Ruth Dunning

Ruth Dunning

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Jude
Title: Jude
Character: Fay
Released: December 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
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The Black Panther
Title: The Black Panther
Character: Lesley's Mother
Released: December 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
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Title: Children of the Stones
Character: Mrs. Crabtree
Released: January 10, 1977
Type: TV
In a sleepy English village surrounded by a megalithic stone circle, an astrophysicist and his teenage son arrive to research the standing stones, but end up delving into the past in ways they never expected.
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Title: An Unofficial Rose
Released: December 28, 1974
Type: TV
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The House in Nightmare Park
Title: The House in Nightmare Park
Character: Agnes Henderson
Released: March 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he’s invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..?
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Title: The Sextet
Released: June 13, 1972
Type: TV
An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast was featured in each production.
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Hoffman
Title: Hoffman
Character: Mrs. Mitchell
Released: July 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A businessman blackmails his young secretary into spending a weekend with him.
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Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Title: Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Character: Aunt Meg
Released: January 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a favourite uncle.
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The Three Lives of Thomasina
Title: The Three Lives of Thomasina
Character: Mother Stirling
Released: December 11, 1963
Type: Movie
Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet should be put down. But when Mary and her father try to bury the cat, Lori MacGregor (Susan Hampshire), who is said to be a witch, shows up and attempts to steal it.
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Dangerous Afternoon
Title: Dangerous Afternoon
Character: Miss Letty Frost / Irma Randall
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
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Title: The Avengers
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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I'll Have You to Remember
Title: I'll Have You to Remember
Character: Millicent James
Released: October 23, 1960
Type: Movie
A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.
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Urge to Kill
Title: Urge to Kill
Character: Auntie B
Released: March 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.
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And Women Shall Weep
Title: And Women Shall Weep
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A mother tries to prevent her younger son being led astray by his delinquent elder brother.
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Hot Summer Night
Title: Hot Summer Night
Character: Nell Palmer
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black boyfriend, he realises that racial prejudice is rife within his own home. This powerful drama exposes the deep-seated racial tensions hidden in British family life during the late 1950s. Written for the stage by Unity Theatre's Ted Willis, this television recording was filmed a few weeks after the play's successful West End run, and most of the stage cast repeat their roles here, including the terrific John Slater, Andree Melly and Lloyd Reckord. The drama's interracial kiss is probably the first to be shown on British TV.
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Title: Fair Game
Released: July 5, 1958
Type: TV
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It's a Great Day
Title: It's a Great Day
Character: Gladys Grove
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
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The Weak and the Wicked
Title: The Weak and the Wicked
Character: Prison Matron
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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Intimate Relations
Title: Intimate Relations
Character: Leonie
Released: May 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Yvonne is seething when her devoted son, Michael, declares his intention to marry Madeleine, despite the latter's admitting to having an affair with a mysterious older man. At the same time, George, Michael's father, confides in Yvonne's sister, Leo, that he is in fact Madeleine's other lover. Together, they hatch a plot to end Madeleine's hopes of marriage - by threatening to reveal George's scandalous secret to his son.
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The Woman in the Hall
Title: The Woman in the Hall
Character: Shirley Dennison
Released: October 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
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Save a Little Sunshine
Title: Save a Little Sunshine
Character: Miss Dickson
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
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All That Is England
Title: All That Is England
Released: July 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Austin promotional short, showing a tour around the country by many Austin models, from the Seven to the Ascot.