Maggie Smith
出生 : 1934-12-28, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
略歴
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. She has had an extensive career on stage, film, and television which began in the mid-1950s. Smith has appeared in more than 60 films and over 70 plays, and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the performing arts, and a Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to drama.
Smith began her career on stage as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. For her work on the London stage, she has won a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards: for The Private Ear, and The Public Eye (both 1962), Hedda Gabler (1970), Virginia (1981), The Way of the World (1984), Three Tall Women (1994) and A German Life (2019). She received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives (1975) and Night and Day (1979), before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. She appeared in Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra (1976) and Macbeth (1978), and West End productions of A Delicate Balance (1997) and The Breath of Life (2002). She received the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010.
On screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go (1958), for which she received her first nomination for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award. She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She is one of only seven actresses to have won in both categories. She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, including for A Private Function (1984) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1988), a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for Tea with Mussolini (1999), and three Golden Globe Awards. She received four other Oscar nominations that were for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1986), and Gosford Park (2001).
Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Her other films include Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973), Death on the Nile (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), and The Lady in the Van (2015). She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria, to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, and starred as Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, on Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she won three Emmys, her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award, and her third Golden Globe. Her honorary film awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012, and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016.
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Self (archive footage)
The first ever feature documentary about one of the most talented, accomplished and multi-faceted artists of the 20th Century. An exploration of Coward’s expansive career which features credits across the stage and screen, including Brief Encounter, Blithe Spirit, and Private Lives.
Brunhilde Pomsel
Life about the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
Herself
A look at Dame Maggie Smith's life from a two-up two-down in Essex to Broadway and Hollywood. Starring in more than 60 films and 70 plays across her 70-year career, Maggie's incredible determination and talent landed her among the elite.
Violet Crawley
1928年、イギリス北東部にある邸宅ダウントン。グランサム伯爵ロバート(ヒュー・ボネヴィル)らは、他界した三女の夫トム(アレン・リーチ)とモード・バッグショー(イメルダ・スタウントン)の娘との結婚を祝福していた。一方、長女メアリー(ミシェル・ドッカリー)は傷みが目立つ屋敷の修繕費に苦慮していたところ、屋敷で映画撮影をしたいとのオファーを受ける。さらにロバートは、母バイオレット(マギー・スミス)が南フランスの別荘を相続したことに驚き、そのいきさつに疑問を抱いた彼は家族と共に別荘へ向かう。
(archive footage)
A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.
Aunt Ruth
父親を捜し出し、希望をもたらす贈り物を持ち帰るため、長く危険な旅に出た少年ニコラス。運命に導かれるように、エルフが暮らす辺境の地にたどり着くが...。
An hour long special hosted by Derek Hough and filmed at the historic Highclere Castle in England. Hough talks to the cast about what made the series so unique and appealing to millions, as well as how the series easily segues into the feature film.
Violet Crawley
世代交代が進むなか、国王夫妻をダウントン・アビーに迎える栄誉な機会の準備に奔走するクローリー家の面々と使用人たち。だが想定外の問題が次々と巻き起こる。
Herself
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
Lady Bluebury (voice)
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renown detective, Sherlock Gnomes, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
Herself
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
Reading (voice)
The first revival of Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych to music by Max Richter, inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf.
Herself
Theatre director Robin Phillips rehearses actor Mark McKinney over the course of 3 years.
Miss Shepherd
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Muriel Donnelly
ベスト・エキゾチック・マリーゴールド・ホテル」には空室が1つしかなく、2人の新入社員の宿泊場所に困っていたソニーは、2つ目のホテルを開くという拡張主義的な夢を抱いていた。
Mathilde Girard
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Mrs. Sullen
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.
Jean Horton
第一線を退いた音楽家たちが生活している「ビーチャム・ハウス」では、経営難のホーム存続を懸けてコンサートの準備に追われていた。そこで余生を過ごすレジー（トム・コートネイ）、シシー（ポーリーン・コリンズ）、ウィルフ（ビリー・コノリー）たちのもとに、かつてのカルテット仲間だったものの確執を残して去っていったプリマドンナのジーン（マギー・スミス）が入居する。コンサートを控えたメンバーは、疎遠だった彼女との再会に当惑するが……。
Muriel Donnelly
ジョン・マッデン監督が、ジュディ・デンチら実力派ベテラン俳優陣を迎えた群像コメディー。人生の終盤を迎えそれぞれに事情を抱える男女7人が、快適な老後を送るため移住したインドで織り成す人間模様を描く。
「マリーゴールド・ホテルで、穏やかで心地良い日々を-」という宣伝に魅力を感じ、イギリスからインドに移住してきたシニア世代の男女7人。夫を亡くしたイヴリン（ジュディ・デンチ）をはじめ、それぞれに事情を抱える彼らを待ち受けていたのは、おんぼろホテルと異文化の洗礼だった。そんな周りの様子を尻目にイヴリンは、街に繰り出しほどなく仕事を見つけ……。
Minerva McGonagall
魔法界における善と悪の間で起こる戦いは本格的な交戦へとエスカレートする。この争いは今までで最も危険なものであり、もはや誰の身も安全ではない。しかしながらヴォルデモートとの最終決戦の時、最後の犠牲を払わなければならないのはハリー・ポッターなのである。
そして、ここに全てが終結する。
Self / Minerva McGonagall
One from a series of documentaries on the making of the Harry Potter cinematic universe.
Lady Bluebury (voice)
A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
Linnet
A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
Agatha Rose Doherty
イギリスの田舎町。父が戦争に行ったグリーン家では、母が子どもたちの面倒を見ながら農園を切り盛りしていた。そんなある日、子どもたちのいとこに当たる兄妹が戦火を避けて疎開してくる。だが都会育ちの彼らとグリーン家の兄妹は最初からそりが合わず、毎日けんかばかり。母親が困り果てたとき、どこからともなく不気味な風貌の子守、ナニー・マクフィーが現われ、いがみ合う子どもたちに厳しいレッスンを課す。
Minerva McGonagall
ヴォルデモート卿の支配力が強大になっていくなか、ハリーとダンブルドア校長は、ヴォルデモートの防御を解く手がかりを探るため、極めて重要な情報を握っているダンブルドアの旧友で元同僚ホラス・スラグホーンを学校に迎え入れる。
Mary Gilbert
A young man ushers an older woman into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when, as a young girl, she met a stranger who affected her life forever.
Minerva McGonagall
ホグワーツ魔法魔術学校の5年生になったハリーは、最近、ヴォルデモート卿のうわさを聞かないことに気付く。そんな折、魔法省は学校にお目付役として新しく防衛術を教える教師を送り込む。その授業を不満に思ったハリーは親友のハーマイオニーらと“ダンブルドア軍団”を結成する。
Lady Gresham
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
Grace Hawkins
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
Minerva McGonagall
ホグワーツ魔法魔術学校の4年生になったハリー・ポッター。今年ホグワーツで伝説の“三大魔法学校対抗試合”が行われることになり、他校の生徒たちが大挙してやってきた。
Janet
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
Minerva McGonagall
その名を聞くだけで誰もが震え上がるアズカバン刑務所。そこには史上最強の凶悪犯と言われるシリウス・ブラックが収監されていた。ところが彼は脱獄し、しかもハリーの命を狙っているという……。
Mrs. Emily Delahunty
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
Minerva McGonagall
ハリーは学校での最初の１年を終え、夏休みをダーズリー一家のもとで過ごしていた。ハリーが相変わらず意地悪な一家に嫌気がさしていたある日、突然ドビーという“屋敷しもべ妖精”が現れる。ドビーはホグワーツへ戻らないよう警告するが、ハリーはそれを聞かずに、助けに来てくれたロンと共にダーズリー家を抜け出した。そして新学期。晴れて２年生となったハリーとロンは、もうひとりの親友ハーマイオニーとも再会し、いつもの充実した学校生活を送っていたが、やがて校内で不気味な出来事が次々と起こり始める…。
Herself (uncredited)
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
Caro Eliza Bennett
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Minerva McGonagall
両親の死後、親戚の家に預けられたハリー・ポッター少年。そこでは階段下の物置部屋をあてがわれ、何かとこき使われる毎日。そんなある日、ハリーの11歳の誕生日に一通の手紙が届いた。中身はなんと、魔法魔術学校の入学許可証だった。実は、ハリーの両親は優秀な魔法使いだったのだ。手紙に導かれるままホグワーツ魔法魔術学校にたどり着いたハリーは、さっそく魔法使いになるための勉強を始める。ロンとハーマイオニーという友達もでき、楽しい毎日を送るハリーだったが、やがて学校に隠された驚くべき秘密に気づくのだった……。
Constance Trentham
１９３２年イギリス。ゴスフォード・パークと呼ばれるカントリー・ハウスでパーティが催され続々と貴族が集まって来た。傲慢なかれらのお楽しみはキジ撃ちと豪華な食事と他人のゴシップ。中には破産の崖っぷちにたつ人間もいて、裏では欲望がどろどろと絡み合う。一方屋敷の「階下」では数え切れないほどの使用人が「階上」の貴族たちの様子を伺っている。そんな中で、突然起きた密室殺人。容疑者は屋敷にいる全員。果たして犯人は？その目的は？
Lady Myra Naylor
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece enjoys romantic frolics with a soldier and a hidden guerrilla fighter. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with considerable wit and unwanted advice.
Queen Alexandra
Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, their estate manager, the men advanced into battle, were enveloped in a strange mist and never seen again.
Lady Hester Random
Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
Lily Marlowe
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.
Aunt Lavinia Penniman
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only because of her inheritence.
Gunilla Garson Goldberg
長年連れ添った夫に捨てられた3人の女性。彼女たちが結束し、元夫たちに復讐を開始する！ ゴールディ・ホーン、ベット・ミドラー、ダイアン・キートンという、アメリカを代表する3人の女優競演でおくる痛快コメディ。
Duchess of York
いつも悪態をついて国王一族の反感を買っているリチャード三世。王位継承を目論む彼は、兄を殺害するなど邪魔者の排除を開始したが……。英国皇室の残忍な陰謀劇を描いた歴史スペクタクル。
Mother Superior
ウーピー・ゴールドバーグ主演でヒットした『天使にラブソングを…』の続編となるミュージカル・コメディ。前作の1年後、ラスベガスで忙しい毎日を過ごすデロリスは、かつての仲間から聖キャサリン修道院のピンチを知らされる。
Mrs. Medlock
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.
Violet Venable
Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances on a trip to Europe. Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's homosexuality and death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine for her incoherent utterances relating to Sebastian's demise. Under the influence of a truth serum, Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death by cannibalism at the hands of locals whose sexual favors he sought, using Catharine as a device to attract the young men (as he had earlier used his mother).
Mother Superior
とある殺人現場を目撃したために、組織に命を狙われるようになったクラブ歌手が、裁判の日まで修道院でかくまわれるハメに。しかし、元々下町で下品に育った彼女がそんなに神聖にできるはずもなく、やがて、聖歌隊をゴスペル風に改造し……。
Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
Granny Wendy
ピーター・バニングは40歳の企業付弁護士。妻モイラ、11歳のジャック、7歳のマギーという家族がいるが家族は仕事詰めなピーターに不満を感じている。行くと約束していた少年野球の応援もすっぽかし親子の絆はガタガタ。クリスマス休暇でバニング一家はモイラの祖母を訪ねロンドンに行く。一家はウェンディの邸宅でしばらく過ごしていたある夜、大人たちがパーティから帰ると子供たちの姿は消えドアにはジェームズ・フックからの脅迫文があった。何が起こったか見当もつかないピーターに、ウェンディが真実を告げる。ティンクが現れネバーランドに連れて行かれたピーターは子供たちを助けるために過去を思い出していく。
Rosaline (voice)
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been re-released for the home video market. This lack of availability, which has been described as making it "more rare than the dinosaur" has made it a sought-after item in some circles.
Susan
Susan, an alcoholic, nervous vicar's wife who has to travel into Leeds to go to the off-licence because of her debts with the local shop keeper, distracts herself from her ambitious, and, as she sees him, vainly insensitive husband and his doting parishioners by conducting an affair with a nearby grocer, Ramesh Ramesh, discovering something about herself and God in the process.
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.
Judith Hearne
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
Charlotte Bartlett
まだ封建的であった20世紀初頭のイギリス。良家の令嬢ルーシーは、旅先のフィレンツェで労働者階級の青年と出会う。情熱的な彼にルーシーは強く惹かれるが……。格調高い様式美の中で綴られるラヴ・ロマンス。
Joyce Chilvers
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
Lily Wynn
Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.
Mrs Silly
A mother tries to keep her son’s affections but embarrasses him in front of others.
Miss Anderson
Two men show up claiming to be the grandfather of a child heiress.
Lady Isabel Ames
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Daphne Castle
地中海の小島にある閑静なリゾート・ホテルで、アリーナという女性が殺された。そこには偶然アリーナに関係した人間ばかりが、様々な思惑を抱いて集まっていたのだ。別件の調査でたまたまこのホテルに来ていたポアロがこの事件を担当する事になったが、滞在客にはすべてアリバイがあった……。
Self / Daphne Castle
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.
Lois Heidler
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
Thetis
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
Diana Barrie
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Miss Bowers
「オリエント急行殺人事件」に続きオールスター・キャストで映画化されたアガサ・クリスティのミステリ。原作は『ナイルに死す』。美貌と聡明さを兼ね備えた上、つい最近莫大な遺産を相続したリネット・リッジウェイは、親友ジャクリーンの婚約者と突然婚約をし、人目を避けてエジプトへハネムーンに旅立った。しかし豪華客船カルナーク号には、彼女に何らかの利害関係や遺恨、ないし敵意を抱いている者たちが勢揃いしていた……。壮大なエジプトの景色を背景に、物語中バラバラになっていた様々な謎が最後には全て一本の線で結ばれるという、クリスティ推理劇の醍醐味が存分に堪能出来る推理映画の傑作。Ｄ・ニーヴンを始め、Ｍ・ファロー、Ｊ・バーキン、Ｏ・ハッセー、Ｊ・ウォーデンらの素晴らしい役者陣に加え、ポアロ役のＰ・ユスティノフの演技が絶品！ 文句のない第一級の推理映画。
Miss Bowers (archive footage)
Featurette documenting the making of the film "Death On The Nile".
Dora Charleston
億万長者トウェインから招待状を受け取った5人の探偵は、霧の立ちこめるビクトリア調の豪邸に続々と到着した。しかしホストから“時計の針が真夜中の零時を告げる時、このダイニング・ルームで誰かが殺されるだろう。この殺人事件を解いた者には世界一の名探偵の名誉が与えられる”と告げられるや、邸の出入口と窓には全てロックがされてしまった。一体犯人の目的は……？ 豪華キャストで描くミステリー・コメディの快作。
Lila Fisher
While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Walter, the aimless young son of a doctor, makes the acquaintance of proper, middle-aged, clumsy and secretive Lila. He falls in love with her, but she is resistant.
Augusta Bertram
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Epifania
One of Shaw's later plays, The Millionairess explores his fascination with the machinations of capitalism. Epifania is glamorous, clever... and also the richest woman in the world. Brought up by a money-mad father, she will only consider a man for marriage if he can convert £150 into £50,000 within six months. But when she meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor, he has his own money-making challenge for her...
Portia
Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Charles Gray star in the adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play. The Venice Titian and the Belmont of Botticelli serve as the visual inspiration behind this lavish production.
Music Hall Star
Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.
Jean Brodie
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
Patty Terwilliger Smith
A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
Sarah Watkins
A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.
Beatrice
A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.
Desdemona
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Nora
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
Archive Footage
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
Philpot
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
Miss Mead
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Chantal
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
Bridget Howard
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Party Guest (uncredited)
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
Lily Fox
Four Dublin women come together on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Lourdes in France, where they discover the solidarity in their friendship and unveil their own personal miracles.
