Athene Seyler
Nacimiento : 1889-05-31, Hackney, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1990-09-12
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Athene Seyler, CBE (31 May 1889 – 12 September 1990) was an English actress.
Although better known as a stage actress - she first appeared on the stage in 1909 - she made her film debut in 1921, and became known for playing slightly dotty old ladies in many British films from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Her most memorable stage credits included Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, and a double-act, with her good friend Dame Sybil Thorndike, as the murderous spinster sisters in Arsenic and Old Lace.
Her film and television career lasted into the 1960s, and included roles in The Citadel (1938), Night of the Demon (1957), and The Avengers (1964, 1965). She was also a regular cast member in screen adaptations of Charles Dickens' novels.
She virtually retired from acting after 1970, but continued making public appearances until well into the 1980s. In 1990, at the age of 101, she appeared at the National Theatre, talking about her long life and career.
Athene Seyler was President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1950, and a member of the Theatrical Ladies' Guild. She also wrote The Craft of Comedy.
She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1959.
Miss Farthingale
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
Aunt Heather Chandler
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.
Mrs Adelaide Hignett
Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his friends to his posh new digs. Among the invitees is the title character, played by the delightful comedienne Millicent Martin. All sorts of slapstick chaos ensues, but Wisdom manages to save the day before things get hopelessly out of hand. Like Jerry Lewis, Norman Wisdom is an acquired taste, but he's worth sampling at least once. ...The Girl on the Boat
Aunt Phoebe Tonks
An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.
Sister Agness
El padre O'Banion (William Holden) viaja a China, acompañado por una joven nativa, para sustituir al padre Bovard (Clifton Webb), un sacerdote que se ha hecho demasiado mayor para encargarse de la misión. Pero la presión de los comunistas complicará la situación.
Aunt Buona
Misticismo, entrega, espiritualidad y pobreza conforman la historia de Francisco de Asís, hijo de un acaudalado comerciante de telas, que un día abandonó todas las comodidades y riquezas de la casa paterna para dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a servir a Dios y a los necesitados. Biografía de uno de los personajes religiosos más importantes de la Historia.
Mao Tai Tai
Un piloto entra clandestinamente en la China comunista para rescatar a una chica norteamericana atrapada en el país, pero ella quiere llenar el avión con más refugiados chinos.
Dame Beatrice Appleby
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
Jeannie Lawson
Gladys Aylward, una intrépida misionera británica, creó en China un albergue para acoger a los agotados y hambrientos viajeros que recorrían las montañas. Consiguió, además, ganarse la confianza y la admiración de los hostiles nativos, enamorar a un coronel euro-asiático y convertir al cristianismo a un poderoso mandarín. Pero su mayor hazaña la logró cuando, ante la inminente invasión japonesa, llevó a cien niños sin hogar a través de las montañas a un lugar seguro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Aunt Harriet
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
Miss Pross
Revolución Francesa (1789-1799). Adaptación de la novela histórica del mismo título del escritor inglés Charles Dickens (1812-1870). El abogado inglés Sydney Carton, que lleva una vida insustancial e infeliz, se queda prendado de los encantos de la joven Lucie Manette, pero ella se casa con Charles Darnay. Cuando, en plena revolución, Darnay va a París para liberar a un criado suyo injustamente encarcelado, también él es conducido a prisión y condenado a morir en la guillotina. Entonces Carton, a pesar de su amor por Lucie, elabora un atrevido plan para salvar a su rival.
Mrs. Karswell
El Profesor Henry Harrington (Maurice Denham), un investigador de sectas que venía denunciando las actividades demonológicas del Dr. Karswell, muere en un extraño accidente. El psicólogo norteamericano John Holden (Dana Andrews), que se encuentra de visita en Londres, es bastante escéptico respecto a cuestiones tales como la brujería y las sectas satánicas, a pesar de lo cual investigará el caso, con la colaboración de la sobrina del difunto.
Miss Abigail
Bruce Campbell decide trasladarse a Canadá cuando se entera de que a su abuelo le queda poco tiempo de vida. Llega allí con la clara idea de hacerse cargo de la herencia que recibirá cuando él falte. Pero los lugareños no tienen ninguna prisa por conocerlo, pues no sienten simpatía por el abuelo ya que creen que en su tierras había petróleo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Grannie (Victoria Clitterbern)
El tío George, millonario que vive en Estados Unidos, acude a Inglaterra a visitar a sus familiares, que sufren graves problemas económicos. Éstos conspiran para asesinar al tío George y quedarse con su fortuna.
Lady Hawkins
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.
Miss Bligh
Mary Price Hilton, una joven que ha sufrido muchos desengaños amorosos, encuentra por fin a un hombre que parece quererla de verdad, pero cuando lo sorprende con otra mujer, queda muy trastornada
Mrs. Arbuthnot
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Miss Mainbrace
En Londres, un joven graduado y su novia deciden casarse. Los dos tratan de llevar lo mejor posible los problemas de la convivencia durante su primer año de casados. Pero, a causa de las facturas, las incomodidades del pequeño apartamento en el que viven, las familias y los vecinos, la relación no resulta nada sencilla.
Millie Williams
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Mrs. Trapes
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
Miss Witherfield
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Miss Honeycroft
Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.
Consuelo Howard
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
Mrs. Reginald Kellick
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
Nanny Gallop
A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.
Aunt Lin
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
Princess Ivashin
1806: Un oficial del Ejército obtiene de una avejentada condesa el secreto para ganar perpetuamente a las cartas. Lo malo es que esta lo obtuvo a través de un pacto con el Diablo.
Miss La Creevy
Nicholas Nickleby es un joven inteligente que se ve obligado a proteger a su madre y a su hermana de las malvadas maquinaciones de su tío Ralph. Nicholas sabe tratar hábilmente con amigos y enemigos, pero abandona su círculo de amistades para vengarse de su tío.
Aunt Belle
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
Mrs Ashford
Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimpses of the events of Mrs Taylor's typical day, including ration shopping and fire warden training, belie the letter's innocuous statements.
Aunt Mary
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Milliner
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
Mother Buckley
Con la misión de capturar a una banda de falsificadores, el Santo viaja a Inglaterra. Una vez allí contará con la ayuda de un alocado hombre.
Mrs Pinto
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
Lady Raebank
Andrew Manson, un joven médico que consigue su primer empleo en una población minera de Gales, se entrega al cuidado de trabajadores enfermos y gentes oprimidas. Las circunstancias, sin embargo, acabarán poniendo a pruebo sus principios morales.
Grandma
Wallflower Jane Wilton has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful and popular sister Beatrice. Making things worse, Beatrice is spiteful and cruel, directing all manner of nastiness towards the submissive and uncomplaining Jane. But when Beatrice sets her cap for Jane's erstwhile boy friend Basil Gilbert, she goes a shade too far. For once, the worm turns, and Jane fights tooth and nail to win her man back. A retelling of the Cinderella story.
Victoria Gulliver
Sailing Along is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Jack Whiting, Frank Pettingell, Noel Madison and Alastair Sim. A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him
Aunt Veronica
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Madame Alary
In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her wiles as bait and was planning to reform him of his gambling womanizing ways after catching him, he may have head for different waters.
Mrs. Pullet
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
Madame Henry
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
Mrs. Durland
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
Scrooge's Charwoman
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Madame Anna Sabine
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Queen Elizabeth
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.
Theresa, the Innkeeper, a Middle Aged Lady of Young Sentiment
Con el paso de los años, Don Juan, el mayor seductor de todos los tiempos, vive más de su leyenda que de sus encantos. Prueba de ello es que, cuando se difunde la noticia de su muerte, desaparecen sus dotes de seducción. Finalmente, empujado por un sentimiento de fracaso, decide pasar por la vicaría.
Archduchess Maria Victoria
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
Mrs. Pategg
El cantante de ópera Enrico Ferraro, cansado de sus demasiados compromisos, salta del tren escapando de su manager y se cambia a otro yendo a la Riviera. Hace un amigo y se detiene en un pueblo, donde (al parecer) puede por fin tener unas merecidas vacaciones, con el interés añadido de conocer a una hermosa chica de los alrededores.
Lady Westhaven
'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)
Rachel Wardle
A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.
