Beryl Bainbridge

Películas

Una insólita aventura
Novel
Recrea la vida de un grupo de actores de teatro que viven en Liverpool, recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El director de la compañía es Meredith Potter, un hombre tenaz con su trabajo, que exige el máximo de unos actores que dirige con auténtica mano de hierro. Un día aparece una joven ingenua e impresionable, que huye de su monótona vida familiar, solicitando el trabajo de ayudante del director en escena. Es admitida, con lo que se ve atrapada en las intrigas de la compañía de teatro. Stella llama la atención de sus compañeros con sus comentarios llenos de inocencia sobre el amor y el sexo. Con la nueva producción teatral aparece un nuevo personaje, P.L. O'Hara, un ser atractivo y avasallador que concita en torno a él la codicia, la rivalidad y los celos. Stella quedará atrapada en esta red, ya que O'Hara se enamora de ella.
The Dressmaker
Novel
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Self
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-First World War Liverpool, prepares to meet her brother-in-law - a young man named Adolf Hitler. Years later she is interviewed on television about her life. Part of the BBC2 Playhouse strand.
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Writer
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-First World War Liverpool, prepares to meet her brother-in-law - a young man named Adolf Hitler. Years later she is interviewed on television about her life. Part of the BBC2 Playhouse strand.
Sweet William
Screenplay
William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Writer
TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom are particularly keen.