Virginia McKenna

Virginia McKenna

출생 : 1931-06-07, London, England, UK

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dame Virginia Anne McKenna, DBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with The Born Free Foundation.

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Virginia McKenna
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Wings
Dora
A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War II.
Widow's Walk
Myrtle
Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.
에델과 어니스트
Lady of the House (voice)
1920년대 영국의 한 우유 배달부와 가정부, 여느 보통의 남녀가 서로 사랑에 빠진다. 40년간 런던이 겪었던 격변의 소용돌이 속에도 변함없던 특별한 사랑이 따스한 한 폭의 그림으로 펼쳐진다. 의 원작자로 유명한 레이먼드 브릭스의 부모, 에델과 어니스트에 대한 동화 같은 실화.
골든 이어스
Martha
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's frank and open conversations combine with personal interviews from some of the greats who have worked with him.
Leona Calderon
Leona Calderon is a retiring altruistic music lover earning her living cleaning establishments and private homes. Having a fun loving nature she is fancied by her landlord who dreams of dancing with her to her favorite tune. Another admirer is a homeless man who gets endears by her jolly disposition and not by her loose pennies for a can of lager. She befriends an isolated elderly English lady, a migrant worker with no visa and a charitable middle age woman. As a breadwinner she looks forward to her much awaited retirement which is now doomed following a diagnoses of cancer. The island where she comes from where she plans to spend her life with her family becomes just a dream. She now faces a dilemma between losing her hard earned savings to medical expenses or losing the time with her family if she spends her retirement in a country where her treatment is free. Leona's wit and fun nature will make you smile, laugh and cry. What happens to this happy lady in this funny world?
Love/Loss
Mary
A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apart, is there still love between them? How have their separate experiences shaped their lives over this long period apart, and is there still time for them to share the happiness that has so long been denied? As Mary and Joe confront the mistakes of their past and share memories of a previously unspoken love, their reunion appears to take them on a path to happiness. But the gentle narrative hides a twist that will challenge any preconceptions of love and loss.
The Whistle-Blower
Theresa Elliot
A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the National Criminal Intelligence Service. She learns that the money belongs to South American drug cartels, and her family are immediately taken into the Witness Protection Program and relocated.
슬라이딩 도어즈
James's Mother
헬렌(기네스 팰트로)이 동거 중인 남자 친구의 불륜을 알게 되는 경우와 그렇지 않은 경우, 이 두 경우 헬렌의 상황은 어떻게 다르게 전개될 것인가, 하는 점을 그리고 있다. 웨이트리스인 헬렌이 출근하자마자 해고를 당하고 집으로 돌아오는 길에 지하철을 놓치게 되면서 이야기는 전개된다. 지하철을 놓쳐서 남자 친구의 불륜 현장을 목격하지 못하는 경우와 지하철에 무사히 탐으로써 남자 친구의 불륜 현장을 목격하는 경우로 나뉘어 이야기가 펼쳐지는데...
The Scold's Bridle
Violet Orloff
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.
Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Violet
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets...
Staggered
Flora
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
The Lady in Waiting
Miss Peach
In 1970s New York, a drag queen and elderly woman meet during a blackout. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Duel of Hearts
Lady Brecon
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
Puccini
Elvira
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
The Case of the Frightened Lady
Lady Lebanon Amersham
A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.
Blood Link
Woman in Ballroom
A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes, they've been separated) So he travels to Hamburg, where the things he's seen start to come to pass…
Julius Caesar
Portia
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
실종
Catherine
The wife of contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.
홀로코스트 2000
Eva Caine
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Peter Pan
Mrs. Darling
Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, starring Mia Farrow as Peter Pan and Danny Kaye as Captain Hook, and with Sir John Gielgud narrating. Julie Andrews sang one of the songs, "Once Upon a Bedtime", off-camera over the opening credits. It aired on NBC at 7:30pm on Sunday, December 12, 1976, capping off the program's 25th year on the air. The program did not use the score written for the highly successful Mary Martin version which had previously been televised many times on NBC. Instead, it featured 14 new and now forgotten songs, written for the production by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.
Beauty and the Beast
Lucy
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
The Gathering Storm
Clemmie Churchill
Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
Swallows and Amazons
Mrs. Walker
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.
The Lion at World's End
The astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of Harrods, then the cellar of an antique shop in London and, ultimately the wilds of Africa.
워터루
Duchess of Richmond
전유럽을 제패하여 승승장구하던 나폴레옹의 군대는 1812년 러시아 원정에 실패하면서 운세도 기울어져, 1814년 3월 영국, 러시아, 프러시아, 오스트리아군이 합세한 연합군에 의해 파리를 점령당한다. 그는 군사들을 뒤로 하고 눈믈을 흘리며 쓸쓸히 엘바 섬으로 유배된다. 그러나 이듬해인 1815년 3월, 다시 파리로 입성해 황제에 즉위한 그는 돌아오는 즉시 재정을 정비하고 공격 준비에 박차를 가한다. 그가 지닌 코르시카인 만의 거침없음과 솔직함은 당시 농민 출신 사병들로부터 절대적인 신뢰를 받지만, 한편으로 독설적이고 도덕성이 결여된 그의 행동은 때로 수많은 적을 만들기도 하는데.
Ring of Bright Water
Mary MacKenzie
Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
The Lions Are Free
The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.
An Elephant Called Slowly
Ginny
Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.
The Admirable Crichton
Lady Mary
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs around on a South Pacific island. The usable hierarchy in a upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the communities leader.
야성의 엘자
Joy Adamson
어느 날 케냐의 빨래터에서 사자 한 마리가 나타나 빨래하던 여인을 덮쳐 죽인 후 도망치는 사건이 발생한다. 아프리카 케냐 국립공원의 야생동물 관리국장인 조지 애덤슨은 사람들과 함께 이 식인사자를 없애러 나섰다가 사자를 사살한 뒤 새끼 사자 세 마리를 데리고 집으로 돌아온다. 그러나 사자새끼들이 우유도 먹지 못하고 굶주려있는 상태. 애덤슨 부부는 손가락에 우유를 묻혀 먹이는 방법으로 고아가 된 새끼사자들을 살려낸다. 조지의 아내 조이는 ‘엘자’라고 불리는 막내 사자와 정이 든다. 하지만 새끼 사자들이 성장해서 맹수 특유의 야성을 조금씩 보이기 시작하면서 더 이상 집에서 키울 수 없게 되자, 엘자를 제외한 두 마리는 동물원에 보낸다. 애덤슨 부부는 엘자와 함께 여행도 다니고 휴가도 보내며 가족처럼 지내지만 발정기가 찾아온 엘자를 계속 집에서 키우는 건 무리였다. 조이는 엘자를 자연의 품으로 돌려보내기로 하고 남편과 함께 엘자를 훈련시키기 시작한다. 하지만 엘자는 지금껏 먹이를 자기 힘으로 한 번도 구해본 적이 없고 애완동물처럼 사람의 손에 길들여진 상태. 사냥은커녕 새끼멧돼지 한 마리조차 잡지 못하고 쫓겨 다니는가 하면, 다른 사자들에게 공격당하기도 한다. 하지만 애덤슨 부부는 손쉽게 동물원을 선택하지 않았고 끝까지 엘자에게 기회를 주며 야생의 길을 터주려고 노력하는데...
Two Living, One Dead
Helen Berger
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Janet Taggart
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Storm Over Jamaica
Judy Waring
A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.
Carve Her Name with Pride
Violette Szabo
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
The Smallest Show on Earth
Jean Spenser
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Henrietta Barrett
Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
A Town Like Alice
Jean Paget
In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Helen Randall
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Simba
Mary Crawford
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
The Oracle
Shelagh
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
잔인한 바다
Julie Hallam
2차대전 당시 상선의 선원이었던 에릭슨(Lt. CmDr. Ericson: 잭 호킨스 분)은 구축함인 '컴패스 로즈'의 함장에 임명된다. 하지만 에릭슨을 제외한 다른 선원들은 바다에 대한 경험이 전혀 없는 사람들이다. 에릭슨은 3주간의 훈련을 마친 이들과 함께 독일 잠수함의 공격을 막는 임무를 받고 대서양으로 나간다. 한편 비열한 성격의 소유자인 베넷 (First Officer Bennett: 스탠리 베이커 분) 대위가 떠나자 록하트(Sub-Lt. Lockhart: 도날드 신든 분)가 대위에 임명되어 에릭슨 함장의 오른팔이 된다. 어려운 일이 있을 때마다 록하트는 에릭슨에게 진심으로 위로를 했고, 서로에 대한 신뢰감은 굳어진다.
Father's Doing Fine
Catherine
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending birth and the love affairs of the other three daughters; Bicky, with eccentric student Roly; Gerda, married to artist Wilfred; and Catherine, in love with the landlord's son, Clifford Magill. In addition, the impoverished Lady Buckering is being courted by Dr. Drew. Written by Les Adams