Rachel Roberts

Rachel Roberts

Born: September 20, 1927
Died: November 26, 1980
in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
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Rachel Roberts (20 September 1927 – 26 November 1980) was a Welsh actress noted for her fervour and passion; Roberts is best remembered for her forthright screen performances in two key films of the 1960s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, in both of which she played the older mistress of the central male character. In Australia, she is remembered for her performance as Mrs Appleyard in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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Under Milk Wood
Title: Under Milk Wood
Character: Mrs. Dai Bread Two (Voice)
Released: April 19, 1992
Type: Movie
A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
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The Wall
Title: The Wall
Character: Regina Kowalska
Released: February 16, 1982
Type: Movie
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Title: Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Character: Mrs. Dangers
Released: February 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
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The Hostage Tower
Title: The Hostage Tower
Character: Sonya
Released: September 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
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The Sorrows of Gin
Title: The Sorrows of Gin
Character: Mrs. Henlein
Released: October 24, 1979
Type: Movie
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.
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When a Stranger Calls
Title: When a Stranger Calls
Character: Dr. Monk
Released: September 28, 1979
Type: Movie
A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.
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Yanks
Title: Yanks
Character: Mrs. Clarrie Moreton
Released: September 1, 1979
Type: Movie
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.
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Foul Play
Title: Foul Play
Character: Delia Darrow / Gerda Casswell
Released: July 14, 1978
Type: Movie
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands
Title: The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands
Character: Clara Mooney
Released: February 28, 1978
Type: Movie
While studying the behavior of birds on one of the western Florida island wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, the Wild family encounters hunters and an island recluse.
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A Circle of Children
Title: A Circle of Children
Character: Helga
Released: March 10, 1977
Type: Movie
A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.
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Title: The Tony Randall Show
Character: Bonnie McClellan
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: TV
Walter Franklin is a somewhat less-than-magisterial Philadelphia judge put upon by an assortment of family and courtroom recidivists.
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Alpha Beta
Title: Alpha Beta
Character: Nora Elliot
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: Movie
E. A. Whitehead adapted the script of Alpha Beta from his own play. Albert Finney is cast as "The Man," while Rachel Roberts plays "The Woman." The rest of the film remains in this pretentious vein, as we watch Finney and Roberts' marriage crumble before our eyes. One suspects that they might have patched things up had they ignored Whitehead's florid prose. Alpha Beta is salvaged dramatically by the dynamic performances of its stars, who far outshine the material.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Title: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Character: Mrs. Appleyard
Released: September 2, 1975
Type: Movie
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
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A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
Title: A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A documentary about the disappearance of school girls on St. Valentine's Day, 1900 at Australia's Hanging Rock.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Title: Murder on the Orient Express
Character: Hildegarde Schmidt
Released: November 22, 1974
Type: Movie
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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Back of Beyond
Title: Back of Beyond
Character: Olwen
Released: November 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest friendship. But they also mean a time to 'put aside childish things.'
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Mrs. Gargery
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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O Lucky Man!
Title: O Lucky Man!
Character: Gloria Rowe / Madame Paillard / Mrs. Richards
Released: March 25, 1973
Type: Movie
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.
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The Belstone Fox
Title: The Belstone Fox
Character: Cathie Smith
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him!
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Baffled!
Title: Baffled!
Character: Mrs. Farraday
Released: December 17, 1972
Type: Movie
Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She leads him to the manor house that appeared in his vision, which in turn leads him into a world of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Kovack must tap into his newfound power to conquer the evil forces at work.
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Wild Rovers
Title: Wild Rovers
Character: Maybell
Released: June 23, 1971
Type: Movie
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
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Doctors' Wives
Title: Doctors' Wives
Character: Della Randolph
Released: February 3, 1971
Type: Movie
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.
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Title: Night Gallery
Character: Rebecca Brigham (segment "Certain Shadows on the Wall")
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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The Reckoning
Title: The Reckoning
Character: Joyce Eglington
Released: January 31, 1970
Type: Movie
Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him – after 37 years – back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police
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Destiny of a Spy
Title: Destiny of a Spy
Character: Megan Thomas
Released: October 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent.
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A Flea In Her Ear
Title: A Flea In Her Ear
Character: Suzanne de Castilian
Released: November 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
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Blithe Spirit
Title: Blithe Spirit
Character: Ruth Condomine
Released: December 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Noel Coward play.
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This Sporting Life
Title: This Sporting Life
Character: Mrs. Margaret Hammond
Released: February 7, 1963
Type: Movie
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
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Girl on Approval
Title: Girl on Approval
Character: Anne Howland
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make a home for her, her future looks bleak.
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A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Title: A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Released: November 6, 1960
Type: Movie
A dramatized account of a Victorian cause célèbre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Title: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Character: Brenda
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
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Our Man in Havana
Title: Our Man in Havana
Character: Prostitute (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1960
Type: Movie
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.
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Title: Our Mutual Friend
Character: Lizzie Hexam
Released: November 7, 1958
Type: TV
Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in 1860s London.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Elsie and Effie Longstaff
Released: April 22, 1957
Type: Movie
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Crowded Day
Title: The Crowded Day
Character: Maggie
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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The Weak and the Wicked
Title: The Weak and the Wicked
Character: Pat
Released: February 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
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The Limping Man
Title: The Limping Man
Character: Barmaid
Released: December 11, 1953
Type: Movie
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.
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Valley of Song
Title: Valley of Song
Character: Bessie Lewis
Released: June 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd. Based on a stage play "Choir Practice".
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Ruth
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.