Dana Wynter

Dana Wynter

Рождение : 1931-06-08, Berlin, Germany

Смерть : 2011-05-05

История

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

Профиль

Dana Wynter
Dana Wynter

Фильмы

В свете прожекторов
Stella (archive footage)
Углубленный взгляд на изображение трансгендерных людей в Голливудских картинах и влияние этих историй на повседневную жизнь трансгендеров и американскую культуру.
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.
The Royal Romance of Charles and 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.
Дикарь
Jessie Coutances
Нелли и Мартен случайно повстречались в Каракасе. Он помог ей сбежать от жениха, за которого она передумала выходить замуж, и отвёз в аэропорт, чтобы она уехала из Венесуэлы. Однако Нелли не захотела покидать своего спасителя. Обманом она проникла на остров, где он жил в полном одиночестве, и теперь им предстоит провести вместе несколько дней…
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Andrea Hardesty
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
The Questor Tapes
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.
Аэропорт
Cindy Bakersfeld
Фильм "Аэропорт" (Airport), созданный по мотивам бестселлера Артура Хейли, стал не только одной из кассовых кинокартин 60-х годов, но и своеобразным эталоном фильма-катастрофы, стиля которого придерживались режиссеры более позднего времени. Желая, чтобы его семья получила солидную страховку после его гибели, отчаявшийся неудачник угрожает, что взорвет лайнер, где, кроме него, находятся и другие пассажиры. Начинается паника...
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
One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.
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.
Список Эдриана Мессенджера
Lady Jocelyn Bruttenholm
Писатель Эдриан Мессенджер предполагает, что несвязанные друг с другом смерти от несчастного случая на самом деле цепочка убийств. Он просит своего друга Энтони Гетрина, бывшего сотрудника МИ5, помочь распутать это дело. Самолет, в котором летел Мессенджер, взрывают, и перед смертью он открывает единственному спасшемуся пассажиру ключ к разгадке…
On the Double
Lady Margaret MacKenzie-Smith
American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.
Потопить «Бисмарк»
WRNS Second Officer Anne Davis
В 1941 году линкор «Бисмарк», гордость немецкого флота, был спущен на воду и отправился в свой первый боевой поход. Спустя несколько дней он настиг и уничтожил мощный английский крейсер «Худ» со всем его экипажем. Уинстон Черчилль отдал приказ командующему военно-морскими операциями капитану Джонатану Шепарду найти «Бисмарка» и потопить его любой ценой.
Shake Hands with the Devil
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.
Something of Value
Holly McKenzie
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
День «Д», 6 июня
Valerie Russell
В этом фильме Роберт Тейлор играет капитана Брэда Паркера, американского фронтового офицера, который 6 июня 1944 года, при задействовании 3 000 000 человек, 11 000 самолетов и 4 000 судов участвует в высадке войск союзников в Нормандии для определения будущего мира. И Паркер, и его командир влюблены в одну и ту же женщину, и в этот день судьба также должна определить, кому из этих двоих мужчин суждено вернуться домой к любимой.
Вторжение похитителей тел
Becky Driscoll
Врач из маленького калифорнийского городка обеспокоен растущим количеством пациентов, утверждающих, что перестали узнавать своих близких: люди становятся равнодушными, бесчувственными.
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.
Рыцари круглого стола
Morgan Le Fay's servant (uncredited)
Согласно «Истории Бриттов» средневекового монаха Гальфрида Монмутского, в небе над Британией появилась комета в образе чудесного дракона. Великий маг и провидец Мерлин предсказал королю Утеру Пендрагону, что у него родится великий сын Артур, которому станет подвластна вся Британия и земли, над которыми простираются лучи, исходящие от кометы. «Артур» - образ, происходящий от кельтского военачальника VI века, стал наиболее популярным персонажем в литературе Средневековой Европы, центральным героем повествований о рыцарях Круглого Стола, Святом Граале и даже мессианской фигурой. Этот фильм перенесет Вас в те великие легендарные времена когда жили герой легенд Древней Англии король Артур, Сэр Ланселот, Мерлин и красавица Женевьева и рыцари круглого стола. Несомненно, это один из самых первых и самых лучших фильмах о временах короля Артура. Великолепная игра актеров, постановка трюков и масштабные батальные сцены надолго запомнились зрителям во всем мире.
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.
Красный корсар
La Signorita
Пресловутый странник морей восемнадцатого века, капитан Валло, он же «Кровавый Пират», и его команда морских разбойников захватывают испанский галлеон, полный оружия и амуниции. Когда Валло решает продать свою добычу Эль Либре, предводителю мятежников с острова Кобра, испанский представитель, барон Груда, предлагает пирату пятьдесят тысяч флоринов в обмен на Эль Либре. Валло оказывается в сложной ситуации, находясь между испанцами, мятежниками и своей собственной бунтующей командой. Кровавого Пирата спасает любовь дочери Эль Либре, Консуэло, он вновь завоевывает доверие своих подопечных и помогает жителям острова в их борьбе за свободу.
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.
Леди Годива снова в седле
Myrtle Shaw (as Dagmar Wynter)
Симпатичная официантка ради смеха решает участвовать в конкурсе красоты и неожиданно его выигрывает. Но погружение в шоу-бизнес оказывается не таким радужным, как казалось ранее. Её начинают преследовать неудачи, и она чуть не скатывается до стриптиз-ревю. Но есть надежда, что всё кончится хорошо.
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.