh, 1981) .

From the guide to the Papers of Molly S Urquhart, (1906-1977), actress and theatre owner, 1914-1976, (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department)