Shelagh Fraser
Nacimiento : 1920-11-25, Surrey, England
Muerte : 2000-08-29
Historia
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Shelagh Fraser (25 November 1920 – 29 August 2000) was a British actress. She was best-known for her role as Luke Skywalker's ill-fated aunt, Beru Lars in Star Wars (though Fraser's voice was dubbed in some prints of the film). She appeared in more than 50 films and TV shows during her career, including Z-Cars and Softly, Softly, A Family at War and Heartbeat on television, and such films as The Witches, Till Death Us Do Part, Doomwatch, and Hope and Glory. She was married and divorced from Anthony Squire. She was the sister of ballerina/actress Moyra Fraser.
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Constance
Taking as its departure point the 1993 opening of the Channel Tunnel, Là Bas is a playful burlesque on cultural difference, eccentricity and passion. Using different locations, Kötting knits together an imaginary tunnel, with tickets sold like a seaside attraction, through which one walks between England and France (the interior shots of the tunnel are of the Greenwich foot tunnel), and which is subject to random and sudden closure like many other British forms of transport.
Mrs Wilson
They were a top team - five miners who together had mined a million tons of coal but now they must face up to redundancy.
Madge
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."
Lost Shopper
Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
WVS Woman
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un inocente niño inglés vive la guerra como una experiencia apasionante y llena de emociones que ponen fin a la rutina diaria. Basada en recuerdos de la infancia del director.
Aunt Beru
La princesa Leia, líder del movimiento rebelde que desea reinstaurar la República en la galaxia en los tiempos ominosos del Imperio, es capturada por las malévolas Fuerzas Imperiales, capitaneadas por el implacable Darth Vader, el sirviente más fiel del emperador. El intrépido Luke Skywalker, ayudado por Han Solo, capitán de la nave espacial "El Halcón Milenario", y los androides, R2D2 y C3PO, serán los encargados de luchar contra el enemigo y rescatar a la princesa para volver a instaurar la justicia en el seno de la Galaxia.
Dorothy Pummery
A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Mrs Heath
A hard-working doctor must also carry the burden of a turbulent home life, due to the expectations of his demanding wife. Part of Thames Televison's Armchair Cinema.
Mrs. Banks
Una mujer perversa, que está postrada en la cama, atormenta a su hijo ejerciendo sobre él un tenebroso dominio.
Mrs. Benet
The life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails to receive a phone call from her husband, she contacts the airline and discovers he was not on the plane. Further investigation reveals that her husband is not who she thought he was. Her search ultimately takes her all the way to Ireland, where her sanity and, of course, her story come into question.
Mrs Alison
Tres administradores de la fundación Van Traylen que acoge niños huérfanos, han sido hallados muertos durante los últimos meses. Aunque las muertes parecen suicidios, el coronel de policía Bingham, encargado del caso, cree que han sido asesinados por motivos económicos. Pero tras investigar, se dará cuenta que algo aún más oscuro atrás...
Mrs. Betty Straker
Los habitantes de una isla británica son víctimas de un escape radiactivo de un vertido ilegal en el mar. Por ello casi todos reproducen una extraña enfermedad que un científico intentará curar, aunque se tenga que enfrentar con todos sus habitantes.
Mrs. Grayson
A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of curious characters.
Helen Marriott
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Helen Narriott
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Cub Mistress
EEUU /// Charlie Dyer (Rex Harrison) y Harry Leeds (Richard Burton), una pareja de homosexuales que conviven desde hace 30 años como un auténtico matrimonio, viven de los ingresos que les proporciona la peluquería que regentan en Londres. Cuando uno de ellos es detenido por escándalo contra la moral y las buenas costumbres, la situación degenera en drama.
Mrs. Thatcher
Un militar (George Sanders) investiga las misteriosas desapariciones de paracaidistas. Los mandos responsables o bien ignoran las causas o bien se niegan a reportarlas, y pronto el militar se convence de la interferencia de seres extraterrestres.
Daphne
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series.
Constance
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
Mrs. Bracket
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Mary Kent
Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighborhood.
Myra Lorne
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Ellen Foster
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
Minnie Larkins
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
Margaret
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...
Alice France
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
2nd Girl in Guard's Van
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
Millie
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort. Both eventually fall for American servicemen.
