Vivian Pickles: Vivian Pickles. Actress: Harold and Maude. English character actress Vivian Kay Pickles is one of three siblings born in London and educated at Le Collège Feminin de Bouffément in Paris, a women's college set up in 1924. Her uncle was Wilfred Pickles, a veteran actor and radio broadcaster. Vivian began her acting career aged fourteen, playing the lead in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1946) in an early BBC television...