Laura Davenport

Laura Davenport

Born: January 1, 1956

Movies for Laura Davenport...

Title: The Shadow Play
Character: Aunt Sophie
Released: March 1, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Melissa
Character: Francesca Morris
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: TV
Award-winning war correspondent Guy Foster, distraught after the loss of his first wife, joins a cruise to Cape Town, where he meets beautiful and mysterious Melissa. A sophisticated blonde PR girl, Melissa is travelling with an exuberant group of media friends. Guy falls desperately in love with the exotic Melissa and she suggests they marry. But while they celebrate, dark events begin to take place. An elderly widower is ‘accidentally’ lost overboard. The bodies of a middle-aged couple are discovered in Cape Town. Then one of Melissa’s friends is brutally killed. The finger of suspicion falls on Guy – and when Melissa herself is killed, he is found bending over her bloodied corpse.
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Two Deaths
Title: Two Deaths
Character: Marta
Released: June 14, 1996
Type: Movie
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
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Title: Pie in the Sky
Character: Stella Bentley
Released: March 13, 1994
Type: TV
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
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The Monk
Title: The Monk
Character: Doña Elvira Dauphin
Released: January 17, 1990
Type: Movie
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves, and he is soon using the girl, and her powers, in his lust for more innocent prey.
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First and Last
Title: First and Last
Character: Sandra
Released: December 12, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
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Title: South Of The Border
Character: Fiona Crawshaw
Released: October 25, 1988
Type: TV
Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling multicultural communities of South London. The series was renowned for affording opportunities to new talent, women and people of colour both in front of and behind the cameras.
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Good and Bad at Games
Title: Good and Bad at Games
Released: December 18, 1983
Type: Movie
The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge
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Title: Reilly: Ace of Spies
Character: Pepita
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: TV
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
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A Cotswold Death
Title: A Cotswold Death
Character: Barbara Gethryn
Released: January 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect English murder. A natural case for the Yard's best technicolor detective, except for the victim-the 20th-century lord of the manor, Sheik Ali Ben Hassim.
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Title: The History Man
Character: Annie Callendar
Released: January 4, 1981
Type: TV
Ardently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk (Antony Sher) subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university.