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Daphne Anderson

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Birth name Daphne Scrutton
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 27 april 1922
Death 15 january 2013 (at 90 years)

Daphne Anderson (born Daphne Scrutton; 27 April 1922 – 15 January 2013) was an English stage, film and television actress, as well as a dancer and singer. She made her London theatre debut in 1938 at the Windmill Theatre. Anderson has appeared in such films as The Beggar's Opera, Hobson's Choice and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Biography

Anderson was born on 27 April 1922, in London, to parents Alan Edward Scrutton and Gladys Amy Scrutton (née Juler). Her surname was originally "Scrutton", but she later changed it to "Anderson". Anderson attended Kensington High School. She married Lionel William Carter.

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Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
(2 films)
David Lean
David Lean
(1 films)
Herbert Wilcox
Herbert Wilcox
(2 films)
Francis Searle
Francis Searle
(1 films)
Jean Kent
Jean Kent
(2 films)
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Filmography of Daphne Anderson (13 films)

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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
, 2h22
Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Political films, French Revolution films
Actors Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen, James Villiers, Eleanor David, Dominic Jephcott
Roles Lady Grenville, an English noblewoman
Rating75% 3.7951553.7951553.7951553.7951553.795155
In 1792 during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, a secret league of brave Englishmen are rescuing French aristocrats from the guillotine. The leader of this secret society is a mysterious English nobleman known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel, whose signature sign is a humble wayside flower. In society he hides his identity by posing as the wealthy but foppish and seemingly empty-headed Sir Percy Blakeney (Anthony Andrews). After rescuing the Count de Beaulieu and his family, Percy is introduced to the beautiful French actress Marguerite St. Just (Jane Seymour) through her brother, Armand (Malcolm Jamieson), whom he rescued from an attack. Percy is attracted to Marguerite, but she is in a relationship with Paul Chauvelin (Ian McKellen), an agent of Maximilien Robespierre. Due to the Scarlet Pimpernel's past successes, Chauvelin is assigned to discover his identity and capture him.
Au Pair Girls
Au Pair Girls (1972)
, 1h26
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Johnny Briggs, Gabrielle Drake, Elizabeth Joyce Heron, Daphne Anderson, Geoffrey Bayldon, Roger Avon
Roles Mrs. Howard
Rating49% 2.456522.456522.456522.456522.45652
The film opens with four girls arriving at London Heathrow Airport. They are taken to the offices of Overseas Employment Agency which has arranged placements for them. The film then plays out the adventures of each of the four girls.
Bitter Harvest
Bitter Harvest (1963)
, 1h36
Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Janet Munro, John Stride, Alan Badel, Dame Thora Hird, Vanda Godsell, Richard Thorpe
Rating61% 3.0501553.0501553.0501553.0501553.050155
Jennie Jones hails from the countryside when she decides to the travel to the big city. There, she is continually befriended by the wrong crowd and finds herself down on her luck and ultimately contemplating her own demise.
Captain Clegg
Captain Clegg (1962)
, 1h21
Directed by Peter Medak, John Peverall, Peter Graham Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Daphne Anderson, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper
Roles Mrs. Rash
Rating65% 3.2956853.2956853.2956853.2956853.295685
Captain Collier (Patrick Allen) and his band of sailors show up to an English coastal town to investigate reports of "Marsh Phantoms" who ride by night spreading terror to the town. The Captain suspects that the local parson (Peter Cushing) might be hiding something. Are the phantoms genuine or a cover for illegal smuggling activities?
The Prince and the Showgirl
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
, 1h55
Directed by Laurence Olivier
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Richard Wattis, Esmond Knight, Jeremy Spenser
Roles Fanny
Rating63% 3.1992653.1992653.1992653.1992653.199265
The film is set in London in June 1911. George V will be crowned king on 22 June and in the preceding days many of the most important dignitaries arrive. Among those arriving are King Nicholas of Carpathia (Jeremy Spenser) and the regent, Prince Charles (Laurence Olivier).
A Kid for Two Farthings
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
, 1h36
Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Actors Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Brenda De Banzie, Lou Jacobi
Roles Dora
Rating63% 3.198283.198283.198283.198283.19828
In the busy wholesale-retail world of London's East End everyone, it seems, has unattainable dreams. Then a small boy - Joe - buys a unicorn, in fact a sickly little goat, with just one twisted horn in the middle of its forehead. This, he has been led to believe by a local tailor, Kandinsky, will bring everyone good fortune.
Hobson's Choice
Hobson's Choice (1954)
, 1h47
Directed by David Lean
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Prunella Scales, Daphne Anderson, Richard Wattis
Roles Alice Hobson
Rating76% 3.846343.846343.846343.846343.84634
Willie Mossop (John Mills) is a gifted but unappreciated bootmaker employed by the tyrannical Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) in his moderately upmarket shop in 1880s Salford in Lancashire. Hard-drinking widower Hobson has three daughters. Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) and her younger sisters Alice (Daphne Anderson) and Vicky (Prunella Scales) have worked in their father's establishment without wages and are eager to be married and free of the shop. Alice has been seeing Albert Prosser (Richard Wattis), a young up-and-coming solicitor, while Vicky prefers Freddy Beenstock (Derek Blomfield), the son of a respectable corn merchant. Hobson does not object to losing Alice and Vicky, but Maggie is far too useful to part with. To his friends, he mocks the plain, severe Maggie as a spinster "a bit on the ripe side" at 30 years of age.
The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera (1953)
, 1h34
Directed by Peter Brook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Historical, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Stuart Burge, Stanley Holloway
Roles Lucy Lockit
Rating60% 3.0478053.0478053.0478053.0478053.047805
In the 1700s, a beggar is tossed into London's Newgate jail, along with a pile of papers upon which his unfinished opera is scribbled. The beggar boasts to the other prisoners that his opera, unlike others of the day, is about a real person, the dashing highwayman Captain Macheath, who, dressed in a red coat, holds off the world with a pistol in each hand, seduces women with five notes of a tune, and generally leaps from misfortune. To the beggar's disappointment, the other prisoners point out that his hero Macheath is among them, in irons and behind bars, and Macheath, who is scheduled to be executed the next morning, admits that there is "no arguing with reality." Taking the first page of the opera, Macheath begins singing, and the beggar, encouraged by Macheath's good voice, urges him to continue, until the following story, the beggar's opera, is sung for the prison inmates: While riding to London, feeling merry and free, Macheath robs a carriage, and steals a kiss and a locket from a maiden. Later, in London, Macheath's wife, Polly Peachum, pines for him. Polly's parents, shopkeepers Mr. Peachum and his wife, are scandalized to learn from their employee Filch that Polly has secretly married the highwayman. To make the best of the situation, as they are always eager to make money, they urge her to lure Macheath into a trap and collect the reward for his capture. Meanwhile, outside of town, Macheath encounters a carriage ridden by Newgate's jailor Mr. Lockit, Lockit's daughter Lucy and Mrs. Trapes, whom Lockit is wooing. Lucy, who met Macheath when he was once imprisoned, scolds him for taking her virtue without making good on his promise to wed. When Macheath rides off, Mrs. Trapes suggests that Lucy betray him for the reward and give the money to her father. Later, during a tryst in a hayloft, Polly warns Macheath that her parents are mounting an ambush. Macheath escapes with Polly's help after a swashbuckling fight, then hides in a back room of a tavern, where he is unable to resist socializing with the prostitutes, whom he considers friends. However, prostitute Jenny Diver has been bribed by Peachum and Lockit to betray him, and with the help of her colleagues, Macheath is soon captured. From his jail cell, Macheath urges Lucy to steal the jail keys and set him free, promising to marry her in return, but then Polly shows up and he is forced to introduce the women to each other. During the night, Lucy steals the keys and releases him, but later Polly sneaks back and, finding Macheath gone from the cell, screams in anguish without thinking, thus drawing attention to his escape. Meanwhile, Macheath disguises himself in the stolen cape and gloves of a lord and slips into a gaming house to avoid making good his promise to unite with Lucy. However, the proprietor recognizes the cape and alerts Lockit and Peachum about the impostor wearing it. Back at the jail, Polly is accused of freeing Macheath and is locked in Lucy's room, where Lucy, after losing track of Macheath, attempts to drug her. When they hear the recaptured Macheath being returned to prison, Lucy and Polly proceed to Macheath's cell and demand that he choose between them. He refuses, as he will soon be hanged and sees no reason to disappoint either of them. The next morning, riding atop his coffin as it is carted through the streets to the gallows, Macheath waves farewell to the friendly crowd that has gathered to see him off. At the gallows, after kissing both Lucy and Polly goodbye, Macheath is blindfolded and awaits his fate, and the opera comes to its incomplete end. The real Macheath, who is still in the jail, protests that he should not have to hang twice. After pondering the complaint, the beggar agrees and yells for Macheath's reprieve. The rest of the prisoners join in the chant and mob the turnkey, who comes to investigate the ruckus, allowing Macheath to escape. The highwayman steals a horse from the cart containing his coffin and when safely out of London, sings that his freedom has been returned because of a beggar's opera.
Trottie True
Trottie True (1949)
, 1h36
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair, Christopher Lee, Lana Morris, Roger Moore
Roles Bertha True
Rating57% 2.863032.863032.863032.863032.86303
En 1900, une duchesse se remémore ce qui l'a amenée à cette position sociale. Après s'être fait un nom au music-hall, celle qui s'appelait alors Trottie True est engagée pour rejoindre la troupe du Bedford. Là elle attire l'attention de plusieurs admirateurs bien nés, et notamment de Lord Digby Landon avec qui elle se mariera.