Virginia McKenna

Virginia McKenna

Nacimiento : 1931-06-07, London, England, UK

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dame Virginia Anne McKenna, DBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with The Born Free Foundation.

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Virginia McKenna
Virginia McKenna

Películas

Wings
Dora
A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War II.
Widow's Walk
Myrtle
Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.
Ethel & Ernest
Lady of the House (voice)
Esta película animada dibujada a mano, basada en la galardonada novela gráfica de Raymond Briggs, es una representación íntima y cariñosa de la vida y la época de sus padres, dos londinenses comunes que viven a través de eventos extraordinarios.
Golden Years
Martha
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's frank and open conversations combine with personal interviews from some of the greats who have worked with him.
Leona Calderon
Leona Calderon is a retiring altruistic music lover earning her living cleaning establishments and private homes. Having a fun loving nature she is fancied by her landlord who dreams of dancing with her to her favorite tune. Another admirer is a homeless man who gets endears by her jolly disposition and not by her loose pennies for a can of lager. She befriends an isolated elderly English lady, a migrant worker with no visa and a charitable middle age woman. As a breadwinner she looks forward to her much awaited retirement which is now doomed following a diagnoses of cancer. The island where she comes from where she plans to spend her life with her family becomes just a dream. She now faces a dilemma between losing her hard earned savings to medical expenses or losing the time with her family if she spends her retirement in a country where her treatment is free. Leona's wit and fun nature will make you smile, laugh and cry. What happens to this happy lady in this funny world?
Love/Loss
Mary
A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apart, is there still love between them? How have their separate experiences shaped their lives over this long period apart, and is there still time for them to share the happiness that has so long been denied? As Mary and Joe confront the mistakes of their past and share memories of a previously unspoken love, their reunion appears to take them on a path to happiness. But the gentle narrative hides a twist that will challenge any preconceptions of love and loss.
The Whistle-Blower
Theresa Elliot
Laura, trabajadora de un banco de Londres, se pone constantemente a ella y a su familia en peligro mortal tras denunciar irregularidades en las cuentas internacionales de su banco con el NCIS. Descubre que el dinero pertenece a carteles de droga de Sudamérica, y su familia y ella deben acogerse al programa de protección de testigos y ser reubicados.
Dos vidas en un instante
James's Mother
Una joven (Paltrow), el mismo día que pierde su trabajo, descubre la infidelidad de su novio. La posibilidad de que una circunstancia nimia - perder el metro- le depare un destino completamente diferente origina esta curiosa historia sobre el azar y la fuerza del destino.
The Scold's Bridle
Violet Orloff
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.
Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Violet
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets...
¿Qué hago yo aquí si mañana me caso?
Flora
En una despedida de soltero, al novio lo drogan y abandonan en un lugar lejano y desértico de Escocia. La situación ya es desesperada, pero es que además su boda es al día siguiente...
The Lady in Waiting
Miss Peach
In 1970s New York, a drag queen and elderly woman meet during a blackout. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Duel of Hearts
Lady Brecon
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
Puccini
Elvira
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
The Case of the Frightened Lady
Lady Lebanon Amersham
A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.
Lazo Mortal
Woman in Ballroom
El Dr. Craig Manning es un afamado físico, enamorado de su colega Julie. Lo tiene todo para ser feliz, pero un oscuro secreto se lo impide: su hermano siamés Keith, al que creía muerto en la infancia, está vivo y se ha convertido en un sangriento asesino, cuyas muertes intenta imputar a Craig, basándose en su increíble parecido.
Julius Caesar
Portia
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
La desaparición
Catherine
Thriller sobre un asesino a sueldo cuya esposa ha desaparecido. Cuando es contratado por una organización internacional para llevar a cabo un golpe, sospecha que están relacionados con su desaparición.
Holocausto 2000
Eva Caine
Charles Caine, es un alto ejecutivo que planea construir una planta termonuclear en Oriente Medio. Una periodista lo percatará de que su propio hijo Angel puede llegar a ser el Anticristo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Peter Pan
Mrs. Darling
Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, starring Mia Farrow as Peter Pan and Danny Kaye as Captain Hook, and with Sir John Gielgud narrating. Julie Andrews sang one of the songs, "Once Upon a Bedtime", off-camera over the opening credits. It aired on NBC at 7:30pm on Sunday, December 12, 1976, capping off the program's 25th year on the air. The program did not use the score written for the highly successful Mary Martin version which had previously been televised many times on NBC. Instead, it featured 14 new and now forgotten songs, written for the production by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.
La bella y la bestia
Lucy
Adaptación televisiva del célebre cuento de Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, con George C. Scott (nominado al Emmy) en el papel de Bestia.
The Gathering Storm
Clemmie Churchill
Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
Swallows and Amazons
Mrs. Walker
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.
The Lion at World's End
The astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of Harrods, then the cellar of an antique shop in London and, ultimately the wilds of Africa.
Waterloo
Duchess of Richmond
El 18 de junio de 1815 tuvo lugar la batalla de Waterloo, en la que el ejército de Napoleón Bonaparte fue derrotado por fuerzas británicas, holandesas y alemanas, comandadas por el duque de Wellington. Esta película recrea aquellos hechos que se produjeron con la presencia en la sombra de Luis XVIII.
Ring of Bright Water
Mary MacKenzie
Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
The Lions Are Free
The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.
An Elephant Called Slowly
Ginny
Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.
The Admirable Crichton
Lady Mary
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs around on a South Pacific island. The usable hierarchy in a upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the communities leader.
Nacida libre
Joy Adamson
Después de una ronda de vigilancia por la selva de Kenia, George Adamson lleva a su mujer, Joy, tres cachorros de león a cuyos padres se ha visto forzado a matar. Pronto los animales reinan en la casa, sobre todo la pequeña “Elsa”, que se convierte en la constante compañía y la ama del hogar. Las autoridades intervienen para hacerle ver que los animales suponen un peligro creciente, hasta que el matrimonio Adamson se decide a llevarlos al aeropuerto de Nairobi para internarlos en un zoo. Sólo “Elsa” se queda con ellos.
Two Living, One Dead
Helen Berger
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
Misterio en el barco perdido
Janet Taggart
John Sand, capitán de un barco de rescate, encuentra al carguero 'Mary Deare' a la deriva. En su interior se encuentra escondido Gideo Patch, un hombre misterioso y algo aturdido que ha presenciado los hechos y conoce las razones por las que el buque ha perdido el rumbo. Además, está seguro de que su testimonio evitará que los dueños del barco estafen a la compañía de seguros.
Storm Over Jamaica
Judy Waring
A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.
Agente secreto SZ
Violette Szabo
Londres, Inglaterra, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras vivir una trágica experiencia vital, la joven Violette Szabo se une al Ejecutivo de Operaciones Especiales y cruza las líneas enemigas alemanas como agente secreto para ayudar a un grupo de la Resistencia francesa.
The Smallest Show on Earth
Jean Spenser
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
Las vírgenes de Wimpole Street
Henrietta Barrett
En la Inglaterra victoriana del siglo XIX, la joven poetisa Elizabeth Barret vive recluida en su casa bajo el estricto control de un padre tiránico. Sus desgracias se ven recompensadas cuando se enamora del poeta Robert Browning... Remake de un film de mismo título de 1934 con Norma Shearer y Charles Laughton.
Mi vida empieza en Malasia
Jean Paget
Un grupo de mujeres inglesas, hechas prisioneras por los japoneses durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), tiene que ser trasladado de un campo de concentración a causa del elevado número de prisioneros. Custodiado por soldados japoneses, el grupo se pone en marcha a través de selvas pantanosas. Las enfermedades y el cansancio harán estragos tanto en las prisioneras como en los soldados nipones. En una aldea, de manera inesperada, encuentran a un aviador australiano que es un luchador nato.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Helen Randall
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Simba
Mary Crawford
Alan Howard se va a África para visitar a su hermano, pero cuando llega se entera de que ha sido asesinado por los Mau Mau. Decide entonces quedarse para hacerse cargo de la granja de su hermano y, además, para reanudar su relación amorosa con María, una joven que vive en África con sus padres. Pero los Mau Mau siguen constituyenndo una amenaza, y en este punto María y Alan se encuentran en bandos opuestos.
The Oracle
Shelagh
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
Mar cruel
Julie Hallam
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
Father's Doing Fine
Catherine
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending birth and the love affairs of the other three daughters; Bicky, with eccentric student Roly; Gerda, married to artist Wilfred; and Catherine, in love with the landlord's son, Clifford Magill. In addition, the impoverished Lady Buckering is being courted by Dr. Drew. Written by Les Adams