Hilary Mason
Nascimento : 1917-09-04, Birmingham, England, UK
Morte : 2006-09-05
História
Hilary Lavender Mason (4 September 1917 – 5 September 2006) was an English character actress who appeared in a wide variety of roles, mainly on UK television. She is probably best known internationally for her performance as the blind psychic in Nicolas Roeg's film Don't Look Now. In later years Mason appeared as Gladys in the popular children's TV show Maid Marian and her Merry Men.
Elderly Lady
Um professor cético visita uma propriedade britânica remota para desmascarar alegações de fenômenos psíquicos, mas logo se vê assombrado por um fantasma de seu próprio passado.
Miss Ruddock
Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.
Basement Woman
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Martha
After her father’s death, Catherine returns to her family’s gothic castle in Italy and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle.
Professor Laplace
Após o holocausto nuclear, as guerras são proibidas. As duas superpotências restantes passam a disputar o poder através de uma competição onde robôs gigantes, pilotados por corajosos guerreiros, se enfrentam numa disputa até à morte.
Mrs. Tringsby
In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to not arrest him if she'll have a relationship with him.
Miss Platt
A young novelist falls for a married blond beauty. She's too afraid to leave her thuggish husband and the idea of "accidental" death comes up. The writer doesn't go through with it and they break off. However, she's not done with him yet.
Hilary Hartwicke
A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion. The old couple makes and collects dolls that, when not sitting still like good little mannequins, creep around in the night, offing the guests one by one.
Edith
his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
Mother Cyrene
A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered at a fast pace, often with musical backing. His style, and that of his contemporary Linton Kwesi Johnson, have influenced a generation of younger poets involved in a revival of popular poetry in Britain.
Ward
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood, Margaret Grey. His amnesia also makes him a ready target for the affections of his older cousin, Jenny.
Nan
Judith Allchurch and Ian Stevens star in this drama based on the story by Edward Chitham. When young historians Teresa (Allchurch) and David (Stevens) discover that the name on a piece of embroidered cloth belonging to Teresa's family matches that of a strange gravestone in the local churchyard, their intrique is piqued and they set out to find out what happened to the mysterious Abigail Parkes.
Kidderminster
In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason
Medium
Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.
Miss Froggatt
Em um colégio católico, o jovem Benjamin resolve pregar uma peça em seu professor, o Padre Goddard. Dentro do confessionário, ele diz a Goddard ter acidentalmente matado um amigo próximo e o enterrado na floresta.
Mum
Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappies - and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?
Mrs. Hyde
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene...
Voice of Joan Todd
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
Heather
Após um trágico acidente que matou sua filha, o casal Laura (Julie Christie) e John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) muda-se para Veneza, afim de esquecer a tragédia. Porém, quando chegam lá, uma estranha mulher começa a dizer que sua filha está enviando mensagens do mundo dos mortos, e os dois iniciam uma perigosa relação de curiosidade sobre o outro lado da vida.
Bride's Mother
Class distinctions, inferiority complexes, and social climbing abound as the bride, groom, and their families gather for a wedding banquet. There's a rumor that a general will be in attendance, secured by a real estate agent at one family's expense. After an argument about electricity, which exposes both the ignorance and the combativeness of the bride, the general does arrive, ear trumpet in hand. He commands the attention of all. But will tranquility last until the group photo?
Mrs. Allen
Story of a group of children and their efforts to prevent the War Office from closing their beloved beach to make a rocket-launching site.