Fay Compton
출생 : 1894-09-18, West Kensington, London, England, UK
사망 : 1978-12-12
약력
From Wikipedia
Fay Compton CBE (18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978) was an English actress from a notable acting lineage; her father was actor/manager Edward Compton; her mother, Virginia Bateman, was a distinguished member of the profession, as were her elder sister, the actress Viola Compton, and her uncles and aunts. Her grandfather was the 19th-century theatrical luminary Henry Compton. Author Compton Mackenzie was her elder brother.
Compton's film work is not as well known as her stage appearances. She appeared in more than forty films between 1914 and 1970. Her most popular performances in films are Odd Man Out (1947), Laughter in Paradise (1951), Orson Welles' Othello (1952), The Haunting (1963) and I Start Counting (1969).
Among her television performances, she appeared in 1965 with Michael Hordern in the television play, Land of My Dreams by Clive Exton. One of her last major roles was as Aunt Ann in the BBC's 1967 television adaptation of The Forsyte Saga. She had a successful career in the radio, television and gramophone recordings.
Mrs. Bennett
한 영국 여학생이 자신이 숭배하는 양오빠가 연쇄 살인범이라고 의심합니다.
Grandma
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.
Marya, the mother
Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
Mrs. Sanderson
힐 하우스라는 귀신들린 집이 있다. 초자연현상을 연구하는 인류학자 마크웨이 박사(리처드 존슨)는 세 명의 자원자(영적 능력이 있는 디어도라(클레어 블룸), 어렸을 때 폴터가이스트 현상을 일으킨 적 있는 엘레노어(줄리 해리스), 그리고 그 집의 상속권을 주장하는 회의론자 루크(러스 탬블린)와 함께 그 집으로 들어간다. 힐 하우스에서는 이상한 일이 일어나기 시작하는데...
Mother Superior
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Mrs. Crowley
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.
Alice Pascoe
A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.
Gladys Smith
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.
Mrs. Pinkerton
프랑스, 이탈리아, 영국을 배경으로 벌어지는 세 젊은이들의 이야기. 첫 번째 에피소드에서는 돈 때문에 친구를 살해할 계획을 세우는 고등학생들을 다루고, 두 번째 에피소드에서는 담배 밀수와 얽힌 대학생들의 이야기를 다룬다. 그리고 세 번째 에피소드는 살인 사건의 이야기를 신문사에 팔려고 하는 가난한 시인의 이야기를 그린다.
Mme. Brune
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?
Emilia
오델로는 전쟁에서 뛰어난 공을 세워 많은 존경을 받는다. 그는 젊은 귀족 숙녀인 데스데모나와 사랑에 빠졌고, 그녀 또한 오델로의 성품에 반해 그를 흠모한다. 하지만 데스데모나의 아버지는 오델로가 무어인이라는 이유로 두 사람의 결합을 반대했고, 결국 두 사람은 한밤중에 도망을 쳐 비밀리에 결혼식을 올린다. 이 사실을 안 데스데모나의 아버지는 오델로를 원로회에 연행해 오지만 때마침 터키군이 사이프러스를 침공해오자 원로 위원들은 오셀로를 장군으로 임명, 전쟁에 파견한다. 오셀로는 터키와의 전쟁에서 큰 승리를 거두고 돌아온다. 한편 오델로의 부하, 이아고는 오델로의 신임을 한 몸에 받고 있지만 사실은 그를 질투하고 시기하여 오델로를 궁지에 빠드릴 궁리만 한다. 그러던 중, 이아고는 오델로의 부관인 젊은 캐시오와 데스데모나의 관계를 모략할 음모를 꾸미는데...
Agnes Russell
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
Mrs. Christopher
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
Mrs. Culver
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
Mrs. Josser
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Mrs. Barfield
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
Mme. Mantalini
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Rosie
IRA 지도자였던 조니(Johnny McQueen: 제임스 메이슨 분)는 감옥을 탈출한 뒤 동료들과 함께 지하 조직의 운영자금을 벌기 위해 북아일랜드, 벌패스트에 있는 어느 공장의 금전 출납부를 털 계획을 세운다. 그러나 동료들과 함께 공장의 금전 출납부를 털고 나오던 중, 조니는 뒤쫓아온 사람에게 붙잡히고 만다. 그와 몸싸움을 벌이던 중 총기오발로 그 사람을 살해하고 자신도 왼쪽 어깨에 심한 부상을 입은 조니는 혼자서 도망가게 된다. 그때부터 조니는 심한 불안감에 시달린다. 조니는 자신을 팔아넘기려는 사람과 자신을 도우려는 많은 사람들을 만나게 된다. 한편 조니의 연인이었던 캐드린(Kathleen: 캐서린 라이안 분)은 사방팔방으로 조니를 찾아 헤매고 경찰은 그런 캐드린의 뒤를 집요하게 추적한다. 여러 곳을 헤매다니던 조니는 정신이상증세를 보이는 미친 화가에게 붙잡히게 되고, 화가는 조니에게 자신이 그림을 완성할 때까지 포즈를 취해 줄 것을 강요한다. 그러나 정작 부두에서 그들을 기다리는 것은 죽음, 조니와 함께 죽음을 결심한 캐드린은 경찰이 다가오는 것을 보고 준비해 놓은 권총을 꺼내 경찰을 향해 발포한다. 조니가 대항한다고 생각한 경찰은 조니와 캐드린을 향해 무차별 사격을 가하고 하얗게 눈이 내리던 그날 밤, 조니와 캐드린은 목숨을 잃고 마는데...
Queen Victoria
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
Lady Worthing
American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal.
Mrs. Tulliver
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
Countess Helga von Stahl
The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.
Jenny Grey
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
Mrs. Doe
In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
Dorothy Rendell
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
Eileen Kell
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...
Marie de Remy
The Woman
A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.
Ruth Barchester
An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.
Mary Stuart
The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
Margaret Fairfield
Meg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary and Meg, is engaged to Kit Pumphrey, son of the parish rector who refuses to permit his son to marry Sydney when he learns her mother is divorced....
Diana
A sensuous woman trapped in a loveless relationship has an affair with a leading politician which threatens to bring down the government.
Rachel Arbuthnot
A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.
Sophie Barnes
A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.
