Yootha Joyce
Nacimiento : 1927-08-20, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1980-08-24
Historia
British actress best known for her role as Mildred Roper in the '70s sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred. Born to musical parents Hurst Needham and Jessica Rivett in 1927, Joyce was trained at RADA, toured with ENSA and came to prominence via the Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, securing roles in TV shows such as The Avengers, Man in a Suitcase, Te Saint, Jason King and Steptoe and Son, and the films The Pumpkin Eater, A Man For All Seasons, Charlie Bubbles, All the Right Noises and Burke and Hare. She was married to fellow actor Glynn Edwards from 1956 to 1968, and they remained friends all her life. An alcoholic, Joyce died from liver failure in 198o, just four days after her 53rd birthday. Her sitcom co-star Brian Murphy was by her side. In 1986 the Smiths used an image of Joyce on the sleeve of their UK single release "Ask" and the German release of "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" securing her place as a British cultural icon.
Mildred Roper
Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper is determined to make husband George celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. However, upon arrival George is mistaken by a gangland criminal for a rival hitman, and soon the Ropers find themselves up to their necks in trouble on the wrong side of the law!
Mildred
Un promotor inmobiliario sin escrúpulos quiere aplanar la calle para dar paso a nuevos edificios. El casero George Roper está feliz de tomar el dinero ofrecido, pero su esposa Mildred y sus inquilinos se unen a otros residentes para tomar una posición y mantener las cosas como son.
Hospital Matron
Fiel versión televisiva de la novela de Mary Shelley. A diferencia del monstruo cinematográfico de Karloff, la criatura encarnada por Sarrazin no tiene un rostro cosido con tornillos, es un ser humano reanimado artificialmente que empieza a degenerarse poco a poco tanto física como psíquicamente. En algunos países fue presentada en salas cinematográficas (con una versión reducida de 123 min.), pero también se difundió por televisión.
Freda
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
Mrs. Finch
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
Mrs. Hare
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker star in this big screen spin-off of one of ITV's most popular comedy series of all time. When the father of Eli and Nellie Pledge dies, they are left in charge of his pickle empire. The two siblings are completely different and Eli wants out of the business, but he can't leave until Nellie is married. So Eli sets about finding a husband for his old-fashioned sister.
Mrs. Palafox
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye. Based on the novel Nest in a Fallen Tree by Joy Cowley.
Mrs. Bird
A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she tells him that she is only 15 years old…
Miss Ward-Cadbury
un joven británico se sumerge en una pesadilla, ya que trata de resolver el asesinato de su tía, en Italia. Cuando las amenazas de violencia, notas misteriosas y el teléfono con llamadas amanazantes hacen añicos su vida, la policía y su novia dudan de la historia, debido a su pasado como adicto a las drogas, a pesar de que su vida está en peligro.
The prostitute
Graham Baird wakes up in strange clothes in a strange apartment, both he and his wife want to know where he had been the previous night.
Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.
Woman in Cafe
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.
Mrs. Quayle
Cuando muere su madre tras una larga enfermedad, los siete hermanos Hook la entierran en el jardín, pues temen ser separados y enviados a distintos orfanatos.
Shooting Range Girl
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
Averil Machin
Para divorciarse de su esposa Catalina de Aragón (hija de los Reyes Católicos y tía del emperador Carlos V) y contraer matrimonio con Ana Bolena, Enrique VIII (1509-1547) trata de obtener el apoyo de la aristocracia y del clero. Sir Thomas Moro, gran humanista ("Utopía", 1516), ferviente católico y hombre de confianza del monarca, se encuentra en una encrucijada: ¿debe actuar de acuerdo con su conciencia, arriesgándose a ser tachado de traidor y ejecutado, o debe ceder ante un rey que no tiene ningún reparo en adaptar la ley a sus necesidades?
Museum Receptionist
Barney Lincoln es un intrépido jugador que obtiene sensacionales victorias en póquer y "chemin de fer" porque ha conseguido marcar las planchas de la fábrica de Ginebra donde se imprimen las cartas de todas las salas de juego de Europa. Cuando Barney se sienta a la mesa principal del casino, aparece Angela, a quien conoció en Londres, y resulta ser la hija de un inspector de Scotland Yard, 'Manny' McGinnis, que busca un hombre para un trabajo delicado: el inspector solicita la ayuda de Barney para jugar al póquer con un turbio personaje londinense, a quien Scotland Yard quiere llevar a la ruina financiera.
Nan
Los Dave Clark Five son unos amigos que viven en Londres, en una iglesia cerrada al culto. Sin embargo, los verdaderos protagonistas son Steve (Dave Clark) y Dinah (Barbara Ferris), que, en pleno invierno, viajan por carretera hasta Salisbury (donde pierden su Jaguar), y luego hasta Bath y Bigbury On Sea.
Anna
Una joven visita a la madre de su fallecido novio. Para su sorpresa, la desconsolada madre la secuestra. A partir de ese momento descubrirá lo trastornada que está su "anfitriona".
Woman at Hairdresser's
Jo es una mujer que se ha casado varias veces. Parece que con Jake, su último marido, ha encontrado por fin la estabilidad que necesitaba; pero cuando descubre que Jake le es infiel y, además, está embarazada, todo se vendrá abajo.
Bit Role (uncredited)
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Barmaid
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
