Gabrielle Daye
Nascimento : 1911-10-02, Manchester, England, UK
Morte : 2005-01-05
Winnie
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
Mrs. Ingrams
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, and their close friend, veteran actress Mildred Dunnock.
Nellie Cannon
Pollitt: "You know the nuts and bolts of our policy?" Les Cannon: "To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal measures, evasions, subterfuges, to carry on Communist activities inside them at all cost."
Mrs. Burnett
In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.
Mam
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
Elderly Lady
Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife of a high-up reporter. Opponents to the bill - mainly some hippy girls, lead by Johnny, kidnap the Minister's best friend and co-founder of the bill, Barry Ovis just as he was getting married to his fiancee, Joan. Barry escapes, just before the police raid the hippies hiding place - to claim that Ovis was in a orgy and get the bill defeated - and dashes back to his and Joan's flat followed by Inspector Ruff, who is investigating the kidnap and Damina, one of the hippies. Meanwhile, the Minister is also trying to use the flat to carry on his affairs with both Wendy and Miss Parkyn. The Minister, Barry & Joan tries to keep the truth from Ruft, Wilfred Potts, an old and honest MP, Birdie, the Minister's wife and stop the hippies, and this causes no end of trouble.
Mrs. Calthrop
Eddie Ritchie once ' played for England,' or did he? The team have their doubts.
Ethel
When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.
Mrs Lynch
Baseado no caso da vida real do assassino em série britânico John Christie, e o que aconteceu com seus vizinhos Tim e Beryl Evans. Londres, 1949. John Christie é um homem modesto, de meia-idade que, junto com sua esposa Ethel, vive no apartamento térreo no 10 Rillington Place. Seu comportamento mascara o fato de ser um assassino em série. Seu modus operandi é agir como uma pessoa com algum conhecimento médico, atraindo mulheres inocentes para seu apartamento para cura-los de alguma doença, deixa-los inconscientes com o gás monóxido de carbono, se satisfazer sexualmente com o corpo inconsciente, e em seguida estrangular a vítima e descartar o corpo em algum lugar. e 16.
Lilly
Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.
Old man of class and character living in a London square after both have suffered from time. Before his house is pulled down the residents surprise him with a party.
Ruby Birtle
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third version broadcast by the BBC of this J.B. Priestley play. It was aired live but as the BBC very rarely recorded live transmissions prior to 1953, this programme is lost.