Liz Fraser
Nacimiento : 1930-08-14, Southwark, London, England, UK
Muerte : 2018-09-06
Historia
Elizabeth Joan Winch (14 August 1930 – 6 September 2018), known professionally as Liz Fraser, was an English actress, best known for her comedy roles as a provocative 'dumb blonde' in British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s including the Carry On films and the Confessions Of and Adventures Of movies.
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Peretti sets out to find out what happened to the game that obsessed him as a kid. In this documentary, he presents an eye-opening account of the sport's heady popularity in the 1970s and 1980s.
Self
A profile of the comedy actor, best known for starring in many films of the Carry On franchise, with contributions from family, friends, co-stars and fans. The programme looks at his early life in South Africa, his start in films as a heavy in 1940s and 1950s crime thrillers, and his big break appearing in Hancock's Half Hour on radio and TV.
Mrs. Evans
During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.
Flossie
La joven Panthea Vyne se enamora de una apuesto bandolero que la salva de su brutal marido, al que mata en un duelo justo. Más tarde, cuando Carlos II de Inglaterra es restaurado en el trono, ella va a la Corte, pero allí se convierte en enemiga de la ex amante del rey, lo que pondrá su vida en peligro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mrs. Dewey
When the widowed Mrs Bing goes into hospital for a routine operation, she little realises she will soon make a dramatic bid for the most essential freedom of all.
Maisie / Violet (archive footage)
A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventures of series!
Woman in Cinema
Es un documental de ficción (un falso documental), trata sobre la banda de punk rock británica Sex Pistols. La película cuenta una versión estilizada y ficticia de la formación, fama y ruptura de la banda, desde el punto de vista del mánager Malcolm McLaren.
Mrs. Dixon
Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.
Violet Burke
While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.
Mrs. Antonia Whitemonk
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind.
Sandra
Handsome young Doctor Boyd has a problem on his hands. In fact, he has several and they are all female and all attractive.
Mrs. Chalmers
Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to teach, young Timmy finds that his female students are far more interested in keeping their eyes on him than on the road.
Maisie
Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women.
Sylvia Ramsden
Professors Vrooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. With a randy Major owning the site, a snobbish mother, and the two professors' constant innuendos, the film ends with a sinking caravan site and a striptease performance as a replacement for the cabaret night.
Airport Passenger
A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain
Audrey Lawson
A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada with him. He also meets up with two local children and discovers that his father is instead planning a bank heist.
Mavis Pike
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
Mrs. McCarthy
Aburrida por la vida cómoda que lleva en Chelsea, Polly se muda al monótono barrio obrero de Battersea, en Londres, cerca de la estación de ferrocarril Clapham Junction, y toma un puesto en una fábrica de caramelos, en donde se hace amiga de dos hermanas, Rube y Sylvie. Después de mudarse a un piso sucio, Polly va a comprar muebles a una tienda de chatarra y se encuentra con Peter, un joven empleado del lugar. Él la invita a salir y ella acepta. A pesar de que Polly está fascinada por su nuevo entorno, Peter sólo ve en él pobreza y fealdad. Algún tiempo después, Polly se entera de que Rube está embarazada de su novio Terry, y la acompaña a un abortista de mala reputación. Rube finalmente anuncia su compromiso con Terry, pero en la noche de la celebración, Terry muere en un accidente de motocicleta. Angustiada por los problemas de sus amigas,
Molly Thompson
Por problemas económicos, una pareja de recién casados no tiene más remedio que ir a vivirse temporalmente con los padres de él. Y claro, la luna de miel en casa de padres y suegros se prolonga demasiado.
Miss Slightly
A group of teenagers take jobs at a holiday camp for the summer and enter a TV talent show
Sheila
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un rico y cobarde oficial de la Marina, que se mantiene alejado de la guerra en una base militar norteamericana, se enamora de una viuda inglesa. Esta historia de amor se ve amenazada cuando el oficial debe cumplir una peligrosa misión, previa al desembarco de Normandía.
Sally
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!
Pvt. Suzie Tidmarsh
While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
Joyce Corby
Albert, a cheeky, womanising, door-to door salesman, with a never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude, lives his life for the moment, and with no thought of his future, or the consequences of his actions on the people he encounters.
Jo Lake
Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
Glad Trimble
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.
Pearl Hoskins
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
Girl with Daisies (Uncredited)
Horace Pope y Pedlar Pascoe son dos soldados de la RAF, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pero no destacan precisamente por su interés por hacer méritos. Son más aficionados a realizar pequeñas estafas con las que sacar algún dinero de sus inocentes víctimas. Aunque intentan evitar a toda costa cualquier esfuerzo extraordinario, acaban siendo enviados a realizar una misión secreta de cierta importancia. A pesar de su torpeza, y casi por casualidad, acaban teniendo éxito en la misión, y a su vuelta son considerados héroes.
Miranda Kennaway
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
Daphne Pink
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
Sandra Marsh
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
Delia King
It's non stop romps as the Carry On team deliver the goods in one of the rudest and funniest of the Carry On films. The cast are all on top form as a bunch of no-hopers who join an agency in the search for a job. The anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimps tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting and demolishing a house.
Waitress
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
Betty
En la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII, los fuertes impuestos exigidos por los terratenientes obligaron a los pescadores honestos a hacer contrabando. Siguiendo la tradición de sus ancestros franceses, estos pescadores lucharon por sobrevivir y no hicieron daño a nadie. Pero hubo otros que iban a la mar para atraer a los barcos a sus dominios, matar a los supervivientes y robar su carga...
WPC Susan Partridge
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
Ethel
La prisión de Huntleigh es un auténtico paraíso para los reclusos, sobre todo para tres de ellos que incluso planean cometer un valioso robo de diamantes, sin que nadie llegue a sospechar de ellos.
NAAFI Girl
Norman Puckle (Norman Wisdom), es vendedor, de bote en bote, de la tienda Dalton’s. Es un tipo bien intencionado pero algo torpe, y luego de ser rechazado por su enamorada Marlene, intenta suicidarse pero falla en todos sus intentos. Salvado, por un ofical de la marina, de caer desde un acantilado (su último intento de abandonar este mundo), su salvador lo convence para que ingrese a la armada prometiéndole que podrá tener muy cerca a numerosas chicas… pero antes tendrá muy cerca un buen número de líos.
Fay Sellars
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
Leonora
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
Lulu
The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.
Cynthia Kite
El ingenuo Stanley Windrush regresa de la guerra, y piensa abrirse paso con exito en los negocios. Para su desilusión, se da cuenta que tendrá que empezar desde cero, y pronto se verá envuelto en una pelea entre la gerencia de la empresa y la asociación sindical a la que pertenece, que le utilizaran como una herramienta en su lucha por alcanzar el poder, y que cuando se convierte en un obstáculo, se unirán para destruirlo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.
Edie
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble their way from army camp to camp.
(uncredited)
Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée, decides to come to England to seek his fortune and finds fortunes are not quite so easy to come by.
Worker in Holden's Factory (uncredited)
Durante la II Guerra Mundial en 1940, después de realizar un sabotaje delante de sus líneas, una unidad británica en Francia pierde a su oficial. El cabo se encuentra entonces con la responsabilidad de liderar al grupo y encontrar a su unidad, en plena retirada. Mientras, el cerco sobre Dunkerque se termina de cerrar, y tanto civiles como militares, al otro lado del canal, tratan por todos los medios de socorrer a los soldados cercados. (FILMAFFINITY)
Tea Lady
The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.
Chambermaid (uncredited)
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
Girl in Cinema
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.
Girl on the Bridge
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image. he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.