Freda Dowie
Nascimento : 1928-07-22, Carlisle, Cumberland, England, UK
Morte : 2019-08-10
História
Freda Dowie was an English film and television actress best known for Distant Voices, Still Lives and Our Friends in the North.
Granny Wallon
Made by Carlton Television for ITV (UK) , this adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie (Dashiell Reece) comes of age under the protective eye of his mother (Juliet Stevenson), he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie (now played by Joe Roberts) discovers women, specifically Rosie Burdock (Lia Barrow). Veteran screenwriter John Mortimer adapted Lee's book, with Lee narrating.
Elderly Landlady
O jovem Jude sonha em estudar, mas se vê obrigado a casar com a filha de um fazendeiro. O relacionamento chega ao fim e ele decide ir para a cidade grande, onde conhece sua linda prima Sue e se apaixona. O problema é que sua amada já é casada.
Elsie
Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.
Edith Folland
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
Sister Ursula
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves, and he is soon using the girl, and her powers, in his lust for more innocent prey.
Harley Street Doctor
Fact-based biography of James Bond author, Ian Fleming. The film focuses on his wartime exploits and romantic adventures which ultimately led to his creation of the super-spy.
Mother
Na Liverpool dos anos 40, três irmãos se envolvem com a música como vávula de escape de seus problemas familiares: um pai cruel e autoritário e uma mãe amargurada e sofredora.
Nun (uncredited)
O embaixador americano e a esposa querem muito ter filhos. Quando ela dá à luz um bebê morto e um padre sugere que adotem um recém-nascido saudável e órfão, ele aceita sem contar à mulher. O que ele não sabe é que o bebê é o anticristo.
Crabby
An enchanting tale of childhood in a sleepy Cotswold village during and immediately after the First World War.
Mother Superior, Helper at 'Jesus Saves'
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Maid
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
Nurse
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.