Elsie Wagstaff

Elsie Wagstaff

Born: July 1, 1899
Died: July 16, 1985
in Leytonstone, Essex, England, UK

Movies for Elsie Wagstaff...

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Title: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Character: Wild One
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
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The Raging Moon
Title: The Raging Moon
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: January 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
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Title: Great Expectations
Character: Sarah Pocket
Released: January 22, 1967
Type: TV
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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The Bond
Title: The Bond
Character: Gran
Released: December 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Title: Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Character: Mrs. Ransley
Released: December 6, 1963
Type: Movie
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Whistle Down the Wind
Title: Whistle Down the Wind
Character: Auntie Dorothy
Released: July 25, 1961
Type: Movie
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
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The Snake Woman
Title: The Snake Woman
Character: Aggie Harker
Released: April 26, 1961
Type: Movie
A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Title: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Character: Mrs. Seaton
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
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Barnacle Bill
Title: Barnacle Bill
Character: Mrs. Gray
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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You Pay Your Money
Title: You Pay Your Money
Character: Ada Seymour
Released: February 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
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The End of the Affair
Title: The End of the Affair
Character: Bendrix Landlady
Released: February 24, 1955
Type: Movie
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Mrs. Simon (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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The Interrupted Journey
Title: The Interrupted Journey
Character: Wilding's maid
Released: October 11, 1949
Type: Movie
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
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Trottie True
Title: Trottie True
Character: Dependant Relative (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
Title: Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
Character: Aunt Nora
Released: August 29, 1949
Type: Movie
A private detective (Bruce Lester) and an aspiring actress (Hy Hazell) join forces to thwart a man's scheme to murder his wealthy--and much older--wife. British thriller, directed by Francis Searle.
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Adam and Evelyne
Title: Adam and Evelyne
Character: Theatre Barmaid (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1949
Type: Movie
The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn't remember him, has been writing to her with tales of his success in business. Actually, he is impersonating a friend, a handsome gambler. When the father dies, the gambler takes the girl from the orphanage and tells her the truth. But the girl is now a full-grown beauty and complications arise, including those provided by a black-sheep brother.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Mrs. Ford
Released: May 23, 1948
Type: Movie
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My Brother Jonathan
Title: My Brother Jonathan
Character: Factory Worker
Released: February 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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Appointment with Crime
Title: Appointment with Crime
Character: Mrs. Wilkins
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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Old Mother Riley at Home
Title: Old Mother Riley at Home
Character: Mrs. Ginochie
Released: December 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.
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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Mrs. Baird
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
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The Dark Tower
Title: The Dark Tower
Character: Eve Wainwright (as Elsie Wagstaffe)
Released: October 18, 1943
Type: Movie
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
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The Balloon Goes Up
Title: The Balloon Goes Up
Character: The Welfare Officer
Released: December 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.
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Crimes at the Dark House
Title: Crimes at the Dark House
Character: Mrs. Catherick
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
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Trouble Brewing
Title: Trouble Brewing
Character: Mrs. Hopkins
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
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Lassie from Lancashire
Title: Lassie from Lancashire
Character: Aunt Hetty
Released: August 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find love in the form of aspiring songwriter Tom (Hal Thompson). But their romance is threatened and nearly destroyed by the jealous star actress of the local pantomime company. However, the young lovers move on to bigger and better things after winning a London West End theatre contract.
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John Halifax
Title: John Halifax
Character: Jael
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.
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Cotton Queen
Title: Cotton Queen
Character: Emily
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.