Davina Whitehouse

Davina Whitehouse

Born: December 16, 1912
Died: December 25, 2002
in London, England, UK

Movies for Davina Whitehouse...

Forgotten Silver
Title: Forgotten Silver
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 2000
Type: Movie
The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.
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Rugged Gold
Title: Rugged Gold
Released: December 10, 1994
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to survive in the Alaskan frontier after separating from her family because of an earthquake.
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Braindead
Title: Braindead
Character: Grandmother
Released: August 13, 1992
Type: Movie
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
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The Night Nurse
Title: The Night Nurse
Character: The Diva
Released: November 5, 1978
Type: Movie
A private nurse uncovers strange goings-on in the home where she is working.
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Solo
Title: Solo
Character: Rohana Beaulieu
Released: December 1, 1977
Type: Movie
When a young Australian hitchhiker, Judy (Peers), enters a prohibited forest area, she encounters Paul (Gil) whose job is spotting fires from a plane. She is invited to stay with him and his teen son, Billy. Later they go on a sightseeing flight in a "Tiger Moth" bi-plane, but having a forced landing, are accommodated by an odd elderly couple.
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Sleeping Dogs
Title: Sleeping Dogs
Character: Elsie
Released: October 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
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I'll Turn to You
Title: I'll Turn to You
Character: Telephonist
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
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Mrs Mopp Entertains
Title: Mrs Mopp Entertains
Character: Annie
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.
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Tower of Terror
Title: Tower of Terror
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
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The Farmer's Wife
Title: The Farmer's Wife
Character: Susie
Released: April 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
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Hoots Mon
Title: Hoots Mon
Character: Annie
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
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Traitor Spy
Title: Traitor Spy
Character: Mabel
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
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Anything to Declare?
Title: Anything to Declare?
Character: Polly
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.
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South Riding
Title: South Riding
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
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London Melody
Title: London Melody
Character: Maid
Released: February 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?
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Dusty Ermine
Title: Dusty Ermine
Character: Goldie, the maid
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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Where There's a Will
Title: Where There's a Will
Character: Lucie, The Maid
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
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Crown v. Stevens
Title: Crown v. Stevens
Character: Maggie - Stevens' Maid
Released: August 3, 1936
Type: Movie
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Character: Nan
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
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The Private Secretary
Title: The Private Secretary
Character: Annie
Released: August 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
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Annie, Leave the Room!
Title: Annie, Leave the Room!
Character: Annie
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
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Tangled Evidence
Title: Tangled Evidence
Character: Faith
Released: September 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A medium is murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.
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The Black Abbot
Title: The Black Abbot
Character: Jane, the maid
Released: June 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
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This Week of Grace
Title: This Week of Grace
Character: Audience Member at Gala (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
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I Lived with You
Title: I Lived with You
Character: Maggie
Released: June 13, 1933
Type: Movie
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
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The Ghost Camera
Title: The Ghost Camera
Character: Amelia Wilkinson, the Maid
Released: January 31, 1933
Type: Movie
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.