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Angela Pleasence is a Actor British born on 30 september 1941
Daphne Anne Angela Pleasence (born 30 September 1941), better known as Angela Pleasence, is an English actress. She is the daughter of actor Donald Pleasence and Miriam Raymond.
Born in Chapeltown, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
She is known for her performance as Catherine Howard in the 1970 BBC serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Other television credits include Les Misérables, The Barchester Chronicles (alongside her father), Mansfield Park, Silas Marner, Midsomer Murders, Whitechapel and Agatha Christie's Marple.
She is also noted for her roles in horror films of the 1970s, including From Beyond the Grave, Symptoms and The Godsend. She made a guest appearance in the parody series Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible satirising her earlier performances. She also appeared in Stealing Heaven (1988) and appeared in "The Shakespeare Code" episode of Doctor Who as Elizabeth I. Two other roles are the Ghost of Christmas Past in the 1984 holiday television film A Christmas Carol and a role as a crowd member in Martin Scorsese's 2002 crime drama Gangs of New York.
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Daphne Anne Angela Pleasence (born 30 September 1941), better known as Angela Pleasence, is an English actress. She is the daughter of actor Donald Pleasence and Miriam Raymond.
Born in Chapeltown, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
She is known for her performance as Catherine Howard in the 1970 BBC serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Other television credits include Les Misérables, The Barchester Chronicles (alongside her father), Mansfield Park, Silas Marner, Midsomer Murders, Whitechapel and Agatha Christie's Marple.
She is also noted for her roles in horror films of the 1970s, including From Beyond the Grave, Symptoms and The Godsend. She made a guest appearance in the parody series Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible satirising her earlier performances. She also appeared in Stealing Heaven (1988) and appeared in "The Shakespeare Code" episode of Doctor Who as Elizabeth I. Two other roles are the Ghost of Christmas Past in the 1984 holiday television film A Christmas Carol and a role as a crowd member in Martin Scorsese's 2002 crime drama Gangs of New York.
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Fille de l'acteur Donald Pleasence, Angela Pleasence suit sa formation en art dramatique à la Royal Academy of Dramatic Art jusqu'en 1963.Usually with
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Your Highness (2011)
, 1h45Directed by David Gordon Green
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about families, Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Buddy films
Actors James Franco, Natalie Portman, Danny McBride, Zooey Deschanel, Rasmus Hardiker, Michael Clarke Duncan
Roles Mother
Rating54%
Thadeous and Fabious are sons of King Tallious in the Kingdom of Mourne. They are warriors: Fabious is dashing and skilled and Thadeous is lazy and ineffectual. While celebrating his latest victory over the evil sorcerer, Leezar, who has been ravaging Tallious's kingdom, Fabious introduces the virgin Belladonna whom he has freed from a tower and wishes to marry. Though his brother makes him the best man, Thadeous skips the wedding after overhearing Fabious's Knights Elite, led by Boremont, talk about him negatively. The wedding is then crashed by Leezar, who reveals himself to be the one who placed Belladonna in the tower. Leezar re-kidnaps her and flees. Returning to the castle with his servant Courtney, Thadeous is given an ultimatum: join Fabious on his quest to rescue Belladonna or be banished from Mourne.
, 1h40Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Tim Curry, Cheryl Campbell, Christina Cole, Tom Riley, Zoe Boyle
Roles Nanny
Rating74%
Poirot assiste aux fouilles archéologiques de Lord Boynton qui est proche d'une grande découverte en Syrie. Il fait la connaissance de la nouvelle Lady Boynton, une femme tyrannique envers tout son entourage. Quand elle est retrouvée assassinée, Poirot se charge de l'enquête...
Gangs of New York (2002)
, 2h47Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Mafia films, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, La précarité, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Erotic thriller films, Gangster films
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman, Henry Thomas, Jim Broadbent
Roles Woman Accomplice
Rating74%
On February 6, 1846, at Paradise Square in Lower Manhattan's Five Points, a territorial battle of hand-to-hand combat between Bill "the Butcher" Cutting's U.S.-born nativist gang, the Natives, and "Priest" Vallon's Irish Catholic immigrant gang, the Dead Rabbits, concludes when Cutting kills Vallon, witnessed by Vallon's young son, Amsterdam. Cutting declares the Dead Rabbits outlawed but orders that Vallon's body be buried with honor. Amsterdam seizes the knife used to kill his father, races off, and buries it along with a medal his father gave him. He is later raised at Hellgate orphanage.
The Search for John Gissing (2001)
, 1h31Directed by Mike Binder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Mike Binder, Alan Rickman, Janeane Garofalo, Sonya Walger, Juliet Stevenson, Allan Corduner
Roles Johanna Frielduct
Rating64%
Matthew Barnes is a young executive on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger. He's to replace John Gissing; Gissing's gotten wind of it, and he makes sure that Matthew and his wife Linda, who has dutifully but reluctantly come to England, have a miserable first few days there. By the time Matthew figures out what's happening and declares a counter offensive, it may be too late to save himself from a transfer to Detroit. With Gissing still holding lots of cards and Linda more unhappy by the moment, Matthew must reevaluate. All out war? A partnership with Gissing? Some third way?
, 1h29Directed by Ben Lewin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson, Michel Blanc, Angela Pleasence, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Roles Louis' Sister
Rating61%
Louis est photographe en art religieux. Il rencontre Sybil, paumée, actrice à ses heures. Elle lui raconte sa vie, un vrai mélo. Il la croit et lui donne tout son argent. Elle disparait. Louis ne veut pas croire qu'il s'est fait avoir et décide de l'attendre. Un jour, il croise un inconnu au visage admirable: Louis reconnait aussitôt "le Christ" qu'il cherche pour une illustration de la vie de Jésus. Tous deux, devenus amis, se mettent à la recherche de la femme qu'ils aiment, la même...
Stealing Heaven (1988)
, 1h55Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Derek de Lint, Denholm Elliott, Kim Thomson, Bernard Hepton, Kenneth Cranham, Rachel Kempson
Roles Sister Cecilia
Rating63%
Abelard is a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, and a champion of reason, at a time when academics are required to observe chastity. He falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil, a sixteen-year-old gentlewoman raised in a convent, who has both intellectual curiosity and a rebellious view of the low status of women in 12th century Europe. When the relationship is suspected, Heloise's uncle Fulbert, who had other plans for her marriage, works with the bishop of Paris to put a stop to it. Nevertheless, Abelard and Heloise have a child together and later are secretly married. Abelard faces a struggle with himself for acting against the will of God and yet loves Heloise too.
Somewhere to Run (1988)
Actors Angela Pleasence, Michael Jayston, Josette Simon, Paul Brooke, Sara Kestelman, Michael Grandage
Roles Anita Fitzpatrick
Rating70%
Teenagers Sarah (Weaver) and Debbie (Murdock) run away from home, before meeting shortly after arriving in London. Debbie, the older and more streetwise of the two, is running from a generally bad home life, where her family is poor and her father drinks excessively. Sarah is running from a more affluent home, where she has been sexually abused by her father (Jayston). Both girls stay at a hostel for runaways. Debbie manages to get herself into college, while Sarah unsuccessfully tries to get her father prosecuted, but is instead returned home by the authorities. She runs away again, and ends up on the streets selling herself. She attempts suicide by stepping out in front of a lorry, but is injured and ends up in hospital. The film ends as she lies in hospital, while in the background a radio plays. Debbie calls a request show asking for a dedication for Sarah, with whom she has lost touch.
, 3h15Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Amy Irving, Olivia de Havilland, Rex Harrison, Jan Niklas, Omar Sharif, Angela Pleasence
Rating65%
The film starts in December, 1916, just before the Russian Revolution, then moves to 1917's February Revolution, the family's forced move to Siberia in summer, 1917 after Nicholas II's forced abdication in March, the late-1917 Bolshevik takeover and start of the Russian Civil War and the July, 1918 mass shooting of the family. Afterwards, it revolves around Anna Anderson, who believes that she is Anastasia Romanov, daughter of Nicholas II of Russia. Anna first tells her story in the 1920s when she is an inmate in a Berlin asylum after her suicide attempt. Her story of escape from the Bolsheviks who killed the rest of her family in 1918 seems so vivid that many Russian expatriates are willing to believe her. She slowly gains more trust, but the Romanov family is very resistant to believe her tale and publicly denounces her as an impostor. The movie culminates in 1938 with Anna deciding to sue the Romanovs in Germany's courts to force them to recognize her as Anastasia, but it never reveals if Anna really is Anastasia. The ending epilogue narration says that she eventually moved back to the U.S. and settled in Charlottesville, Virginia where she died in 1984.
A Christmas Carol (1984)
, 1h40Directed by Clive Donner
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films
Actors George C. Scott, Frank Finlay, David Warner, Susannah York, Angela Pleasence, Edward Woodward
Roles Ghost of Christmas Past
Rating77%
The film opens with a funeral procession, presumably that of Jacob Marley, as his death is mentioned by the narrator (Roger Rees). The scene then changes to seven years later, on Christmas Eve in 1843 within the business establishment of Scrooge and Marley. Bob Cratchit (David Warner), a clerk employed by Scrooge, comments that Marley has been dead for seven years, but is gruffly ordered to return to work by Marley's surviving partner, Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott). Bob then attempts to add some coal to an almost nonexistent fire, but is stopped by Scrooge, who gives him a curt and cutting lecture on clothing as protection against the cold, and that "coal burns; coal is fleeting, and coal is costly". Scrooge then declares that there will be no more coal burned in the office that day, and orders Cratchit to return to work lest he be fired.
Les Misérables (1978)
, 2h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Angela Pleasence, Caroline Langrishe, Christopher Guard, Ian Holm
Roles Fantine
Rating72%
The plot follows the general outline of the novel of the same name, omitting many details and some entire episodes. The narrative is strictly chronological and avoids the digressions required to mirror the novel's structure. Many of the novel's minor characters do not appear or are combined. For example, the role of the Thénardiers is reduced to a scene in which Valjean ransoms Cosette from them.
Symptoms (1974)
, 1h31Directed by José Ramón Larraz
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Angela Pleasence, Mike Grady, Peter Vaughan, Lorna Heilbron, Raymond Huntley, Nancy Nevinson
Roles Helen
Rating64%
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems, and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
, 1h37Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, Ian Bannen, Diana Dors, Angela Pleasence, David Warner
Roles Emily Underwood
Rating65%
Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits those who cheat the shop's Proprietor (Peter Cushing).
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
, 1h46Directed by Ennio De Concini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Thriller, Biography, Historical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Hitler, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti, Doris Kunstmann
Roles Trude
Rating64%
The film opens with Hitler's 56th birthday on 20 April 1945, and ends 10 days later, with his suicide on 30 April.
The Love Ban (1973)
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films based on plays
Actors John Cleese, Hywel Bennett, Nanette Newman, Milo O'Shea, Angharad Rees, Nicky Henson
Roles Mick's Secretary
Rating48%
, 1h36Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Angela Scoular, Sheila White, Adrienne Posta, Diane Keen
Roles Scruffy Girl
Rating61%
Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in a swinging sixties new town, delivering groceries for the local supermarket. However he is more interested in matters sexual and sets out to lose his virginity by attempting to seduce the local girls – Linda, Paula, Caroline, Audrey, and his dream girl Mary.