Patricia Laffan

Patricia Laffan

Born: March 19, 1919
Died: March 10, 2014
in London, England, UK

Movies for Patricia Laffan...

Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Title: Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Character: Herself
Released: June 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A look at the history of British B-movies.
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Crooks in Cloisters
Title: Crooks in Cloisters
Character: Lady Florence
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.
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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Hidden Homicide
Title: Hidden Homicide
Character: Jean Gilson
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
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Thunder on Sycamore Street
Title: Thunder on Sycamore Street
Character: Phyllis Hayes
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
When Joseph Blake, who once did prison time, and his daughter, Anna, move to Sycamore Street, their neighbors on the otherwise "peaceful" street converge to chase them out. But the Blakes don't back down.
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23 Paces to Baker Street
Title: 23 Paces to Baker Street
Character: Miss Alice MacDonald
Released: May 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
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Title: Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Jane
Released: February 22, 1956
Type: TV
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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Devil Girl from Mars
Title: Devil Girl from Mars
Character: Nyah
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
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Don't Blame the Stork
Title: Don't Blame the Stork
Character: Lilian Angel
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.
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Rough Shoot
Title: Rough Shoot
Character: Magda
Released: March 30, 1953
Type: Movie
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
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Escape Route
Title: Escape Route
Character: Irma Brookes
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Poppaea
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Hangman’s Wharf
Title: Hangman’s Wharf
Character: Rosa Warren
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A doctor is framed for murder.
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Death in High Heels
Title: Death in High Heels
Character: Magda Doon
Released: July 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Crime Mystery directed by Lionel Tomlinson.
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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Caravan
Title: Caravan
Character: Betty (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1946
Type: Movie
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.