Miriam Karlin

Miriam Karlin

Nacimiento : 1925-06-23, London, England, UK

Muerte : 2011-06-03

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Miriam Karlin
Miriam Karlin

Películas

Flashbacks of a Fool
Mrs. Rogers
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970's Britain.
Hijos de los hombres
Caged German Grandmother
Año 2027: el ser humano está al borde de la extinción: los hombres han perdido la capacidad de procrear y se ignora por qué razon todas las mujeres del planeta se han vuelto estériles. Al mismo tiempo, el mundo se estremece cuando muere un muchacho de 18 años, la persona más joven de la Tierra. Se vive, pues, una situación de caos galopante. En tales circunstancias, Theo, un desilusionado ex-activista radical de Londres convertido en burócrata, es contratado por Julian para que proteja a la persona más buscada de la Tierra.
Ex Memoria
Gertrude, German Resident
A film about memory, loss and survival; Eva Lipszyc is a survivor, but she is now locked away in the twilight world of Alzheimer's disease. We see the world from her point of view, at her eye level, and we see how a chance encounter with a caring young nurse breaks through the barrier
Incognito
Marina
Un falsificador de cuadros está a punto de abandonar su profesión cuando recibe un encargo multimillonario para reproducir un Rembrandt. Tras realizar un trabajo perfecto, sucede algo terrible
Utz
Grandmother
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.
Jekyll & Hyde
Mrs. Hackett
En las calles de Londres una escurridiza figura ha despertado el temor de sus habitantes. Se le achacan varios asaltos a mujeres, incendios e incluso asesinatos. La policía cree haber identificado al sospechoso y lo persigue, pero en su huida empuja a un muchacho que cae bajo los cascos de un caballo y resulta gravemente herido.
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
Little Buttercup / Utopian Maiden (voice)
Able Seaman Dick Deadeye is charged by Queen Victoria to find the stolen Ultimate Secret. His ugliness means that his life has always been lonely but a buxom barmaid takes a shine to him. Together, they battle pirates and an evil magician before discovering that the Ultimate Secret is nothing but LOVE! Using songs based on the original works of Gilbert and Sullivan (but updated with modern lyrics), this film was created to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the first collaboration of the composers of the Savoy Operas.
Una sombra en el pasado
Aunt Rosa
Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) fue un eminente compositor y director de orquesta. De origen judío, desde muy niño soportó el antisemitismo. Tuvo una salud precaria y una neurosis obsesiva por la muerte. Ya mayor se casó con una mujer joven, culta y muy bella, teniendo un matrimonio apasionado y lleno de conflictos.
La naranja mecánica
Catlady
Gran Bretaña, en un futuro indeterminado. Alex es un joven muy agresivo que tiene dos pasiones: la violencia desaforada y Beethoven. Es el jefe de la banda de los drugos, que dan rienda suelta a sus instintos más salvajes apaleando, violando y aterrorizando a la población. Cuando esa escalada de terror llega hasta el asesinato, Alex es detenido y, en prisión, se someterá voluntariamente a una innovadora experiencia de reeducación que pretende anular drásticamente cualquier atisbo de conducta antisocial.
Just Like a Woman
Ellen Newman
A stressed television producer and his unhappy lounge singer wife are growing tired of each other.
The Bargee
Nellie Marsh
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses.
Ladies Who Do
Mrs. Higgins
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Cielos arriba
Winnie Smith
Un error clerical conduce a que un sacedorte de izquierdas de un pequeño pueblo se encuentre en un pueblo de ricos, donde inmediatamente horroriza a sus snobs feligreses por designar a un basurero y a un hombre negro como guardianes de la vicaría y dejarla abierta a la familia Smith, quienes acaban de ser deshauciados de su caravana. Él convierte a la viuda aristócrata en trabajadora de la absurda caridad, pero pronto revolucionará al pueblo y muchos de sus habitantes... (FILMAFFINITY)
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Milly
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
I Thank a Fool
Woman in the Black Maria
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
El fantasma de la ópera
Charwoman
Cuando la "prima donna" de la Ópera de París se retira, Christine Charles es elegida para sustituirla, pero es despedida por rechazar las insinuaciones del empresario. Esa misma noche es raptada por un enano deforme, que la lleva a las catacumbas de la Ópera, donde encuentra a un hombre horriblemente mutilado que vive escondido allí. Él conoce el secreto del Fantasma de la Ópera y le cuenta una escalofriante historia de injusticia, depravación y codicia.
The Bing Crosby Show
Self
Guests: Bob Hope, Marion Ryan, Dave King, Terry-Thomas, Shirley Bassey. Filmed on location in London, where Bing was filming Road to Hong Kong. Bing wanders the streets of London encountering his guests, including Bob Hope (in drag).
Operación Snafu
Waaf Sergeant
Horace Pope y Pedlar Pascoe son dos soldados de la RAF, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pero no destacan precisamente por su interés por hacer méritos. Son más aficionados a realizar pequeñas estafas con las que sacar algún dinero de sus inocentes víctimas. Aunque intentan evitar a toda costa cualquier esfuerzo extraordinario, acaban siendo enviados a realizar una misión secreta de cierta importancia. A pesar de su torpeza, y casi por casualidad, acaban teniendo éxito en la misión, y a su vuelta son considerados héroes.
Watch It, Sailor!
Mrs. Lack
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
The Fourth Square
The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.
Hand in Hand
Mrs. Mathias
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
Crossroads to Crime
Connie Williams
Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hi-jackers.
La millonaria
Mrs. Joe
Epifanía Parerga es una joven italiana rica y de buena posición que no deja de gastar sus riquezas en lujos y artículos caros, dando al dinero una preferencia excesiva. Sus máximas en la vida cambian cuando conoce al doctor hindú Ahmed el Kabir, que atiende a las clases desfavorecidas de Londres.
El animador
Soubrette
Durante una actuación en un hotel de playa, un showman intenta inútilmente atraer la atención de un público poco participativo. Pero su fracaso no es sólo profesional; tambien se está hundiendo su vida personal.
The Big Money
Lady in Nightclub
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
A Touch of the Sun
Alice Cann
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
Fun at St. Fanny's
'The Private Eye'
Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
Down Among the Z Men
Woman in Shop
The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.