Dorothy Gordon

Dorothy Gordon

Born: March 13, 1924
Died: April 18, 2013
in Camberwell, Surrey, England, UK
English actress, daughter of actors Leonard Sharp and Nora Gordon. Her career spanned more than sixty years including a fifteen year hiatus. Died in Toronto, Canada.

Movies for Dorothy Gordon...

Siblings
Title: Siblings
Character: Dorothy
Released: September 14, 2004
Type: Movie
Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.
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Sugar
Title: Sugar
Character: Ancient Waitress
Released: May 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Cliff receives an unusual 18th birthday gift from his younger sister — marijuana, alcohol, a subway token and the mission to lose his virginity. This results in Cliff meeting a young street hustler named Butch. At first, as Butch introduces Cliff to gay street life in Toronto, Cliff is excited by his new relationship. But as the two grow closer, he finds that Butch has problems, including drug addiction, that are cause for serious concern.
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Title: Mayday
Character: Phyllis Welch
Released: September 3, 2003
Type: TV
Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
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Where the Money Is
Title: Where the Money Is
Character: Mrs. Norton
Released: April 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann McKay, has a plan of her own.
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Locked in Silence
Title: Locked in Silence
Character: Miss Catalain
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in the family... so he doesn't say anything again. The problem is that the young boy so enjoys his acceptance by others of his mutism that it brings his family, a loving and caring farm family, to the brink of financial ruin in medical and psychological costs to cure him. Based on a true story, this is the intelligent telling of a family in crisis, and the work of doctors in dealing with this mental illness.
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Strike!
Title: Strike!
Character: Mrs. O'Boyle
Released: August 21, 1998
Type: Movie
In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.
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Too Close To Home
Title: Too Close To Home
Character: Mrs. Jane Sweeney
Released: April 29, 1997
Type: Movie
A mother is so consumed with a possessive love for her son that she may have committed murder in order to keep him by her side. When the son's new wife is found murdered, the mother is arrested for the crime. In denial about his mother's guilt, the son, a successful lawyer, agrees to defend her. Based on a true story.
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Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
Title: Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
Character: Mrs. Sanduski
Released: February 2, 1997
Type: Movie
The family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off the case.
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Goosebumps: Ghost Beach
Title: Goosebumps: Ghost Beach
Character: Agatha
Released: October 19, 1996
Type: Movie
While visiting their elderly cousins in a remote coastal town, brother and sister Jerry and Terri are told about an apparently haunted cave by two mysterious teenagers. However, when they explore the cave, the mystery deepens.
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Title: Goosebumps
Character: Agatha
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: TV
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.
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Title: Due South
Character: Rosy
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
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House of Whipcord
Title: House of Whipcord
Character: Bates
Released: April 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.
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Title: The Onedin Line
Character: Midwife
Released: October 15, 1971
Type: TV
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Mary Cooper
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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Sons and Lovers
Title: Sons and Lovers
Character: Fanny
Released: August 29, 1960
Type: Movie
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
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Sapphire
Title: Sapphire
Character: Lily
Released: November 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
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Life In Emergency Ward 10
Title: Life In Emergency Ward 10
Character: Mrs. Phillips
Released: April 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Life in Emergency Ward 10 is a 1959 film directed by Robert Day. It stars Michael Craig and Wilfrid Hyde-White. It was based on the television series Emergency – Ward 10
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Grip of the Strangler
Title: Grip of the Strangler
Character: Hannah
Released: May 11, 1958
Type: Movie
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
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Lost
Title: Lost
Character: Ice Cream Girl's Friend (Uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1956
Type: Movie
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
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Peril for the Guy
Title: Peril for the Guy
Character: Miss Clark
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.
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All for Mary
Title: All for Mary
Character: W.R.A.C. Orderly
Released: December 21, 1955
Type: Movie
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary.
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Hobson's Choice
Title: Hobson's Choice
Character: Ada Figgins
Released: April 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
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Love in Pawn
Title: Love in Pawn
Character: Marlene
Released: November 23, 1953
Type: Movie
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him particularly the daughter! The wife tries to redeem her husband but finds she has lost the pawn ticket. In a short matter of time, the whole incident becomes a national sensation. Eventually, the husband arrives back at the houseboat just in time to prevent the wife from leaving him.
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Women of Twilight
Title: Women of Twilight
Character: Sally
Released: January 16, 1953
Type: Movie
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
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Meet Me Tonight
Title: Meet Me Tonight
Character: Elsie Gow (segment "Fumed Oak: An Unpleasant Comedy")
Released: September 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
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Rebecca
Title: Rebecca
Character: Mrs. de Winter
Released: January 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier from 1947.
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The Dummy Talks
Title: The Dummy Talks
Released: October 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.
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The Silver Fleet
Title: The Silver Fleet
Character: Janni Peters
Released: March 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
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Clarence
Title: Clarence
Character: Della
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has overheard a family argument. And the Wheeler household is going through quite a bit of turmoil -- Mrs. Wheeler feels neglected by her husband and is jealous of Violet Pinney, the governess. Daughter Cora is planning to elope with her father's secretary, Hubert Stem. Son Bobby, meanwhile, has been making passes at the maid.
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A Daughter of Luxury
Title: A Daughter of Luxury
Character: Genevieve Fowler
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
When a lawsuit deprives a rich woman, Mary Fenton, of her wealth, she decides to impersonate another woman, Mary Cosgrove. The situation becomes sticky when Cosgroge turns up and demands Fenton be arrested.