Alison Leggatt
Nascimento : 1904-02-07, Kensington, London, England, UK
Morte : 1990-07-15
História
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Alison Leggatt (7 February 1904 - 15 July 1990) was an English character actress.
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Mrs. Hudson
Quando Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) descobre que Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) está perturbado mentalmente devido ao seu vício em cocaína, organiza para ele uma viagem para Viena e uma sessão de tratamento com o famoso filósofo Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). O psicólogo espera resolver os mistérios do subconsciente de Holmes enquanto este se dedica à resolução de outro mistério: o sequestro de Lola Deveraux (Vanessa Redgrave).
Passenger with Dog
A britânica Lady Franklin, sofrendo de depressão desencadeada pela morte de seu marido, recebe alta para ir pra casa. Ainda se recuperando, desenvolve uma relação de amizade com seu motorista Ledbetter (incomum na alta sociedade britânica), o único que lhe ouve e responde com afeto. Mas essa relação, e consequente amor, pode não se sustentar com a presença do capitão Hugh Cantrip, um antigo conhecido de seu finado marido.
Geraldine
Geraldine, a psychiatric social worker, has an accident whilst in the country. The inhabitants of a nearby house come out to help her and she discovers that one of the family members prefers cows to people.
Headmaster's Wife
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
Mrs. Hurst
A herdeira de uma fazenda contrata seu rejeitado pretendente como pastor de ovelhas. Depois comete o erro de apaixonar-se e casar com um oficial da cavalaria.
Queen of Hearts
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.
Mrs. Groomkirby
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
Mrs. Brewster
Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most successful businessman in Britain-even if it means murder!!!
Miss Coker
Em 1963, o diretor inglês Steve Sekely adaptou para as telas o clássico livro escrito por John Wyndham. É a história de uma chuva de meteoritos que causa cegueira na maior parte da população terrestre, além de afetar um determinado tipo de flores (as triffids), transformando-as em plantas carnívoras com a capacidade de locomoção.
Alice
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-December romances when the woman is the older partner.
Martha
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
Emma
English doctor John Winthrop (Francis Matthews) must protect his new wife, Ann (Kay Callard), from his wealthy and entirely too overbearing mother, Katherine (Margaretta Scott), who has some strong opinions about her son's new union. But things go too far when John accuses Katherine of trying to kill Ann with medication. Could she do such a thing -- and will these three ever have a good relationship?
Alice Fairbright
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image. he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.
Mrs. Langdon-Humphries
An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
Freda Ramsay
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
Miss Beamish
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
Mrs Howarth
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
Miss Perks
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
Mrs. Buck
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
Ruby
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
Aunt Sylvia
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
Freda
Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.