Muriel Aked

Muriel Aked

Born: November 7, 1887
Died: March 21, 1955
in Bingley, Yorkshire, England, UK

Movies for Muriel Aked...

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
Title: The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: February 14, 1953
Type: Movie
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
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The Wonder Kid
Title: The Wonder Kid
Character: Miss Frisbie
Released: November 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Bobby Henrey, the amazing juvenile star of The Fallen Idol, is here cast as 7-year-old musical genius Sebastian Giro. Mistreated by his avaricious adult manager, Sebastian runs away to a remote Alpine village. He then falls into the hands of a gang of kidnappers, led by the basically sympathetic Jack.
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Flesh and Blood
Title: Flesh and Blood
Character: Mrs Walker
Released: March 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
Title: The Happiest Days of Your Life
Character: Miss Jezzard: Staff of St. Swithin's
Released: March 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
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The Blue Lamp
Title: The Blue Lamp
Character: Mrs Beryl Waterbourne (Uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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Another Shore
Title: Another Shore
Character: Little Old Lady
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
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It's Hard to be Good
Title: It's Hard to be Good
Character: Ellen Beckett
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
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So Evil My Love
Title: So Evil My Love
Character: Miss Shoebridge
Released: August 2, 1948
Type: Movie
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
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Just William's Luck
Title: Just William's Luck
Character: Emily
Released: December 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.
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The Years Between
Title: The Years Between
Character: Mrs. May
Released: July 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
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They Knew Mr. Knight
Title: They Knew Mr. Knight
Character: Lady Gilling
Released: March 5, 1946
Type: Movie
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
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The Wicked Lady
Title: The Wicked Lady
Character: Mrs. Munce
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
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What's the Next Job?
Title: What's the Next Job?
Character: Mrs. Small
Released: June 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.
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Two Thousand Women
Title: Two Thousand Women
Character: Miss Meredith
Released: November 6, 1944
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
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The Demi-Paradise
Title: The Demi-Paradise
Character: Mrs. Tisdall-Stanton
Released: November 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Title: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Character: Aunt Margaret
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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Cottage to Let
Title: Cottage to Let
Character: Miss Fernery
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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The Girl Who Forgot
Title: The Girl Who Forgot
Character: Mrs. Badger
Released: February 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist takes advantage...
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A Girl Must Live
Title: A Girl Must Live
Character: Mme. Dupont, headmistress
Released: September 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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The Silent Battle
Title: The Silent Battle
Character: Madame Duvivier
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.
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Fame
Title: Fame
Character: Mrs. Bertwhistle
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
Comedy film...
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Public Nuisance No. 1
Title: Public Nuisance No. 1
Character: Miss Trumps
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the South of France. Arthur arranges for shop assistant Frances Travers, with whom he has fallen in love, to win a fairground lottery and stay in the hotel as a prize. Complications arise!
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Royal Eagle
Title: Royal Eagle
Character: Miss Mimm
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.
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Can You Hear Me, Mother?
Title: Can You Hear Me, Mother?
Character: Mother
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce
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Evensong
Title: Evensong
Character: Tremlowe
Released: September 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
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The Night of the Party
Title: The Night of the Party
Character: Princess Maria Amelia
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
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Mr. Stringfellow Says No
Title: Mr. Stringfellow Says No
Character: Mrs. Piper
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
In this actioner, the life of a the humble church youth group leader is turned topsy-turvy when a car, driven by a spy suddenly crashes into his house.
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The Queen's Affair
Title: The Queen's Affair
Character: Marie Soubrekoff
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Autumn Crocus
Title: Autumn Crocus
Character: Miss Mayne
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Miss Twigg
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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No Funny Business
Title: No Funny Business
Character: Mrs Fothergill
Released: March 30, 1933
Type: Movie
'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Her First Affaire
Title: Her First Affaire
Character: Agatha Brent
Released: December 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's wife to show the girl how foolish she's been.
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Rome Express
Title: Rome Express
Character: Spinster
Released: October 31, 1932
Type: Movie
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
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Indiscretions of Eve
Title: Indiscretions of Eve
Character: Delilah, Ralph's Mother
Released: September 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph. With neither knowing the other's name, they both spend the following day searching frantically for each other around London. Peter's only clue is a set of shop mannequins, all perfect likenesses of Eve - and all made by Ralph's factory.
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The Mayor's Nest
Title: The Mayor's Nest
Character: Mrs. Ashcroft
Released: June 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
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Good Night, Vienna
Title: Good Night, Vienna
Character: Marya
Released: March 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again
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Bed and Breakfast
Title: Bed and Breakfast
Character: Mrs. Boase
Released: December 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple have a fight, and in order to get even with one another, each decides to take up with a lover but without actually going through with "the deed".
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The Middle Watch
Title: The Middle Watch
Character: Charlotte Hopkinson
Released: October 27, 1930
Type: Movie
'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue)