1958 she wrote and produced her own radio series for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) called Poet's Corner. She also appeared on television as Catherine de Medici in Patrick Watson's series, Witness to Yesterday, and in the title role of George Bernard Shaw's Catherine the Great. She starred as the Countess of Brocklehurst in the Shaw Festival's production of The Admirable Crighton, appeared in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Manitoba Theatre Centre, and played "Mrs. Higgins" in another run of Shaw's Pygmalion at the Nottingham Playhouse in England. Sturgess was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1985 and lived with her illness for over fourteen years, before dying in her sleep aged 84. External links Website of Sydney Sturgess Barry Morse Website 1915 births 1999 deaths People from Ipoh People from Perak English stage actresses English television actresses Canadian stage actresses Canadian television actresses Neurological disease deaths in Ontario Deaths from Parkinson's disease Place of death missing 20th-century Canadian actresses British emigrants to Canada 20th-century English actresses British people in British Malaya