Fay Compton
Nacimiento : 1894-09-18, West Kensington, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1978-12-12
Historia
From Wikipedia
Fay Compton CBE (18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978) was an English actress from a notable acting lineage; her father was actor/manager Edward Compton; her mother, Virginia Bateman, was a distinguished member of the profession, as were her elder sister, the actress Viola Compton, and her uncles and aunts. Her grandfather was the 19th-century theatrical luminary Henry Compton. Author Compton Mackenzie was her elder brother.
Compton's film work is not as well known as her stage appearances. She appeared in more than forty films between 1914 and 1970. Her most popular performances in films are Odd Man Out (1947), Laughter in Paradise (1951), Orson Welles' Othello (1952), The Haunting (1963) and I Start Counting (1969).
Among her television performances, she appeared in 1965 with Michael Hordern in the television play, Land of My Dreams by Clive Exton. One of her last major roles was as Aunt Ann in the BBC's 1967 television adaptation of The Forsyte Saga. She had a successful career in the radio, television and gramophone recordings.
Mrs. Bennett
An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is the serial killer at large.
Grandma
Narra la historia de Lucille e Yvette, las hijas de un vicario destinado a una aldea tras la fuga de su mujer con un hombre más joven. En la vicaría viven también la madre y la hermana del vicario, dos mujeres amargadas y ruines que se dedican a tratar de ahogar cualquier brote de vida o espontaneidad en las dos jóvenes, convencidas de que cualquier cosa que las aparte de la apariencia modosa y recatada que ellas les imponen será un brote del temperamento frívolo y alocado de su madre y puede conducirlas a la tragedia. Adaptación de una novela de D.H. Lawrence.
Marya, the mother
Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
Mrs. Sanderson
Acompañado de un grupo de personas, un científico se instala en una vieja mansión donde han se han cometido terribles y misteriosos crímenes. Su objetivo es comprobar si siguen produciéndose en el lugar fenómenos extraños. Una de las invitadas es la insegura Eleanor, cuyas habilidades psíquicas le hacen sospechar que de algún modo está conectada con los espíritus que todavía habitan la vieja mansión.
Mother Superior
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Mrs. Crowley
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.
Alice Pascoe
A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.
Gladys Smith
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.
Mrs. Pinkerton
Tras la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), un oficial confederado llega a su pueblo dispuesto a acabar con los abusos y la arbitrariedad del gobernador, un hombre sin escrúpulos y dominado por la avaricia. Esta situación era muy frecuente en los estados del Sur, que fueron ocupados por tropas yanquis al terminar la guerra.
Mme. Brune
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?
Emilia
Cuando se planea un matrimonio secreto entre Othello, un general moro, y Desdemona, la hija del senador Brabantio, su antiguo pretendiente Roderigo se lo toma muy mal. Se alía con Iago, que tiene su propio rencor contra Othello, y los dos conspiran para derribar a Othello. Cuando su primer plan, acusarlo de brujería, fracasa, colocan pruebas destinadas a hacerle creer que Desdemona es infiel.
Agnes Russell
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
Mrs. Christopher
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
Mrs. Culver
Ambientada en la época victoriana, la película cuenta la historia de Adelaide, una joven de buena familia que renuncia a todo para casarse con un artista venido a menos. Cuando su marido muere en un accidente, Adelaide es chantajeada por una despreciable arpía que la acusa de haber matado a su marido.
Mrs. Josser
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Mrs. Barfield
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
Mme. Mantalini
Nicholas Nickleby es un joven inteligente que se ve obligado a proteger a su madre y a su hermana de las malvadas maquinaciones de su tío Ralph. Nicholas sabe tratar hábilmente con amigos y enemigos, pero abandona su círculo de amistades para vengarse de su tío.
Rosie
Irlanda, principios del siglo XX. Johnny McQueen es uno de los militantes más importantes del Sinn Fein, el brazo político del IRA (1905), cuyo objetivo es la independencia de Irlanda. La necesidad de conseguir fondos para financiar la lucha armada lo lleva a elaborar un plan para atracar un banco.
Queen Victoria
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
Lady Worthing
Un norteamericano instalado en Londres detesta Inglaterra, hasta que su hija se enamora del hijo del lord con el que quiere cerrar un acuerdo comercial.
Mrs. Tulliver
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
Countess Helga von Stahl
Johan Strauss es obligado por su padre a abandonar la música. Se enamora de una chica y escribe un vals para una rica condesa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jenny Grey
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
Mrs. Doe
In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
Dorothy Rendell
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
Eileen Kell
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...
Marie de Remy
The Woman
A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.
Ruth Barchester
An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.
Mary Stuart
The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
Margaret Fairfield
Meg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary and Meg, is engaged to Kit Pumphrey, son of the parish rector who refuses to permit his son to marry Sydney when he learns her mother is divorced....
Diana
A sensuous woman trapped in a loveless relationship has an affair with a leading politician which threatens to bring down the government.
Rachel Arbuthnot
A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.
Sophie Barnes
A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.
