Anna Massey

Anna Massey

Born: August 11, 1937
Died: July 3, 2011
in Thakeham, West Sussex, England, UK
Anna Raymond Massey CBE (11 August 1937 - 3 July 2011) was an English stage, screen, and television actress. She was the daughter of Hollywood actor Raymond Massey.

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Psycho Tom
Title: Psycho Tom
Character: Helen Stephens
Released: November 6, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Moving On
Character: Bella
Released: May 18, 2009
Type: TV
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
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Affinity
Title: Affinity
Character: Miss Haxby
Released: December 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium.
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Title: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Character: Mrs. D'Urberville
Released: September 14, 2008
Type: TV
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
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The Oxford Murders
Title: The Oxford Murders
Character: Julia Eagleton
Released: January 18, 2008
Type: Movie
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
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Title: Oliver Twist
Released: December 18, 2007
Type: TV
Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse, where the cruel Mr. Bumble oversees children tormented by starvation and suffering. When Oliver dares to ask for more gruel, he finds himself cast out and forced to make his own way in the world...
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Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mrs. Bedwin
Released: December 18, 2007
Type: TV
Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse, where the cruel Mr. Bumble oversees children tormented by starvation and suffering. When Oliver dares to ask for more gruel, he finds himself cast out and forced to make his own way in the world...
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Title: Kingdom
Character: Winifred
Released: April 22, 2007
Type: TV
Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance. The series also starred Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Karl Davies, Phyllida Law and Tony Slattery. The first series of six one-hour episodes was aired in 2007 and averaged six million viewers per week. Despite a mid-series ratings dip, the executive chairman of ITV praised the programme and ordered a second series, which was filmed in 2007 and broadcast in January and February 2008. Filming on the third series ran from July to September 2008 for broadcast from 7 June 2009. Stephen Fry announced on his blog in October 2009 that ITV was cancelling the series, which was later confirmed by the channel, which said that given tighter budgets, more expensive productions were being cut.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Prof. Margaret Gold
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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The Gigolos
Title: The Gigolos
Character: Edwina
Released: April 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Sacha is an aging, well-established London 'male escort' with a select clientèle of weekly socialite ladies, such as baroness James, who expect an impeccable service he can only provide thanks to his in-living 'orderly', handsome 'clever Trevor', who moonlights as nude arts class model. Ben is a rising novice, who seeks their coaching. When Sasha makes a bad fall, Trevor must cover during his recovery, but jealous Sasha is far from grateful.
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Pinochet in Suburbia
Title: Pinochet in Suburbia
Character: Baroness Thatcher
Released: March 26, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected Labour government is initially amenable, and soon Pinochet is under house arrest (albeit in a detached house in leafy suburbia) and awaiting extradition to Spain. However, Amnesty are up against the complexities of British law, the vacillations of Home Secretary Jack Straw, Pinochet's former ally Margaret Thatcher - and the Senator's own vast reserves of cunning.
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Title: A Good Murder
Released: March 13, 2006
Type: TV
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A Good Murder
Title: A Good Murder
Character: Phyllis
Released: March 13, 2006
Type: Movie
An illegal immigrant on the run from a Russian mafia boss, falls for an artist. When he discovers her family home is worth millions, he hatches a plot to get hold of the deeds.
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Title: Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Character: Mrs. Arbuthnot
Released: November 25, 2005
Type: Movie
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
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Title: The Robinsons
Released: May 5, 2005
Type: TV
The show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson, who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink his life.
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Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Title: Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Character: Old Agatha Christie
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: Movie
A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.
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Belonging
Title: Belonging
Character: Brenda
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly quit her job -- enjoys looking after them. But when Jacob disappears one day, Jess' life falls apart, and she must learn to cope with things on her own in this touching drama.
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The Machinist
Title: The Machinist
Character: Mrs. Shike
Released: July 2, 2004
Type: Movie
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
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Title: He Knew He Was Right
Character: Miss Stanbury
Released: April 18, 2004
Type: TV
He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was Right. It was directed by Tom Vaughan.
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Title: Strange
Released: May 31, 2003
Type: TV
The world of John Strange is no ordinary place - full of malevolent demons that must be stopped from wreaking havoc upon the Earth. In his quest he is joined by nurse Jude Atkins, computer whiz Toby and Kevin, a man who can pick up on strange vibes. But the mysterious Canon Black remains a thorn in John's side, fervent in his efforts to prove the non-existence of anything remotely demonic or paranormal...
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Possession
Title: Possession
Character: Lady Bailey
Released: August 16, 2002
Type: Movie
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
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An Angel for May
Title: An Angel for May
Character: Rosie
Released: August 10, 2002
Type: Movie
When Tom accidentally travels back in time through a fireplace in a ruined farmhouse he meets May, an orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his friends' fate and his own, he will try to reorder the events and change their history.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Character: Miss Laetitia Prism
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
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Room to Rent
Title: Room to Rent
Character: Sarah Stevenson
Released: June 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.
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Dark Blue World
Title: Dark Blue World
Character: English Teacher
Released: May 17, 2001
Type: Movie
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.
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The Story of 'Frenzy'
Title: The Story of 'Frenzy'
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.
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The Sleeper
Title: The Sleeper
Character: Lillian
Released: December 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are considering selling the farm where she has known some of the happiest times of her life. Violet's control is not only threatened by their decision, but also by the sudden reappearance of someone from her past whom she meets at a local spiritualists club. Someone who has the potential to resurrect a long buried secret as well expose her current plot to put a stop to the sale of the farm. When Violet takes the opportunity to silence this person, she doesn't consider that enemies have friends...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Character: Gertrude Bell
Released: September 20, 2000
Type: Movie
In the nineteenth film in the series, in May 1919, Indy is working as a translator at the historic Paris Peace Conference. He meets up with T.E. Lawrence once more, but finds his ideals have changed a lot since the start of the war. Indy then decides to finally head home to Princeton - even though it means having to face his father. He gets reacquainted with his childhood friend Paul Robeson, who becomes the target of racism when they visit New York City.
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Come and Go
Title: Come and Go
Character: Vi
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's short play from 1965. Three women meet on a bench; they reminisce about their old school days and whisper terrible secrets.
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Mad Cows
Title: Mad Cows
Character: Dwina Phelps
Released: October 29, 1999
Type: Movie
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
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Captain Jack
Title: Captain Jack
Character: Phoebe
Released: May 28, 1999
Type: Movie
A sea captain with a vessel not deemed sea worthy by the ship inspectors assembles a motley crew to sail along the path of Captain Scoresby, a sea captain who sailed from Whitby in northern England to the Arctic in 1791. His crew includes bickering sisters, an Australian hitchhiker who is hiding from his girl friends, and the seaman's confidante who runs a local trailer park. Putting the ship to sea, the group is pursued by the authorities.
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Déjà Vu
Title: Déjà Vu
Character: Fern Stoner
Released: April 22, 1998
Type: Movie
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
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Title: A Respectable Trade
Released: April 19, 1998
Type: TV
A four-part drama, set against the background of the English slave trade and adapted by Philippa Gregory from her novel.
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Title: A Respectable Trade
Character: Sarah Cole
Released: April 19, 1998
Type: TV
A four-part drama, set against the background of the English slave trade and adapted by Philippa Gregory from her novel.
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Title: Animated World Faiths
Character: Marie (voice)
Released: January 13, 1998
Type: TV
Animated World Faiths tells the stories of the world's major faiths and their founders. Gloriously animated in studios in India, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the UK, these programmes have been produced by a team of the worlds best childrens television producers.
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Title: Arthouse
Character: Self
Released: October 26, 1997
Type: TV
Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.
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The Slab Boys
Title: The Slab Boys
Character: Miss Elsie Walkinshaw
Released: August 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work
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Title: Ruby
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Honoria Lyddiard
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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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Brenda Packard
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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A Very British Psycho
Title: A Very British Psycho
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A documentary film examining Michael Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom," the controversy surrounding its release, and the life of its screenwriter, Leo Marks.
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Driftwood
Title: Driftwood
Character: Mother
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that makes her forget her loneliness and she decides to therefore lie about their situation... She says that they are situated on an island, where no one can reach them. From now, his life lies in her hands.
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Sweet Angel Mine
Title: Sweet Angel Mine
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: Movie
Paul, a young man from London, arrives in the small Nova Scotia town of Milestone, where his long lost father was last seen years earlier. Paul is eager to find out what brought his father to this remote community. He meets Rauchine, a young, beautiful and unaffected girl who lives with her unstable mother and domineering grandmother on a nearby island, who is eking out a harsh and isolated living. Paul finds himself enmeshed in a web of jealousy, bitterness and fear as his attraction to Rauchine begins to grow. After a failed attempt to leave the island with Paul, Rauchine must make a crucial decision and break the cycle of violence and death that has marked her life.
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Haunted
Title: Haunted
Character: Nanny Tess Webb
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: Movie
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
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Angels and Insects
Title: Angels and Insects
Character: Miss Mead
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugenia begin a torrid romance, but as the couple become closer, the young scientist begins to realize that dark, disturbing things are happening behind the closed doors of the Alabaster manor.
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The Grotesque
Title: The Grotesque
Character: Mrs. Giblet
Released: September 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides Lady Harriet with the attention she's been missing and then seduces Sidney. Did he have a role in Sidney's disappearance as well?
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The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf
Title: The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf
Character: Virginia Woolf (voice)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A portrait of Virginia Woolf, including a recreation of the furor around the 1910 and 1912 post-Impressionist exhibits, documentation of the Woolfs' contribution to the creation of the League of Nations, the recently discovered letters of Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, and the actual 1940 Gestapo arrest list that shows the Nazis' intention to arrest Leonard and Virginia Woolf. With archival footage, paintings of the period, and family photos of a Victorian childhood of both beauty and abuse, the film interweaves the personal story of Virginia’s life and loves with the turbulent times she lived in. Includes interviews with Woolf's acquaintances and relatives; and readings of her works.
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Murder in Mind
Title: Murder in Mind
Character: Rosemary
Released: October 2, 1994
Type: Movie
A body is found face down in a tank. Detective Inspector Iverson, investigating what seems like a routine case of suicide, becomes involved with the mesmerizing psychotherapist who was helping the dead woman find her true self. Gradually their roles are reversed as her probing uncovers the detective's own deeper motives and needs, until the knife-edge between suicide and murder is exposed.
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Title: Nice Day at the Office
Released: September 26, 1994
Type: TV
Nice Day at the Office is a British sitcom starring Timothy Spall, John Sessions and David Haig as put-upon and frustrated employees of a large company.
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Title: The Return of the Psammead
Character: Aunt Marchmont
Released: January 6, 1993
Type: TV
Four children encounter the magic powers of Psammead, the sand fairy.
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Title: The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Character: Mrs. Tittlemouse (voice)
Released: May 13, 1992
Type: TV
Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.
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Emily's Ghost
Title: Emily's Ghost
Character: Miss Rabstock
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and begins to see the ghost of another girl.
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Impromptu
Title: Impromptu
Character: George Sand's Mother
Released: April 12, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
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The Man from the Pru
Title: The Man from the Pru
Character: Julia Wallace
Released: June 30, 1990
Type: Movie
The 20 January 1931 slaying of Julia Wallace remains unsolved, despite an ongoing stream of investigative writers giving an impression that a solution to the crime has been found through a surfeit of working hypotheses.
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Title: Chillers
Character: Kate Greeves
Released: April 14, 1990
Type: TV
Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature.
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Mountains of the Moon
Title: Mountains of the Moon
Character: Mrs. Arundell
Released: February 16, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Title: Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Character: Edith
Released: September 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.
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Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Miss Pross
Released: May 21, 1989
Type: TV
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: April 16, 1989
Type: TV
Around the World in 80 Days is a 1989 three-part television Eastmancolor miniseries originally broadcast on NBC. The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. The teleplay by John Gay is based on the Jules Verne novel of the same title. Starring Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg, Eric Idle as Passepartout, Julia Nickson as Princess Aouda, and Peter Ustinov as Detective Fix, the miniseries featured multiple cameo appearances, including Patrick Macnee, Simon Ward, and Christopher Lee as members of the Reform Club, and Robert Morley, who had a cameo in the 1956 film adaptation, and Roddy McDowall appear as officials of the Bank of England. Other familiar faces, credited as guest stars and in more substantial roles, include John Hillerman, Jack Klugman, Darren McGavin, Henry Gibson and John Mills. The heroes travel a slightly different route than in the book, and the script makes several contemporary celebrities part of the story who were not mentioned in the book, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Pasteur, Jesse James, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Queen Victoria.
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The Tall Guy
Title: The Tall Guy
Character: Mary
Released: February 1, 1989
Type: Movie
An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Miss Pebmarsh
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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The Color of the Wind
Title: The Color of the Wind
Character: Norma
Released: November 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an epistolary relationship with Paul, the author.
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Tears in the Rain
Title: Tears in the Rain
Character: Lady Emily
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrives in London, Lord Bredon denies ever having known her mother.
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A Hazard of Hearts
Title: A Hazard of Hearts
Character: Eudora
Released: December 27, 1987
Type: Movie
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
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Title: Daytime Live
Released: October 21, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Lady Emily Balcombe
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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Season's Greetings
Title: Season's Greetings
Character: Rachel
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes various awkward turns and ends with one of the guests leaving sooner than they thought. Alan Ayckbourn's stage play adapted for BBC TV, 1986
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Foreign Body
Title: Foreign Body
Character: Miss Furze
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
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Hotel du Lac
Title: Hotel du Lac
Character: Edith Hope
Released: March 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Hotel du Lac, a screenplay version of the Booker prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner, starring Anna Massey, was released in 1986 as an episode of the BBC's "Screen Two" series.
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The McGuffin
Title: The McGuffin
Character: Nina
Released: January 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.
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The Day After the Fair
Title: The Day After the Fair
Character: Letty
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on the short story by Thomas Hardy.
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Sacred Hearts
Title: Sacred Hearts
Character: Sister Thomas
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Betsy
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
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The Little Drummer Girl
Title: The Little Drummer Girl
Character: Chairlady
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
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Sakharov
Title: Sakharov
Character: Klavdia
Released: June 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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Another Country
Title: Another Country
Character: Imogen Bennett
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.
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Moving on the Edge
Title: Moving on the Edge
Character: Radio voice
Released: March 6, 1984
Type: Movie
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
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Journey into the Shadows: Portrait of Gwen John 1876-1939
Title: Journey into the Shadows: Portrait of Gwen John 1876-1939
Character: Gwen John
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Moving out from under the shadow of her artist brother Augustus John, Gwen John moved to Paris in 1903, working as an artist's model until becoming the mistress of famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. After Rodin's death, she concentrated on her work as an artist, rivalling her brother's reputation with her own expressive portraits.
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The Chain
Title: The Chain
Character: Betty
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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Title: Mansfield Park
Character: Mrs. Norris
Released: November 6, 1983
Type: TV
Drama series based on the novel by Jane Austen. Mansfield Park is the magnificient country residence of Sir Thomas Bertram and his family. It is here that their poor relation Fanny Price is brought up. Never allowed to forget her good fortune, Fanny is ignored by her cousins, with the exception of Edmund, who alone treats her with care and affection. But will she ever be able to win a valued place in the household and the heart of the man of her dreams?
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The Critic
Title: The Critic
Character: Tilburina
Released: August 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, The Spanish Armada, confident that he has written a great play.
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I Remember Nelson
Title: I Remember Nelson
Character: Lady Frances Nelson
Released: April 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story through the narratives of those who knew him best.
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The Cherry Orchard
Title: The Cherry Orchard
Character: Charlotte
Released: October 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a walthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherrt orchard and dividing the estate into plats that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
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Sweet William
Title: Sweet William
Character: Edna McClusky
Released: April 11, 1980
Type: Movie
William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
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A Little Romance
Title: A Little Romance
Character: Ms. Siegel
Released: April 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Irene Wrzaszcyzk
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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Afternoon Off
Title: Afternoon Off
Character: Coffee Shop Owner
Released: February 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
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The Corn Is Green
Title: The Corn Is Green
Character: Miss Ronberry
Released: January 29, 1979
Type: Movie
A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.
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Title: Rebecca
Character: Mrs Danvers
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: TV
Adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel.
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You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
Title: You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
Character: Jemima
Released: January 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Actress attended by homosexual dresser.
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Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Released: January 22, 1978
Type: TV
Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his act finally sets in, Henchard swears he will not touch alcohol for twenty-one years. Through hard work and acumen, he becomes rich, respected, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. But eighteen years after his fateful oath, his wife and daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, return to Casterbridge, and his fortunes steadily decline.
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Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Character: Lucetta Farfrae/Templeman
Released: January 22, 1978
Type: TV
Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his act finally sets in, Henchard swears he will not touch alcohol for twenty-one years. Through hard work and acumen, he becomes rich, respected, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. But eighteen years after his fateful oath, his wife and daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, return to Casterbridge, and his fortunes steadily decline.
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Title: Hazell
Released: January 16, 1978
Type: TV
Hazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private detective named James Hazell.
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The Love of a Good Woman
Title: The Love of a Good Woman
Character: Isabella Ridout
Released: October 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Isabella and Henry were childhood sweethearts. Isabella dreams of the arrival of a vulgar woman named Emily.
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Title: The Pallisers
Released: January 19, 1974
Type: TV
This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels .
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A Doll's House
Title: A Doll's House
Character: Kristine Linde
Released: April 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
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The Vault of Horror
Title: The Vault of Horror
Character: Donna Rogers (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Released: March 16, 1973
Type: Movie
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
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Dead of Night: A Woman Sobbing
Title: Dead of Night: A Woman Sobbing
Character: Jane Pullar
Released: December 17, 1972
Type: Movie
Jane is an discontented middle-class wife and mother. One night in her bedroom she hears a woman crying, though her husband hears nothing. Is it a symptom of her depression or is her home haunted? In her attempts to discover the truth she becomes increasingly paranoid.
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Title: Dead of Night
Released: November 5, 1972
Type: TV
Dead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—"The Exorcism", "Return Flight", and "A Woman Sobbing"—are known to survive in the BBC's archives. Another programme made by the Dead of Night production team under Innes Lloyd, The Stone Tape, intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner. BBC Four rebroadcast "The Exorcism" on 22 December 2007.
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Frenzy
Title: Frenzy
Character: Barbara Jane 'Babs' Milligan
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
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The Looking Glass War
Title: The Looking Glass War
Character: Avery's Wife
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
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David Copperfield
Title: David Copperfield
Character: Jane Murdstone
Released: December 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
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De Sade
Title: De Sade
Character: Renée de Montreuil
Released: August 27, 1969
Type: Movie
The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.
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Light the Blue Touch Paper
Title: Light the Blue Touch Paper
Released: September 24, 1966
Type: Movie
Armchair Theatre episode released under the Armchair Theatre Archive banner in 2019
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Title: Bunny Lake Is Missing
Character: Elvira Smollett
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Titania
Released: June 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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Peeping Tom
Title: Peeping Tom
Character: Helen Stephens
Released: May 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
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Gideon's Day
Title: Gideon's Day
Character: Sally Gideon
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.