Rose Alba

Rose Alba

Birth : , Cairo, Egypt

History

Rose Alba was born on February 5, 1918 in Cairo, Egypt as Felicity Mary Devereux. She was an actress, known for Thunderball (1965), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Lord Tramp (1977). She died in December 2005 in Covent Garden, London, England.

Profile

Rose Alba

Movies

Funny Money
Mrs. de Salle
Crime, drama. In Las Vegas, young Barry Nichols inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob and is slashed to death by a limping hood. Later, his girlfriend Cass arrives in London with a stack of stolen credit cards looking for Ben Turtle, a talented pianist whose fingering is famous in the world of credit card crime. Their stormy relationship is hindered by hotel detective Keith Banks and assistant manager Diana Sharman. -- BFI synopsis from http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69480238
City of Women
(uncredited)
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
The Passage
Madame Alba
During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
Foursome
Landlady
Tough Guy Ted searches for his sister Joan in Soho Clubland, and finds himself bedded down with an assortment of characters as a result.
School for Sex
Countess of Burwash
Lord Wingate, aquitted after appearing in court for fraud, starts up a 'finishing school' to teach girls how to extract money from rich men, in return for a percentage of their gains. He enlists the help of the Duchess of Burwood (Alcoholic Aristocrat played by Rose Alba) as a teacher and Hector (Cockney Geezer played by Nosher Powell) as fitness instructor. A probation officer friend supplies the first batch of pupils fresh from Holloway prison via a clapped out old mini bus. Suspicious neighbours and police together with newspaper reports naming the prison girls now hobnobbing in high society results in a raid and new court appearance for Lord Wingate. The Judge sentences him but plots to start up his own 'school for sex'.
Thunderball
Madame Boitier
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
The Switch
Bills secretary
A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.
Eves on Skis
Elizabeth (voice)
Nudists go skiing.
Der goldene Falke
Gertrude di Montefalco