Avril Elgar

Avril Elgar

Nascimento : 1932-04-01, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Morte : 2021-09-17

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Avril Elgar

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Wilde
Lady Bracknell
A história de Oscar Wilde, gênio, poeta, dramaturgo e o Primeiro Homem Moderno. A auto-realização de sua homossexualidade causou enorme tormento a Wilde, ao manipular casamento, paternidade e responsabilidade com seu amor obsessivo por lorde Alfred Douglas.
Mary Rose
Mrs Otery
A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…
Paying Guests (Part 2)
Mrs. Bertram
Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples' plans for the winter unfold. Florence, for the first time in her life, refuses to go off with her selfish old father. Miss Howard has some momentous news, and the Colonel must make a very brisk about-turn.
Paying Guests (Part 1)
Mrs. Bertram
Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for the beginnings of a late romance. Gossip, bicycle rides, rounds of golf, bridge in the evenings and preparations for the charity concert all make time pass most pleasantly - don't they?
Treze à Mesa
Miss Carroll
A atriz Jane Wilkinson quer o divórcio, mas seu marido, Lord Edgware, se recusa. Ela convence Hercule Poirot a usar seu famoso tato e lógica para argumentar. Lorde Edgware aparece assassinado, uma faca bem colocada na base do pescoço. Será necessário o preciso Poirot para resolver as mentiras dos álibis - e encontrar o criminoso antes que surja outra vítima. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Sakharov
OVIR Administrator
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Traição
Mrs. Banks
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse chronological order. Written by Dan Hartung
Under the Skin
Grace
"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous makeovers for young women. Befriending a member of the women's movement prompts her to re-examine her own feminist values.
O Toque da Medusa
Mrs. Pennington
Suspense psicológico sobre um romancista telecinético que causa desastres simplesmente pensando neles.
Lloyd George Knew My Father
Maud Boothroyd
When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to kill herself at the precise moment that the bulldozers start on their shameful work. As the hour strikes and the bulldozers' roar is heard, her husband General Sir William Boothroyd enters in full regimental regalia, while his old ex-army servant sounds the Last Post. Then, as the whole family stands stricken, the door opens...
Spring and Port Wine
Betsy-Jane Duckworth
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton.
A Night Out
The girl
Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night out" with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.
Alice in Wonderland
Peppercook
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.
The Diary of a Nobody
Caroline Pooter
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.
Ladies Who Do
Emily Parish
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Almas em Leilão
Miss Gilchrist
Final dos anos 1940, Yorkshire, Inglaterra. O jovem ambicioso Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), que acaba de se mudar da sombria fábrica da cidade de Dufton, chega a Warnley para assumir um cargo seguro, mas mal remunerado, no Departamento do Tesoureiro do Borough. Determinado a ter sucesso, e ignorando as advertências de um colega, Soames (Donald Houston), ele é atraído por Susan Brown (Heather Sears), filha do magnata industrial local, Brown (Donald Wolfit). Ele lida com a ascensão social de Joe enviando Susan para o exterior; Joe procura consolo com Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret), uma mulher mais velha e infeliz que se apaixona por ele. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)