Cathryn Harrison
Nacimiento : 1959-05-25,
Muerte : 2018-10-01
Historia
Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (born 29 May 1959) was an English actress. Cathryn was baptised on 27 September 1959 at St.John's Church,Hampstead,London,England. She is the daughter of the actor and singer Noel Harrison and Sara Lee Eberts and also the grand daughter of legendary actor Sir Rex Harrison.Her brother Simon Harrison is also an actor as well as her sister Harriet Harrison. She has a brother Will and a sister Chloe from her father's second marriage, and an older sister Zoe from her mother's first marriage to Carleton John Richard Tufnell. In May 1996 she married Paul Laing the son of Ronald David Laing and uses that name since then. Her most notable performances include Lily in Black Moon as well as many made-for-television movies including Portrait of a Marriage where she plays Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville West's lesbian lover. She began her career in Robert Altman's Images and after two decades of low roles, started a career in British television and radio dramas. She appeared in Love on a Branch Line and an 1977 Australian film called Blue Fire Lady. She also appeared as Major Tom Cadman's wife in the ITV series Soldier Soldier, and played wardrobe assistant Irenie in the film version of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser. She died in 2018.
Milly
Tras siete años de matrimonio, Brenda, hastiada de su vida en la mansión Hetton, que es el orgullo y la alegría de su marido, entabla relación con un solicitado joven londinense. Lo que empezó siendo una simple vía de escape, está a punto de derrumbar los pilares de su tradicional modo de vida. Adaptación de "A Handful of Dust", de Evelyn Waugh, un retrato de la alta sociedad inglesa del periodo de entreguerras que muestra el carácter artificioso y frío de unas relaciones sociales no exentas de cinismo y crueldad.
Helen Tapsell
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
Joanna
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign.
Marion
In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle ground where anything can happen. In the midst of the action, a young boy stows aboard to search for his friend who has disappeared in the entrails of the club.
Penny Smallwood
When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts suicide.
Kate
Ebenezer Scrooge es un hombre mezquino y desalmado. El día de Navidad se presentan en su casa los fantasmas de las Navidades Pasadas, Presentes y Futuras, que lo obligan a contemplar no sólo los errores que ha cometido, sino las consecuencias que su conducta tendrá en el futuro. Esa visión cambia el corazón del viejo Scrooge que intentará reparar todo el mal que ha hecho antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Adaptación televisiva del famoso relato del escritor inglés Charles Dickens.
Irene
Inglaterra, II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un decadente actor shakesperiano y su ayudante mantienen una extraña relación que oscila entre la devoción y el resentimiento. El actor, entregado en cuerpo y alma a su profesión, vive obsesionado por mantener en pie su compañía pese a todas las dificultades. Su ayudante, que es también un apasionado del teatro, vive a merced de las delirantes exigencias del actor. Los bombardeos alemanes contra Inglaterra sirven de telón de fondo a esta historia.
A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris Petit made this three-minute short to test a new super 16mm Kodak film stock to be used on Peter Greenaway’s upcoming feature The Draughtsman’s Contract.
Jenny
Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a horse-riding accident. Jenny finds work at a country race track and becomes obsessed with a troublesome horse called "Blue Fire Lady". "Blue Fire Lady" shows promise in Jenny's hands, but around everyone else misbehaves and shows no discipline. When "Blue Fire Lady" is put up for auction it is up to Jenny to either buy her or prove her.
Alizon Device
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
Lily
Huyendo de una guerra mundial entre hombres y mujeres, la joven Lily persigue a un unicornio que la lleva a una casa donde viven una anciana que habla con las ratas, una joven que da de mamar a la anciana y el hermano mellizo y mudo de la joven, que tala árboles que sangran.
Lisa
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
Susannah
Cathryn es una escritora de éxito aquejada de problemas nerviosos que, para solucionarlos, decide mudarse al campo en compañía de su marido. La casa en la que van a residir, aunque cómoda, es vieja, aislada y solitaria. No pasará mucho tiempo antes de que Cathryn comience a percibir cosas extrañas…
