Megs Jenkins
Nacimiento : 1917-04-21, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Muerte : 1998-10-05
Historia
An engineer's daughter, she had first planned on becoming a ballerina, using her original Christian name Muguette, but abandoned those plans by the age of 17 when she realized that her physique was more in keeping with her other first name, Megs. She trained in Liverpool at the School of Dancing and Dramatic Art and then joined the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1933 before moving to London to appear at the Player's Theatre four years later.
During the 1950's, Megs was busy acting on stage and had considerable critical success in two plays by Emlyn Williams, 'Light of Heart' (1940) and 'The Wind of Heaven' (1945). Against character, she also played the vicious, unstable Alma Winemiller in 'Summer and Smoke' (1951) by Tennessee Williams. In 1956, she was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the stoic wife of a longshoreman harbouring incestuous feelings for his niece in 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller. The previous year, she had made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's 'A Day by the Sea' as a supportive governess to an alcoholic physician.
Mrs Braithwaite
Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), hoping to invite her to the Scarecrow Ball, but before he can find her he runs into his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor), herself heading for a spell in panto. Then, before he gets much further, our multi-headed hero gets sidetracked again when he runs into angry Scots scarecrow Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) and his anti-Christmas brigade. Will Worzel ever get to enjoy the season with his beloved?
Eileen Gray
Hans Daedalus has defected from East Germany to the West. Is it possible that his opacity equations live on after his death?
Iris
Randy Milkman Davey muerde más de lo que puede masticar cuando empieza a entregar más de litros de leche a algunas de las amas de casa aburridas en su ruta. En un corto espacio de tiempo que se encuentra comprometido con dos mujeres diferentes, en el lado receptor de una paliza del gángster local, cuya novia ha sido él con Davey de dos tiempos, y finalmente termina en la corte por un cargo de violación cuando un marido furioso llega a casa inesperadamente y descubre que Terry y su esposa en una situación comprometedora.
Sra. Grose
An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.
Nurse Higgins
Como requisito para trabajar en un asilo psiquiátrico, el joven Dr. Martin deberá entrevistar a varios pacientes "incurables" de dicha institución, y tras escuchar sus historias, decidir cuál de ellos es el Dr. Starr, su predecesor, quien enloqueció. Así, Martin tendrá acceso a las más aterradoras historias patológicas: la venganza de ultratumba de una mujer descuartizada; un maniquí que cobra vida gracias a la magia negra; una joven drogadicta controlada por una entidad maligna; un exmédico que desea transferir su espíritu a un diminuto autómata. ¿Se trata solo de alucinaciones de los pacientes, o son testimonios verídicos? ¿Cuál de ellos es el enigmático Dr. Starr?.
Clara Peggotty
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Matron
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
Mrs. Bedwin
En el siglo XIX, Oliver Twist (Mark Lester), un pobre niño inglés, escapa de un orfanato y llega a Londres en busca de fortuna. Allí es reclutado por un granuja llamado Fagin (Ron Moody), jefe de una banda de jóvenes ladronzuelos que roban a los transeúntes. Adaptación en formato musical de la famosa obra de Dickens.
Mrs. Christoforides
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.
Poor Willy’s mind has been warped by too many Westerns. He sees gunfighters on every corner, even though he’s in 1960s Swansea. Some think Billy’s simple. His Auntie just thinks he’s creative. But he’s on a dark path as his vivid imaginings grow wilder, and the world in his head comes roaring out into reality.An early piece from TV playwright Dennis Potter. (homemcr.otg)
Sister
Recién instalada en Londres, Ann Lake lleva a la escuela a su hija Bunny el primer día de clase; pero, cuando vuelve a recogerla, de la niña no hay rastro por ninguna parte. La madre denuncia la desaparición a la policía, pero las investigaciones de los agentes no conducen a ninguna parte, es como si se la hubiera tragado la tierra. Poco a poco, en comisaría empiezan a preguntarse si no se tratará de una fantasía de Ann.
Gentlewoman
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
Gladys Thomas
La señorita Marple se une a una compañía de teatro para demostrar la inocencia de un hombre acusado de asesinar a una ex actriz. Durante el juicio, el jurado decide que los hechos no están suficientemente probados. Tercera película de Margaret Rutherford en el papel de la señorita Marple.
Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that may change.
Lady Johnson
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
Mrs Gordon
Cuando la hija de John Harris es gravemente herida en un accidente de navegación, el hospital le dice que ella va a necesitar una transfusión de sangre urgente. Debido a sus creencias religiosas, Harris se niega a dar el permiso y la niña muere. Cuando la investigación libera a Harris de toda culpa, el médico a cargo del caso intenta llamar a la policía para presentar cargos de homicidio contra Harris.
Mrs. Grose
Una puritana institutriz es contratada para hacerse cargo de la educación de dos niños huérfanos que viven en una apartada mansión rural. Pronto empieza a sospechar que los antiguos criados, muertos hace tiempo, ejercen todavía una perniciosa influencia en la vida de los niños.
Kitty Launder
After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Joseph Bartell. He wants Greg to test out his latest invention, a heat resistant car tire, in actual racing competition.
Rose Brock
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
Mrs. Phillips
Gillie, una niña de doce años que vive en un pequeño pueblo británico, presencia casualmente un asesinato: Korchinsky, un marinero polaco, en un arrebato de ira, mata a su amante después de encontrarla con otro hombre. Gillie recoge el arma del crimen e intenta huir; Korchinsky consigue alcanzarla, pero es incapaz de hacerle daño. Entre ambos se crea un extraño vínculo afectivo, que lleva a Gillie a despistar a la policía para salvar a su nuevo amigo.
Lily Grimshaw
During the Cold War, a British family struggles to overcome cultural differences as they welcome two Russian social workers into their home for a visit.
Doris Banks
Una famosa actriz conoce a un elegante y rico hombre de negocios y ambos se sienten inmediatamente atraídos. Él le confiesa que está casado y que su esposa se niega a concederle el divorcio. A pesar de todo, mantienen una feliz y romántica relación.
Nurse Evans
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Millie
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Mrs. Snowden
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Mrs. Pritchett
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Mrs Jones, the Landlady
A day following workers at an airport
Maggie Gay
Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
Miss Gibson
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
Vi Vining
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
Mrs. Powell
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
Tallow's Sister
Aventuras de un buque escolta de convoy británico durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Al comienzo de la guerra al Capitán de Corbeta Ericson se le asigna el buque HMS Compass Rose con oficiales sin experiencia y hombres que acaban de salir de la formación militar. Tendrán que enfrentarse al mar invernal y a los temibles submarinos alemanes
Servant to Isaac
A su vuelta de las Cruzadas, el Rey Ricardo Corazón de León es apresado en Austria. Su hermano Juan se niega a pagar la elevada suma de dinero que exigen a cambio de su libertad, ya que así puede seguir usurpando el trono de Inglaterra. El caballero Ivanhoe, uno de los partidarios de Ricardo, intentará por todos los medios conseguir el dinero del rescate.
Penny
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.
Mrs. Briggs
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
Mrs. Marshall
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
Nan Ritchie
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
The Innkeeper
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
Frau Busche
Después de haberse casado por razones de estado con el heredero del trono inglés, el futuro Jorge I, Sophie Dorotea busca el amor verdadero.
Mrs. Alice Trelawne
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Angustina
An orphan wrecks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
Nurse Woods
El inspector Cockrill nos cuenta esta historia: mientras Londres está en alerta máxima por la caída de las bombas volantes alemanas, debe resolver el caso de las muertes acaecidas en un hospital de emergencia rural. Basado en "Green for Danger" de Christianna Brand.
Barmaid
In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.
Shirley
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
Housewife
The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes.
Peach St. Clair
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
Nurse (uncredited)
Homenaje a la importante labor de las enfermeras durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Gwen Price
Cuando Celia Crowson es llamada al servicio militar, espera obtener un puesto de trabajo glamuroso, pero al ser una chica soltera es enviada a una fábrica donde se producen partes de aviones. Ahí encuentra otras chicas de diversa procedencia social y empieza una relación con un joven piloto.
Barmaid
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
