Janet Suzman

Janet Suzman

Born: February 9, 1939
in Johannesburg, South Africa
Dame Janet Suzman DBE (born 9 February 1939) is a South African and British actress.

Movies for Janet Suzman...

Consecration
Title: Consecration
Character: Mother Superior
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church's account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Literary Agent
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson
Title: Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson
Character: Voice of Tove Jansson
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
The life and work of Tove Jansson, mainly known for creating the Moomins but also a writer and painter.
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Title: Labyrinth
Character: Esclarmonde
Released: November 24, 2012
Type: TV
Jumping back and forth between modern and medieval France, the lives of two women separated by centuries, are united in their search for an ancient artifact.
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Falls the Shadow:  The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Title: Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Character: Herself
Released: May 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to see. Interviews with Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Yvonne Bryceland and others help to illuminate Fugard's remarkable legacy.
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The Real Great Escape
Title: The Real Great Escape
Character: Dorothe Bushell (voice)
Released: April 19, 2012
Type: Movie
For the first time, the true story of the mastermind behind World War II's Great Escape is told by his niece, Lindy Wilson. Squadron Leader Roger Bushell was a young London barrister, an auxiliary pilot and a champion skier when he was shot down and captured early in the war. He escaped three times and, in spite of the Gestapo's threat to shoot him if he ever escaped again, Bushell accepted the role of 'Big X' on his return to the top-security PoW camp, Stalag Luft 111. After 18 months of preparation, one of the greatest escapes of the war took place. Their aim to distract the enemy succeeded, as it was estimated that five million Germans were deployed to recapture the 76 escapees. However, Hitler's rage was uncontainable and he personally ordered a terrible reckoning. (Storyville)
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Title: The Colour of Magic
Character: Ninereeds
Released: March 23, 2008
Type: TV
As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, and begin on a journey across the Disc. Unknown to them, their journey and fate is being decided by the Gods playing a board game the whole time.
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The Shakespeare Sessions
Title: The Shakespeare Sessions
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Major film and television stars re-enact famous scenes from the plays of William Shakespeare .
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Max
Title: Max
Character: Max's Mother
Released: September 10, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
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Title: Manhunt: The Search for the Yorkshire Ripper
Character: Narrator
Released: September 30, 1999
Type: TV
Occurring from the mid-1970s to 1981, the Ripper committed 13 murders. Viewed as ritualistic in nature, they were done with extreme brutality as he mocked the police during their desperate hunt for him. The victims were primiarly prostitutes or poor girls, with a few working girls tossed in. Generally he would hit a victim on the head with a hammer, sexually assault the lady, mutilate her, and then redress/re-arrangement the clothing and cover the corpse with her own coat.
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Title: Trial & Retribution
Released: October 19, 1997
Type: TV
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Lady Matilda William
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Leon The Pig Farmer
Title: Leon The Pig Farmer
Character: Judith Geller
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 Secret Agent
Title: The Secret Agent
Character: Margaret, Duchess of Chester
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.
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Nuns on the Run
Title: Nuns on the Run
Character: Sister Superior
Released: March 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a Nuns' teacher training school.
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Revolutionary Witness
Title: Revolutionary Witness
Character: Theroign de Mericourt
Released: December 31, 1989
Type: Movie
Four monologues by playwright Peter Barnes celebrating the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
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Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Title: Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Released: November 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
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A Dry White Season
Title: A Dry White Season
Character: Susan du Toit
Released: September 20, 1989
Type: Movie
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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Title: Acting
Released: August 28, 1987
Type: TV
A series of workshops led by leading actors on the techniques of acting in film, opera, and on stage
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Dr. Claire Brewster
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: The Singing Detective
Character: Nicola
Released: November 16, 1986
Type: TV
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
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Title: Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Character: Lady Edwina Mountbatten
Released: January 26, 1986
Type: TV
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Viceroy of India shortly after the Second World War in the days leading up to Indian independence.
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Title: Time for Murder
Character: Avon Eve
Released: November 9, 1985
Type: TV
Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no ordinary tales of mystery and suspense. Each has its own twist, ranging from the darkly humorous to the truly macabre.
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The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
Title: The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Released: May 22, 1984
Type: Movie
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course.
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And the Ship Sails On
Title: And the Ship Sails On
Character: Edmea Tutua
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.
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The Draughtsman's Contract
Title: The Draughtsman's Contract
Character: Virginia Herbert
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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Priest of Love
Title: Priest of Love
Character: Frieda Lawrence
Released: October 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
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Title: Escape
Released: September 12, 1980
Type: TV
Escape is an American anthology series that aired on the NBC network from February 11 to April 1, 1973. The show was a production of Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited for Universal Television. It aired on Sunday evenings at 10 p.m. Eastern, following the NBC Mystery Movie.
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Nijinsky
Title: Nijinsky
Character: Emilia Marcus
Released: March 20, 1980
Type: Movie
The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
Title: The House on Garibaldi Street
Character: Hedda
Released: May 28, 1979
Type: Movie
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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Voyage of the Damned
Title: Voyage of the Damned
Character: Leni Strauss
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Title: Clayhanger
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: TV
A coming-of-age story set in the 19th century England about Edwin Clayhanger, a young man who wants to be an architect, but it is expected of him to continue the family's printing business which he accepts for the time being.
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Antony and Cleopatra
Title: Antony and Cleopatra
Character: Cleopatra
Released: January 4, 1975
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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The Black Windmill
Title: The Black Windmill
Character: Alex Tarrant
Released: May 17, 1974
Type: Movie
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
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Miss Nightingale
Title: Miss Nightingale
Character: Miss Nightingale
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.
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Shakespeare or Bust
Title: Shakespeare or Bust
Character: Herself
Released: January 8, 1973
Type: Movie
Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.
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Hedda Gabler
Title: Hedda Gabler
Character: Hedda Gabler
Released: October 20, 1972
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen.
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Title: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Character: Sheila
Released: May 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Title: Nicholas and Alexandra
Character: Alexandra
Released: November 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Lady Macbeth
Released: September 20, 1970
Type: Movie
The Thane of Cawdor plots to become King of Scotland.
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The Three Sisters
Title: The Three Sisters
Character: Masha
Released: January 18, 1970
Type: Movie
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Masha
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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The Wars of the Roses
Title: The Wars of the Roses
Character: Joan la Pucelle
Released: April 8, 1965
Type: Movie
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.