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Birthday:
01-07-1919
Deathday:
01-09-1994 (75 years)
Birthplace:
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Biography
Madge Winifred Ryan was an Australian actress best known for her roles on the English stage.
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The Countess Alice
Act like Beattie
event 1993
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A reporter is assigned a then-and-now piece on a 50-year old photospread of three society beauties. One of them, Lady Alice Munroe, now the widowed Grafin von Holzendorf, has agreed to be interviewed.
The Lady Vanishes
Act like Rose Flood Porter
event 1979 star_border 6
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On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon to discover the truth.
Tiara Tahiti
Act like Millie Brooks
event 1962 star_border 5.6
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James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peace-time Tahiti.
Endless Night
Act like Michael's Mother
event 1972 star_border 6.2
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Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Act like Beecham
event 1978 star_border 6
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Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
Frenzy
Act like Mrs. Davison
event 1972 star_border 7.1
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After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
Beasts: What Big Eyes
Act like Florence Raymount
event 1976
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An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Who Sold You This, Then?
event 1972 star_border 6
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A BAFTA award nominated, light-hearted, documentary looking at the part the service engineer can play in making or destroying his company's reputation.
Yellow Dog
Act like Delia's Mother
event 1973 star_border 2.2
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A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.
A Clockwork Orange
Act like Dr. Branom
event 1971 star_border 8.2
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In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
Kokoda Crescent
Act like Margaret
event 1989
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The grandson of a war veteran is found dead from an overdose of heroin. He and his old army buddies swing into action and stake out the drug dealer, only to discover a web of police corruption surrounding the drug dealing. Given police complicity in the matter, they take the law into their own hands.
A.D.A.M.
Act like Jean’s Mother
event 1973
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Roger Empson builds a house for his disabled wife Jean that is completed automated and monitored by a computer called A.D.A.M. (Automated Domestic Appliance Monitor). But things take a nasty turn when A.D.A.M. starts to develop feelings towards Jean...
The Man and the Snake
Act like Mrs. Druring
event 1972
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A young man visits the house of a snake collector...horror ensues
Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
Act like Nana Weston
event 1970
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Colin Welland's play about a wife, her mother, her mother-in-law and conflict.
S.O.S. Titanic
Act like Violet Jessop, Stewardess
event 1980 star_border 5.9
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The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
This Is My Street
Act like Kitty
event 1964 star_border 6.1
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A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.
Witness in the Dark
Act like Mrs. Finch
event 1959 star_border 6.9
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A killer breaks into an apartment to steal a valuable brooch. He kills an old woman, but in fleeing he encounters a young woman on the stairs who will become his target.
I Start Counting
Act like Mother
event 1970 star_border 6.6
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An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is a serial killer.
The Strange Affair
event 1968 star_border 4.4
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When rookie P.C. Strange falls for an under aged girl, he is unknowingly compromised by a pair of pornographers. Meanwhile, seasoned Det. Pierce is out to catch mob boss Quince and soon both plots intertwine.
Summer Holiday
Act like Stella
event 1963 star_border 5.9
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1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If it succeeds, they will be put in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three young British ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway, who hides the fact that she's a famous American pop star on the run, chased by the media and her parents.
The Rainbirds
Act like Mother - Mrs. Rainbird
event 1971
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After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his relatives.
Cymbeline
Act like Mother
event 1982 star_border 6.6
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Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
Hand in Hand
Act like George's Wife
event 1961 star_border 7.2
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Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
Doctor in Distress
Act like Mrs Clapper
event 1963 star_border 6.2
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"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
Splitting Heirs
Act like Woman with Dog
event 1993 star_border 5.2
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A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.
A Night Out
Act like Mrs Stokes
event 1960
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Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.
One Day at a Time
Act like Elizabeth
event 1977
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An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
Upstairs and Downstairs
Act like Policewoman
event 1959 star_border 5.2
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On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
Beasts
Act like Florence Raymount (1 ep.)
event 1976 star_border 6.8
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Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976.
Anne of Avonlea
(6 ep.)
event 1975 star_border 6.2
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Anne of Avonlea is a film made for television 4-part mini-series, developed in United Kingdom. It is based on Anne of Avonlea, the sequel to Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Bergerac
Act like Mrs Van Stratton (1 ep.)
event 1981 star_border 6.5
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Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
All Creatures Great and Small
Act like Miss Harbottle (2 ep.)
event 1978 star_border 7.7
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All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
Public Eye
Act like Rose Mason (1 ep.)
event 1965 star_border 7.8
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Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
Manhunt
Act like Celestine Moussac (1 ep.)
event 1970 star_border 6.5
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Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.
The Saint
Act like Bertha Noversham (1 ep.)
event 1962 star_border 7.3
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Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
The Protectors
Act like Mrs. Apsimon (1 ep.)
event 1972 star_border 5.6
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The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation.
The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.
Budgie
Act like Connie (1 ep.)
event 1971 star_border 7
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Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972.
The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall . The show was produced by Verity Lambert, Rex Firkin was the Executive producer.
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