Margaret Tyzack
Nacimiento : 1931-09-09, Essex, England
Muerte : 2011-06-25
Historia
Margaret Tyzack fue una actriz inglesa de teatro, cine y televisión.
Egresada del Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, ha recibido diversos reconocimientos en el ámbito teatral, entre ellos el Premio Laurence Olivier en la categoría actriz del año en un revival en 1981 por su rol en ¿Quién teme a Virginia Woolf? en el Royal National Theatre de Londres y a la mejor actriz por su rol de Mrs St. Maugham en la obra The Chalk Garden estrenada en el Donmar Warehouse de Londres en el año 2009. Además, recibió un Premio Tony a la mejor actriz de una obra de teatro en 1990 por su papel antagónico en Lettice and Lovage, que se montó en Londres como en Broadway.
En el ámbito de la televisión, fue conocida por participar en los dramas de la BBC Winifred in The Forsyte Saga (1967), y Antonia in I, Claudius (1976). Fue galardonada a un Premios BAFTA TV a la mejor actriz de televisión en 1970 por The First Churchills, mientras que fue nominada a un Premio Emmy en la categoría mejor desempeño continuado de una actriz en un papel principal (drama/comedia - episodios limitados) por su trabajo en Cousin Bette en 1973.
En el cine, participó en diversas películas a lo largo de su carrera, incluyendo los clásicos A Space Odyssey y La naranja mecánica de Stanley Kubrick.
Fue nombrada oficial de la Orden del Imperio británico (OBE) en 1970 y alzada comendador (CBE) en 2010.
An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence.
Oenone
A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the Atenian King Theseus, who conceived a forbidden love for his son (by an earlier wife) Hyppolytus. All ends badly for all.
Sid's Co-Passenger
Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson), una estudiante americana de periodismo, se encuentra en Gran Bretaña visitando a unos amigos. Durante su estancia en Londres, acude a un espectáculo de magia, donde un ilusionista (Woody Allen) la invita a subir al escenario para hacerla desaparecer. Mientras espera que el mago ponga en práctica su truco, recibe la visita del fantasma de un prestigioso periodista muerto (Ian McShane), que ha venido desde el más allá para servirle en bandeja la exclusiva del año. El espíritu afirma que Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman), el rico y atractivo hijo de un conocido aristócrata británico, es en realidad el famoso asesino en serie conocido como "el asesino del tarot".
Lotte Schoen (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
Mrs. Eastby
Chris Wilton es un ambicioso y joven profesor de tenis con escasos recursos económicos. Gracias a su amistad con Tom Hewett, consigue entrar en la alta sociedad londinense y enamorar a su hermana Chloe. Tom, por su parte, sale con Nola Rice, una atractiva americana, de la que Chris se encapricha nada más verla. El azar, la pasión y, sobre todo, la ambición llevarán a Chris a cometer acciones que determinarán su vida y la de los demás para siempre.
Lady Thobbing
Retrato de un grupo de personas de la alta sociedad inglesa en el Londres de 1930. Basada en la novela "Vile Bodies" de Evelyn Waugh.
Self
The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.
Miss Helen Seymour
In the seventh film in the series, in April 1916, a disillusioned Indy hops the ocean to Europe where he figures the Great War might offer him a greater sense of purpose.
Miss Helen Seymour
In the fifth film in the series, in 1910, the Jones family attends a meeting of the Theosophy movement in Benares, India. There young Indy befriends a young boy named Jiddu Krishnamurti who is presented by the society to be the next world teacher and possible messiah. Traveling on to China, mother Jones takes Miss Seymour and Indy on a sightseeing trip while father meets with Chinese translator Yen Fu. Indy becomes ill during a rain storm and the travelers seek shelter with a poor Chinese family. Despite the misgivings of his mother, a local doctor is allowed to treat the boy with acupuncture.
Miss Helen Seymour
In the third film in the series, in 1908, Henry Jones Sr. takes his wife, son and the boy's tutor to the world's first psycho-analytical conference in Viena, Austria. Young Indy meets Princess Sophie of Austia, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and develops deep feelings for her. He even asks Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler for love advice. On their next stop in Florence, Anna Jones becomes the object of affection for the persuasive opera composer Giacomo Puccini. With her husband away in Rome, Anna is torn between her feelings for her husband and the impulsive Italian.
Miss Helen Seymour
In the second film in the series, in 1908, ten-year-old Indiana Jones is on safari in British East Africa. Here, he befriends a Massai boy named Meto who helps him in his search for the little seen Fringe-Eared Oryx for former US President Teddy Roosevelt. Later, he and his family and tutor travel to Paris, France where Indy meets a young Norman Rockwell and gets involved in a quarrel between the painters Edgar Degas and Pablo Picasso. The young American boys get a fascinating insight into modern art as Picasso schemes to one up the old master Degas.
Miss Helen Seymour
In the first film in the series, in May 1908, famed Professor Henry Jones Sr. is invited to give lectures all over the world. He takes along his wife and son, and invites his former tutor Miss Helen Seymour to teach Henry Jr. during the trip. Their first stop is Cairo, Egypt. When Junior, who prefers to be called 'Indy' and Miss Seymour visit the pyramids, they are invited by T.E. Lawrence (another former student of hers) to join an archaeological dig. When the mummy disappears and a priceless headpiece is stolen, young Indy gets his first taste of adventure. On their next stop in Tangiers, the family stays with Professor Jones' former class mate Walter Harris. Indy befriends a young slave named Omar who belongs to Emily Keen. The two of them get into trouble when they Indy insists on visiting the market place to see a salted head displayed on a pole. Caught by slave traders, they are end up at an auction from which only Harris can attempt to rescue them.
Lady Bruton
Adaptación de la novela homónima de la escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf. La acción transcurre en Londres. A lo largo de todo un día del año 1923, Clarissa Dalloway recuerda su pasado mientras prepara una gran fiesta. Poco antes de que empiecen a llegar los invitados, vuelve a aparecer en su vida un pretendiente al que rechazó treinta años antes.
Helen Seymour
In the fourth film in the series, in 1910's Russia, a few acts of clumsiness puts Indy at odds with his father who is greatly displeased with Indy. Indy runs away into the Russian countryside and wakes in the morning on a haystack. He encounters colorful Gypsies, fierce Imperial Cossack troops, and an odd, cantankerous old man named Leo Tolstoy, who is in full agreement that "hell" is other people. Later, in Greece, Indy meets Nikos Kazantzakis, the writer who would some day write Zorba the Greek.
Miss Helen Seymour
In the eighteenth film in the series, in late 1918, the Great War may have ended, but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words send him and Remy on a thrilling treasure hunt for one of Alexander the Great's most treasured possessions. Pursued by a dangerous one-eyed man, Indy follows the trail of the diamond from London to Alexandria to the South Seas where he has a run-ins with murderous Chinese pirates, is captured by savage headhunters, and meets anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski.
Marjorie Thacker
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
La Comtesse douairière
Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.
Madame Lambert
Inglaterra, 1967. Kenneth Hallywell (Alfred Molina), un hombre desequilibrado, mató a martillazos a su amante, el famoso dramaturgo Joe Orton (Gary Oldman), mientras dormía. Después se suicidó tomando una sobredosis de barbitúricos. Ambos tenían en común una infancia solitaria desprovista de amor y una ardiente ambición por conquistar el mundo. Ken enseñó a Joe todo lo que sabía de literatura y de arte, y Joe inició a Ken en la promiscuidad sexual (principalmente en los urinarios públicos). Pero, en aquella época, la homosexualidad era ilegal en Inglaterra, y los dos fueron a parar a la cárcel. La prisión supuso una liberación para Joe, que por primera vez terminó una obra que le proporcionó fama y éxito; pero para Ken fue el principio de una pesadilla que terminó la noche fatal en que murieron. Lo habían compartido todo menos la fama.
Madame de Guidice
In the 18th century were born two siamese brothers on Corsica who paradoxically carry different feelings of hate and reconciliation in their blood.
Pink Lady
An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena (Anne-Marie MacDonald) who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any confrontation with his mother (Martha Henry), a dominating woman whose despondency at having given birth to a handicapped child has turned to bitterness. Rowena occupies a central position in Robert's existence of daydreams and make-believe. When she dies, Robert clashes openly with his family, and decides to take himself in hand. It's 1914. He enrolls in the Canadian army, and, after training in Alberta and Montreal, he finds himself in England and France. The war becomes another way for him to resolve his conflicts, his dramas, his passions--his wars.
Queen Elizabeth II
Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
Sybil Birling
An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 (in Russia) and 1946 (in the UK). It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. The play's success and reputation has been boosted in recent years by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992. This is the 1982 BBC TV film adaptation
Paulina
The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.
Annie Morgan
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
Nurse Adams
Cuando Maggie (Katherine Ross) y Pete (Sam Elliott) llegan a Inglaterra, su felicidad se verá ensombrecida por una especie de influencia diabólica. Mientras pasan unos días en una casa de campo con unos amigos, el terror se irá apoderando de ellos, al ver que, poco a poco, todos los invitados aparecen asesinados en extrañas circunstancias. No obstante, Maggie acabará averiguando cuál es el origen de todo ese horror.
Conspirator
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.
Sister Bennett
Aunque está soltera, Rosamund Stacey anuncia con enorme alegría el nacimiento de su bebé y muestra su agradecimiento a todos los que, al apoyarla, hicieron posible un hecho tan hermoso.
Elena
La historia de la humanidad, en diversos estadios del pasado y del futuro, es narrada en la película de ciencia-ficción de culto por excelencia de la historia del cine. Hace millones de años, en los albores del nacimiento del homo sapiens, unos simios descubren un monolito que les lleva a un estadio de inteligencia superior. Otro monolito vuelve a aparecer, millones de años después, enterrado en una luna, lo que provoca el interés de los científicos humanos. Por último, HAL 9000, una máquina de inteligencia artificial, es la encargada de todos los sistemas de una nave espacial tripulada durante una misión de la NASA.
Hospital Almoner
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
Elizabeth Gee
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
The often racy misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin with his English wife and infant daughter and studying law at Trinity College.
Hilda
Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man causes the ambassador and his family to rethink their Nazi allegiance but is it too late to escape from Hitler's evil grasp?
June
Un taxista se enamora de una muchacha francesa y la libera de una red de tráfico de blancas.
Night Sister
A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.
