Flora Robson

Flora Robson

Born: March 28, 1902
Died: July 7, 1984
in South Shields, (which was then in County Durham), England
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Dame Flora McKenzie Robson, DBE (28 March 1902 – 7 July 1984) was an English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity. Her range extended from queens to murderesses.

Movies for Flora Robson...

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Title: The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 1, 1988
Type: Movie
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
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Clash of the Titans
Title: Clash of the Titans
Character: A Stygian Witch
Released: June 12, 1981
Type: Movie
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Miss Pross
Released: December 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
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Gauguin the Savage
Title: Gauguin the Savage
Character: Sister Allandre
Released: April 29, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.
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Dominique
Title: Dominique
Character: Mrs. Davis
Released: March 6, 1980
Type: Movie
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
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A Man Called Intrepid
Title: A Man Called Intrepid
Character: Sister Luke
Released: May 7, 1979
Type: Movie
During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: the Prioress
Released: December 27, 1978
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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The Canterville Ghost
Title: The Canterville Ghost
Character: Mrs. Umney
Released: December 31, 1974
Type: Movie
The ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Character: Queen of Hearts
Released: November 20, 1972
Type: Movie
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
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The Big Black Sow
Title: The Big Black Sow
Character: La Nonna
Released: April 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Enrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to kill them all.
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Sin
Title: Sin
Character: Antigone
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, who is married to his childhood friend Yanni. Their adultery soon leads to violence and tragedy.
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Fragment of Fear
Title: Fragment of Fear
Character: Lucy Dawson
Released: September 3, 1970
Type: Movie
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
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The Beast in the Cellar
Title: The Beast in the Cellar
Character: Joyce Ballantyne
Released: August 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...
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The Epic That Never Was
Title: The Epic That Never Was
Character: Herself (Livia) (as Dame Flora Robson)
Released: September 19, 1969
Type: Movie
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
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The Shuttered Room
Title: The Shuttered Room
Character: Aunt Agatha
Released: June 27, 1967
Type: Movie
In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah and Mike soon find themselves exposed to the hostility of a gang of thugs led by Ethan, Susannah's brutal cousin.
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Eye of the Devil
Title: Eye of the Devil
Character: Countess Estelle
Released: November 18, 1966
Type: Movie
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
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Title: David Copperfield
Released: January 16, 1966
Type: TV
David Copperfield is a BBC television serial starring Ian McKellen in the title role of the adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel that began airing in January 1966. It also featured Tina Packer as Dora, Flora Robson as Betsey Trotwood, Gordon Gostelow as Barkis, and Christopher Guard as young David. The screenplay adaptation was written by Vincent Tilsley.
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7 Women
Title: 7 Women
Character: Miss Binns
Released: January 5, 1966
Type: Movie
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Title: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Character: Mother Superior
Released: June 16, 1965
Type: Movie
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
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Young Cassidy
Title: Young Cassidy
Character: Mrs. Cassidy
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
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Guns at Batasi
Title: Guns at Batasi
Character: Miss Barker-Wise
Released: October 30, 1964
Type: Movie
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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Murder at the Gallop
Title: Murder at the Gallop
Character: Miss Milchrest
Released: June 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.
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55 Days at Peking
Title: 55 Days at Peking
Character: Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi
Released: May 6, 1963
Type: Movie
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Dorothy Wyley
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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Innocent Sinners
Title: Innocent Sinners
Character: Olivia Chesney
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
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The Gypsy and the Gentleman
Title: The Gypsy and the Gentleman
Character: Mrs. Haggard
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
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No Time for Tears
Title: No Time for Tears
Character: Sister Birch
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance. The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness.
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High Tide at Noon
Title: High Tide at Noon
Character: Donna MacKenzie
Released: April 30, 1957
Type: Movie
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel, the steadfast friend and the poetry-quoting newcomer. As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.
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Romeo and Juliet
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Character: Nurse
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: Melita Gonzar
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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Tall Headlines
Title: Tall Headlines
Character: Mary Rackham
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Title: Saraband for Dead Lovers
Character: Countess Clara Platen
Released: October 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Actress
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Good-Time Girl
Title: Good-Time Girl
Character: Miss Thorpe
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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Holiday Camp
Title: Holiday Camp
Character: Esther Harman
Released: August 5, 1947
Type: Movie
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
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Frieda
Title: Frieda
Character: Nell Dawson
Released: June 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
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Black Narcissus
Title: Black Narcissus
Character: Sister Philippa
Released: May 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
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The Years Between
Title: The Years Between
Character: Nanny
Released: July 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Ftatateeta
Released: December 11, 1945
Type: Movie
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Saratoga Trunk
Title: Saratoga Trunk
Character: Angelique Buiton
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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Great Day
Title: Great Day
Character: Mrs. Liz Ellis
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Two Thousand Women
Title: Two Thousand Women
Character: Miss Manningford
Released: November 6, 1944
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
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Bahama Passage
Title: Bahama Passage
Character: Mrs. Ainsworth
Released: December 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth, descendant of many ancestors who have handled it over the years to the satisfaction of its 250 native residents. He is married to a woman who stays away from the island because she is lonely when there. Adrian doesn't want Carol or her father there, and they don't want to be there. Romance can't be lurking far behind the beautiful sunset.
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The Sea Hawk
Title: The Sea Hawk
Character: Queen Elizabeth
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Mrs. Taylor
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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We Are Not Alone
Title: We Are Not Alone
Character: Jessica Newcome
Released: November 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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The Lion Has Wings
Title: The Lion Has Wings
Character: Queen Elizabeth I (archive footage)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
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Poison Pen
Title: Poison Pen
Character: Mary Rider
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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Smith
Title: Smith
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: June 28, 1939
Type: Movie
John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Embankment Fellowship Centre, a charity that provides hostelling, retraining and help finding work for men in his position.
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Ellen Dean
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
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Fire Over England
Title: Fire Over England
Character: Queen Elizabeth I of England
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
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Farewell Again
Title: Farewell Again
Character: Lucy Blair
Released: January 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
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The Rise of Catherine the Great
Title: The Rise of Catherine the Great
Character: Empress Elisabeth
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
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One Precious Year
Title: One Precious Year
Character: Julia Skene
Released: February 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease
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Dance Pretty Lady
Title: Dance Pretty Lady
Character: Mrs. Raeburn
Released: December 10, 1931
Type: Movie
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.