Dana Wynter

Dana Wynter

Nascimento : 1931-06-08, Berlin, Germany

Morte : 2011-05-05

História

Dana Wynter (8 June 1931 – 5 May 2011) was a German-born British actress, who was brought up in England and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than forty years beginning in the 1950s, most notably in the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Wynter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Perfil

Dana Wynter
Dana Wynter

Filmes

Revelação
Stella (archive footage)
Neste documentário, nomes influentes da arte e do pensamento transgêneros analisam o impacto de Hollywood na comunidade trans.
The Return of Ironside
Katherine Dacier
After forty years of good and faithful services, Robert T. Ironside, reprocessed police force of San Francisco, is finally on the point of tasting with the joys of a rest deserved well with Katherine, his wife, in their vineyard recently bought. However, a few days after his official departure, he is contacted by persons in charge for the police force of Denver, which offers the post of general manager temporarily to him their services, following the assassination for preceding occupying of the station in question. Initially reticent, Ironside ends up yielding and, with the agreement of his wife, agrees to take up the challenge, the more so as he has pleasure to find Susan, the girl of the one of her former assistants.
O Romance Real de Charles e Diana
Queen Elizabeth II
The second Charles and Diana movie, with two virtual unknowns in the leads: Christopher Baines had acted on the British stage and on the BBC, but Catherine Oxenberg, a U.S.-born, British-raised professional model, here made her acting debut. Of particular interest was the casting of Dana Wynter as Queen Elizabeth, Stewart Granger as Prince Philip, Olivia de Havilland as the Queen Mother, and Ray Milland as a general factotum around the Palace.
M Station: Hawaii
Maggie Michaels
In this unsold pilot, the US government hires a salvage team to recover a sunken Russian submarine, heightening Cold War tensions.
O Selvagem
Jessie Coutances
A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Andrea Hardesty
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Projeto Questor
Lady Helena Trimble
Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who's now under suspect of having stolen the android.
Santee
Valerie Santee
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
The Connection
Eleanor Warren
An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.
Aeroporto
Cindy Bakersfeld
Durante uma forte nevasca que ameaça fechar o funcionamento de um aeroporto, Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster), o gerente encarregado, deve se virar para lidar com uma ameaça de um psicopata em explodir um avião.
Any Second Now
Jane Peterson
A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money. He arranges for her to have an auto accident. However, instead of killing her, the accident only causes her to lose her memory, and the doctors say that it could return at any moment.
Companions in Nightmare
Julie Klanton
Um dos pacientes em um grupo de terapia revela-se um assassino.
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
Ellen Whitlock
James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tries to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is now married to the sultry nightclub singer. James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel towards a mountain retreat. James and Ellen escape and try to find the murderer who had framed James years before. He experiences prejudices from police and civilian alike before the trail leads to the dead girl's stepfather.
A Lista de Adrian Messenger
Lady Jocelyn Bruttenholm
Adrian Messenger pede a um amigo que verifique uma lista de nomes. E sai em uma viagem. Quando seu avião explode no céu a questão torna-se mais grave. Seu amigo começa a verificar a lista e cada nome parece ter morrido em circunstâncias misteriosas. Conforme ele vai descendo a lista, as mortes se tornam mais recentes. Então começa uma corrida para encontrar os sobreviventes restantes e descobrir porque cada um deles foi colocado nesta lista.
O Homem de Duas Cabeças
Lady Margaret MacKenzie-Smith
Na época da Invasão da Normandia, um soldado americano é chamado a representar um coronel britânico para confundir os espiões e assassinos nazistas em Londres. O soldado americano Ernie Williams, reconhecidamente um molenga, tem uma estranha semelhança com o coronel britânico MacKenzie. Williams, também um mestre de imitação e disfarce, é convocado para representar o Coronel, aparentemente para permitir que o Coronel faça uma viagem secreta para o Oriente. O que não é contado para Williams é que o coronel recentemente foi alvo de assassinos. Depois que o avião do Coronel pousa no oriente, o plano muda e Williams mantém o disfarce para confundir os nazistas até o dia D.
Afundem o Bismarck
WRNS Second Officer Anne Davis
A história do esforço da Marinha Britânica, na Segunda Guerra Mundial, para derrotar o mais poderoso navio de guerra da Alemanha nazista. Narra a fuga do Bismarck durante os primeiros dias da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Apresentado tanto do ponto de vista dos muitos navios de guerra de ambos os lados como do quartel general britânico, de onde a busca pelo super navio de guerra foi controlada.
De Mãos Dadas com o Diabo
Jennifer Curtis
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
In Love and War
Sue Trumbell
Three Marines take shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. Frankie O'Neill visits his lower-class dysfunctional family; Nico Kantaylis visits his pregnant fiancée; and the upper-class Alan Newcombe visits his high-living playgirl girlfriend. Each must decide whether to make the best of his situation or break out of it. O'Neill drowns his troubles in alcohol, losing the respect of a potential lover; Kantaylis marries his fiancée, but realizes he may not survive the war to see his child; while Newcombe sheds his decadent girlfriend for a pure-hearted Hawaiian nurse. Later, in battle, a heroic act costs one of the Marines his life.
Fraulein
Erika Angermann
In melodramatic fashion, the film tells the tale of a young German woman who finds herself alone in the world when the rest of her family is killed in a WWII air raid. Helping an American military man escape the Gestapo, she finds herself on the run from the Russian Army. Escaping to the American (and safe) side of Berlin, she registers herself as a prostitute (unknowingly) and finds herself caught between the German officer who thinks she is for sale and the American officer who she saved and is now in love with her.
Winter Dreams
Judy Holt
A successful young man announces his recent engagement, only to be forced to reconsider his future following the sudden reappearance of a girl he has loved for years.
Sangue Sobre a Terra
Holly McKenzie
Peter (Rock Hudson) e Kimani (Sidney Poitier) são dois amigos de infância que cresceram juntos. Quando acontece a Revolta dos Mau-Mau, Kimani - que é negro - se junta a um grupo de rebeldes que almeja expulsar os estrangeiros Quênia, já que os negros vêm sendo discriminados no país e o próprio pai de Kimani fora preso por causa de seus costumes culturais. As ações, porém, são violentas e acabam tirando a vida dos irmãos menores de Peter - que é branco. Mesmo assim, ele acredita que pode se reconciliar com o amigo e resolver o conflito apesar do racismo da sociedade entre eles.
D-Day the Sixth of June
Valerie Russell
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
Vampiros de Almas
Becky Driscoll
A trama é sobre o médico Miles Bennell. Após voltar de um congresso para a sua cidade natal, ele se depara com um fenômeno estranho: diversas pessoas afirmam que seus parentes não são os mesmos, apesar de manterem a aparência física e as lembranças. Incrédulo no início, aos poucos Bennell vai descobrindo que tudo faz parte de uma invasão alienígena, que assume a forma das pessoas para conquistar seu objetivo.
The View from Pompey's Head
Dinah Blackford Higgins
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?
Laura
Laura Hunt
A detective is assigned to a case of murder. During the investigation he finds himself taking a more than professional interest in the victim, the mysterious Laura.
Colonel March Investigates
Francine Rapport
This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes) starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, head of Scotland Yard's Department D.3, otherwise known as The Bureau of Queer Complaints.
Os Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda
Morgan Le Fay's servant (uncredited)
O recém coroado rei da Inglaterra, Arthur Pendragon dedica seu reinado e a irmandade dos Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda aos ideais de paz e justiça. Apoiando o Rei Arthur em seus objetivos está a sua amada Rainha Guinevere, o nobre Sir Lancelot e o misterioso Merlin. Lancelot e Guinevere estão divididos entre a secreta paixão que os envolve e a lealdade e respeito que nutrem por Arthur. Mas essa traição não é nada se comparada ao ódio que a feiticeira Morgana, meia irmã de Arthur, e seu filho Mordred sentem pelo Rei de Camelot.
It Started in Paradise
Barbara, The Model
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
O Pirata Sangrento
La Signorita
Burt Lancaster interpreta um pirata com gosto pela intriga e acrobacias que se envolve nos acontecimentos de uma revolução no Caribe no final dos anos 1700. Uma aventura de coração leve envolvendo fugas de prisão, um cientista estranho, veleiros, batalhas navais e toneladas de espadas. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
The Woman's Angle
Elaine
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Myrtle Shaw (as Dagmar Wynter)
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
Night Without Stars
Casino Patron (uncredited)
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
To Be a Woman
Documentary arguing the case for equal pay for women. Women are seen employed in their homes, in factories, teaching, nursing, in politics and in the professions. There are also some newsreel shots of marching suffragettes.