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Strife (1965)
Character: Mrs. Rous
A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.
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Old Mother Riley at Home (1945)
Character: Mrs. Ginochie
Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.
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Meet Sexton Blake (1945)
Character: Mrs. Baird
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
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Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
Character: Aunt Hetty
Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find love in the form of aspiring songwriter Tom (Hal Thompson). But their romance is threatened and nearly destroyed by the jealous star actress of the local pantomime company. However, the young lovers move on to bigger and better things after winning a London West End theatre contract.
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Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora (1949)
Character: Aunt Nora
An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill and refuses entry, raising suspicions about her whereabouts.
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The Bond (1965)
Character: Gran
Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
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A Place to Die (1973)
Character: Old Woman
Doctor Bruce Nelson takes over the medical practice of a village general-practitioner. Upon arriving in their new home, the doctor and his wife, Tessa, receive a very warm welcome from all the villagers. Tessa is at first flattered by the villagers' constant fawning and gifts, but soon becomes wary of their strange ways, and begins to suspect there is something evil in the village.
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Adam and Evelyne (1949)
Character: Theatre Barmaid (uncredited)
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
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My Brother Jonathan (1948)
Character: Factory Worker
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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Trouble Brewing (1939)
Character: Mrs. Hopkins
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
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Emma (1948)
Character: Mrs. Ford
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightley.
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Waterfront (1950)
Character: Mrs. Simon (voice) (uncredited)
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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The Raging Moon (1971)
Character: Wedding Guest
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
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The Dark Tower (1943)
Character: Eve Wainwright (as Elsie Wagstaffe)
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
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John Halifax (1938)
Character: Jael
Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.
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Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Character: Auntie Dorothy
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
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The Snake Woman (1961)
Character: Aggie Harker
A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.
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Headline (1943)
Character: Mrs. Daly (uncredited)
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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You Pay Your Money (1957)
Character: Ada Seymour
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Character: Wild One
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
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Cotton Queen (1937)
Character: Emily
The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
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Barnacle Bill (1957)
Character: Mrs. Gray
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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Appointment with Crime (1946)
Character: Mrs. Wilkins
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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Trottie True (1949)
Character: Dependant Relative (uncredited)
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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The Interrupted Journey (1949)
Character: Wilding's maid
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
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Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
Character: Mrs. Catherick
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
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The End of the Affair (1955)
Character: Bendrix Landlady
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
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