De Polnay has been an actor, director and voice teacher for nearly forty years, working in all aspects of the theatre with several West End credits to his name and appearing with the RSC in his own production of You Can't Shut Out The Human Voice with Peggy Ashcroft and Ben Kingsley.
Peggy Lee | John Ashcroft | Peggy Guggenheim | Peggy Seeger | Peggy Rockman Napaljarri | Peggy Olson | Peggy Noonan | Peggy Ashcroft | Ashcroft | Peggy Thorpe-Bates | Peggy Hopkins Joyce | Peggy Guggenheim Collection | Peggy Griffin | Peggy Sue Got Married | Peggy Sue | Peggy Glanville-Hicks | Peggy Ann Bradnick | Peggy Shippen | Peggy Parratt | Peggy Michel | Peggy McCay | Peggy Lee Leather | Peggy Lee (cellist) | Peggy Fortnum | Peggy Fleming | Peggy Eisenhauer | Peggy Connelly | Peggy Bulger | Johnny Ashcroft | Ashcroft v. al-Kidd |
With productions such as The Importance of Being Earnest, with Gielgud and Edith Evans, and Hamlet, with Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, Beaumont made large profits from this ostensibly charitable enterprise.
She tied with Peggy Ashcroft for Best Actress at the 1989 Venice Film Festival for She's Been Away and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2003.
William Douglas Home’s Lloyd George Knew My Father in 1972, starring Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft