Ann Firbank

Ann Firbank

Born: January 9, 1933
in Secunderabad, Andhra, India

Movies for Ann Firbank...

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Title: Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Character: Elderly Teacher
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.
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True Things
Title: True Things
Character: Nan
Released: April 1, 2022
Type: Movie
A young woman living on the fringes of society becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.
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Title: The Witcher
Character: Ithlinne
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: TV
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Title: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Character: Tatooine Elder
Released: December 18, 2019
Type: Movie
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
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Title: Les Misérables
Character: Old Lady
Released: December 30, 2018
Type: TV
France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in life for 19 years, but a small mistake puts the law again on his trail. Ruthless Inspector Javert pursues him thorough years, driven by a twisted sense of justice, while Valjean reforms himself, thrives and dedicates his life to good deeds. In 1832, while the revolution ravages the streets of Paris, Valjean and Javert cross their paths for the last time.
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The Little Stranger
Title: The Little Stranger
Character: Aunt Cissie
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: Movie
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?
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The Crucible
Title: The Crucible
Character: Rebecca Nurse
Released: December 4, 2014
Type: Movie
Richard Armitage stars in Yael Farber's powerful production of Arthur Miller's timeless witch hunt parable.
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White Lie
Title: White Lie
Character: Mrs. Davies
Released: July 2, 2013
Type: Movie
A young writer has his book stolen by his mentor.
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It Happened in Saint-Tropez
Title: It Happened in Saint-Tropez
Character: Dame anglaise
Released: January 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...
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Shoot Me!
Title: Shoot Me!
Character: Therapist
Released: February 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Images of female sexuality and the insecurities and attitudes that surround women and ageing. Plus the rather unusual affects certain indigestion tablets can have on one's tongue
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In Love with Alma Cogan
Title: In Love with Alma Cogan
Character: Mrs Craske
Released: October 4, 2011
Type: Movie
The film revolves around, Norman, a world-weary manager of a pier theatre in a seaside resort. Norman has worked in the theatre for all of his life, but will not accept that the local council, which own the theatre are planning to install more commercial management in an attempt to boost audience numbers. As the story unfolds he realises it may be time to move on and put behind him the ghost of 50s & 60s singer Alma Cogan, who performed at the theatre many years ago. Sandra, his devoted long-suffering assistant and Norman decide to leave the theatre to fulfill her dream of being a professional singer and unexpectedly enjoying a late blossoming romance. From Wikipedia.
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Title: Kingdom
Character: Grace
Released: April 22, 2007
Type: TV
Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance. The series also starred Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Karl Davies, Phyllida Law and Tony Slattery. The first series of six one-hour episodes was aired in 2007 and averaged six million viewers per week. Despite a mid-series ratings dip, the executive chairman of ITV praised the programme and ordered a second series, which was filmed in 2007 and broadcast in January and February 2008. Filming on the third series ran from July to September 2008 for broadcast from 7 June 2009. Stephen Fry announced on his blog in October 2009 that ITV was cancelling the series, which was later confirmed by the channel, which said that given tighter budgets, more expensive productions were being cut.
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Title: Elizabeth I
Character: Lady Anne
Released: September 29, 2005
Type: TV
Elizabeth I is a two-part 2005 British historical drama television miniseries directed by Tom Hooper, written by Nigel Williams, and starring Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I of England. The miniseries covers approximately the last 24 years of her nearly 45-year reign. Part 1 focuses on the final years of her relationship with the Earl of Leicester, played by Jeremy Irons. Part 2 focuses on her subsequent relationship with the Earl of Essex, played by Hugh Dancy. The series originally was broadcast in the United Kingdom in two two-hour segments on Channel 4. It later aired on HBO in the United States, CBC and TMN in Canada, ATV in Hong Kong, ABC in Australia, and TVNZ Television One in New Zealand. The series went on to win Emmy, Peabody, and Golden Globe Awards. The same year, Helen Mirren starred as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, with which she dominated the award season.
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Title: New Tricks
Character: Nancy Evans
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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Anna and the King
Title: Anna and the King
Character: Lady Bradley
Released: December 16, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Felicity Law
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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The Treasure Seekers
Title: The Treasure Seekers
Character: Emily
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
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Title: All or Nothing at All
Character: Elizabeth
Released: December 3, 1993
Type: TV
In this compelling story of a daring conman, Leo Hopkins (Hugh Laurie) prospers from the greed of others - but his undeniable charm and willingness to take risks plunge him into a mess of troubles and worry. Addicted to gambling, seduced by his secretary and threatened by his corrupt boss, his life spirals downward and Leo must find a way to straighten himself out before he loses everything.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Agnes Tripp
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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The Unkindest Cut
Title: The Unkindest Cut
Character: Alison
Released: January 4, 1990
Type: Movie
When Mikey's parents discover he has failed his accountancy exams for the third time, they are concerned. When he falls in love with a girl from the Salvation Army, they are horrified. Fleeing from the disapproval of his parents and the Jewish community Mikey finds help from a sage with a six-foot beard.
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Strapless
Title: Strapless
Character: Daphne Brodie
Released: May 14, 1989
Type: Movie
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Ellie Henderson
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: Heart of the Country
Character: Jane Wandle
Released: February 25, 1987
Type: TV
The ‘Heart of the Country’ was a four part series by Fay Weldon set in Somerset which was broadcast in spring 1987.
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Foreign Body
Title: Foreign Body
Character: Mrs Plumb
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
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Hotel du Lac
Title: Hotel du Lac
Character: Penelope Milne
Released: March 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.
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A Passage to India
Title: A Passage to India
Character: Mrs. Callendar
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
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A Flame to the Phoenix
Title: A Flame to the Phoenix
Released: December 15, 1983
Type: Movie
A countess and her military sons prepare for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 as World War II begins.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Countess de Tournay
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Sheila King
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Stories from a Flying Trunk
Title: Stories from a Flying Trunk
Character: The Mother
Released: November 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A magical blend of choreography, stop-motion and live action, Stories from a Flying Trunk captures the enchantment of three classic stories from Hans Christian Andersen. Conceived, written and directed by Oscar nominated Christine Edzard and featuring the dancers of the Royal Ballet, choreographed by Frederick Ashton. The Kitchen contains household objects which come to life and hold an animated conversation. The Little Match Girl updates Andersen's heart-rending tale to London's East End in the late seventies. Little Ida is an inspired celebration of dance featuring members of the Royal Ballet.
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Title: Lillie
Character: Princess Alexandra
Released: September 24, 1978
Type: TV
The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.
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Title: Space: 1999
Character: Consul Varda
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: TV
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
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Brief Encounter
Title: Brief Encounter
Character: Melanie Harvey
Released: November 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
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The Nearly Man
Title: The Nearly Man
Character: Alice Tomlinson
Released: October 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A middle class man finds life as a Labour MP challenging.
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Asylum
Title: Asylum
Character: Anna
Released: November 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Sarah Gibson QC
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Sara Gibson
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee
Title: Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee
Character: Joanna
Released: September 7, 1971
Type: Movie
In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Title: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Character: Party Guest
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
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Title: Persuasion
Character: Anne Elliot
Released: April 18, 1971
Type: TV
British television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name.
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One of Those Things
Title: One of Those Things
Character: Sonja Melchior
Released: January 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of a man. The girl mentally blackmails our executive through manipulation leading to an affair that threatens Vinther's career and marriage.
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A Severed Head
Title: A Severed Head
Character: Rosemary Lynch-Gibbon
Released: January 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, a mistress called Georgie, whom his womanizing brother also desires. All the while, Palmer's sister Honor seems to know everyone's business.
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Accident
Title: Accident
Character: Laura
Released: February 9, 1967
Type: Movie
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
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Dead Man's Chest
Title: Dead Man's Chest
Character: Mildred Jones
Released: October 27, 1965
Type: Movie
Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
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Darling
Title: Darling
Character: Sybil Martin (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
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The Servant
Title: The Servant
Character: People in Restaurant: Society Woman
Released: November 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse…
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Grace Charlton
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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Nothing Barred
Title: Nothing Barred
Character: Lady Katherine
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
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Carry On Nurse
Title: Carry On Nurse
Character: Helen Lloyd
Released: January 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!
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Behind the Mask
Title: Behind the Mask
Character: Mrs. Judson
Released: November 23, 1958
Type: Movie
A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.
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Title: Kenilworth
Character: Amy Robsart
Released: February 8, 1957
Type: TV