Jean Anderson

Jean Anderson

Born: December 12, 1907
Died: April 1, 2001
in Eastbourne, Sussex, England
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Jean Anderson (12 December 1907 – 1 April 2001) was an English actress born in Eastbourne, Sussex. She is best remembered for her television roles as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond in the 1970s BBC drama The Brothers and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the 1980s Second World War series Tenko .

She is also notable for playing the role of the Mother in The Railway Children in two separate BBC adaptations in 1951 and 1957.

Other TV credits include: Police Surgeon, Maigret, The Odd Man, The Man in Room 17, The Borderers, Paul Temple, Codename, Oil Strike North, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse, Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.

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Endgame
Title: Endgame
Character: Nell
Released: September 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
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Simon Magus
Title: Simon Magus
Character: Roise
Released: February 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise
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Title: The Uninvited
Released: September 25, 1997
Type: TV
The Uninvited is an ITV science fiction television mini-series first shown in 1997 as four fifty minute episodes. The series was made by Anglia Television. It was created by Leslie Grantham, who also features as a police officer with a secret. Steve Blake is a photographer who sees the head of British Nuclear Power killed in a horrific car crash, but then turning up alive and well. The village of Sweet Hope contains a mystery: it collapsed into the sea and the population was apparently saved by two police officers. Blake tries to investigate what has happened to the survivors who have all gone on to obtain positions of power within the British establishment. When Blake visits the submerged village he discovers a chilling secret...
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Title: Keeping Mum
Character: Norma
Released: April 17, 1997
Type: TV
Sitcom about an elderly woman who's starting to find her memory wandering while being watched over by her son and his wife.
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Title: Rebecca
Character: Grandma
Released: January 5, 1997
Type: TV
Based on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies. She finds herself in an aristocratic social world her middle class upbringing did not prepare her for, and housekeeper Mrs Danvers despises her for taking her darling Rebecca's place. But these are not the only problems to face...
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Title: Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Character: Alice Marsden
Released: January 3, 1996
Type: TV
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
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The Whipping Boy
Title: The Whipping Boy
Character: Queen Mum
Released: July 31, 1994
Type: Movie
A bored little prince makes a poor rat hunter his whipping boy but after his pranks at the royal court almost causes a war with the neighbor king he runs away with the whipping boy to escape from his first spanking. After being in the real world his life will change making him a prince fit to rule.
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Title: Doctor Finlay
Character: Mrs. Stirling
Released: May 9, 1993
Type: TV
Following his service in World War II, Doctor Finlay returns to the practice at Arden House. This is at a time when the National Health Service is about to be instituted.
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Diana: Her True Story
Title: Diana: Her True Story
Character: Lady Fermoy
Released: April 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton.
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Leon The Pig Farmer
Title: Leon The Pig Farmer
Character: Mrs Samuels
Released: February 26, 1993
Type: Movie
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
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The Bogie Man
Title: The Bogie Man
Character: Mrs Napier
Released: December 29, 1992
Type: Movie
A mental patient who believes he is Humphrey Bogart escapes from his institution and sets up in business as a private eye. Based on the the comic book series created by writers John Wagner and Alan Grant.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Victoria Wainwright
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: The House of Eliott
Character: Mrs. Spenser-Ewell
Released: August 31, 1991
Type: TV
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
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Title: G.B.H.
Character: Dr Goldup
Released: June 6, 1991
Type: TV
GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.
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The Black Velvet Gown
Title: The Black Velvet Gown
Character: Madame Gallmington
Released: June 2, 1991
Type: Movie
In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.
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Do Not Disturb
Title: Do Not Disturb
Character: Lady Ann
Released: March 17, 1991
Type: Movie
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writer Eleanor Mont other forces start to stir.
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O.M.
Title: O.M.
Character: Lady Crewe
Released: December 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Drama based on the life of Owen Morgan Edwards, one of the main benefactors and campaigners for the Welsh language and Welsh culture in a period of time when the Welsh language was banned in schools and public places.
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Title: Keeping Up Appearances
Character: Mrs. Fortescue
Released: October 29, 1990
Type: TV
Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you that she is a gracious hostess, a respected citizen, and a well-connected member of high society. If you don't believe that, just ask her best friend Elizabeth, held captive in Hyacinth's kitchen; or the postmen and neighbours who bristle at the sound of her voice; or Richard, her weary and compliant husband. In fact, Hyacinth's reputation could be as perfect as her new lounge set, if not for her senile father's love of running wild in the nip. Oh, and she would prefer it if her brother-in-law was a sharper dresser. And that her husband was more ambitious. And that her sisters were more presentable. And do take your shoes off before you come in the house, dear. Mind that you don't brush against the wallpaper.
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Survival of the Fittest
Title: Survival of the Fittest
Character: Molly Cowper
Released: October 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best to help her keep her independence, but Molly keeps trampling on people.
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Circles Of Deceit
Title: Circles Of Deceit
Character: Dowager
Released: April 11, 1990
Type: Movie
Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.
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Back Home
Title: Back Home
Character: Grandmother Dickinson
Released: July 23, 1989
Type: Movie
During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the spunky redhead returns to her native England. From the family she hardly remembers to snobby classmates and rule-filled boarding schools, Rusty must adapt to a whole new way of life.
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Title: Campion
Character: Belle Lafcadio
Released: January 22, 1989
Type: TV
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.
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Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Title: Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Character: Mrs. Fane
Released: June 24, 1987
Type: Movie
A newly married young woman was suddenly killed. Who is the culprit on earth? Is it her husband, or her former lover, enemy, or rival? A pair of young people who love detectives are determined to uncover the truth about this matter. They conducted private interviews with informants and investigated the parties involved. After many twists and turns, they overcame the layers of obstacles deliberately set by someone, avoided the cold shots and arrows of the killer, and finally made the truth known to the world
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Title: Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Character: Mrs. Fane
Released: January 11, 1987
Type: TV
When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Lady Hinksey
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Jessie Baine
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Rosie Collier
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Miss Marple
Character: Mrs. Fane
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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Screamtime
Title: Screamtime
Character: Mildred Hurley
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Compilation of three short horror films: "That's The Way To Do It", "Dreamhouse" and "Do You Believe In Fairies?" plus some new linking material.
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Title: Q.E.D.
Released: March 23, 1982
Type: TV
Q.E.D. is a 1982 short-lived adventure series set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Waterston as Professor Quentin Everett Deverill. The Professor was a scientific detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and the series had a smattering of what would later be called steampunk. In the show, the lead character was known primarily by his initials, Q.E.D; the reference here is that Q.E.D. usually stands for quod erat demonstrandum, a statement signalling the end of a proof. The show aired on the CBS network in the United States, and on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.
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Title: Tenko
Character: Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
Released: October 22, 1981
Type: TV
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
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The Lady Vanishes
Title: The Lady Vanishes
Character: Baroness
Released: April 30, 1979
Type: Movie
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon to discover the truth.
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Dear Parents
Title: Dear Parents
Released: February 9, 1973
Type: Movie
An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share.
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Title: The Brothers
Released: March 10, 1972
Type: TV
The Brothers is a British television series, produced and shown by the BBC between 1972 and 1976.
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Title: Fathers and Sons
Released: October 17, 1971
Type: TV
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The Road Builder
Title: The Road Builder
Character: Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye.
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Title: Codename
Character: Penelope Blanshard
Released: April 7, 1970
Type: TV
Codename, which premiered in April 1970, was about the secretive MI17 Spy Organisation of the same name based in the residential hall of a Cambridge College. Eventually the series attained a more international flavour, although its base was always in Great Britain. Primarily Codename dealt with the themes of espionage and counter-espionage at the time of the Cold War of the sixties. Its cast contained many of Great Britain's most versatile and talented actors.
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Brotherly Love
Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Matron
Released: January 7, 1970
Type: Movie
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
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Run a Crooked Mile
Title: Run a Crooked Mile
Character: Sister Teresa
Released: November 18, 1969
Type: Movie
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
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Half a Sixpence
Title: Half a Sixpence
Character: Lady Botting
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
"If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But can his newfound wealth buy happiness?
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The Silent Playground
Title: The Silent Playground
Character: Mrs. Lacey
Released: December 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.
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The Three Lives of Thomasina
Title: The Three Lives of Thomasina
Character: Mrs. MacKenzie
Released: December 11, 1963
Type: Movie
Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet should be put down. But when Mary and her father try to bury the cat, Lori MacGregor (Susan Hampshire), who is said to be a witch, shows up and attempts to steal it.
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Title: Lorna Doone
Released: June 16, 1963
Type: TV
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Title: Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Character: Lady Mary McDowell
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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The Inspector
Title: The Inspector
Character: Mrs. Jongman
Released: May 24, 1962
Type: Movie
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Ellen
Released: May 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.
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Title: Suspense
Character: Miss Reid
Released: April 30, 1962
Type: TV
Anthology series telling suspenseful tales.
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Waltz of the Toreadors
Title: Waltz of the Toreadors
Character: Agnes
Released: April 12, 1962
Type: Movie
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, something always seems to get in the way of his bedding the breathtakingly lovely Ghislaine, a more-than-willing town local.
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Spare the Rod
Title: Spare the Rod
Character: Mrs. Pond
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
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Title: Maigret
Character: Madame Gallet
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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Solomon and Sheba
Title: Solomon and Sheba
Character: Takyan
Released: December 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest in monotheism will threaten their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba makes an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.
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SOS Pacific
Title: SOS Pacific
Character: Miss Shaw
Released: October 14, 1959
Type: Movie
A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On the island they find a fleet of derelict ships, farm animals tethered, and cameras in a lead-lined bunker and a stark realisation soon dawns.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Nun
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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Heart of a Child
Title: Heart of a Child
Character: Maria
Released: April 30, 1958
Type: Movie
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
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Lucky Jim
Title: Lucky Jim
Character: Mrs. Welch
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: Movie
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
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Robbery Under Arms
Title: Robbery Under Arms
Character: Ma Marston
Released: January 10, 1957
Type: Movie
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
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A Town Like Alice
Title: A Town Like Alice
Character: Miss Horsefall
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
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Lease of Life
Title: Lease of Life
Character: Miss Calthorp
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: Movie
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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The Weak and the Wicked
Title: The Weak and the Wicked
Character: Policewoman in Court
Released: February 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
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The Kidnappers
Title: The Kidnappers
Character: Grandma MacKenzie
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it – but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
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The Pleasure Garden
Title: The Pleasure Garden
Character: Aunt Minerva
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
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Johnny on the Run
Title: Johnny on the Run
Character: Mrs. MacIntyre
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through his innocent implication in a robbery.
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Street Corner
Title: Street Corner
Character: Miss Haversham - Store Detective
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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Time Bomb
Title: Time Bomb
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
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The Brave Don't Cry
Title: The Brave Don't Cry
Character: Mrs. Sloan
Released: August 1, 1952
Type: Movie
The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.
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Life in Her Hands
Title: Life in Her Hands
Character: Night Sister
Released: June 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.
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The Franchise Affair
Title: The Franchise Affair
Character: Miss Tuff
Released: February 19, 1951
Type: Movie
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
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Title: The Railway Children
Released: February 6, 1951
Type: TV
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White Corridors
Title: White Corridors
Character: Sister Gater
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
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Out of True
Title: Out of True
Character: Dr. Bell
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete nervous breakdown and a suicide attempt. It was made as an educational film.
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Naughty Arlette
Title: Naughty Arlette
Character: Miss Sankey
Released: November 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
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Elizabeth of Ladymead
Title: Elizabeth of Ladymead
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
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Bond Street
Title: Bond Street
Character: Dress Shop Assistant
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.