Helena Pickard

Helena Pickard

Born: October 12, 1900
Died: September 27, 1959
in Handsworth, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Movies for Helena Pickard...

When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Annie Parker
Released: December 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the fourth television film version made by the BBC of this comedy by J. B. Priestley. It featured several actors repeating their rôles from the earlier 1951 version including Frank Pettingell, Helena Pickard and Eileen Beldon.
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Make Me an Offer!
Title: Make Me an Offer!
Character: Lady on Train
Released: December 8, 1954
Type: Movie
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song - meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Annie Parker
Released: December 25, 1951
Type: Movie
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third version broadcast by the BBC of this J.B. Priestley play. It was aired live but as the BBC very rarely recorded live transmissions prior to 1953, this programme is lost.
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The Lady with a Lamp
Title: The Lady with a Lamp
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: September 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
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Miss Pilgrim's Progress
Title: Miss Pilgrim's Progress
Character: Mrs. Jenkins
Released: November 29, 1949
Type: Movie
An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act.
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Annie Parker
Released: July 10, 1949
Type: Movie
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. This was the second television film version of the J.B. Priestley play made by the BBC.
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The Turners of Prospect Road
Title: The Turners of Prospect Road
Character: Lil Turner
Released: June 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
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The Lodger
Title: The Lodger
Character: Annie Rowley
Released: January 19, 1944
Type: Movie
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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Saloon Bar
Title: Saloon Bar
Character: Mrs Small
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
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Let George Do It!
Title: Let George Do It!
Character: Oscar's Wife
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Annie Parker
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.
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Limelight
Title: Limelight
Character: Pixie
Released: June 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom.
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Nell Gwyn
Title: Nell Gwyn
Character: Mrs. Pepys
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
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Music Hall
Title: Music Hall
Character: Lou
Released: June 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
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Splinters in the Navy
Title: Splinters in the Navy
Character: Lottie
Released: November 9, 1931
Type: Movie
To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from the Navy's boxing champion.
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Cupboard Love
Title: Cupboard Love
Character: May
Released: March 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman locks an intruding blackmailer in her bedroom closet overnight, in order to prove her innocence in the morning.
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Lord Richard in the Pantry
Title: Lord Richard in the Pantry
Released: July 24, 1930
Type: Movie
'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Clicking of Cuthbert
Title: The Clicking of Cuthbert
Character: Adeline
Released: September 30, 1924
Type: Movie
A champion golfer falls for a beautiful woman, only to find that her heart lies with one of 'the Cultured', a poet and a member of the literary and debating society. The golfer resolves to become an intellectual and, following a lecture by 'a highbrow Russian and typical whiskered Bolshevik' who happens to also be a brother golfer, the object of the golfer's affection realises that there may be something more to the game after all.