Olga Lindo

Olga Lindo

Born: July 13, 1899
Died: May 7, 1968
in London, England
Olga Helena Frances Lindo was born in London at the end of the Victorian era to Frank and Marion (née Wakeford) Lindo. She had one brother Reginald David Marion Lindo (1900-72). Her father was a well-known actor-manager and author. It was no surprise then when Olga made her stage debut aged just fourteen in The Sleeping Beauty Re-Awakened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London's Covent Garden. She joined her father's touring company taking on a wide range of roles. By 1925 she had been described as formibable by the Times for her portrayal of Sadie Thompson in Maugham's Rain at the Garrick Theatre. Her range was extrordinary and she graced the London stage for over half a century.

Whilst not her first love she also had a very successful screen career.

Olga Lindo died in London in 1968 aged 69.

Movies for Olga Lindo...

Title: David Copperfield
Character: Mrs. Gummidge
Released: January 16, 1966
Type: TV
David Copperfield is a BBC television serial starring Ian McKellen in the title role of the adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel that began airing in January 1966. It also featured Tina Packer as Dora, Flora Robson as Betsey Trotwood, Gordon Gostelow as Barkis, and Christopher Guard as young David. The screenplay adaptation was written by Vincent Tilsley.
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Dr. Crippen
Title: Dr. Crippen
Character: Mrs. Clara Arditti
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
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Out of the Fog
Title: Out of the Fog
Character: Mrs. Mallon
Released: September 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.
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Title: Tales of Mystery
Character: Miss Speke
Released: March 29, 1961
Type: TV
Tales of Mystery was a British supernatural television drama anthology series based on the short stories of Algernon Blackwood. It was broadcast by ITV and ran over three seasons from 1961-1963. Produced by Peter Graham Scott, each episode was 25 minutes long and introduced by John Laurie. None of the 29 episodes broadcast survive in any television archive, however.
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Title: Drama 61-67
Character: Nellie Dowsett
Released: March 19, 1961
Type: TV
Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.
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Title: Persuasion
Character: Mrs. Musgrove
Released: December 30, 1960
Type: TV
Persuasion is a 1960 British television mini-series adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name. It was produced by the BBC and was directed by Campbell Logan. Daphne Slater stars as Anne Elliot, and Paul Daneman as Captain Frederick Wentworth. The mini-series has four episodes, each about an hour in length. According to shmoop.com, this mini-series was possibly destroyed in the BBC clean-out of the 1970s.
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Title: Maigret
Character: Madame Cremieux
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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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Character: Mrs. Jessop
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Sapphire
Title: Sapphire
Character: Mrs. Harris
Released: November 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
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Make Mine a Million
Title: Make Mine a Million
Character: Mrs. Burgess
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
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Woman in a Dressing Gown
Title: Woman in a Dressing Gown
Character: Manageress
Released: July 3, 1957
Type: Movie
A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.
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Yield to the Night
Title: Yield to the Night
Character: Senior Matron Hill
Released: June 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
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The Extra Day
Title: The Extra Day
Character: Mrs. Bliss
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
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Raising a Riot
Title: Raising a Riot
Character: Aunt Maud
Released: February 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighborhood.
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An Inspector Calls
Title: An Inspector Calls
Character: Mrs. Sybil Birling
Released: March 16, 1954
Type: Movie
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Title: The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Character: Olive Tavy
Released: January 31, 1950
Type: Movie
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Mrs. Humphries
Released: August 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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Train of Events
Title: Train of Events
Character: Mrs. Bailey
Released: January 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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Things Happen at Night
Title: Things Happen at Night
Character: Hilda Prescott
Released: November 3, 1948
Type: Movie
A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.
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The Phantom Shot
Title: The Phantom Shot
Character: Mrs. Robson
Released: September 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned.
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Bedelia
Title: Bedelia
Character: Mrs. Bennett
Released: July 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Mrs Edwards
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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Night Boat to Dublin
Title: Night Boat to Dublin
Character: Mrs. Coleman
Released: January 8, 1946
Type: Movie
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
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Give Me the Stars
Title: Give Me the Stars
Released: May 14, 1945
Type: Movie
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Time Flies
Title: Time Flies
Character: Queen Elizabeth
Released: May 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Maria Helliwell
Released: July 12, 1943
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.
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Return to Yesterday
Title: Return to Yesterday
Character: Grace Sambourne
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: Mrs. Sunley
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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Luck of the Navy
Title: Luck of the Navy
Character: Mrs. Rance
Released: November 27, 1938
Type: Movie
With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
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What Men Live By
Title: What Men Live By
Character: Martha
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.
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A Romance in Flanders
Title: A Romance in Flanders
Character: Madame Vlandermaere
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger
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Dark World
Title: Dark World
Character: Eleanor
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
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The Last Journey
Title: The Last Journey
Character: Mrs. Holt
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
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The Case of Gabriel Perry
Title: The Case of Gabriel Perry
Character: Mrs. Perry
Released: April 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
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Royal Cavalcade
Title: Royal Cavalcade
Character: Tourist
Released: April 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
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The Shadow Between
Title: The Shadow Between
Character: Nell Baker
Released: September 4, 1931
Type: Movie
A romantic drama film directed by Norman Walker.