Sheila Hancock

Sheila Hancock

Nacimiento : 1933-02-22, Blackgang, Isle of Wight, England, UK

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Sheila Hancock

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Edie
Edie
To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, an older lady decides to climb a mountain in Scotland.
The More You Ignore Me
Nan Wildgoose
Based on Jo Brand's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, The More You Ignore Me is a warm, comedy drama focusing on the life of an unconventional family in 1980s rural England. The film focuses on Gina, a young mother, whose efforts to be a loving mother and wife are undermined by her declining mental health. Things deteriorate when she develops an obsession with the local weatherman, which leads to an admission to the nearby psychiatric hospital. Over the years, as she grows up, her daughter Alice struggles to relate to her heavily medicated mum, and causes chaos when she comes up with a plan to reconnect with her, which divides the family forever and leads to a moving climax. Set to the songs of The Smiths, The More You Ignore Me provides a sometimes stark, yet comical insight into life within this quirky household, whilst addressing mental health issues and their impact on the family.
La milla oscura
Mary
Dos mujeres, recuperándose de una tragedia personal, hacen un viaje en barco por las Highlands escocesas para relajarse. Después de una carrera con los lugareños, su descanso relajante se convierte en una terrible experiencia infernal...
El maravilloso jardín secreto de Bella Brown
Mother Superior
Una mujer joven que sueña con ser autora infantil entabla amistad con un cascarrabias viejo, viudo y rico.
Versus: Ken Loach
Herself
Ken Loach, el maestro del cine social, ganador de la Palma de oro 2016 en Cannes por 'Yo, Daniel Blake', queda reflejado en este documental a través de su cine, con comentarios de colegas, amigos y familia.
Delicious
Recently released from prison, French chef Jacques pursues an obsession -- to leave his past behind and work for the great British chef Victor Ellwood. He knows Victor had an affair with his mother and may even be his dad. Working for iron-fisted Victor is back-breaking, but his existence is softened by the presence of a curious girl living in the downstairs flat. As he falls in love with her, he realises she not only has an aversion to restaurants, but food of all kinds. Is her eating disorder a force too resilient for anything, even love to cure?
Just Henry
Gran
It's 1950: 15-year old Henry Dodge lives with his mother Maureen and her new husband Bill. Encouraged by his embittered and meddling paternal grandmother, Henry refuses to accept Bill and wishes to keep alive the memory of his father Joey, a decorated Dunkirk hero killed by a deserter during an air raid. After new class-mate Grace and kindly school teacher Mrs Beaumont have persuaded Henry to forgive Paul Jeffries (the deserter's son), Joey appears claiming to have lost his memory and anxious to get his family back. But Grace is right to be suspicious of him, and the stories told by Henry's mother support her...
The Rain Has Stopped
Liz, a lonely widow,returns home from her holiday in Torquay with Damar, a Nepalese ex-Gurkha, whom she intends to marry. Her grown-up,divorced daughter and son are hostile to him because they never imagined Liz would find another man to replace their father, who died young. Her neighbour, bitter because she has been made redundant by cheaper, Eastern European labour, reports the couple to the council, losing Liz her benefits and Damar his job. Relations are strained with Liz's daughter using her grandchildren as weapons. Only when Damar leaves in the middle of the night do Liz's family realize how much she loves him and urge her to follow him and bring him back.
The Last Word Monologues
Three contemplative monologues about killing, written by Hugo Blick.
El niño con el pijama de rayas
Grandma Nathalie
Berlín, 1942. Bruno tiene ocho años y desconoce el significado de la Solución Final y del Holocausto. No es consciente de las pavorosas crueldades que su país, en plena guerra mundial, está infligiendo a los pueblos de Europa. Todo lo que sabe es que su padre -recién nombrado comandante de un campo de concentración- ha ascendido en el escalafón, y que ha pasado de vivir en una confortable casa de Berlín a una zona aislada. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Shamuel, un niño judío que vive una extraña existencia paralela al otro lado de la alambrada.
After Thomas
Granny Pat
Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with his dog, Thomas.
Yes
Aunt
Historia de un conflictivo romance entre una mujer blanca norteamericana (Joan Allen) y un hombre árabe (Simon Abkarian).
Bait
Pam Raeburn
When Jack Blake picks up a woman and her daughter stranded when their car breaks down, he is struck by the daughter's resemblance to his own murdered child. Jack sees an opportunity to unwittingly involve both women in a scheme which he hopes will unmask his daughter's killer. Written
Love or Money
Teresa
Two young people, Daniel and Samantha, are selected in a television show to marry. They have never seen each other ever. After the wedding ceremony took place on television, then married life really starts. To collect the price money of one million pounds, they have to stay together for at least six months.
The Russian Bride
Dora
Christopher, a middle-aged man who is obsessed with repairing old radios, marries the Russian bride Natasha. She comes to live with him and his mother Dora in his London house. Dora instigated the marriage in order to have someone look after her son when she dies. Natasha is bored as Christopher takes no sexual interest in her, and she is treated as a servant. Eddie, an out-of-work actor, stirs up the household when he befriends Christopher and Dora, in order to seduce Natasha.
Hold Back the Night
Vera
A young woman joins a group of protesters trying to stop the construction of a highway through a forest with the purpose of having sex with their leader. But when morning comes and the authorities show up to disband the protesters, she hits a man with a log. This causes the two to have to go on the run. With the help of a sickly, but sympathetic woman, the two slip through police roadblocks. Traveling with her, they learn she is an ex-army lesbian who just wants to see a final sunrise at the Orkney Islands before her death.
Alicia en el País de las Maravillas
Cook
Alicia está en su casa con sus padres y algunos invitados. Todos esperan la pequeña representación que la tímida Alicia ha preparado cuando, de repente, la pequeña decide huir de la casa presa de los nervios que no ha podido contener. En su huida, se cruzará con un enorme conejo blanco al que seguirá hasta su madriguera... desde donde entrará en un increíble mundo de mágicas aventuras. En su fantástico viaje, Alicia se encontrará con multitud de sorprendentes personajes que le darán inolvidables lecciones. Cuando, finalmente, llega a la corte del Croquet, el rey, furioso con su actitud, decretará: “Es hora de volver al mundo real”. Al despertarse en el bosque se dará cuenta que todo ha sido un sueño producto de su imaginación desbordante... o tal vez no.
Love and Death on Long Island
Mrs. Barker
Giles De'Ath is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with film star, Ronnie Bostock. He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. After that he travels to Long Island city where Ronnie lives and meets him, pretending that Ronnie is a great actor and that's why Giles admires him.
Dangerous Lady
No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable but notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all - and not everyone in the family think that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past - and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not make entirely of stone.
Astucias de mujer
Judith
Kate, una atractiva mujer, vive a la sombra de su marido, Alec Bolton, un famoso escritor que en realidad es un hombre egocéntrico e introvertido. Kate sueña con triunfar también con escritora, y acaba manteniendo un idilio extraconyugal con Vanni, un editor estadounidense que está a punto de publicar su primera novela.
My Kingdom for a Horse
Joan Deakin
Steve Deakin teaches history and is a foot soldier in the Sealed Knot Society. In a fortnight between two English Civil War battles he finds he faces challenges, both personal and professional.
Tres hombres y una pequeña dama
Vera
Tres hombres que comparten piso se ocupan de cuidar de la hija de uno de ellos. El cariño que sienten por la niña es tan fuerte que cuando la madre decide llevársela consigo a Londres, donde piensa casarse con su novio, los tres tratan de evitar la boda por todos los medios imaginables.
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
Helen A
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Terra Alpha, where the Seventh Doctor and Ace discover a society in which sadness is against the law - a law enforced zealously by the brightly uniformed Happiness Patrol. The planet is ruled by Helen A with the aid of her companion, Joseph C, and her carnivorous pet Stigorax, Fifi.
The Universe of Dermot Finn
Mother of Pearl
Dermot is in love with Pearl and is going to meet her family for the first time. But not everyone lives in the same world as us..
The Love Child
Edith
When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.
Buster: el robo del siglo
Mrs. Rothery
Un ladrón londinense, que ha participado en el robo del tren de Glasgow, se ha instalado en Acapulco con el botín conseguido. Poco tiempo después, se plantea volver a Londres para estar con su esposa.
Hawks
Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
Making Waves
Doris
A group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and constantly watches him saying he has a brain tumor. His problem is something else entirely.
The Remainder Man
Ellen
Jack is obsessed with nuclear armageddon and takes his wife, Ellen, and their children into a fallout shelter in their garden to wait out the atomic bomb.
The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales
Narrorator
Story is told by George Cole and Sheila Hancock ; adapted by Milton Subotsky from the original stories by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault. Contains Puss in Boots, The Ugly Duckling, Rapunzel, The Four Musicians, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Princess And The Pea
The Wildcats of St. Trinian's
Olga Vandemeer
The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.
Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
Self/Mrs. Lovett
Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process with the musical's director, composer and actors.
Take a Girl Like You
Martha Thompson
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a liking to her. But who will be the lucky one who wins her affections?
El aniversario
Karen Taggart
Tres hermanos que trabajan en el negocio familiar de la construcción ayudan a su autoritaria madre a celebrar el aniversario de su último marido.
Cómo gané la guerra
Mrs. Clapper's Friend
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.
Compensation Alice
Alice
Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.
Cuidado con Cleopatra
Senna Pod
Dos británicos son capturados y esclavizados por los invasores romanos y llevado a Roma. Hengist Pod crea inventos inútiles, mientras Horsa es un luchador valiente y astuto. En uno de sus primeros encuentros en Roma Hengist deja de ser confundido con un luchador, y se establece en la Guardia Real para proteger a Cleopatra. Cleo no lo quiere cerca y comienza a manipular para su desaparición repentina.
La bahía de las esmeraldas
Cynthia Gamble
Una niña (Hayley Mills) está de vacaciones en Creta y se ve envuelta en una red de contrabando de joyas. Uno de los pocos filmes de intriga producidos por Disney
Al caer la noche
Dora Parkoe
Danny es un psicópata de la clase trabajadora que se muda con una viuda rica para redecorar su casa, mientras tanto, "juega" con la hija y la criada mientras la viuda duerme.
The Girl on the Boat
Jane Hubbard
Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his friends to his posh new digs. Among the invitees is the title character, played by the delightful comedienne Millicent Martin. All sorts of slapstick chaos ensues, but Wisdom manages to save the day before things get hopelessly out of hand. Like Jerry Lewis, Norman Wisdom is an acquired taste, but he's worth sampling at least once. ...The Girl on the Boat
Twice Round the Daffodils
Dora
Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.
Zafarrancho en la marina
Doris
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.
Doctor in Love
Librarian (uncredited)
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.
Light Up the Sky!
Theatre Act
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey brothers (Benny Hill and Tommy Steele) create havoc with their light-fingers and light-loving with the local girls, whilst Smithy (Johnny Briggs) pines for his sweetheart.
From This Day Forward
Her
Sheila Hancock stars as Ellie; a woman gathering her strength on the morning of the hardest day of her life. Unwaveringly, she prepares to perform her last act of love. As she navigates her feelings and the very practical considerations of getting this done, she finds that another big decision is to be made.