Audrey Gwendoline Long (April 14, 1922 – September 19, 2014)[1] was an American stage and screen actress of English descent, who performed mainly in low-budget films in the 1940s and early 1950s.

[2] Some of her more notable film performances are in Tall in the Saddle (1944) with John Wayne, Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945), Born to Kill (1947), and Desperate (1947).

Her father, Christopher Stanley Long, was an Episcopal minister, a naturalized American citizen who served as a chaplain with the United States Navy; her mother Ellen Gwendoline Erskine.

[6] She returned to film work the following year, cast as the female lead with John Wayne in Tall in the Saddle.

[4] On April 26 the next year, in California, Long married Leslie Charteris, a British novelist best known for his works chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar in the literary series The Saint.