Dinah Sheridan

Dinah Sheridan

Birth : 1920-09-17,

Death : 2012-11-25

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Dinah Sheridan

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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Herself-Interviewee
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Betty E. Box
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Chancellor Flavia
Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon.
Present Laughter
Liz Essendine
Often regarded as semi-autobiographical, Present Laughter follows a few days in the life of successful and self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine as he prepares to travel for a touring commitment. Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry must deal with interruptions including the numerous women who want to seduce him, placating his long-suffering secretary Monica Reed, avoiding his estranged wife Liz Essendine, being confronted by a crazed young playwright, and overcoming his fear of his own approacing fortieth birthday and impending mid-life crisis.
The Mirror Crack'd
Lady Amanda Ridgeley (‘Murder at Midnight’)
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Alma Mater
Matron
Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbed to find that things have changed and the traditions by which he has always lived and been guided now seem to be obsolete.
The Railway Children
Mrs. Waterbury
After the enforced absence of their father, the three Waterbury children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in several unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.
An Ideal Husband
Lady Chiltern
Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.
Genevieve
Wendy McKim
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
Appointment in London
Eve Canyon
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
Grace Marston
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
The Sound Barrier
Jess Peel
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Where No Vultures Fly
Mary Payton
A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park to protect them.
Highly Dangerous
Train Passenger at Checkpoint (uncredited)
A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.
Blackout
Pat Dale
A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.
No Trace
Linda
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
Paul Temple's Triumph
Steve Temple
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
Dark Secret
Valerie Merryman
A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
The Story of Shirley Yorke
Shirley Yorke
Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.
The Huggetts Abroad
Jane Huggett
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Calling Paul Temple
Steve Temple
Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
The Hills of Donegal
Eileen Hannay
Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).
Murder in Reverse?
Jill Masterick
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
29 Acacia Avenue
Pepper
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
Get Cracking
Mary Pemberton
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.
Salute John Citizen
A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for king & country.
Full Speed Ahead
Joan Barrymore
A film directed by John Hunt
Father Steps Out
Helen Hardcastle
The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her father from the action of a couple of swindlers.
Landslide
Dinah Shaw
A landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be next?
Irish and Proud of It
Moira Flaherty
An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to adulterate branded products.