Shelagh Fraser

Shelagh Fraser

Nascimento : 1920-11-25, Surrey, England

Morte : 2000-08-29

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shelagh Fraser (25 November 1920 – 29 August 2000) was a British actress. She was best-known for her role as Luke Skywalker's ill-fated aunt, Beru Lars in Star Wars (though Fraser's voice was dubbed in some prints of the film). She appeared in more than 50 films and TV shows during her career, including Z-Cars and Softly, Softly, A Family at War and Heartbeat on television, and such films as The Witches, Till Death Us Do Part, Doomwatch, and Hope and Glory. She was married and divorced from Anthony Squire. She was the sister of ballerina/actress Moyra Fraser. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shelagh Fraser, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Shelagh Fraser

Filmes

Là-bas (Down There)
Constance
Taking as its departure point the 1993 opening of the Channel Tunnel, Là Bas is a playful burlesque on cultural difference, eccentricity and passion. Using different locations, Kötting knits together an imaginary tunnel, with tickets sold like a seaside attraction, through which one walks between England and France (the interior shots of the tunnel are of the Greenwich foot tunnel), and which is subject to random and sudden closure like many other British forms of transport.
The Merrihill Millionaires
Mrs Wilson
They were a top team - five miners who together had mined a million tons of coal but now they must face up to redundancy.
Absolute Hell
Madge
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."
Work Experience
Lost Shopper
Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Esperança e Glória
WVS Woman
Londres. Todo o horror da II Guerra Mundial é transformado, em uma grande aventura, pela sensibilidade e imaginação de um garoto de nove anos de idade. A mudança para a casa da avó, no interior, causada pela destruição de sua casa durante um dos bombardeios alemães, o levará a desenvolver uma perspectiva completamente nova sobre a vida. Um projeto semi-autobiográfico de John Boorman. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Guerra nas Estrelas
Aunt Beru
A princesa Leia é mantida refém pelas forças imperiais comandadas por Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker e Han Solo precisam libertá-la e restaurar a liberdade e a justiça na galáxia.
Beasts: Baby
Dorothy Pummery
A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
In Sickness and in Health
Mrs Heath
A hard-working doctor must also carry the burden of a turbulent home life, due to the expectations of his demanding wife. Part of Thames Televison's Armchair Cinema.
Perseguição
Mrs. Banks
A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
And No One Could Save Her
Mrs. Benet
The life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails to receive a phone call from her husband, she contacts the airline and discovers he was not on the plane. Further investigation reveals that her husband is not who she thought he was. Her search ultimately takes her all the way to Ireland, where her sanity and, of course, her story come into question.
Terror na Penumbra
Mrs Alison
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham (Christopher Lee) and his pathologist friend, Mark (Peter Cushing), begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.
Doomwatch
Mrs. Betty Straker
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
Mrs. Grayson
A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of curious characters.
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Helen Marriott
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Helen Narriott
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Os Delicados
Cub Mistress
An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
The Body Stealers
Mrs. Thatcher
A British military paratrooper disappears in mid-air during a jump from an army plane. Two investigators, Patrick Allen and Neil Connery, try to unravel how this happened. What they uncover is an alien plot to steal the bodies of earthlings by snatching them out of the air.
The Piano Tuner
Daphne
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series.
O Arqueiro Misterioso
Constance
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
The Last Man to Hang
Mrs. Bracket
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Raising a Riot
Mary Kent
Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighborhood.
Salute the Toff
Myra Lorne
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
Trio
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Your Witness
Ellen Foster
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
The History of Mr. Polly
Minnie Larkins
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
Esther Waters
Margaret
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
The Master of Bankdam
Alice France
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
I Live in Grosvenor Square
2nd Girl in Guard's Van
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
Welcome, Mr Washington
Millie
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort. Both eventually fall for American servicemen.