Phyllis Morris

Phyllis Morris

Born: July 18, 1893
Died: February 9, 1982
in Walthamstow, London, England, UK

Movies for Phyllis Morris...

The Devil's Disciple
Title: The Devil's Disciple
Character: Wife of Titus
Released: August 20, 1959
Type: Movie
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
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Violent Playground
Title: Violent Playground
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
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That's an Order
Title: That's an Order
Character: Mrs. Dillwater
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Children's comedy about an inefficient grocer's boy and his passion for eating.
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The Embezzler
Title: The Embezzler
Character: Mrs. Paulson
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
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Adventure in the Hopfields
Title: Adventure in the Hopfields
Character: Mrs. Bligh
Released: June 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
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Top Secret
Title: Top Secret
Character: Mrs. Tweedy
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
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Mandy
Title: Mandy
Character: Mrs Tucker
Released: July 29, 1952
Type: Movie
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Title: The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Character: Tea Woman (Uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
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Kind Lady
Title: Kind Lady
Character: Dora
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.
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Three Came Home
Title: Three Came Home
Character: Sister Rose
Released: February 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
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That Forsyte Woman
Title: That Forsyte Woman
Character: Julia Forsyte Small
Released: November 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
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The Secret Of St. Ives
Title: The Secret Of St. Ives
Character: Annie Gilchrist
Released: June 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
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The Fabulous Fraud
Title: The Fabulous Fraud
Character: Rich Woman
Released: August 28, 1948
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.
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Julia Misbehaves
Title: Julia Misbehaves
Character: Daisy
Released: August 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
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My Own True Love
Title: My Own True Love
Character: Mrs. Peach
Released: July 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
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What's the Next Job?
Title: What's the Next Job?
Character: Mrs. Jackman
Released: June 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.
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Read All About It
Title: Read All About It
Character: Matron
Released: April 8, 1945
Type: Movie
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
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The Adventures of Tartu
Title: The Adventures of Tartu
Character: Anna Palacek
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Title: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Character: Pebble
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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I Thank You
Title: I Thank You
Character: Miss Pizer
Released: October 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
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Miss Knowall
Title: Miss Knowall
Character: Mrs. Williams
Released: December 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.
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Salvage with a Smile
Title: Salvage with a Smile
Character: Miss Green
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war effort.
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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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On The Night Of The Fire
Title: On The Night Of The Fire
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Title: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Character: Mlle. Pauline
Released: September 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Irate Bridge Player (Uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
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Lord Edgware Dies
Title: Lord Edgware Dies
Character: Ellis
Released: July 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?