Joan Ellacott

Nacimiento : 1920-02-15, London, England, UK

Muerte : 2007-01-04

Películas

Duel of Hearts
Costume Design
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
El espíritu de Montecarlo
Costume Design
Emilie y su sobrina viajan a Montecarlo, donde la joven se ve obligada a contraer matrimonio con un príncipe. Sin embrago, la revelación de un oscuro secreto hará que la boda no llegue a celebrarse.
Amor en el bosque
Costume Design
La joven Panthea Vyne se enamora de una apuesto bandolero que la salva de su brutal marido, al que mata en un duelo justo. Más tarde, cuando Carlos II de Inglaterra es restaurado en el trono, ella va a la Corte, pero allí se convierte en enemiga de la ex amante del rey, lo que pondrá su vida en peligro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
Costume Design
Summoned back to Gallifrey, the Doctor is framed for the assassination of the Time Lord President. To prove his innocence, he must stand for election himself, uncover the traitor in the Time Lord High Council, fight a hooded killer in a nightmare cyberspace world of his enemy's devising and battle against an old foe now out to destroy the Time Lords: The Master.
A Stitch in Time
Costume Design
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
Carry On Cabby
Costume Design
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!
Nurse on Wheels
Costume Design
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
In the Doghouse
Costume Design
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
Raising the Wind
Costume Design
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
No Kidding
Costume Design
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
Objetivo: Banco de Inglaterra
Costume Design
Un amargado coronel del ejército inglés, ya retirado, reúne a un grupo de siete compañeros, también jubilados, con la esperanza de ejecutar con precisión militar un atraco a un banco. (FILMAFFINITY)
De repente, el último verano
Costume Design
En la Nueva Orleans de 1937, una rica viuda, la señora Venable, ofrece al doctor Cukrowicz los fondos para crear un hospital a condición de que practique una lobotomía a su sobrina Catherine. La señora Venable se encuentra perturbada por la reciente muerte en Europa de su hijo Sebastian, con quien solía viajar todos los veranos, salvo el último, en el que Sebastian prefirió llevar como acompañante a su prima Catherine.
Las pícaras doncellas
Costume Design
Comedia picarona sobre las peripecias de Michael Craig y la hija de su jefe.
The Captain's Table
Costume Design
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
Floods of Fear
Costume Design
A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.
Carry On Sergeant
Costume Design
Fall in for the first ever film in the highly successful Carry On comedy series—now an acclaimed British institution. Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey are the prankish misfits who become the hilarious bane of Army Officers existence when he makes a bet he will turn them into ‘Star Squad’ Award soldiers—or bust!
El valle de las mil colinas
Costume Design
Alicia Lang llega a Kenia para empezar una nueva vida con un marido al que no conoce, pues sólo ha mantenido con él una correspondencia de carácter epistolar. Él trabaja de guardián en una gran reserva animal. En su largo viaje hasta la reserva, Alicia vivirá grandes aventuras. (FILMAFFINITY)
La dinastía del petróleo
Costume Design
Bruce Campbell decide trasladarse a Canadá cuando se entera de que a su abuelo le queda poco tiempo de vida. Llega allí con la clara idea de hacerse cargo de la herencia que recibirá cuando él falte. Pero los lugareños no tienen ninguna prisa por conocerlo, pues no sienten simpatía por el abuelo ya que creen que en su tierras había petróleo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Across the Bridge
Costume Design
In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
High Tide at Noon
Costume Design
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel (Patrick McGoohan), the steadfast friend (Michael Craig) and the poetry-quoting newcomer (William Sylvester). As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.
Jumping for Joy
Costume Designer
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.
Mad About Men
Costume Design
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
Fast and Loose
Costume Design
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
Personal Affair
Costume Supervisor
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
Curtain Up
Costume Design
In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.
Cita con Venus
Costume Supervisor
El 10 de Julio de 1940 los nazis invaden Amorel, una estrátegica isla británica. La ocupación causa gran consternación al ministro de agricultura, ya que en la pequeña isla se encuentra ”Venus”, una vaca de extraordinario pedigree y de gran valor energético. El ministro presiona a la oficina de guerra para que intervenga en la recuperación del preciado animal.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Costume Design
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Don't Ever Leave Me
Costume Design
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
Helter Skelter
Costume Design
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Portrait from Life
Costume Design
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
Snowbound
Costume Design
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
Easy Money
Costume Design
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins