Helen Shingler

Helen Shingler

Born: August 29, 1919
Died: October 8, 2019
in London, England, UK

Movies for Helen Shingler...

Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Mrs. Higgins
Released: December 27, 1981
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Mrs. Semple
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Title: Enemy at the Door
Character: Helen Porteous
Released: January 28, 1978
Type: TV
Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey. The series also marked the TV debut of Anthony Head as a member of the island resistance. The theme music was by Wilfred Josephs.
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Title: Enemy at the Door
Character: Mrs. Porteous
Released: January 28, 1978
Type: TV
Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey. The series also marked the TV debut of Anthony Head as a member of the island resistance. The theme music was by Wilfred Josephs.
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Title: Public Eye
Character: Eve Biddersloe
Released: January 23, 1965
Type: TV
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
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Title: Maigret
Character: Madame 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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Rx Murder
Title: Rx Murder
Character: Charlotte
Released: February 18, 1958
Type: Movie
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
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Room in the House
Title: Room in the House
Character: Ethel
Released: July 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
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Background
Title: Background
Character: Mary Wallace
Released: November 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
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Laughing Anne
Title: Laughing Anne
Character: Susan Davidson
Released: September 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
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Love's a Luxury
Title: Love's a Luxury
Character: Mrs. Pentwick
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.
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Judgment Deferred
Title: Judgment Deferred
Character: Kay Kennedy
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.
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The Lady with a Lamp
Title: The Lady with a Lamp
Character: Parthenope 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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The Rossiter Case
Title: The Rossiter Case
Character: Liz Rossiter
Released: January 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his child he is racked with guilt and turns to drink. When Honor is found murdered with Peter's gun next to her, the police arrest him. Unable to remember his movements he must discover the secret behind "The Rossiter Case".
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I Have Been Here Before
Title: I Have Been Here Before
Character: Janet Ormund
Released: May 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Guests at an hotel become irrationally convinced that they have been there before - perhaps in a different life?
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The Silver Darlings
Title: The Silver Darlings
Character: Catrine
Released: September 3, 1947
Type: Movie
A harsh if ultimately optimistic depiction of life in the unforgiving Hebrides, that includes documentary footage to add to the sense of realism. A woman weathers the conscription of her husband, destructive storms, a son who yearns to leave the family home and an outbreak of cholera before winning the man she truly loves.
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Quiet Weekend
Title: Quiet Weekend
Character: Rowena Hyde
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son.