Joan Greenwood

Joan Greenwood

Born: March 4, 1921
Died: February 27, 1987
in Chelsea, London, England, UK
Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was an English actress. Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. Perhaps her most famous role was Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).

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Little Dorrit
Title: Little Dorrit
Character: Mrs. Clennam
Released: December 11, 1987
Type: Movie
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.
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Title: Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Character: Selina Hazy
Released: January 25, 1987
Type: TV
There's a murder at the elegant hotel where Miss Marple is staying and international adventurer Bess Sedgwick is the prime suspect.
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Past Caring
Title: Past Caring
Character: Stella
Released: November 2, 1986
Type: Movie
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
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Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Title: Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Character: Interviewee
Released: May 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.
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Title: Girls On Top
Character: Lady Carlton
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: TV
Four girls share a flat together in London. Having nothing in common aside from their gender, they barely manage to co-exist.
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Title: Ellis Island
Character: Madame Levitska
Released: November 11, 1984
Type: TV
Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.
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Country
Title: Country
Character: Dollie van der Biek
Released: October 20, 1981
Type: Movie
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.
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Title: Triangle
Character: Judith Harper
Released: January 5, 1981
Type: TV
Triangle was a BBC Television soap opera in the early 1980s, set aboard a North Sea ferry which sailed from Felixstowe to Gothenburg and Gothenburg to Amsterdam. A third imaginary leg existed between Amsterdam and Felixstowe to justify the programme title, but this was not operated by the ferry company. The show ran for three series before being cancelled, but is still generally remembered as "some of the most mockable British television ever produced". The scripts involved clichéd relationships and stilted dialogue, making the show the butt of several jokes - particularly on Terry Wogan's morning Radio 2 programme - which caused some embarrassment to the BBC. In 1992, the BBC screened TV Hell, an evening of programming devoted to the worst television had to offer, and the first episode of Triangle was broadcast as part of the line-up. The ferry used in the first series was the Tor Line's MS Tor Scandinavia. In the second and third series this was replaced by the DFDS vessel Dana Anglia probably because she had a less intensive schedule and the longer time she spent in port made on-board filming easier.
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The Flame Is Love
Title: The Flame Is Love
Character: Duchess of Grantham
Released: October 15, 1979
Type: Movie
In this melodrama from Barbara Cartland's 1975 bestseller, a turn-of-the-century American heiress, while en route to her betrothal to an English duke, encounters love and intrigue in the arms of a French journalist.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Emma Adkins
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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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Beryl Stapleton
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Sherlock Holmes is out to uncover the truth about a hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the heir to the Baskerville estate.
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The Water Babies
Title: The Water Babies
Character: Lady Harriet
Released: June 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young apprentice, Tom, for the crime. Tom runs away and jumps into a river where, instead of drowning, he finds himself transformed into a mystical aquatic creature. Swimming and breathing effortlessly, he discovers a colorful underwater world replete with creatures both cruel and kind.
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The Uncanny
Title: The Uncanny
Character: Miss Malkin
Released: August 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
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Girl Stroke Boy
Title: Girl Stroke Boy
Character: Lettice Mason
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.
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The Ealing Comedies
Title: The Ealing Comedies
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 1970
Type: Movie
The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Mrs. Hilary Wenn
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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Barbarella
Title: Barbarella
Character: The Great Tyrant (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1968
Type: Movie
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
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Title: The Jazz Age
Released: September 10, 1968
Type: TV
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The Moon-Spinners
Title: The Moon-Spinners
Character: Aunt Frances Ferris
Released: July 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.
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Tom Jones
Title: Tom Jones
Character: Lady Bellaston
Released: August 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
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The Amorous Prawn
Title: The Amorous Prawn
Character: Lady Dodo Fitzadam
Released: November 26, 1962
Type: Movie
While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
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Mysterious Island
Title: Mysterious Island
Character: Lady Mary Fairchild
Released: December 19, 1961
Type: Movie
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
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Hest på sommerferie
Title: Hest på sommerferie
Character: Narrator
Released: October 26, 1959
Type: Movie
The milk driver Hans loves his horse Snow White so much that he takes it on holiday to the Danish summer country. Along the way, they are joined by a young American girl, and together they experience Danish culture and nature - and a romantic meeting leads to a wedding. Tourist propaganda inspired by a real event.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Rita Vernon
Released: April 22, 1958
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers that her goal may not be as easily attainable as she had hoped.
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Moonfleet
Title: Moonfleet
Character: Lady Clarista Ashwood
Released: June 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
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Monsieur Ripois
Title: Monsieur Ripois
Character: Norah
Released: September 30, 1954
Type: Movie
While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest conquest, Catherine’s best friend, Patricia, over for dinner. Over the course of the evening, Andre shares his entire romantic history since first coming to London as a young man, including his liaisons with his former boss, a marriage-minded young girl and a kindhearted Frenchwoman.
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Father Brown
Title: Father Brown
Character: Lady Warren
Released: June 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Character: Gwendolen Fairfax
Released: June 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack's wayward brother and is keen on his raffish lifestyle. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest's identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Ann Whitefield
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Young Wives' Tale
Title: Young Wives' Tale
Character: Sabina Pennant
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.
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The Man in the White Suit
Title: The Man in the White Suit
Character: Daphne Birnley
Released: August 7, 1951
Type: Movie
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
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Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Title: Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Character: Susan
Released: April 6, 1951
Type: Movie
A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses as Garou-Garou, a dangerous gangster to attempt to woo her affections, but is arrested and sent to jail. While in jail he annoys the guards by walking in and out of his cell, and keeps persuading Susan to cease her criminal way of life. As fundamentally being an honest and law-abiding citizen, he eventually handles back everything he has stolen, is acquitted by the court, and becomes famous and respected. When he learns that Susan is planning to return to England and start a new life, he decides to confess to her his emotions. However, the couple is interrupted by a sudden rush of journalists. Trying to escape in a building, they get cornered on a corridor, and Léon pushes Susan through a nearby wall. But by doing this, he loses his own wall-walking ability, and the film concludes.
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Flesh and Blood
Title: Flesh and Blood
Character: Wilhelmina Cameron
Released: March 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Title: Kind Hearts and Coronets
Character: Sibella
Released: June 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
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Whisky Galore!
Title: Whisky Galore!
Character: Peggy Macroon
Released: June 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
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The Bad Lord Byron
Title: The Bad Lord Byron
Character: Lady Caroline Lamb
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Title: Saraband for Dead Lovers
Character: Sophie Dorothea
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 Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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The White Unicorn
Title: The White Unicorn
Character: Lottie Smith
Released: October 29, 1947
Type: Movie
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
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The October Man
Title: The October Man
Character: Jenny Carden
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
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The Man Within
Title: The Man Within
Character: Elizabeth
Released: May 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
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A Girl in a Million
Title: A Girl in a Million
Released: October 28, 1946
Type: Movie
A man gets divorced from a nagging wife meets a girl in a million. Or is she?
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They Knew Mr. Knight
Title: They Knew Mr. Knight
Character: Ruth Blake
Released: March 5, 1946
Type: Movie
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
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Frenzy
Title: Frenzy
Character: Christine
Released: February 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
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The Gentle Sex
Title: The Gentle Sex
Character: Betty Miller
Released: May 23, 1943
Type: Movie
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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Save Your Shillings and Smile
Title: Save Your Shillings and Smile
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Tommy Trinder chooses which of the chorus line to take out. The lucky lady is the one who knows all about war savings.
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He Found a Star
Title: He Found a Star
Character: Babe Cavour
Released: September 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A talent agent makes the mistake of becoming too involved with one of his clients.