Rachel Kempson

Rachel Kempson

Nascimento : 1910-05-28, Dartmouth, Devon, England, UK

Morte : 2003-05-24

Perfil

Rachel Kempson

Filmes

Déjà Vu
Skelly's Mother
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Self
Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, nature and what he was like as a father. He uses family photographs and letters and his father's diaries and autobiography, and produces a picture of a complicated and troubled man who was bisexual, a heavy drinker and emotionally distant and cold as a father. Includes contributions from Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, as well as Harold Pinter and Diana Menuhin. Also contains clips from several of Michael Redgrave's films.
Uncle Vanya
Mariya Vasilyevna
Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, who does not return his ardor.
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Self
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
Lorna Doone
Lady Dugal
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
She's Been Away
A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in other words, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone else thought about it) is finally released to the custody of her family, consisting of her grand-nephew and his family. At first she keeps a self-imposed distance from the relatives, but she soon finds herself coming around to her nephew's wife, a free spirit who is under the thumb of her cold and controlling husband
Em Nome de Deus
Prioress
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels against the status of women in 12th century Europe. When others begin to suspect their relationship, Heloise's uncle Fulbert and the bishop of Paris work together to put a stop to it. Héloïse becomes pregnant with Abelard's child, and they are married in secret. Abelard struggles for acting against the will of God, yet is unable to escape his love for Heloise.
Entre Dois Amores
Lady Belfield
Karen Blixen é uma rica dinamarquesa que vai morar em uma fazenda de café no Quênia com Bror Blixen-Finecke, um barão com quem se casou por conveniência. Mas o casal vive como se fossem mais amigos do que amantes e acabam se separando e Bror vai embora. Agora Karen está sozinha na fazendo cuidando do trabalho, mas conhece Denys Finch Hatton, um aristocrata inglês que se torna seu grande amor.
Camille
Hortense
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Jude
Louisa
Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
O Pequeno Lord
Lady Lorradaile
Ceddie Errol, um garoto de 8 anos, mora com sua mãe num decadente prédio de Nova York. Seu pai, Capitão Cedrid Errol, morto há vários anos, era filho de um conde inglês, mas foi deserdado quando casou-se com uma americana. No entanto, sua vida muda surpreendentemente quando seu avô o chama para morar com ele, pois agora é seu único herdeiro e deve ser educado para assumir as responsabilidades e deveres de um aristocrata inglês. Será que Ceddie, tão amoroso e gentil, conseguirá suportar a rabugice de seu avô e a falta de sua mãe que não foi aceita no castelo?
Kate the Good Neighbour
Kate Dawson
Kate lives fiercely alone, cut off the from present and haunted by the memories of grief from her past.
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Duchess of Marlborough
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
Breeze Anstey
Miss Wills
Two woman pursue an idyllic herb-farming life in the country, forming a bond that for Breeze, the younger woman, is romantically and sexually imbued.
The House on Highbury Hill
Mrs. Anderson
The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Fairfax
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding to triumph.
Suspect
Phyllis Segal
A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.
The Virgin Soldiers
Mrs Raskin
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Mrs. Ashby-Kydd
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
A Touch of Love
Sister Harvey
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
A Carga da Brigada Ligeira
Mrs Codrington
1954. O capitão Louis Edward Nolan (David Hemmings) é um oficial do exército que está desapontado com seu comandante, o lorde Cardigan (Trevor Howard). Ele é enviado à Turquia juntamente com o lorde Raglan (John Gielgud), um oficial desastrado que tem problemas de memória. A missão deles é combater a invasão russa ao local, durante a Guerra da Criméia.
O Golpe do Século
Mrs. Tremayne
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Grand Prix
Mrs. Stoddard
O piloto americano Aaron é demitido depois de um acidente na corrida de Mônaco, que acabou lesando seu companheiro de equipe, o inglês Stoddard. Enquanto ele se recupera, Aaron muda de equipe e começa a se envolver com a ex-esposa de Stoddard.
Georgy Girl
Ellen Leamington
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while attempting to please her glamorously stuck-up roommate Meredith.
A Maldição da Mosca
Madame Fournier
A Maldição da Mosca é a terceira parte da série de ficção científica que começou com o clássico "A Mosca". A história gira em torno da família Delambre, mas desta vez com o filho do primeiro cientista, Henri Delambre (Brian Donlevy), que fica obcecado com as experiências de teletransporte e causa receio em seus dois filhos, que querem viver uma vida normal e esquecer a invenção do avô. Martin (George Baker), filho mais velho de Henri, casa-se com uma jovem que acabou de sair de uma clínica para doentes mentais e Henri é contra esses casamento. Ele sabe que interesses externos podem prejudicar sua pesquisa científica. Quando a nova esposa de Martin descobre seres humanos mutilados em suas experiências de teletransporte, a polícia é chamada e Henri tenta escapar usando a própria invenção. Infelizmente, para o cientista louco, o teletransporte ainda tem defeitos não corrigidos.
Verdade Oculta
Mildred Hoving
O primeiro segredo é o que não dizemos às pessoas, o segundo segredo é o que não nos dizemos, e o terceiro segredo é a verdade. Um proeminente psicólogo londrino parece ter tirado a própria vida, causando uma grande descrença entre seus colegas e pacientes. Sua filha adolescente se recusa a acreditar que foi suicídio, pois isso iria contra todos os princípios que seu pai defendia, portanto ela está convencida de que foi assassinato. Ela pede a ajuda de um ex-paciente para tentar chegar à verdade. A verdade, no entanto, revela-se surpreendente e perturbadora. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
As Aventuras de Tom Jones
Bridget
No século XVIII, uma criança abandonada é criada por um nobre inglês. Quando adulto, Tom Jones torna-se um playboy mulherengo. Mas quando seu tutor morre e ele se apaixona por Sophie, vê-se obrigado a mudar o seu comportamento. O roteiro é baseado no romance The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, de Henry Fielding, publicado em 1749.
O Mar Não os Terá
Mrs. Waltby
Durante o outono de 1944, um avião Hudson da RAF que transporta um passageiro VIP com informações altamente secretas é alvejado e cai no Mar do Norte. Lutando contra os elementos e tentando manter a moral, os ocupantes do bote salva-vidas da aeronave falam sobre suas vidas enquanto aguardam o resgate que eles esperam que virá. O título do filme, O Mar Não os Terá, é o lema do Serviço de Resgate Aeronaval (Air Sea Rescue Service) da RAF, que se propõe a rapidamente enfrentar seus próprios problemas mecânicos, a ação inimiga, o tempo e o clima, e assim localizar e resgatar a equipe derrubada e os papéis secretos vitais que eles carregam.
A Woman's Vengeance
Emily Maurier
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
Corações Aflitos
Celia Mitchell
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.