Brenda De Banzie

Brenda De Banzie

Nascimento : 1909-07-28, Manchester, England, UK

Morte : 1981-03-05

História

Brenda D. M. De Banzie was a British actress of stage and screen. She was the daughter of Edward De Banzie and his second wife Dorothy, whom he married in 1908. In 1911, the family lived in Salford. She appeared as Maggie Hobson in the David Lean film version of Hobson's Choice (1954) with John Mills and Charles Laughton. Her most notable film role was as Phoebe Rice, the hapless wife of comedian Archie Rice (played by Laurence Olivier), in the 1960 film version of The Entertainer. She had also appeared on Broadway in John Osborne's original play, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Other memorable film roles were in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and The Pink Panther (1963) directed by Blake Edwards.

Perfil

Brenda De Banzie

Filmes

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Pretty Polly
Mrs. Innes-Hook
Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in India her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's length romance with a local boy.
A Pantera Cor-de-Rosa
Angela Dunning
O diamante conhecido como Pantera Cor-de-Rosa está na mira de um ousado ladrão europeu e seu sobrinho, que tem a intenção de colocar a culpa do roubo no tio. Só que para isso, eles terão que despistar o desajeitado inspetor francês Jacques Clouseau.
I Thank a Fool
Nurse Drew
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
A Pair of Briefs
Gladys Rose Hanley
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
Lá Fora Ruge o Ódio
Nell Palmer
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
A Marca do Cárcere
Gertrude Cartwright
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Quando Setembro Vier
Margaret Allison
O rico empresário Robert Talbot (Rock Hudson) chega mais cedo do que o de costume para suas férias anuais em sua luxuosa villa italiana e logo dá de cara com três grandes problemas. Primeiramente, a sua eterna namorada Lisa Fellini (Gina Lollobrigida) desistiu de esperar por um pedido de casamento e resolveu casar-se com outro homem. O segundo é ainda pior: o caseiro de sua villa transformou-a em um luxuoso hotel que funciona nos períodos em que Robert está ausente, e está ganhando muito dinheiro às suas custas. E por último, vem o pior: os atuais hóspedes são um grupo de lindas e barulhentas adolescentes americanas que estão tentando escapulir de um bando de garotos liderados por Tony (Bobby Darin), e que estão sendo mantidas em "estado de sítio" do lado de fora do hotel. Relutante de início, Robert logo percebe que esta divertida situação tem tudo para se tornar um dos verões mais divertidos que ele já viveu na Itália.
O Anfitrião
Phoebe Rice
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
The 39 Steps
Nellie Lumsden
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Too Many Crooks
Lucy Gordon
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
Passaporte para a Vergonha
Aggie
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
A Casa dos Segredos
Mme. Isabella Ballu
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Lucy Drayton
Pouco antes de morrer, um espião inglês conta para o doutor Ben McKenna e sua esposa Jo, dois turistas inocentes, algum segredo que os envolve em um caso internacional de espionagem. Seu filho é seqüestrado e, sem saber em quem confiar, eles tem de lutar para recuperá-lo. Remake em widescreen e Technicolor do filme de 1934 do próprio Hitchcock.
A Rua da Esperança
Lady Ruby
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
Doctor at Sea
Muriel Mallet
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
As Long as They're Happy
Stella Bentley
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Terra Ensanguentada
Miss McNab
Bill Forrester é um grande piloto de guerra em 1945, num acampamento na Ásia, na Birmânia, onde está um calor infernal. Ele é ágil, duro e cria muito desconforto no acampamento entre os outros oficiais pelo seu estilo independente, violento e por suas crises intempestivas. Ele realmente estava muito estressado. Quando um oficial pensa em pedir a transferência dele, um médico resolve levar o piloto para conhecer as comunidades na Birmânia, na tentativa de humanizá-lo um pouco.
What Every Woman Wants
Sarah Brown
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?
Papai é do Contra
Maggie Hobson
Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) é dono de uma sapataria de sucesso na cidade de Salford, no século XIX. Os motivos de tantas vendas são dois: Willie Mossop (John Mills), um jovem analfabeto que tem um talento especial para trabalhar com couro e uma de suas filhas, Maggie Hobson (Brenda De Banzie), que tem um dom especial para vendas. Apesar do seu talento para os negócios, Hobson não quer que Maggie se case, prefere que as duas filhas mais novas façam isso, enquanto ela continue nos negócios. Revoltada, ela decide tomar uma decisão crucial em sua vida.
The Happiness of Three Women
Jane Price
Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote the original play and collaborated on the screenplay) to help them out and set them straight.
Don't Blame the Stork
Evelyn Steele
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.
A Day to Remember
Mrs. Collins
Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver one of the team's members, is reunited with a little French girl he'd befriended during the war, who has now developed into a beautiful young woman. And Fred Collins makes a poignant journey to the hotel where he'd honeymooned with his late wife. The film works best as a low-key comedy-drama; it is least successful when it ventures into O. Henry territory and strains for "surprise" story twists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
The Yellow Balloon
Fruit and Veg Stall Customer (uncredited)
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
Private Information
Dolly Carson
A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.
Confio em Ti
Mrs. Hooker
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
The Long Dark Hall
Mrs Rogers
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.