Mary Merrall

Mary Merrall

Born: January 5, 1890
Died: August 31, 1976
in Liverpool, England, UK
Mary Merrall ( born Elsie Lloyd; 5 January 1890 - 31 August 1973) was an English actress. She was known for Dead of Night (1945), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) and Love on the Dole (1941). She was married to Franklin Dyall, John Bouch Hissey and Ian Swinley. She died on August 31, 1973 in London, England.

Movies for Mary Merrall...

Title: Justice
Character: Aunt Deborah
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: TV
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
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Title: UFO
Character: Mrs. O'Connor
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: TV
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
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A Sound from the Sea
Title: A Sound from the Sea
Character: Mrs. King
Released: August 17, 1970
Type: Movie
While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife.
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Emma's Time
Title: Emma's Time
Character: Kevin's Mother
Released: May 13, 1970
Type: Movie
After the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon their relationship.
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Futtocks End
Title: Futtocks End
Character: The Aunt
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Entirely silent, with a musical score, sound effects and incoherent mutterings, the story revolves around a weekend gathering at the decaying country home of the eccentric and lewd General Futtock (Ronnie Barker) and the series of saucy mishaps between the staff (Michael Hordern plays the lecherous butler) and his guests.
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Title: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Character: Clara Faringham
Released: September 21, 1969
Type: TV
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series. In the initial episode Hopkirk is murdered during an investigation, but returns as a ghost. Randall is the only main character able to see or hear him, although certain minor characters are also able to do so in various circumstances throughout the series.
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Title: The Expert
Character: Mrs Peters
Released: July 5, 1968
Type: TV
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
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Who Killed the Cat?
Title: Who Killed the Cat?
Character: Janet Bowering
Released: October 7, 1966
Type: Movie
A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
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Bitter Harvest
Title: Bitter Harvest
Character: Aunt Louisa
Released: March 8, 1963
Type: Movie
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
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Title: The Saint
Character: Sophie Yarmouth
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Duchess
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Spare the Rod
Title: Spare the Rod
Character: Miss Fogg
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Georgina
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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The Camp on Blood Island
Title: The Camp on Blood Island
Character: Mrs. Helen Beattie
Released: April 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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Rx Murder
Title: Rx Murder
Character: Miss Bettyhill
Released: February 18, 1958
Type: Movie
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
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Campbell's Kingdom
Title: Campbell's Kingdom
Character: Miss Ruth
Released: September 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
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It's Great to be Young!
Title: It's Great to be Young!
Character: Miss Wyvern, a School Mistress
Released: December 26, 1956
Type: Movie
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an upcoming music festival.
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The Green Buddha
Title: The Green Buddha
Character: Mrs. Rydon-Smith
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
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The Belles of St. Trinian's
Title: The Belles of St. Trinian's
Character: Miss Buckland
Released: September 28, 1954
Type: Movie
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.
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Duel in the Jungle
Title: Duel in the Jungle
Character: Mrs. Henderson
Released: June 30, 1954
Type: Movie
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
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The Weak and the Wicked
Title: The Weak and the Wicked
Character: Mrs Skinner
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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Three's Company
Title: Three's Company
Character: Mrs. Bailey
Released: October 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Compilation of 3 episodes of the TV series "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents ...". "The Surgeon", "Take A Number" and "The Scream".
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The Pickwick Papers
Title: The Pickwick Papers
Character: Grandma Wardle
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
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Meet Me Tonight
Title: Meet Me Tonight
Character: Mrs. Rockett
Released: September 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
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Encore
Title: Encore
Character: Flora Penezzi
Released: June 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
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The Late Edwina Black
Title: The Late Edwina Black
Character: Lady Southdale
Released: March 31, 1951
Type: Movie
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.
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Out of True
Title: Out of True
Character: Granny
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete nervous breakdown and a suicide attempt. It was made as an educational film.
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Trio
Title: Trio
Character: Miss Atkin (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1950
Type: Movie
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
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For Them That Trespass
Title: For Them That Trespass
Character: Mrs. Drew
Released: April 21, 1949
Type: Movie
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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The Three Weird Sisters
Title: The Three Weird Sisters
Character: Isobel Morgan-Vaughan
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Released: February 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Title: They Made Me a Fugitive
Character: Aggie
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Character: Mrs. Nickleby
Released: March 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
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This Man Is Mine
Title: This Man Is Mine
Character: Mrs Jarvis
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
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Pink String and Sealing Wax
Title: Pink String and Sealing Wax
Character: Ellen Sutton
Released: November 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).
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Dead of Night
Title: Dead of Night
Character: Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
Released: September 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
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Squadron Leader X
Title: Squadron Leader X
Character: Miss Thorndike
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
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Love on the Dole
Title: Love on the Dole
Character: Mrs. Hardcastle
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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You Will Remember
Title: You Will Remember
Character: Landlady (London)
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
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Dr. O'Dowd
Title: Dr. O'Dowd
Character: Constantia
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Marius O'Dowd is an Irish doctor who is often drunk. His daughter-in-law Moira dies during a serious operation which O'Dowd is performing. Although O'Dowd is not to blame, his son Stephen suspects that Moira died due to O'Dowd operating while under the influence of alcohol, and accuses him of criminal neglect.
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Men of Steel
Title: Men of Steel
Character: Mrs. Harg
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.