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The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer (1980)
Character: Granny
The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after allegations were made about him by a pupil. There was still gossip about him in the town. Mr Faulkner teaches Peter a lot about literature and introduces him to poetry and when Peter returns to school the two of them correspond. The friendship between them is threatened when Peter starts going out with Sue who disapproves of him spending time with the old man.
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The Winter Ladies (1979)
Character: Mrs. Adams
When a new arrival, a titled lady no less, arrives to shatter the genteel status quo of the St. Elmo Hotel, the entrenched residents are soon sharpening up their knitting needles for battle.
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The Emperor's New Hat (1977)
Character: Madame Beaumatin
For 51 years, the Comtesse has bought a new hat to celebrate her wedding anniyear, she invites her granddaughter Sylvie to the ceremony.
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Dancing Country (1981)
Character: Becky
The local country dancing team of old-age pensioners is forced to change its style when Jack, its leader, arrives with a new partner, one who is younger and prettier.
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Stolen Hours (1963)
Character: Hospital Sister
A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.
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The Kitchen (1961)
Character: Waitress
In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!
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Towers of Babel (1981)
Character: Mrs. Hopkins
A BAFTA award nominated black comedy about life and death in a London tower block.
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote (1973)
Character: Housekeeper
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1976)
Character: Mrs. Kirby
Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.
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Goodnight Albert (1968)
Character: Mrs. Parker (Gran)
Albert lives with his Grandma, who he thinks is cramping his style. However an incident reveals to him that he is as much dependent on her as she is of him.
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A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado (1981)
Character: Mrs Bone
A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.
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The Rocking Horse Winner (1977)
Character: Nanny
Nigel Rhodes plays a boy who, while riding his wooden rocking horse, can predict which horse will win at the race.
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The Snag (1963)
Character: Madame Emma Mannering
When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic center, only Emma Mannering's corset shop stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead, he's double-crossed.
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Poor Cherry (1967)
Character: Rita
A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.
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A Seaside Story (1986)
Character: Guesthouse Landlady
On a weekend trip to the seaside town of Lyme Regis, two seventeen-year-old boys - Sam with an interest in ecology and Martin with an interest in girls - are the youngest residents (ever) at a guest house run by a highly eccentric old lady.
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Tunes of Glory (1960)
Character: Provost's Wife
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
Character: Hotel Manager's Mother
The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language.
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Scoop (1987)
Character: Granny Boot
Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.
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Staircase (1969)
Character: Matron
An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
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The Teckman Mystery (1954)
Character: Duty Woman
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.
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A Kind of Loving (1962)
Character: Mrs. Brown
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
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The Reckoning (1970)
Character: Marler's Mother
Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.
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84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Character: Bill's Great Aunt
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
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Love Among the Ruins (1976)
Character: Hermione Davis
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
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Say Hello to Yesterday (1971)
Character: Char
Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she meets on a commuter train.
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The Entertainer (1960)
Character: Lady at Pub
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Character: Female Janitor
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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