Faith Brook

Faith Brook

Born: February 16, 1922
Died: March 11, 2012
in York, England, UK

Movies for Faith Brook...

Title: The Commander
Released: February 16, 2003
Type: TV
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.
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AKA
Title: AKA
Character: Contessa de la Reche
Released: January 19, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1970s Britain, 18-year old Dean feels hampered by his working-class background and his family. In order to make something of himself, he assumes another identity and manages to enter high society.
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Saint Paul
Title: Saint Paul
Character: Sara
Released: December 3, 2000
Type: Movie
A biblical epic from the Book of Acts and Paul's epistles covering his conversion from Saul of Tarsus to his ministry to the Gentiles.
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Mothertime
Title: Mothertime
Character: Isobel
Released: December 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage daughter runs the house and tries to engineer a reunion between her parents. But the parents have been keeping secrets from their children, and nothing is as it seems.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Title: Mrs. Dalloway
Character: Lady Bexborough
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.
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Miss Beatty's Children
Title: Miss Beatty's Children
Character: Mabel Forster
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
An idealistic English school teacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a strong-willed missionary, devoted to saving young girls from being sold into temple prostitution.
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Title: Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Character: Ruth van Rydock
Released: December 29, 1991
Type: Movie
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
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Title: Gentlemen and Players
Character: Eleanor Beaufort
Released: April 10, 1988
Type: TV
Gentlemen and Players is a British television series produced by TVS Television for the ITV network. An aspirational late 1980s drama series, Gentlemen and Players dealt with the struggles and intrigues involving two business rivals, Bo Beaufort and Mike Savage. Two series were made between 1988 and 1989, comprising 13 episodes in total.
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Title: The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Character: Edith Brompton
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: TV
Ann, a former chorus girl marries above herself into a rich society family, but her mother-in-law regards her with great suspicion from the start. When Ann shoots her husband dead, claiming she thought he was a prowler, the older Mrs. Grenville decides to back the woman she despises, to protect the family image.
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All Passion Spent
Title: All Passion Spent
Character: Lavinia
Released: December 9, 1986
Type: Movie
his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
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Title: Miss Marple
Character: Ruth van Rydock
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: TV
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade.
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The Razor's Edge
Title: The Razor's Edge
Character: Louisa Bradley
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.
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The Weather in the Streets
Title: The Weather in the Streets
Character: Lady Spencer
Released: November 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
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Title: The Irish R.M.
Released: January 6, 1983
Type: TV
The Irish R.M. refers to a series of books by the Anglo-Irish novelists Somerville and Ross, and the television comedy-drama series based on them. They are set in turn of the 20th century west of Ireland.
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Eye of the Needle
Title: Eye of the Needle
Character: Lucy's Mother
Released: July 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
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Cream in My Coffee
Title: Cream in My Coffee
Character: Mrs. Wilsher
Released: November 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."
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The Sea Wolves
Title: The Sea Wolves
Character: Mrs Doris Grice
Released: July 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Title: The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Character: Lady Almina Carnarvon
Released: May 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.
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North Sea Hijack
Title: North Sea Hijack
Character: British Prime Minister
Released: February 18, 1980
Type: Movie
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
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Title: Rumpole of the Bailey
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: TV
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
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Bloodbath
Title: Bloodbath
Character: Heather
Released: November 29, 1975
Type: Movie
Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy expatriates lost in their own dreams and regrets.
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View from the Loft
Title: View from the Loft
Character: Elizabeth Janus
Released: July 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. Here he witnesses several mysterious murders. There are no clues to these murders - only bloody corpses and the terrifying sound that always comes shortly before the murders. Inspector Mark Santini embarks on the investigation and slowly unfolds a story full of old wrongs and terrifying revelations...
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In the Steps of a Dead Man
Title: In the Steps of a Dead Man
Character: Betty Cornfield
Released: May 27, 1974
Type: Movie
When a young soldier suddenly dies, his parents and his girlfriend are naturally shocked and upset by the news. Several months later a young man turns up at the parent's house claiming to be their dead son's best friend. They welcome him and invite him to stay for a while. They also introduce him to their son's girlfriend and she is similarly impressed by him. It is later discovered, however, that he is not what he appears to be and may have had a hand in their son's death.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Betty Cornfield
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Title: War and Peace
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The classic BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins heads the cast as Pierre Bezuhov (a role for which he won the 1972 Best Actor BAFTA); Morag Hood is the impulsive and beautiful Natasha Rostova; Alan Dobie is the dour but heroic Andrei Bolkonsky; and David Swift is Napoleon, whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has far-reaching consequences for Pierre and the Rostov and Bolkonsky families. The twenty-part serial was the vision of producer David Conroy whose principle aim was to transfer the rich characterisation and incident from Tolstoy's greatest novel to a television drama. Scripted by Jack Pulman and directed by John Davies, Conroy's War And Peace boasts superb acting, award-winning design (1972 Best Design BAFTA) and breathtaking battle sequences which were filmed in former Yugoslavia.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Gertrude
Released: November 7, 1970
Type: Movie
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
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The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Title: The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Character: Dr. Sands
Released: August 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Susan Crawford
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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Adélaïde
Title: Adélaïde
Character: Dickson
Released: August 7, 1968
Type: Movie
A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.
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Title: The Expert
Character: Judy Bodley
Released: July 5, 1968
Type: TV
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
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Title: Man in a Suitcase
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: TV
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
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To Sir, with Love
Title: To Sir, with Love
Character: Grace Evans
Released: June 14, 1967
Type: Movie
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
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The Heroes of Telemark
Title: The Heroes of Telemark
Character: Woman on Bus
Released: November 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Title: The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Character: Eleanor Brinson
Released: November 10, 1965
Type: Movie
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
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 Finest Hours
Title: The Finest Hours
Character: Lady Randolph (voice)
Released: September 29, 1964
Type: Movie
A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.
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We Shall See
Title: We Shall See
Character: Alva Collins
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
The controlling wife of a pilot wants her husband to quit flying.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Mrs. Thomas
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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Title: Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Released: August 16, 1962
Type: TV
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.
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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Mandy Robinson ("Nannie")
Released: March 13, 1959
Type: Movie
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Nurse
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Chase a Crooked Shadow
Title: Chase a Crooked Shadow
Character: Elaine Whitman
Released: January 16, 1958
Type: Movie
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
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Man in the Shadow
Title: Man in the Shadow
Character: Joan Lennox
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
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Across the Bridge
Title: Across the Bridge
Character: Kay
Released: August 20, 1957
Type: Movie
In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
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Finger of Guilt
Title: Finger of Guilt
Character: Lesley Wilson
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio boss's daughter after which he quickly rises through the studio ranks. Then the letters begin to appear from a lovesick American actress who wants to know why he has thrown her over.
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Wicked as They Come
Title: Wicked as They Come
Character: Virginia Collins
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: Movie
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Ethel Mummery
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Uneasy Terms
Title: Uneasy Terms
Character: Viola Alardyse
Released: July 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
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Jungle Book
Title: Jungle Book
Character: English Woman
Released: April 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants, including his widowed mother. Continuing to maintain a relationship with the jungle, adventures follow.
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Suspicion
Title: Suspicion
Character: Alice Barham (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance.