Overview
- Her granddaughter Amy Shaughnessy announced on Facebook that Lodge died peacefully in her sleep one day after her 99th birthday on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026.
- Lodge began onstage with the Windsor Repertory Company, moved into film in 1949, and is best known for playing Queen Guinevere in the 1954 film The Black Knight.
- She married screenwriter Alfred Shaughnessy in 1948, and their sons Charles and David Shaughnessy went on to careers in U.S. television acting and soap‑opera directing/producing.
- The family said she is survived by her sons, five granddaughters (Amy, Jenny, Katie, Maddy and Josie) and two great‑grandsons (Julian and Noa), and remembered her as an energetic, artistic matriarch.
- Obituaries across entertainment outlets have highlighted her late‑1940s to mid‑1960s film and West End work, prompting renewed attention to classic British cinema and the Shaughnessy family’s cross‑Atlantic legacy.