
Birthday:
09-01-1908
Deathday:
06-12-1976 (67 years)
Birthplace:
Madras, British India
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The Blood on Satan's Claw
Act like Isobel Banham
event1971 star_border 6.2
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The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
Carve Her Name with Pride
Act like Vera Atkins
event1958 star_border 5.7
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London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
The Wind Cannot Read
Act like Second nurse
event1958 star_border 6.2
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A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen.
The Embezzler
Act like Miss Ackroyd
event1954 star_border 6
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Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
An Alligator Named Daisy
Act like Mrs. Weston
event1955 star_border 6.2
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Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
Gaolbreak
Act like Mrs. Wallis
event1962 star_border 4.6
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An honest news agent realizes that his 2 sons are corrupt. When one criminal son is in jail, the other breaks him out to help with a job.
The Franchise Affair
Act like Mrs. Wynn
event1951 star_border 6.7
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An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
A Cry from the Streets
Act like Rachel Seymour
event1958 star_border 7.2
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Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann. Events start to escalate out of control when a child takes possession of a loaded gun.
My Brother Jonathan
Act like Mrs. Martyn
event1948 star_border 6.8
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Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Rx Murder
Act like Mrs. Motlock
event1958 star_border 8
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An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
My Teenage Daughter
Act like Barbara
event1956 star_border 6
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Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
Escape by Night
Act like Mrs. Weston
event1953 star_border 6
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An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
This Is My Street
Act like Lily
event1964 star_border 6.1
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A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.
The Tamer Tamed
Act like Wife to Hortensio
event1956
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Elaine Morgan’s imaginative sequel to The Taming of the Shrew.
Reach for the Sky
Act like Douglas Bader's Mother
event1956 star_border 6.8
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The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Laughter in Paradise
Act like Shopper at Swan & Edgar (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.5
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When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
Operation Diplomat
Act like Mrs. Terry
event1953 star_border 5.8
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A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
The Leather Boys
Act like Reggie's Mum
event1964 star_border 6.6
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Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. After the marriage, they quickly begin to drift apart. Dot seems content to pursue her own interests, until Reggie meets Pete, a fellow cyclist, and begins to explore his own identity.
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Act like Mrs Pater
event1969 star_border 4
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An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Act like Mrs. Gort
event1972 star_border 5.2
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Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.
Eyewitness
Act like Night Sister
event1956 star_border 6.7
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After a fight with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
Guilt Is My Shadow
Act like Eva
event1950 star_border 5.2
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A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.
Operation Cupid
Act like Mrs. Mountjoy
event1960 star_border 5
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A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
Love in Pawn
Act like Mrs Trusslove
event1953 star_border 6.5
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A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him particularly the daughter! The wife tries to redeem her husband but finds she has lost the pawn ticket. In a short matter of time, the whole incident becomes a national sensation.
True as a Turtle
Act like Valerie Partridge
event1957 star_border 7
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Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned by an industrialist friend, Dudley Partridge. A lot of misadventures await them before they finally reach France.
Personal Affair
Act like 1st Gossip (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.2
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A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
Five Golden Hours
Act like Beatrice
event1961 star_border 6
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A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Present Laughter
Act like Monica Reed
event1967
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An aging and self-obsessed actor finds himself in a situation bordering on farce when he is besieged by the demands of his estranged wife, women who want to seduce him, and a crazed playwright.
White Corridors
Act like Sister Jenkins
event1951 star_border 6.6
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White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
The Saint
Act like Florence Warshed (1 ep.)
event1962 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 Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Act like Lady Lamorak (1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 6.5
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The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot.
International Detective
Act like Baroness Rainis (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 7
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The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star Arthur---later Art---Fleming, who hosted the original `Jeopardy!'
Misleading Cases
Act like Florence Haddock (19 ep.)
event1967
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A court that is frequently presided over by the increasingly amused Mr Justice Swallow and Mr Haddock's long-suffering adversary Sir Joshua Hoot QC.
The Human Jungle
Act like Lady Shaw (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 8.2
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The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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