Miriam Karlin

Miriam Karlin

Born: June 23, 1925
Died: June 3, 2011
in Hampstead, London, England, UK
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Miriam Karlin, OBE (23 June 1925 – 3 June 2011) was a British actress.

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Flashbacks of a Fool
Title: Flashbacks of a Fool
Character: Mrs. Rogers
Released: June 5, 2008
Type: Movie
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970s Britain.
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Children of Men
Title: Children of Men
Character: Caged German Grandmother
Released: September 22, 2006
Type: Movie
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
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Ex Memoria
Title: Ex Memoria
Character: Gertrude, German Resident
Released: August 26, 2006
Type: Movie
A film about memory, loss and survival; Eva Lipszyc is a survivor, but she is now locked away in the twilight world of Alzheimer's disease. We see the world from her point of view, at her eye level, and we see how a chance encounter with a caring young nurse breaks through the barrier
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The Man Who Cried
Title: The Man Who Cried
Character: Madame Goldstein
Released: August 29, 2000
Type: Movie
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
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Incognito
Title: Incognito
Character: Marina
Released: November 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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Utz
Title: Utz
Character: Grandmother
Released: March 15, 1992
Type: Movie
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.
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Title: So Haunt Me
Released: February 23, 1992
Type: TV
So Haunt Me is a British television sitcom about a family that moves into a home occupied by the ghost of its previous resident, a middle-aged Jewish mother. The show was produced by Cinema Verity for the BBC and originally aired from 1992 to 1994. Peter Rokeby loses his job as advertising copywriter, and resolves to become a freelance writer. Owing to this change in circumstances, he and his wife Sally move with their children into a more modest home in Meadow Road, Willesden. The family soon finds that the ghost of a previous owner, Yetta Feldman, still occupies the residence, and has been scaring occupants away for years. Yetta is a stereotypical interfering, middle-aged Jewish mother who died suddenly after choking on a chicken bone. While Sally can both see and speak to their ghost, Peter — much to his frustration — initially cannot. The family agrees to help Yetta find her grown-up daughter Carole. So Haunt Me aired on BBC1 as 18 half-hour episodes in three series and one special from 1992 to 1994. The show was created by Paul Mendelson. The Rokeby children David and Tammy were played by Jeremy Green and Laura Howard respectively. Neighbour Mr Bloom was played by David Graham.
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Jekyll & Hyde
Title: Jekyll & Hyde
Character: Mrs. Hackett
Released: January 6, 1990
Type: Movie
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
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Title: The Rag Trade
Released: September 11, 1977
Type: TV
Follows the humorous struggles of workers in a London clothing factory.
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Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
Title: Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
Character: Little Buttercup / Utopian Maiden (voice)
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Able Seaman Dick Deadeye is charged by Queen Victoria to find the stolen Ultimate Secret. His ugliness means that his life has always been lonely but a buxom barmaid takes a shine to him. Together, they battle pirates and an evil magician before discovering that the Ultimate Secret is nothing but LOVE! Using songs based on the original works of Gilbert and Sullivan (but updated with modern lyrics), this film was created to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the first collaboration of the composers of the Savoy Operas.
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Mahler
Title: Mahler
Character: Aunt Rosa
Released: April 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
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Title: Playhouse
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: TV
BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft. It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983.
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Title: Crown Court
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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A Clockwork Orange
Title: A Clockwork Orange
Character: "Catlady" Weathers
Released: December 19, 1971
Type: Movie
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
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Just Like a Woman
Title: Just Like a Woman
Character: Ellen Newman
Released: February 26, 1967
Type: Movie
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Character: Marcella Vankuchen
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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The Bargee
Title: The Bargee
Character: Nellie Marsh
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses.
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Ladies Who Do
Title: Ladies Who Do
Character: Mrs. Higgins
Released: November 1, 1963
Type: Movie
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
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Heavens Above!
Title: Heavens Above!
Character: Winnie Smith
Released: May 20, 1963
Type: Movie
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
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The Small World of Sammy Lee
Title: The Small World of Sammy Lee
Character: Milly
Released: April 20, 1963
Type: Movie
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
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I Thank a Fool
Title: I Thank a Fool
Character: Woman in the Black Maria
Released: September 14, 1962
Type: Movie
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Charwoman
Released: June 25, 1962
Type: Movie
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
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The Bing Crosby Show
Title: The Bing Crosby Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: Movie
Bing Crosby performs with special guests Bob Hope, Marion Ryan, Dave King, Terry-Thomas, and Shirley Bassey.
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On the Fiddle
Title: On the Fiddle
Character: Waaf Sergeant
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
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Watch It, Sailor!
Title: Watch It, Sailor!
Character: Mrs. Lack
Released: August 14, 1961
Type: Movie
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
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The Fourth Square
Title: The Fourth Square
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.
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Hand in Hand
Title: Hand in Hand
Character: Mrs. Mathias
Released: February 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
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Crossroads to Crime
Title: Crossroads to Crime
Character: Connie Williams
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hi-jackers.
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The Millionairess
Title: The Millionairess
Character: Mrs. Joe
Released: October 18, 1960
Type: Movie
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
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The Entertainer
Title: The Entertainer
Character: Soubrette
Released: July 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
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Title: The Bruce Forsyth Show
Released: March 29, 1959
Type: TV
Beginning in 1959 as Bruce's Show, mixing music, dancing and comedy in the time honoured tradition, this series focused on laughter, glamour and big name guests.
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Room at the Top
Title: Room at the Top
Character: Gertrude (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1959
Type: Movie
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
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The Big Money
Title: The Big Money
Character: Lady in Nightclub
Released: June 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
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A Touch of the Sun
Title: A Touch of the Sun
Character: Alice Cann
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
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Fun at St. Fanny's
Title: Fun at St. Fanny's
Character: 'The Private Eye'
Released: December 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
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Down Among the Z Men
Title: Down Among the Z Men
Character: Woman in Shop
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.