Margaretta Scott

Margaretta Scott

Born: February 13, 1912
Died: April 15, 2005
in Westminster, London, England, UK
Margaretta Scott was born on February 13, 1912 in Westminster, London, England as Margaretta Mary Winifred Scott. She was an actress and writer, known for All Creatures Great and Small (1978), Things to Come (1936) and Where's Charley? (1952). She was married to John Wooldridge. She died on April 15, 2005 in Marylebone, London.

Movies for Margaretta Scott...

Changing Step
Title: Changing Step
Character: Countess of Ardarroch
Released: July 26, 1990
Type: Movie
Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.
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The Woman He Loved
Title: The Woman He Loved
Character: Lady Wigram
Released: April 3, 1988
Type: Movie
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England.
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Title: A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Character: The Dowager Duchess of Denver
Released: March 25, 1987
Type: TV
Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue.
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Paying Guests (Part 2)
Title: Paying Guests (Part 2)
Character: Countess Appledore
Released: October 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples' plans for the winter unfold. Florence, for the first time in her life, refuses to go off with her selfish old father. Miss Howard has some momentous news, and the Colonel must make a very brisk about-turn.
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Paying Guests (Part 1)
Title: Paying Guests (Part 1)
Character: Countess Appledore
Released: October 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for the beginnings of a late romance. Gossip, bicycle rides, rounds of golf, bridge in the evenings and preparations for the charity concert all make time pass most pleasantly - don't they?
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Mabel Horsham
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Roberta Jardine
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Murder Rap
Title: Murder Rap
Character: Magistrate Ferris
Released: January 31, 1980
Type: Movie
Wallie, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.
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Title: Together
Character: Daphne Porter
Released: January 24, 1980
Type: TV
Residents of a sheltered accommodation block run by a warden go about their business.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Lady Birdwell
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: Mrs. Pumphrey
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
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Title: Days of Hope
Character: Mrs. Pritchard
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: TV
Days of Hope is a BBC television drama serial produced in 1975. The series dealt with the lives of a working-class family from the turmoils of the First World War in 1916 to the General Strike in 1926. It was written by Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach.
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Title: The Adventurer
Character: Lady Hargrom
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
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Title: Upstairs, Downstairs
Character: Lady Castleton
Released: October 10, 1971
Type: TV
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
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Percy
Title: Percy
Character: Rita's Mother
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
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Title: Elizabeth R
Character: Catherine de Medici
Released: February 17, 1971
Type: TV
This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
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Title: Play for Today
Character: Magistrate Terris
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Crescendo
Title: Crescendo
Character: Danielle Ryman
Released: June 7, 1970
Type: Movie
An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer. She contacts his widow whose mental deterioration, precipitated by the death of her husband, manifests itself in psychotic dementia. The young woman's arrival triggers an obsessive desire to marry her crippled son to Susan, ensuring by this union that the genius of the father will be passed on to future generations.
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Title: Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Character: Mme Pitchard
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: TV
L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Lady Gwen Sangore
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: Studio Four
Character: Lady Spencer
Released: January 22, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: Studio 4
Character: Lady Spencer
Released: January 22, 1962
Type: TV
Studio 4 is a BBC drama anthology series, filmed at the BBC TV Centre's Studio Four, and screening over two seasons in 1962. The series was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, an anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.
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Adventure Story
Title: Adventure Story
Character: The Queen Mother
Released: June 12, 1961
Type: Movie
The story of Alexander the Great.
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Title: The Cheaters
Character: Mrs. Osborne
Released: December 10, 1960
Type: TV
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Title: Maigret
Character: Mme. Debul
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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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Character: Olivia Geiss, actress
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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An Honourable Murder
Title: An Honourable Murder
Character: Claudia Caesar
Released: March 31, 1960
Type: Movie
A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
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A Woman Possessed
Title: A Woman Possessed
Character: Katharine
Released: August 8, 1958
Type: Movie
English doctor John Winthrop (Francis Matthews) must protect his new wife, Ann (Kay Callard), from his wealthy and entirely too overbearing mother, Katherine (Margaretta Scott), who has some strong opinions about her son's new union. But things go too far when John accuses Katherine of trying to kill Ann with medication. Could she do such a thing -- and will these three ever have a good relationship?
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The Scamp
Title: The Scamp
Character: Mrs. Marjorie Blundell
Released: October 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
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Town on Trial
Title: Town on Trial
Character: Helen Dixon
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.
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The Last Man to Hang
Title: The Last Man to Hang
Character: Mrs. Cranshaw
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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Title: Armchair Theatre
Character: Laura Frost
Released: July 8, 1956
Type: TV
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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Where's Charley?
Title: Where's Charley?
Character: Dona Lucia
Released: May 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Musical version of the comedy, "Charley's Aunt," by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up.
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Title: Sunday Night Theatre
Character: Catherine of Aragon
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: TV
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
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Title: Sunday Night Theatre
Character: Olivia Geiss
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: TV
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
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Landfall
Title: Landfall
Character: Mrs Burnaby
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
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The Story of Shirley Yorke
Title: The Story of Shirley Yorke
Character: Alison Gwynne
Released: July 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.
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Counterblast
Title: Counterblast
Character: Sister 'Johnnie' Johnson
Released: May 18, 1948
Type: Movie
An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.
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Calling Paul Temple
Title: Calling Paul Temple
Character: Mrs. Barbara Trevellyan
Released: April 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
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Idol of Paris
Title: Idol of Paris
Character: Empress Euginie
Released: April 24, 1948
Type: Movie
The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.
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The First Gentleman
Title: The First Gentleman
Character: Lady Hartford
Released: March 15, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Title: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Character: Lady Jersey
Released: December 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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The Man from Morocco
Title: The Man from Morocco
Character: Manuela
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
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Fanny by Gaslight
Title: Fanny by Gaslight
Character: Alicia
Released: May 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
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Sabotage at Sea
Title: Sabotage at Sea
Character: Jane Dighton
Released: September 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
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Atlantic Ferry
Title: Atlantic Ferry
Character: Susan Donaldson
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: Marcia
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Girl in the News
Title: Girl in the News
Character: Judith Bentley
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
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Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Theresa Cobarrus
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.
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Action for Slander
Title: Action for Slander
Character: Josie Bradford
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
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The Conquest of the Air
Title: The Conquest of the Air
Character: Isobella d'Este (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
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Things to Come
Title: Things to Come
Character: Roxana / Rowena
Released: March 31, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
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Peg of Old Drury
Title: Peg of Old Drury
Character: Kitty Clive
Released: August 27, 1935
Type: Movie
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Dirty Work
Title: Dirty Work
Character: Leonora Stafford
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Title: The Private Life of Don Juan
Character: Pepilla
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.