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Gretchen Franklin

Gretchen Franklin

출생 : 1911-07-07, Covent Garden, London, England, UK

사망 : 2005-07-11

약력

Born in Covent Garden, West London in 1911, Gretchen Franklin was an English actress and dancer whose showbusiness career spanned over 70 years. She was best known for her role as Ethel Skinner in the long-running BBC 1 soap opera EastEnders. She appeared in the very first episode in 1985 and was a regular in the series until 1988. After this she returned to the show intermittently until 2000 when her character was killed off, allowing Franklin to retire from acting at the age of 89. Born into a theatrical family (her father had a song and dance act, her grandfather was a famous music hall entertainer at the turn of the century and her cousin was Dad's Army star Clive Dunn) Gretchen Franklin made her theatre debut as a teenage chorus girl. She toured with comedians such as Gracie Fields before making the switch to serious acting. Her film appearances included Cloak Without Dagger (1956), Flame in the Streets (1961), The Murder Game (1965), Help! (1965), How I Won The War (1967), Twisted Nerve (1968), The Night Visitor (1971), The Three Musketeers (1973), Quincy's Quest (1979), and Ragtime (1981), among others. She is namechecked in The Fall's 1990 song Telephone Thing.

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Gretchen Franklin

참여 작품

Return to Waterloo

Return to Waterloo

Woman on Train

A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.

Elderly Woman

1910년대의 뉴욕, 워커라는 흑인 피아니스트가 있다. 그는 재즈밴드에서 연주를 하게 되면서 유명세와 돈을 얻게 된다. 그러나 몇몇의 백인들은 이런 워커의 출세를 시샘하게 된다. 어느 날 백인들은 워커를 급습하고, 그의 새 차를 완전히 망쳐놓는다. 워커는 정의를 실현하기 위해서 노력을 한다. 하지만, 그 당시에는 흑인의 정의 따위는 안중에도 없는 시대였다. 그는 각고의 노력을 하면서, 백인들의 악행에 대응하려 한다.

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

Phyllis's Dresser

Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.

D’Artagnan’s Mother

프랑스 루이 13세 시대, 추기경 리슐리외의 권세가 하늘을 찌르고 궁궐 안팎에서는 국왕의 친위대인 총사들과 리슐리외의 근위대 사이에 싸움이 끊이질 않았다. 작은 시골 마을에서 자란 달타냥은 어려서부터 아버지에게 검술을 배워 매우 민첩하고 용감하고 모험심이 강했지만 인내심이 부족해서 하루가 멀다 하고 실수를 저지르는 사고뭉치 젊은이였다. 달타냥은 20세가 되던 해에 총사대에 들어가기 위해 총사대의 트레빌 대장을 만나러 파리로 가서 삼총사인 포르토스와 아라미스, 아토스를 만나고, 여관 주인의 아내인 콘스탄스에게 첫눈에 반한다. 한편 왕비를 사랑하던 버킹엄 공작은 몰래 궁전으로 잠입해서 왕비를 만나 사랑의 증표로 12개의 다이아몬드가 달린 목걸이를 받아간다. 이 사실을 알게 된 리슐리외 추기경은 밀레이디 드 윈터에게 버킹엄 공작을 유혹해서 12개의 다이아몬드 중에서 2개를 훔쳐 오라고 지시한다. 게다가 루이 13세는 왕비에게 자신이 선물로 준 다이아몬드 목걸이를 하고 무도회 때 함께 춤을 추자고 한다. 곧, 왕비의 하녀인 콘스탄스는 달타냥에게 왕비의 친서를 가지고 영국의 버킹엄 공작에게 가서 다이아몬드 목걸이를 받아오라고 부탁한다. 달타냥은 삼총사와 함께 왕비의 친서를 가지고 영국으로 길을 떠나지만, 곳곳에서 잠복 중인 리슐리외 추기경의 부하들을 만나 삼총사들 모두 부상을 입어 달타냥 혼자 버킹엄 공작을 찾아간다. 추기경의 스파이인 밀레이디 드윈터 부인이 이미 다이아몬드 2개를 훔쳐간 사실을 안 버킹엄 공작은 급히 똑같은 다이아몬드를 만들어서 달타냥에게 준다. 다이아몬드 목걸이와 함께 칼을 선물로 받은 달타냥은 무사히 프랑스로 돌아오고, 삼총사의 도움으로 추기경의 부하들을 물리친 뒤, 애타게 기다리던 왕비에게 목걸이를 전해준다. 그리고 왕비를 위기에서 구해준 달타냥은 삼총사의 축하를 받으며 국왕의 친위대인 총사가 된다.

The Night Visitor

The Night Visitor

Mrs. Hansen

An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.

Clarkie

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.

Bus Conductress

A young wife is becoming very distraught over the fact that her husband, a secret service "spy" for England, has changed his mind about transferring away so that he can spend more time with her and their young son. He has grown cold and distant towards her; she thinks it 's because of the secretiveness of his work. Meanwhile, an American spy comes to England and is induced to help the British "team" with an undercover spy ring. When this spy ring is over turned the "bugs" that crawl out from under its rock shocks everyone!

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2nd Old Lady

An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

Neighbour

우연히 암흑의 여왕에 바쳐지는 제물이 된 링고를 구하기 위해 비틀즈 멤버들이 고군분투한다.

The Silent Playground

The Silent Playground

Mrs. Elgin

Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.

Flame in the Streets

Flame in the Streets

Mrs. Bingham

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.

Ticket to Paradise

Ticket to Paradise

Mrs. Higginbottom

Travel agent Emrys Jones and tourist Patricia Dainton fall in love in sunny Italy. Jones has led Dainton to believe that he's fabulously wealthy, and she has likewise deceived him. When the truth inevitably outs, it hardly matters, since hero and heroine now love each other for themselves rather than their bank accounts.

The Secret Place

The Secret Place

Mother (uncredited)

British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.

Mrs. Webb

A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.

Cloak Without Dagger

Cloak Without Dagger

Emmie

A British Intelligence officer fails a mission during WW2. Years later whilst working in a hotel he bumps into an old flame who is desperate to discover what went wrong?

Elsie

A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim

Martha (uncredited)

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.