Barbara Couper

Barbara Couper

Born: January 6, 1903
Died: January 10, 1992
in London, England, UK

Movies for Barbara Couper...

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Title: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character: Mrs. Paunceforth
Released: November 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
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Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Miss Matilda Crawley
Released: December 2, 1967
Type: TV
A dramatization of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel in five parts by Rex Tucker.
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Title: The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Released: March 11, 1966
Type: Movie
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
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Macready's Gala
Title: Macready's Gala
Character: Mrs Craxton-Christie
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Title: The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Character: The Mayor's wife
Released: May 26, 1965
Type: Movie
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Jean Henderson
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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Title: Victoria Regina
Character: Duchess
Released: November 13, 1964
Type: TV
Patricia Routledge gives a career-best performance as Queen Victoria in this 1964 series of plays based on the celebrated collection of dramas by playwright Laurence Housman. Self-willed, obstinate, imperious and passionate... a now-familiar description of one of history's longest-serving female monarchs – but Housman's satirical tribute marked a decisive break with the tradition of the uncritical historical portrait. A Broadway hit deemed too disrespectful for public performance in Britain until the late 1930s, Victoria Regina is a frank portrayal of an extraordinarily complex woman, tracing her development from royal teenager to inconsolable widow at the helm of a vast empire, with all her contradictions, prejudices and unconstitutional behavior.
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Title: Doctor Knock
Character: Madame Parpalaid
Released: February 7, 1961
Type: TV
BBC TV Series
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The Weak and the Wicked
Title: The Weak and the Wicked
Character: Prison Doctor
Released: February 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
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The Lady with a Lamp
Title: The Lady with a Lamp
Character: Mrs. Nightingale
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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Happy Go Lovely
Title: Happy Go Lovely
Character: Madame Amanda
Released: March 6, 1951
Type: Movie
B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Bruno meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they think that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women, who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his employees. After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy ending: a successful show and true love.
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Paul Temple's Triumph
Title: Paul Temple's Triumph
Character: Mrs. Morgan
Released: May 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
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Dark Secret
Title: Dark Secret
Character: Mrs. Barrington
Released: October 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
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The Story of Shirley Yorke
Title: The Story of Shirley Yorke
Character: Muriel Peach
Released: July 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.
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The Last Days of Dolwyn
Title: The Last Days of Dolwyn
Character: Lady Dolwyn
Released: April 13, 1949
Type: Movie
An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
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Heaven Is Round the Corner
Title: Heaven Is Round the Corner
Character: Mrs. Trevor
Released: April 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...