Betty McDowall

Betty McDowall

Born: August 14, 1924
Died: December 31, 1993
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Movies for Betty McDowall...

The Bass Player and the Blonde
Title: The Bass Player and the Blonde
Character: Beth
Released: June 14, 1977
Type: Movie
George Mangham is a former composer and bass player in a band struggling for money. Stuck in an engagement with Mrs Merino, a wealthy older woman, while on the run and owing money to gangsters who are after him for debts he owes them, life is not great for George. But it gets even more complicated when he literally bumps into Terry Weston, daughter of gangster Charlie Weston, who has run away from home with her marriage to the rich but nerdy Nigel only a few days away. Little do either realize just what trouble and turmoil lays ahead for both of them...
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The Omen
Title: The Omen
Character: American Secretary
Released: June 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Professor's Wife
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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Title: The Corridor People
Character: Beryl Kempsford
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: TV
The Corridor People is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1966, devised and written by Edward Boyd. A surreal black-and-white detective series, The Corridor People pitched security agent Kronk against exotic villainess Syrie Van Epp over the course of four episodes.
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The Liquidator
Title: The Liquidator
Character: Frances Anne Chandler
Released: November 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
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Ballad in Blue
Title: Ballad in Blue
Character: Mrs. Babbidge
Released: February 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Ray Charles plays himself in this film where he helps blind boy David in his struggle to regain his sight. David’s over-protective mother Peggy is afraid of the risks connected with restoring his sight. Ray tries to help the whole family, offering the heavy-drinking Peggy’s heavy-drinking partner Steve an opportunity to work with his band.
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First Men in the Moon
Title: First Men in the Moon
Character: Margaret Hoy
Released: July 1, 1964
Type: Movie
The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
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Echo of Diana
Title: Echo of Diana
Character: Joan Scott
Released: May 1, 1963
Type: Movie
When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Edna Kinsall
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
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.
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Tomorrow at Ten
Title: Tomorrow at Ten
Character: Maggie Parnell
Released: September 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
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Spare the Rod
Title: Spare the Rod
Character: Ann Collins
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
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Dead Lucky
Title: Dead Lucky
Character: Jenny Drew
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. But when he and his columnist girlfriend, Jenny Drew, finally manage to infiltrate one of them, it leads quickly to trouble. The party's organiser is found murdered the next morning, and a number of suspects begin to emerge. But which of them killed Lucky Lewis?
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Jackpot
Title: Jackpot
Character: Kay Stock
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Carlotta
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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Jack the Ripper
Title: Jack the Ripper
Character: Anne Ford
Released: May 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
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She Didn't Say No!
Title: She Didn't Say No!
Character: Mrs. Power
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.
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Diamond Safari
Title: Diamond Safari
Character: Louise Saunders
Released: February 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A U.S. private eye falls for a smuggler and clears a native for murder in South Africa.
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Time Lock
Title: Time Lock
Character: Lucille Walker
Released: August 27, 1957
Type: Movie
A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.
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The Shiralee
Title: The Shiralee
Character: Girl at Parkers
Released: July 11, 1957
Type: Movie
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
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Interpol
Title: Interpol
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
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Always Another Dawn
Title: Always Another Dawn
Character: Patricia
Released: September 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Featuring Charles 'Bud' Tingwell in only his second film and first lead role, which helped prepare him for his part in the 1953 World War Two Hollywood action drama, 'The Desert Rats'. 'Always Another Dawn' celebrates the Australian Navy's contribution to the Allied victory in WW2. The ship (Dauntless) is based on the real-life HMAS Yarra, which was sunk by a Japanese cruiser squadron on 4 March 1942 with 138 lives lost. Assisted by the Royal Australian Navy, filming took place at Flinders Naval Depot Melbourne and aboard the destroyer HMAS Bataan.