Muriel George

Muriel George

Born: August 29, 1883
Died: October 22, 1965
in Brighton, England, UK
Muriel George was an English singer and film actress who appeared in 55 films between 1932 and 1955, as well as on the variety stage and on radio with her second husband Ernest Butcher.

Movies for Muriel George...

Simon and Laura
Title: Simon and Laura
Character: Grandma
Released: November 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Bickering married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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Encore
Title: Encore
Character: Mrs. Robinson
Released: June 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
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The Dancing Years
Title: The Dancing Years
Character: Hatti
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
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Last Holiday
Title: Last Holiday
Character: Lady Oswington
Released: May 15, 1950
Type: Movie
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
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Bond Street
Title: Bond Street
Character: Maid
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.
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When The Bough Breaks
Title: When The Bough Breaks
Character: 1st Landlady
Released: November 19, 1947
Type: Movie
The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.
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Perfect Strangers
Title: Perfect Strangers
Character: Minnie
Released: October 15, 1945
Type: Movie
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
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I'll Be Your Sweetheart
Title: I'll Be Your Sweetheart
Character: Mrs. Le Brunn
Released: July 30, 1945
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
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For You Alone
Title: For You Alone
Character: Mrs. Johns
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.
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A Place of One's Own
Title: A Place of One's Own
Character: Nurse
Released: March 20, 1945
Type: Movie
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Title: Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Character: Mrs. Fowler
Released: January 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
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The Bells Go Down
Title: The Bells Go Down
Character: Ma Robbins
Released: May 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
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Went the Day Well?
Title: Went the Day Well?
Character: Mrs. Collins
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
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Unpublished Story
Title: Unpublished Story
Character: Landlady
Released: August 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Character: Kitty the Housekeeper
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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Lady Be Kind
Title: Lady Be Kind
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A landlady changes her resentful attitude to her lodger when she realises the value of his work in a munitions factory.
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Go to Blazes
Title: Go to Blazes
Character: Mother
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.
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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Title: Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Character: Mrs. Proudfoot
Released: December 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
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Rush Hour
Title: Rush Hour
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a minimum during "rush hour".
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Cottage to Let
Title: Cottage to Let
Character: Mrs. Trimm
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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Love on the Dole
Title: Love on the Dole
Character: Landlady
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: Bella, the Cook
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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You Will Remember
Title: You Will Remember
Character: Landlady (Manchester)
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
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Freedom Radio
Title: Freedom Radio
Character: Hanna
Released: February 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
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The Briggs Family
Title: The Briggs Family
Character: Mrs. Brokenshaw
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
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21 Days Together
Title: 21 Days Together
Character: Ma
Released: January 7, 1940
Type: Movie
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
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Food for Thought
Title: Food for Thought
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room. The leader of the group has some robust exchanges with a cantankerous ‘Grandma’ (known to the audience at the time as radio character ‘Grandma Buggins’ played by the comedienne Mabel Constanduros).
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Maria Helliwell
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.
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Weddings Are Wonderful
Title: Weddings Are Wonderful
Character: Betty's maid
Released: October 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
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Crackerjack
Title: Crackerjack
Character: Mrs. Humbold
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
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Darts Are Trumps
Title: Darts Are Trumps
Character: Mrs. Drake
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well.
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Doctor Syn
Title: Doctor Syn
Character: Mrs. Waggetts, Pub Owner
Released: August 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
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Song of the Road
Title: Song of the Road
Character: Mrs. Trelawney
Released: August 8, 1937
Type: Movie
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
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Talking Feet
Title: Talking Feet
Character: Mrs. Gumley
Released: July 26, 1937
Type: Movie
An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.
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Busman's Holiday
Title: Busman's Holiday
Character: Mrs. Green
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Title: Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Character: Frau Weber
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Mozart biopic.
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The Happy Family
Title: The Happy Family
Character: Housekeeper
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
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Something Always Happens
Title: Something Always Happens
Character: Mrs. Badger
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
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Nell Gwyn
Title: Nell Gwyn
Character: Meg
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
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My Song for You
Title: My Song for You
Character: Mrs. Newberg
Released: July 30, 1934
Type: Movie
In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.
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Cleaning Up
Title: Cleaning Up
Character: Mrs. Hoggenheim
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Tony Pumpford takes a job selling vacuum cleaners, and in doing so tangles with a chorus girl. He then accidentally ends up in the show whilst demonstrating the cleaner.
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His Lordship
Title: His Lordship
Character: Mrs.Emma Gibbs
Released: June 2, 1932
Type: Movie
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.