What is Margaret Barton?
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Margaret Barton | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|5|27|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Actor | years_active = | spouse = Raymond James | partner = | website = }} '''Margaret Barton''' (born 27 May 1926 in [[Finsbury Park, London]]) is a British actress.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/6925 |title=BFI &#124; Film & TV Database &#124; BARTON, Margaret |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2013-10-28 |archive-date=2013-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202903/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/6925 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She is best known for her role in the 1945 [[David Lean]] movie ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' in which she played Beryl Walters, a girl who works in the train station cafe. ==Early career== Barton began acting in the theatre at the age of 12. Because she was small for her age, during World War 2 she became known for playing children and young people. At 17 she appeared in ''[[Pink String and Sealing Wax]]'' at the [[Duke of York's Theatre]] and remembered performing while [[V-1 flying bomb|doodlebugs]] flew overhead. While on the West End stage she was spotted by David Lean and [[Noël Coward]] and cast for the part of Beryl in ''Brief Encounter''. Her scenes were shot at [[Denham Film Studios]] and for other scenes she was invited by Lean to watch from behind the camera.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|work=BBC News|author=Tim Masters|date=27 May 2016|title=Brief Encounter's Margaret Barton: 'I was never a film star'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36387445|access-date=27 May 2016}}</ref> ==Post-war== After the war, Barton continued acting on stage, in movie and for television. She married Raymond James; their son, Michael, died of cancer at the age of 30 and his parents set up the M