Myrtle Devenish

Birth : 1912-07-29, Ebbw Vale, Wales, UK

Death : 2007-01-21

Movies

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Postmistress
Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound about a demonic hound. When the American heir arrives to take charge, a family friend calls in Holmes and Watson to get to the heart of the mystery.
The Children Of Dynmouth
Mrs. Blakey
The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the town's residents. At first this behaviour is seen as merely annoying, even comical, until people begin to realise that his purpose may not be as innocent as initially thought.
Brazil
Typist in Jack's Office
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Return to Waterloo
Blind Woman
A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.
L'étincelle
Grany
A beautiful DJ starts a romantic relationship with an older antiquarian. The only problem: she's pregnant and already hitched.
Runners
Lady on Telephone
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
The Crimson Permanent Assurance
A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
Time Bandits
Beryl
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Ladies
Mrs. Jolley
MIRIAM: "Here we are; celebrating a marriage, eating a cake, drinking, standing in a uniform, standing in a canteen ... with a Teasmade and a red red garter ... and I want an explanation." VALERIE: "I want to know why you all resent me." BRENDA: "Because you're not one of us."
The Back Page
Mrs Beale
And a warm welcome to a very cold valley! Charlton Athletic are playing Notts County and things are livening up in the Press Box.
The Seagull
Cook
A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Through the Night
Woman Patient
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.