Annette Crosbie

Annette Crosbie

Nacimiento : 1934-02-12, Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, UK

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Annette Crosbie

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Dial M for Middlesbrough
Edna
Terry and Gemma are forced to take refuge in a sinister and dilapidated caravan park after their coach breaks down. During the unplanned stay, visitors and residents begin to be bumped off one by one under grizzly circumstances.
Eat Locals
Alice
En una tranquila granja, vampiros británicos se preparar para su reunión que en la que celebran los 50 años. Será una noche para recordar .
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Margaret Meldrew (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.
Dad's Army: El pelotón rechazado
Cissy Godfrey
Adaptación de la comedia inglesa "Dad's Army" que versa sobre un pequeño pelotón de soldados voluntarios que fueron rechazados para el servicio militar activo. Mientras la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) se acerca a su fin, el grupo intenta mantener el honor local durante las visitas de una seductora periodista y de un espía alemán.
Cider with Rosie
Granny Trill
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Into the Woods
Granny
Versión moderna de varios cuentos de los hermanos Grimm que entrelaza las tramas de algunas historias seleccionadas y explora las consecuencias de los deseos y las inquietudes de los personajes. Un musical que sigue los cuentos clásicos de Cenicienta, Caperucita Roja, Jack y las judías mágicas y Rapunzel. Todos ellos se combinan en una historia original que protagonizan un panadero y su esposa, su deseo de formar una familia y su interacción con la bruja que les ha echado una maldición.
Nuestro último verano en Escocia
Doreen
Doug y Abi son dos padres normales que tienen tres hijos encantadores aunque muy excéntricos. Cuando el estrés de ser padres pone en peligro su estabilidad mental y su matrimonio, deciden realizar un viaje a Escocia con sus hijos. Allí participarán en una gran reunión familiar y se reencontrarán con Gordie, el increíblemente extravagante padre de Doug. Sin embargo, lo que prometían ser unas vacaciones para la reconciliación pronto se convierte en un campo de minas no exento de situaciones hilarantes en el que rencores familiares, malentendidos y egos maltrechos conforman el orden del día. Cuando los niños precipitan un giro inesperado en los acontecimientos, la familia se ve obligada a aparcar sus diferencias y a colaborar, pues de lo contrario corren el riesgo de perder aquello que más aprecian.
Viva Blackpool
Mrs. Berry
Ripley is now an ordained minister and owner of the Chapel of Love. He's on a search for the prize that will bring him untold riches - the Jules Rimet trophy. But when glamorous Kitty De-Luxe is jilted at his altar, Ripley falls hopelessly in love.
Footprints in the Snow
Julie's Mum
Paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, Julie Hill struggles to get used to her disability and to save her marriage. It looks as if her husband will leave her. Then doctors try a revolutionary treatment which feeds electrical impulses to her leg muscles - allowing her to ride a bicycle once again and so go out for bike rides with her family. Her marriage survives and she and her husband end up closer together than before.
Quite Ugly One Morning
Mrs. Kinross
Investigative reporter Jack Parlabane stumbles across the aftermath of a murder scene in Edinburgh, and when he shows little sign of shock at the gruesome killing of a respected doctor, Detective Inspector McGregor suspects that he is the killer and Parlabane must clear his name.
Las chicas del calendario
Jessie
La vida de Chris da un vuelco cuando su marido muere de leucemia. La viuda decide emprender un proyecto para recaudar fondos contra la enfermedad. Su plan es publicar un calendario sensual con fotos de las mujeres del instituto de la mujer.
Bodily Harm
Sheila Greenfield
Mitchel, a mild-mannered suburban stockbroker spirals out of control after losing his job, finding his wife in flagrante with a sleazy neighbour, and discovering his dad is dying of cancer, all on the eve of his 44th birthday.
The Debt Collector
Lana
Mean, gritty, dirty and low, and that's just the policeman Gary Keltie, out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh during the 1970s, by notorious, torturous, and killer, debt collector Nickie Dryden.
Cómo pez en el agua
Mrs Cummins
Dos jóvenes se ganan la vida practicando toda clase de estafas, tarea para la que se muestran muy habilidosos. Mientras uno es un perfecto charlatán, el otro es capaz de inventar todo tipo de artilugios. Pretenden reunir un millón de libras para comprarse una lujosa mansión. Un día conocen a una chica que se les une y de la cual se enamorarán ambos. Una de las más frescas comedias británicas de los 90, cuyas señas de identidad residen en un guión muy ingenioso y en una banda sonora que recopilaba a los grupos británicos más exitosos del momento. La joven Kate Beckinsale (Mucho ruido y pocas nueces) realiza una excelente interpretación.
Flowers of the Forest
Dr. Elizabeth MacKay
Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray.
Nervous Energy
Tom is a young man with AIDS living in London with his lover Ira. The disease has exaggerated Toms nervous energy and in his manic state he suddenly decides to go to Glasgow to visit the family he hasn't seen in ten years. His brother Ian is thoroughly disgusted by his lifestyle and only his mother shows any compassion for him. The visit soon develops into a nightmare as dementia sets in and Tom's health rapidly declines. Finally, events come to a head and Ira has no choice but to force Tom back to London, where he expects him to die at any time. After treatment, Tom gets a brief reprieve, having discovered that his real family is his adopted one in London.
Solitario para dos
Mrs. Dwyer
Katie es una guapa arqueóloga con la rara habilidad extrasensorial de leer el pensamiento, así que cuando conoce al apuesto Daniel, este no tendrá demasiadas ventajas a la hora de ejercer su poder de seducción para llevar a la protagonista al huerto. Demasiado sexo en la cabeza de Daniel, algo imposible de ocultar para los poderes de Katie.
Message for Posterity
1st Labour MP
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.
One Foot in the Algarve
Margaret Meldrew
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.
Leon (Leon the Pig Farmer)
Dr Johnson
Leon Geller es un joven judío que descubre que vino al mundo gracias a la inseminación artificial y que su verdadero padre no es un judío ortodoxo comerciante de Londres sino un criador de cerdos de Yorkshire. Leon se traslada a la granja de su padre biológico e intenta moldearse a una nueva forma de vida. Un día, por error consigue crear el primer cruce entre cerdo y oveja del mundo, o sea, el primer cerdo que podrá ser consumido por los judíos. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Pope Must Die
Mother Superior
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Dr. Galina Petrovna
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.
Paying Guests (Part 2)
Mrs. Holders
Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples' plans for the winter unfold. Florence, for the first time in her life, refuses to go off with her selfish old father. Miss Howard has some momentous news, and the Colonel must make a very brisk about-turn.
Paying Guests (Part 1)
Mrs. Holders
Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for the beginnings of a late romance. Gossip, bicycle rides, rounds of golf, bridge in the evenings and preparations for the charity concert all make time pass most pleasantly - don't they?
Paradise Postponed
Dorothy Simcox
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer.
Off Peak
Freda
Because of her cheating husband, Elizabeth elicits patronizing "pity" from her so-called friends, but they (and he) don't suspect her plans.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Dionyza
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
Culpable de inocencia
Kirsten Lindstrom
Cuando el doctor Calgary visita a la familia Argyle para darles la agenda de Jack, se entera de que éste ha sido condenado y ejecutado por el asesinato de su esposa.
The Tragedy of Richard III
Duchess of York
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.
The Disappearance of Harry
Lizzy Webster
Harry Webster (David Lyon) is an apparently normal husband and father who resides in contemporary Nottingham, England, which was once host to a flourishing textile industry. One day, Harry leaves his house and vanishes. A note he left behind alludes to a double life he no longer wishes to lead. His wife Liz (Annette Crosbie) conducts a search for her husband. Her findings raise a disturbing question: Did Harry have anything to do with a series of recent factory bombings?
Jessie
Nanny
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980 season of BBC Play for Today.
La espada invencible
Abbess
Hawk, habiendo sufrido la ignominia de ver tanto a su padre como a su prometida morir a manos de su hermano, Voltan, se embarca en una búsqueda de compañeros de batalla para que le ayuden en su lucha por derrocar el reino del mal de su hermano y liberar a la abadesa.
The Misanthrope
Arsinoe
One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set in Paris in the 1920s.
Twelfth Night
Maria
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
El Señor de los Anillos
Galadriel (voice)
Adaptación en dibujos animados de la extraordinaria novela de Tolkien, centrada en la primera mitad de la trilogía: "The Fellowhip of the Ring" y la primera parte de "The Two Towers". En la Tierra Media, desde las verdes praderas de la Comarca, Frodo Bolsón, sobrino de Bilbo Bolsón, se embarca en una larga y peligrosa aventura para evitar que un anillo mágico que perteneció a su tío caiga ahora en poder del malvado Sauron, dueño de Mordor.
Langrishe, Go Down
Helen Langrishe
A fines de la década de 1930, tres solteronas solteras de mediana edad viven en su deteriorado patrimonio familiar en Irlanda. Otto Beck, un eterno estudiante de posgrado de Baviera con el hábito de hacer pomposas declamaciones, alquila la posada para trabajar en su tesis esotérica. Imogen Langrishe, la menos reprimida de las hermanas, comienza una aventura con Otto. Imogen se toma en serio la historia del amor, pero Otto solo disfruta del alojamiento barato y la comodidad de Imogen.
La zapatilla y la rosa: La historia de Cenicienta
Fairy Godmother
En el pequeño reino de Euphrania, el Rey y su corte esperan ansiosos que el príncipe Eduard se case. Pero el joven quiere casarse por amor y no por obligación. Tras la muerte de su padre, Cenicienta se convierte, en su propia casa, en la criada de su madrastra y de sus hermanastras. Pero su hada madrina le ayudará en sus duras tareas domésticas y, además, conseguirá que asista a una fiesta en palacio y conozca al príncipe. Sin embargo, cuando la magia desaparece, la única prueba que Eduard tiene de la existencia de Cenicienta es un pequeño zapato de cristal con el que intentará localizarla.
The General's Day
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
Sígueme
Miss Framer
Un banquero británico con problemas personales contrata a un singular detective privado (Topol) para que siga a su esposa estadounidense, una mujer de espíritu libre (Farrow), de quien sospecha que lo está engañando.
A Splinter of Ice
Joy
Fay Weldon's play about adultery, middle age, and ambition.
Killing Time
Douglas Willetts is a shrew of a man in his mid-40s, barely able to communicate and renting a bedroom in a typically working-class two up-two down. Only he has a bit of a past. For Douglas, every day is just a question of getting through it as painlessly as possible – and that usually means retreating to his bedroom. Is it in order to escape the mundanities of the present? Or to ruminate on his past?
The Lie
Katherine
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
Separate Tables
Miss Cooper
A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
Sky West and Crooked
Mrs. White
A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 years earlier.
The Bridal Path
1st Waitress
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.
Beyond The Pale
Cynthia
Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunts, a beautiful Irish country hotel. It's a place full of fond memories for all of them, but on this occasion their sense of ease and comfort is destroyed when a terrible secret is revealed.