Geraldine McEwan

Geraldine McEwan

Born: May 9, 1932
Died: January 30, 2015
in Old Windsor, England, UK
Geraldine McEwan was an English actress, who had a long career in theatre, television and film. Michael Coveney described her, in a tribute article, as "a great comic stylist, with a syrupy, seductive voice and a forthright, sparkling manner".

Movies for Geraldine McEwan...

A Matter of Loaf and Death
Title: A Matter of Loaf and Death
Character: Miss Thripp (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Wallace and Gromit open a bakery, accidentally getting tied up with a murder mystery in the process. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case by himself.
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Title: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Character: Miss Thripp (voice)
Released: September 4, 2005
Type: Movie
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Miss Marple
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Lady Southdown
Released: September 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
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Carrie's War
Title: Carrie's War
Character: Mrs. Dilys Gotobed
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.
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Pure
Title: Pure
Character: Nanna
Released: September 13, 2002
Type: Movie
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
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The Magdalene Sisters
Title: The Magdalene Sisters
Character: Sister Bridget
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
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Food of Love
Title: Food of Love
Character: Novotna
Released: February 8, 2002
Type: Movie
Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Title: Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: Movie
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
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Contaminated Man
Title: Contaminated Man
Character: Lilian Rodgers
Released: December 17, 2000
Type: Movie
In this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his own. While doing research, Whitman discovers a series of mysterious deaths that seem to follow in the path of Joseph Mueller (Peter Weller), a seemingly ordinary man who works as a security guard. Unknown to Mueller, his body carries a strange contaminant that's deadly to many people, and Whitman is desperate to find Mueller and stop him before he can cause more deaths.
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Love's Labour's Lost
Title: Love's Labour's Lost
Character: Holofernia
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
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Titus
Title: Titus
Character: Nurse
Released: December 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
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The Love Letter
Title: The Love Letter
Character: Miss Scattergoods
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
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Moses
Title: Moses
Character: Mirjam
Released: December 18, 1995
Type: Movie
When Pharaoh Rameses II begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Israelite Moses, called upon by God, leads his people to freedom.
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Not Without My Handbag
Title: Not Without My Handbag
Character: The Aunt
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: Movie
A bizarre, anarchic animation, in which a young girl sees her aunt dragged to hell for missing a payment on the washing machine, only for the undead relative to return from the netherworld to collect her handbag.
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Continental Drift
Title: Continental Drift
Character: (Springing Lenin)
Released: September 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Springing Lenin: An eccentric Scottish spinster greets the collapse of communism by snapping up a statue of Lenin on the cheap and towing it home across a bemused or hostile Europe. Business with Friends: Two members of the British fascist movement bring fraternal greetings to their neo-Nazi counterparts in Berlin. Can't Stop Me Dreaming: Marijke and Pieter were in love. Now it has gone sour. But they still have to finish their George Formby documentary on location in Lancashire
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Title: Mulberry
Character: Rose Farnaby
Released: February 24, 1992
Type: TV
Mulberry was a fantasy situation comedy airing on BBC One in the early 1990s. The creative team behind the programme included writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey. Mulberry ran for two series: the first series of six episodes ran from 24 February to 30 March 1992 and the second series of seven episodes ran from 8 April to 25 May 1993. A third series was planned, but was cancelled before production began. As a result, Mulberry never arrived at its logical conclusion.
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Title: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Character: Mortianna
Released: June 14, 1991
Type: Movie
When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled villagers (and comely Maid Marian), and together they battle to end the evil sheriff's reign of terror.
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Title: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Character: Mother
Released: January 10, 1990
Type: TV
Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.
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Henry V
Title: Henry V
Character: Alice
Released: October 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
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Title: Red Dwarf
Character: Cassandra
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
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Foreign Body
Title: Foreign Body
Character: Lady Ammanford
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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Title: Mapp & Lucia
Released: April 14, 1985
Type: TV
Comedy, set during the 1930s, of social rivalry between two women in a small English town. New arrival Lucia (Geraldine McEwan, as Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas) creates challenges to the established local social dominance of Miss Elizabeth Mapp (Prunella Scales).
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Title: Tears Before Bedtime
Released: March 29, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: The Barchester Chronicles
Released: November 10, 1982
Type: TV
Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope's world of the intriguing machinations of the clerical establishment of Barchester. Backed by the authenticity of the period detail, the portrayal of all the characters accurately conveys the whole range of human emotions within the stories.
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Come Into The Garden Maud
Title: Come Into The Garden Maud
Character: Maud Caragnani
Released: July 7, 1982
Type: Movie
A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.
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L’Elegance
Title: L’Elegance
Character: Miss Mountford
Released: March 3, 1982
Type: Movie
1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks expected of a wealthy woman.
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Title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Released: January 22, 1978
Type: TV
Muriel Spark's classic novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted by Scottish Television into a seven episode television serial for ITV in 1978 that featured Geraldine McEwan in the lead role. From Wikipedia.
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Title: The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Character: Lady Bellaston
Released: August 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 version, starring Albert Finney as the lusty hero, won four Oscars. Joan Collins does a great job as a Wicked Lady style highwaywoman.
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The Littlest Horse Thieves
Title: The Littlest Horse Thieves
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right.
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Separate Tables
Title: Separate Tables
Character: Sibyl Railton-Bell / Anne Shankland
Released: March 15, 1970
Type: Movie
A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
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The Dance of Death
Title: The Dance of Death
Character: Alice
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military life with Edgar, reveals on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, the veritable hell their marriage has been. Edgar, an aging schizoid who refuses to acknowledge his severe illness, struggles to sustain his ferocity and arrogance with an animal disregard for other people.
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The Man Without Papers
Title: The Man Without Papers
Character: Marcella Mortimer
Released: June 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Years ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and without papers in London - will his now-prosperous former friends help him?
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Title: Profiles in Courage
Character: Jesse
Released: November 8, 1964
Type: TV
Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964 to May 9, 1965. The series was based on the recently President John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Profiles in Courage.
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Title: The Wednesday Play
Released: September 30, 1964
Type: TV
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
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Title: Out of This World
Released: June 30, 1962
Type: TV
Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode was introduced by the actor Boris Karloff. Many of the episodes were adaptations of stories by science fiction writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown.
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No Kidding
Title: No Kidding
Character: Catherine Robinson
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
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There Was a Young Lady
Title: There Was a Young Lady
Character: Irene
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.