Annie Esmond

Annie Esmond

Born: September 26, 1873
Died: January 4, 1945
in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK

Movies for Annie Esmond...

Let the People Sing
Title: Let the People Sing
Character: Lady Foxfield
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
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Gert and Daisy's Weekend
Title: Gert and Daisy's Weekend
Character: Lady Plumtree
Released: February 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
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Cottage to Let
Title: Cottage to Let
Character: Lady Wrapping Parcels For The Bazaar (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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Saloon Bar
Title: Saloon Bar
Character: Mrs. Truscott
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
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All Hands
Title: All Hands
Character: Café Manageress
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girlfriend thoughtlessly blunders away vital wartime secrets. The consequences prove disastrous when his boat next leaves to cross the English Channel.
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Stolen Life
Title: Stolen Life
Character: Cook
Released: January 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
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His Lordship Regrets
Title: His Lordship Regrets
Character: Lady Kentford
Released: October 31, 1938
Type: Movie
The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
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Save a Little Sunshine
Title: Save a Little Sunshine
Character: Mrs. Melworthy
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Title: The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Character: Lady Caroline Claydon
Released: September 4, 1938
Type: Movie
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
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Murder in the Family
Title: Murder in the Family
Character: Aunt Octavia
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.
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East of Ludgate Hill
Title: East of Ludgate Hill
Character: Gladys Monkton
Released: December 23, 1937
Type: Movie
When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bonds are discovered missing.
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Title: Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Character: Mrs. Caldwell
Released: May 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
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Thunder in the City
Title: Thunder in the City
Character: Lady Challoner
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
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Pearls Bring Tears
Title: Pearls Bring Tears
Character: Mrs. Vane
Released: March 20, 1937
Type: Movie
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
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All That Glitters
Title: All That Glitters
Character: Mrs. Payne-Coade
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.
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The Improper Duchess
Title: The Improper Duchess
Character: Baroness Kamp
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
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Abdul the Damned
Title: Abdul the Damned
Character: Therese's Train Companion
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
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The Silent Passenger
Title: The Silent Passenger
Character: Old Lady Passenger
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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Lend Me Your Husband
Title: Lend Me Your Husband
Character: Mother
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
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The Iron Duke
Title: The Iron Duke
Character: Denise
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The Jewel
Title: The Jewel
Character: Mme. Vanheim
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Title: The Private Life of Henry VIII
Character: The Cook's Wife (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Prince of Arcadia
Title: Prince of Arcadia
Character: The Queen
Released: July 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Mrs. James Tarvin
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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Sally Bishop
Title: Sally Bishop
Character: Landlady
Released: October 17, 1932
Type: Movie
A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
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Men of Tomorrow
Title: Men of Tomorrow
Character: Mrs. Oliphant
Released: September 29, 1932
Type: Movie
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
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Ebb Tide
Title: Ebb Tide
Character: Landlady
Released: February 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
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Ebb Tide
Title: Ebb Tide
Released: February 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
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Service for Ladies
Title: Service for Ladies
Character: Duchess
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
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Stamboul
Title: Stamboul
Character: Nurse
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire
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The Officers' Mess
Title: The Officers' Mess
Character: Mrs. Makepiece
Released: May 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Pritchard
Released: April 20, 1931
Type: Movie
An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.
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To Oblige a Lady
Title: To Oblige a Lady
Character: Mrs. Higgins
Released: February 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.
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Alf's Button
Title: Alf's Button
Character: Mrs.Gaskins
Released: March 24, 1930
Type: Movie
A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
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After the Verdict
Title: After the Verdict
Character: Lady Cardridge
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen
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A Little Bit of Fluff
Title: A Little Bit of Fluff
Released: July 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.
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Tiptoes
Title: Tiptoes
Character: Aunt
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical
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The Sins Ye Do
Title: The Sins Ye Do
Character: Governess
Released: September 30, 1924
Type: Movie
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
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Love, Life and Laughter
Title: Love, Life and Laughter
Character: His Wife
Released: June 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Directed by George Pearson, the film was considered lost for many years until in March 2014 when a copy was discovered in an old Dutch cinema.
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The Passionate Friends
Title: The Passionate Friends
Released: January 15, 1923
Type: Movie
An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
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A Scandal in Bohemia
Title: A Scandal in Bohemia
Character: Maid
Released: April 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
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Innocent
Title: Innocent
Character: Housekeeper
Released: March 1, 1921
Type: Movie
An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the city and makes a living as a novelist. Subsequently, she has an affair with a painter named Amadis de Jocelyn, who later dumps her.
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The Yellow Claw
Title: The Yellow Claw
Character: Denise Ryland
Released: January 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.
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The Man Who Won
Title: The Man Who Won
Character: Mrs. Cooper
Released: December 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.