Edith Sharpe

Edith Sharpe

Born: September 13, 1893
Died: June 6, 1984
in Hackney, London, England, UK

Movies for Edith Sharpe...

Satan Never Sleeps
Title: Satan Never Sleeps
Character: Sister Theresa
Released: February 22, 1962
Type: Movie
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.
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Cash on Demand
Title: Cash on Demand
Character: Miss Pringle
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
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Francis of Assisi
Title: Francis of Assisi
Character: Donna Pica
Released: July 12, 1961
Type: Movie
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Title: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Character: Secretary at China Inland Mission
Released: December 11, 1958
Type: Movie
All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin, and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.
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Happy Is the Bride
Title: Happy Is the Bride
Character: Mildred Royd
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
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Brothers in Law
Title: Brothers in Law
Character: Mrs. Thursby
Released: March 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
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Cloudburst
Title: Cloudburst
Character: Mrs. Reece
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.
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Once a Sinner
Title: Once a Sinner
Character: Mrs. Ross
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
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No Place for Jennifer
Title: No Place for Jennifer
Character: Psychologist
Released: January 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
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Landfall
Title: Landfall
Character: Rick's Mother
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
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The Guinea Pig
Title: The Guinea Pig
Character: Mrs. Hartley
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
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When The Bough Breaks
Title: When The Bough Breaks
Character: Matron
Released: November 19, 1947
Type: Movie
The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.
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Old Mother Riley
Title: Old Mother Riley
Character: Matilda Lawson
Released: August 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.
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The Tenth Man
Title: The Tenth Man
Character: Miss Hobbs
Released: August 12, 1936
Type: Movie
George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.
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Broken Blossoms
Title: Broken Blossoms
Character: Mrs. Reed
Released: May 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
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Music Hath Charms
Title: Music Hath Charms
Character: Miss Wilkinson
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.
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The Education of Elizabeth
Title: The Education of Elizabeth
Character: Lucy Fairfax
Released: January 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Billie Burke, the real-life wife of Flo Ziegfeld, plays Ziegfeld Follies dancer Elizabeth Banks who falls for a wealthy young man. His parents are shocked--and so is Elizabeth when she decides she'd rather have her beau's nerdish brother. She turns the mouse into a lion so that he'll be a worthy husband.