Vanda Godsell

Vanda Godsell

Born: November 17, 1922
Died: April 2, 1990
in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England, UK
Vanda Godsell was born on November 17, 1922 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England as Nancy Evelyn Godsell. She was an actress, known for The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), A Shot in the Dark (1964) and The Earth Dies Screaming (1964). She was married to Alan J Orchard and George Selway. She died on April 2, 1990 in London, England

Movies for Vanda Godsell...

Title: Reilly: Ace of Spies
Character: Woman
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: TV
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
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Title: Minder
Character: Queenie
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Title: The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Character: Mrs. Leverlilly
Released: December 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Title: I Didn't Know You Cared
Character: Mrs Partington
Released: August 27, 1975
Type: TV
I Didn't Know You Cared is a British comedy series set in a working class household in South Yorkshire in the 1970s, written by Peter Tinniswood loosely based upon his books A Touch Of Daniel, I Didn't Know You Cared and Except You're A Bird. It was broadcast by the BBC in four series from 1975 to 1979. The main characters are Carter Brandon; his Uncle Mort; his mother, Annie; his father, Les; his girlfriend, Pat Partington; and Uncle Staveley. Auntie Lil appears in the first two series. Other recurring characters, mostly from Carter's workplace, are Linda Preston; Mrs Partington; Sid Skelhorn
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Who Killed the Cat?
Title: Who Killed the Cat?
Character: Eleanor Trellington
Released: October 7, 1966
Type: Movie
A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
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The Wrong Box
Title: The Wrong Box
Character: Mrs. Goodge
Released: June 19, 1966
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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Dateline Diamonds
Title: Dateline Diamonds
Character: Mrs. Jenkins
Released: September 27, 1965
Type: Movie
In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me."
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Charlotte Borgman
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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The Earth Dies Screaming
Title: The Earth Dies Screaming
Character: Violet Courtland
Released: October 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
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Clash by Night
Title: Clash by Night
Released: August 29, 1964
Type: Movie
A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Madame LaFarge
Released: June 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
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80,000 Suspects
Title: 80,000 Suspects
Character: Mrs. Agnes Davis
Released: August 15, 1963
Type: Movie
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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80,000 Suspects
Title: 80,000 Suspects
Character: Agnes Davis
Released: August 15, 1963
Type: Movie
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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Bitter Harvest
Title: Bitter Harvest
Character: Mrs. Pitt
Released: March 8, 1963
Type: Movie
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
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This Sporting Life
Title: This Sporting Life
Character: Mrs Anne Weaver
Released: February 7, 1963
Type: Movie
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Tina Ourley
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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Term of Trial
Title: Term of Trial
Character: Mrs. Thompson
Released: August 16, 1962
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.
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Waltz of the Toreadors
Title: Waltz of the Toreadors
Character: Emma Bulstrode
Released: April 12, 1962
Type: Movie
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, something always seems to get in the way of his bedding the breathtakingly lovely Ghislaine, a more-than-willing town local.
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Title: The Scales of Justice
Character: Agnes Chester
Released: January 11, 1962
Type: TV
Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.
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The Frightened City
Title: The Frightened City
Character: Sophie Peters
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
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The Shadow of the Cat
Title: The Shadow of the Cat
Character: Louise Venable
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
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Konga
Title: Konga
Character: Bob's Mother
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!
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Payroll
Title: Payroll
Character: Doll
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
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Sword of Sherwood Forest
Title: Sword of Sherwood Forest
Character: The Prioress
Released: December 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury. The plotters, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Earl of Newark, have set an ambush for Walter and Lady Marian Fitzwater. Will Robin get to them before it is too late?
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The Man Who Was Nobody
Title: The Man Who Was Nobody
Character: Mrs. Ferber
Released: September 15, 1960
Type: Movie
A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.
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Hell Is a City
Title: Hell Is a City
Character: Lucretia Luske
Released: April 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
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Title: The Third Man
Character: Miss Muffin
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
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In the Wake of a Stranger
Title: In the Wake of a Stranger
Character: Hetty McCabe
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and tracking down the real culprits, several unsavory characters cross his path as well as a rather interesting woman who sets romantic sparks flying.
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Horrors of the Black Museum
Title: Horrors of the Black Museum
Character: Miss Ashton
Released: April 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
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Innocent Sinners
Title: Innocent Sinners
Character: Mrs.Mason
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
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Many Mansions
Title: Many Mansions
Character: Susan Brown
Released: March 29, 1957
Type: Movie
The 30 minute play, specially written for television by Scottish writer, Duncan Ross, takes place in a pub in Yorkshire. Marius plays Lester Hockley, a man blind from birth. Lester has been secretary to a deceased artist, Paul Stanton, whose character and work are being discussed by the regulars in the pub that night.
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The Brain Machine
Title: The Brain Machine
Character: Mae Smith
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
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Johnny-on-the-Spot
Title: Johnny-on-the-Spot
Character: Diana Townley
Released: January 21, 1954
Type: Movie
An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name.
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The Large Rope
Title: The Large Rope
Character: Amy Jordan
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.