Dandy Nichols
Nacimiento : 1907-05-21, Fulham, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1986-02-06
Historia
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Dandy Nichols (21 May 1907 – 6 February 1986) was an English actress most noted for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part.
She appeared in numerous films, which included Carry On Doctor, Ladies Who Do, The Holly and the Ivy, The Vikings, the Beatles' film Help!, Georgy Girl, Doctor in Clover, The Birthday Party, The Bed Sitting Room, O Lucky Man!, Confessions of a Window Cleaner and Britannia Hospital amongst others.
After finding fame in Till Death Do Us Part, Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite Alastair Sim in William Trevor's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances in Flint, The Tea Ladies and Bergerac. Onstage, she appeared in Ben Travers's comedy Plunder, as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud in David Storey's Home, in both London and on Broadway.
Florrie: The Workers
Comedia que trata sobre el personal de un hospital que, atemorizado, se prepara para la visita de nada más y nada menos que la reina de Inglaterra. El centro Britannia Hospital va a inaugurar un nuevo ala en su edificio y la soberana del país decide estar presente ese día. El pánico se extiende por todo el hospital, ante la visión de todo lo que puede ocurrir durante el esperado acontecimiento. La cocinera se niega a preparar el menú del día, los pintores se resisten a terminar su trabajo y los manifestantes que quieren derrocar a un dictador que se encuentra hospitalizado en el centro serán los encargados de crispar los ánimos al máximo nivel.
Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) es un periodista que comienza un documental sobre un hospital. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mrs. Druce
Kate lives fiercely alone, cut off the from present and haunted by the memories of grief from her past.
Miss Hodge
Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo. Set in Paris, Otto and Leo both fall in love with Gilda. She cannot make up her mind which man she loves, so the three decide to live together in a platonic friendship. Among Coward's trademark sparkling wit, the play explores deeper themes including infidelity, the pressures of fame on an unstable mind, and morality (or immorality) of a menage a trois.
Henrietta
A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain
Mrs. Lea
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
Marjorie
Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when he discovers his beloved ex-Army father has a secret.
Tea Lady / Neighbour
Original y surrealista crítica al capitalismo a través de las aventuras de un joven vendedor de café. Brillante reparto. Música de Alan Price, candidato en 1974 a un Globo de Oro por la mejor banda sonora y galardonado por la Academia Británica con el premio "Anthony Asquith". Arthur Lowe fue elegido en el mismo año, mejor actor secundario por la Academia Británica.
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
Else Garnett
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home', but also with the long commute to work, the long walk to the corner pub, his long-suffering wife, rebellious daughter and her philandering, constantly unemployed husband.
Marjorie
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
Prinzessin Zasekina
El adolescente Vladimir se siente subyugado, desde la primera visita de cortesía, por su vecina, la arruinada y extravagante princesa Zenaida, durante un verano de tempestades internas y crueles revelaciones. Pero Zenaida no le corresponde, y Vladimir ve como se rompe su frágil universo infantil y la inexistente armonía del núcleo familiar, ya que a su desamor se une el conflicto entre padres e hijos en una Rusia donde conviven el refinamiento afrancesado y la barbarie social... Nominada por Suiza a la mejor película de habla no inglesa.
Mrs Ethel Shroake
Inmediatamente después de la extraña y brevísima Tercera Guerra Mundial, están empezando a manifestarse las extrañas consecuencias de un accidente nuclear: un embarazo de 17 meses y, sobre todo, extrañas mutaciones entre los supervivientes, que se convierten en loros, armarios o incluso en una sala de estar con cama como le ha ocurrido a Lord Fortnum (Ralph Richardson). (FILMAFFINITY)
Else Garnett
The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London Blitz and beyond.
Meg Bowles
Stanley recibe la inesperada visita de dos misteriosos y amenazadores desconocidos que se ofrecen para ser los anfitriones de su fiesta de cumpleaños. Durante la celebración, lo obligan a contestar preguntas absurdas y a levantarse y sentarse continuamente. Finalmente, lo secuestran.
Mrs. Roper
El popular Dr. Kilmore es despedido después de ser descubierto en una situación comprometida en la azotea de la casa de las enfermeras. Los pacientes están decididos a no perderlo.
1st Old Lady
Parodia del cine bélico. Segunda Guerra Mundial. Narra las peripecias de un inepto militar que dirige una compañía de inadaptados. El teniente Goodbody (Crawford) intenta suplir su falta de experiencia con un entusiamo desbordante. Por eso, cuando le ordenan construir un campo de criquet en el Norte de África, en pleno desierto, cien kilómetros por detrás de las líneas enemigas, no se lo piensa dos veces y acomete la empresa incluso arriesgando la vida de sus hombres.
Hospital Nurse
Georgy es una mujer soltera, poco atractiva, por la que nunca se ha interesado un hombre. Un día, el jefe de su padre, un hombre de mediana edad, le propone que se convierta en su amante. Mientras considera la idea, su compañera de cuarto se queda embarazada de su nuevo amante, Jos, del cual Georgy acabará enamorándose. (FILMAFFINITY)
This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as a vulnerable target by an insurance salesman who suggests precautions, including buying insurance. Will the works be done in time and sufficient to stop the robbers?
Patient with Kidney Stones
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.
Woman Flooded by Milk
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues
Neighbour
"Help" fue la segunda película que Richard Lester hizo con los Beatles, una comedia que simboliza el cine más libre, enloquecido y pop de los años 60.
Woman in Cemetery (Uncredited)
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Orphanage Superintendant
Siglo XVIII. Se basa en una novela de Daniel Defoe sobre las aventuras de Moll Flanders, una chica que empezó trabajando como doncella, fue después esposa de un rico banquero, acompañante de un conde, cómplice de una banda de ladrones de cuyo jefe se enamoró. Moll Flanders va dando tumbos por el mundo en busca de un amor que la ayude a sobrevivir.
Maud Peterson
A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
Mrs Stanley
An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband's relationship with his best friend.
Mrs. Merryweather
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Molly
An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker.
Mrs. Cundall (as Dandy Nicholls)
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Bridget
En la Alta Edad Media, los vikingos o normandos (hombres del Norte) adoraban a Odin, el dios pagano de la guerra, que los guiaba a través de los mares cada vez que emprendían sus habituales incursiones de saqueo. Einar y Eric, hijos ambos del rey vikingo Ragnar -aunque ignoraban su parentesco-, se odiaban profundamente, pero se vieron obligados a luchar juntos para rescatar a la princesa Morgana, de la que ambos estaban enamorados, de las garras del rey de Inglaterra.
Mrs. Tucker
En un pequeño laboratorio británico, el Dr Laird y su personal han creado un aparato que genera un campo magnético ultra-intenso. Inexplicablemente, el aparato produce un efecto a distancia que transforma el tamaño de algunos insectos. Una noche, despues de una fuerte tormenta, el pueblo de Bryerly Woods se verá amenazado por los efectos del aparato, a la vez que un extraño hombre aparece en el distrito.
Lady in Outpatients Dept.
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.
Stall Attendant (uncredited)
El cabecilla de una peligrosa banda escapa de prisión para buscar un misterioso tesoro que se encuentra enterrado en la mansión de una viuda, que se prepara para casarse con un hombre. De repente, ella comienza a recibir misteriosas fotos de su difunto cónyuge, quien fue dado por desaparecido, por lo que podría estar vivo. Asustada, entrega las fotos a la policía, que iniciará una investigación a fin de esclarecer el misterio.
Kitchen-hand
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.
Mrs. Price
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
Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one of the dustmen pursues a romance with a housemaid he has met on his round. Remake of a 1936 film of the same title which had also been directed by Maclean Rogers. Wally Patch who had written and starred in the earlier film, appears in a small role in the remake.
Mrs. Gamble (Uncredited)
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
Mrs. Elton
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
Maud Hodge
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
Nurse Carey's Landlady (uncredited)
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
Charwoman
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Charwoman
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
Mrs. Harris
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Mrs. Harris
The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.
Mrs. Clarke
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
Mrs. Furness
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
Third Landlady
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
Neighbour
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
Barmaid
Scotland Yard se moviliza con el fin de encontrar donantes de sangre para una chica que agoniza.
Ada
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
Mrs. Crabtree
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
Waitress
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
Mrs. Marshall
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
Bit Part
A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Mrs. Johnson
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.
Aunt Edie Hopkins
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
Caroline
Historia del explorador Robert Falcon Scott y su intento de ser el primero en llegar al Polo Sur.
Mrs. Burrell
Ligera comedia amorosa en la que un playboy que vive en una zona vacacional presume de que no hay mujer que se le pueda resistir. Sin embargo, su ego cae por los suelos cuando conoce a una actriz que está por la zona de incógnito, y que no parece hacerle demasiado caso. Ante tamaña afrenta, el hombre decide seducirla a cualquier precio... incluido el matrimonio.
Mrs. Patterson
El matrimonio Baines es personal de servicio de una embajada. La pareja cuida de Felipe, que es el hijo del embajador. El señor Baines (Ralph Richardson) y el pequeño son dos compañeros inseparables pero la señora Baines (Sonia Dresdel) trata de una manera dura y autoritaria al pequeño. Baines se enamora de una secretaria de la embajada. Felipe intenta ocultar el secreto. Pero la mujer se entera de lo ocurrido por la indiscreción del pequeño. Poco después, el señor Baines es acusado de matar a su esposa, que cae por las escaleras. Estrenada el 31 de Agosto 1948 en el Festival de Venecia.
