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The Last Romantic (1978)
Character: Emily
Gantry lives with his adult daughter, Emily. He is working on a book and she is his assistant. His son, James, comes to visit. Gantry pours the sherry, then conversations start flowing, but Gantry has some unexpected news delivered to him.
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For King and Country: Out There (1963)
Character: Nurse
1915: Determined to do her bit for the country, young Annie Hudd has a burning desire to go to France to help the wounded soldiers but suffers many setbacks before her ambition to become a nurse on the battlefields is realized.
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Knots (1975)
Character: The pianist
A touring company of actors arriving at a theatre, rehearsing and preparing a performance of a revue based on the book 'Knots' by R.D. Laing, devised by Edward Petherbridge
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The Mallen Curse (1980)
Character: Anna Brigmore
The fourth and final instalment of the Mallen family saga. Barbara, rejected by Michael, enters into a loveless marriage with a son of the Benshams, who now own Squire Thomas' former home, High Banks. Meanwhile, Mr Bensham proposes to Anna Brigmore, Barbara's former governess, who has a burning ambition to become mistress of the house.
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The Mallen Secret (2008)
Character: Anna Bridgmore
Movie version of The Mallen Secret. Edited together from the episodes of The Mallens.
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The Mallens (1979)
Character: Anna Brigmore
Adaptation of the Mallen series of novels by Catherine Cookson.
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1978)
Character: Elena
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.
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Life After Death (1982)
Character: Josie
"We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half." Meg struggles with the sudden death of her husband.
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Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man (1978)
Character: Narrator
Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma.
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Miss A and Miss M (1983)
Character: Adult Lizzie (Narration)
Young Lizzie Cole and her newly widowed mother go to stay in the country at a small guesthouse occupied by spinsters, retired schoolmasters and young schoolmistresses. Lizzie becomes quite fond of two particular schoolmistresses who live together in a small cottage. Their lifestyle and living arrangement is a constant source of interest and challenge for Lizzie. However, what she ends up experiencing is beyond the comprehension of a young girl. The story of Miss A And Miss M is a very sensitively performed portrayal of the boundaries of love and friendship.
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The Mallen Streak (2003)
Character: N/A
The first part of the Mallen family saga. Thomas Mallen, the Squire of High Banks Hall, fathers many illegitimate sons, each of whom inherit a distinctive streak of white hair. Forced to sell the Hall, Thomas moves to humbler surroundings, taking with him his wards, Barbara and Constance, and their governess, Anna Brigmore. The young girls find romance with the Radlet brothers, one of whom, Donald, is acknowledged by Thomas as his bastard son.
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For Elsie (2012)
Character: Mama Kilov
Glenn is a disillusioned piano teacher, who once aspired to be a concert pianist. He is moving back to his parents house and is on the brink of giving up the piano for good when Kilov, a Russian gangster, offers him a unique opportunity: £10,000 if Glenn teaches his daughter Beethoven's "Fur Elise"... in a day.
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Character: Angela Berenson
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
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The Idol (1966)
Character: 2nd Woman at Party
A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.
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Les Misérables (1978)
Character: Mme Thénardier
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Scoop (2006)
Character: Mrs. Quincy
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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The Magic Christian (1969)
Character: Hon. Esther Grand
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
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Coup! (2006)
Character: Margaret Thatcher
Dramatisation of the abortive real-life attempt by Simon Mann to organise a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004. The case achieved notoriety because one of the financial backers of the project was Sir Mark Thatcher, son of British ex-PM 'Margaret Thatcher'.
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Yanks (1979)
Character: Golfing friend
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.
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Mary Anning (2018)
Character: Molly Anning
A woman hunts for fossils and makes a big discovery. But she doesn't get credit again.
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The Lie (1970)
Character: Esther
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
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Second Childhood (1966)
Character: Dr. Odile Keppler
Charles Dennistoun, a 60-year-old contestant on 'You Bet a Million' - a quiz show for millionaires - wins the jackpot prize, a course in rejuvenation. But his friends and family have mixed feeling, and the repercussions have blackly comic effects on all concerned.
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The Trygon Factor (1966)
Character: Nun
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Character: Rowing Wife
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
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Return of the Jedi (1983)
Character: Mon Mothma
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor.
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