Edith MacArthur

Edith MacArthur

Born: March 8, 1926
Died: April 25, 2018
in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

Movies for Edith MacArthur...

New Town
Title: New Town
Character: Mrs MacIver
Released: April 14, 2009
Type: Movie
Starry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but when the head of Scottish Heritage falls from the church tower in a mysterious accident, it becomes a question of whether he fell or was pushed.
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Title: Life Support
Character: Joan Andrews
Released: July 19, 1999
Type: TV
Life Support is a medical drama series that aired on BBC Scotland. Aisling O'Sullivan starred as Dr. Katherine Doone, the new clinical ethicist at Caledonian Hospital Trust, a fictional Glasgow hospital.
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Title: Hamish Macbeth
Character: Belle Carter
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.
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The Long Roads
Title: The Long Roads
Character: Kitty McVurrich
Released: January 31, 1993
Type: Movie
An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
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Title: French Fields
Character: Marion Bingley
Released: September 5, 1989
Type: TV
French Fields is a British situation comedy. It ran for 19 episodes from 5 September 1989 to 8 October 1991. It was written by John T. Chapman and Ian Davidson and was produced by Thames Television for ITV. The series starred Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie as husband and wife William and Hester Fields and followed the series Fresh Fields, which ran from 7 March 1984 to 23 October 1986. At the end of the last series of Fresh Fields, William accepted a position with a French company. French Fields follows Hester and William after they make the move to Calais. Other regular cast included their French real estate agent Chantal, who was also the Fields' neighbour to the left. On the right, were the horrible and snobbish English couple the Trendles. Hester and William also coped with Madame Remoleux, an unintelligible and ancient French woman who lived in and cared for the estate — called Les Hirondelles — where they all lived. Also, popping in on a regular basis, were local farmer and mayor Monsieur Dax and his daughter Marie-Christine, to whom Hester did her best to teach English. Nicholas Courtney also appeared frequently as the Marquis.
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Title: City Lights
Character: Brenda
Released: October 14, 1986
Type: TV
Hapless bank clerk Willie Melvin dreams of being a successful writer but is held back by his own incompetence, the dodgy dealings of his best friend Chancer, and lack of support from his mother, the bank's manager Adam McLelland and his obsequious fellow teller, Brian.
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An Enemy of the People
Title: An Enemy of the People
Character: Katherine Stockman
Released: February 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People as a direct response to the public's outcry over his earlier play Ghosts. Channeling his feelings into on Dr. Stockman, whose single voice of reason is drowned out by those with paranoid and ulterior interests, Ibsen had no qualms remarking on the irrational nature of the masses and the corrupt political systems which encourage them.
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Degree of Uncertainty
Title: Degree of Uncertainty
Character: Doctor
Released: March 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Mature student, divorcee and mother of three, Josie, finds the social pressures in and out of university more demanding than her academic studies.
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When the Bough Breaks
Title: When the Bough Breaks
Character: Audrey Campbell
Released: May 6, 1971
Type: Movie
NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.
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Title: Sunset Song
Character: Jean Guthrie
Released: March 26, 1971
Type: TV
Chris Guthrie lives with her family on a bleak farm in North East Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century. On her mother's death, she assumes the managing of the farm with her father and her older brother, but the men fall out, leaving Chris and her father to manage it alone. When her father dies, she considers abandoning the farm, but decides to carry on alone. She marries a young farmer, Ewan Tavendale. They have a baby and are happy for the first time, then the First World War breaks out, Ewan enlists and dies in France, and Chris is left once again to carry on with the farm.
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Some Women
Title: Some Women
Character: Miss McDonald
Released: August 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A film about four women who have been in prison.
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Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Title: Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Character: Miss Hamilton
Released: August 21, 1968
Type: Movie
When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.