Faith Brook - Telegraph Faith and her brother (the actor Lyndon Brook) grew up with the children of other Hollywood stars and she recalled her early life as idyllic. But everything changed after the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindberg's baby in 1932. "I was no longer able to go anywhere by myself," she recalled. In the end, my father decided that having private detectives as chaperones was no way to raise a family. He sent us back to England. Faith's ambition was to be a dancer, but her father advised her to follow in his footsteps. He began taking her to the theatre, starting with Ivor Novello's Glamorous Nights, and sent her to Rada. She began her career with small parts in Suspicion and in Zoltan Korda's Jungle Book (1942). During the war she was about to do a play called Aren't Men Beasts? when she was called up for the ATS, which put her face on their recruitment posters. Later, with the entertainment unit "Stars in Battledress," she toured in Rattigan's Flare Path along the Adriatic coast, reaching Athens just after the Germans left. "I had quite a nice time - me and nine fellers," she recalled. She had her first West End success in Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow's Deep are the Roots . This was followed by a season at the Old Vic and many subsequent stage appearances. Her television credits include The Irish RM, War and Peace, Cream in My Coffee, Gentlemen and Players, They do it with Mirrors and Miss Marple. In 1949 she married a doctor attached to the US Navy and moved to New York, where she starred in a series of television plays and appeared on Broadway in Dial M for Murder. But the marriage did not last and she returned to Britain. Another marriage, to Michael Horowitz, a Harley Street doctor, was also short-lived. Faith Brook loved poetry reading, giving a memorable rendering of Anna Akhmatova's Requiem at the opening of the Edinburgh Festival in 1976. She also trained student actors at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Rada. She is survived by her son. Faith Brook, born February 16 1922, died March 11 2012