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Brenda Bruce is a Actor British born on 7 july 1918 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
Brenda Bruce (7 July 1919 – 19 February 1996) was a British actress. She had a long and successful career in the theatre, radio, film and television.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 july 1918 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
Death 19 february 1996 (at 77 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Birth 7 july 1918 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
Death 19 february 1996 (at 77 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Biography
She was married and widowed twice, first to television personality Roy Rich, with whom she had two daughters, and second to actor Clement McCallin, with whom she adopted a son. McCallin died in 1977, and her son died in 1994.Usually with
Filmography of Brenda Bruce (31 films)
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Splitting Heirs (1993)
, 1h27Directed by Robert Young, Roger Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese, Sadie Frost
Roles Mrs. Bullock
Rating54%
The movie centres on the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Bournemouth (England), upon which misfortune has befallen throughout history, leading it to believe itself cursed. The most recent heir, Thomas Henry Butterfly Rainbow Peace, was left in a restaurant as an infant in the 1960s, by the time his parents remembered him, he had disappeared. Meanwhile, in the 1990s, Tommy Patel (Eric Idle) has grown up in an Asian/Indian family in Southall, never doubting his ethnicity despite being taller than anyone else in the house, fair-haired, blue-eyed, light-skinned - and not liking curry. From the family corner-shop he commutes to the City, where he works for the Bournemouth family's stockbroking firm, handling multimillion-pound deals.
Harnessing Peacocks (1993)
Directed by James Cellan Jones
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Serena Scott Thomas, Peter Davison, Brenda Bruce, John Mills, Renée Asherson, David Harewood
Roles Amy Tremayne
Rating63%
The Fool (1990)
, 2h20Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Derek Jacobi, Miranda Richardson, Cyril Cusack, Julian Firth, John Tams, Maria Aitken
Rating60%
The narrative is grounded in the double life of a humble clerk who poses as the reclusive, but widely respected "Sir John." He thus moves in wealthy upper class circles and participates in grand investment schemes while living in a London slum. The movie's grand-eloquent socialist soliliquaies and detailed evocation of life in Victorian London drew on the vast personal archive of interviews about contemporary London life by Henry Mayhew.
December Bride (1990)
Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Genres Drama
Actors Saskia Reeves, Donal McCann, Peter Capaldi, Ciarán Hinds, Patrick Malahide, Dervla Kirwan
Roles Martha Gilmartin
Rating63%
Sarah Gomartin comes with her mother Martha to keep house for a widower and his two grown sons, on their farm in Northern Ireland in 1909. After Hamilton Echlin Sr. dies in a boating accident, Sarah's mother, dismayed by his sons' and her own daughter's refusal to attend church and behave in a manner she approves of, leaves the household, but Sarah stays on as housekeeper, and eventually takes first taciturn younger brother Frank (Hinds) and then amiable elder brother Hamilton (McCann), as lovers. When she becomes pregnant and refuses to marry either man or even specify which is the father of the boy she delivers, the local minister (Patrick Malahide) is deeply unsettled by her indifference to convention. She rebuffs his attempts to make her conform and give the child "a name" by declaring that all clergy want is for people's lives, however "botched inside," to appear "smooth to the eye--like lazy work." The community seems only mildly censorious of the relationship between the three, but when Frank yearns for a woman all his own and makes overtures to a local girl, her male relatives beat him savagely in retaliation, crippling him. The film then moves forward in time: Sarah's children (she has since had a daughter) plead with her to marry, as her stubborn unconventionality makes it impossible for them to be completely accepted by the local community. Realizing that her daughter's happiness is at stake, Sarah relents and marries Hamilton.
Antonia and Jane (1990)
Directed by Beeban Kidron
Genres Drama
Actors Imelda Staunton, Saskia Reeves, John Bennett, Maria Charles, Brenda Bruce, Alfred Marks
Roles Therapist
Rating2%
Les rapports au quotidien, alternant chamaillerie et copinerie, de deux amies d'enfance, la belle Antonia et la boulotte Jane, leurs déboires sentimentaux et professionnels, le tout ponctué de séances de psychanalyse…
Little Dorrit (1987)
, 6hOrigin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall, Patricia Hayes, Alec Guinness, Miriam Margolyes
Roles Duchesse
Rating71%
Le film est présenté en deux parties. Dans la première, sous-titrée "La faute à personne" (une allusion à un des titres auxquels avait pensé Dickens pour le roman), l'histoire est présentée en fonction du personnage d'Arthur Clennam. La seconde, sous-titrée "L'histoire de la petite Dorrit", reprend une grande partie des mêmes événements, mais cette fois selon le point de vue de l'héroïne.
Time After Time (1986)
Genres Comedy
Actors John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Helen Cherry, Ursula Howells, Brenda Bruce, Mark Lambert
Roles June Swift
Rating72%
A constantly bickering aristocratic family live in a crumbling great house in Ireland, when their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a German cousin.
Steaming (1985)
, 1h36Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Diana Dors, Brenda Bruce, Felicity Dean
Roles Mrs. Meadows
Rating58%
Les conversations intimes et les problèmes quotidiens d'un groupe de femmes fréquentant régulièrement un bain turc dans un quartier populaire de Londres.
Macbeth (1983)
, 2h28Directed by Jack Gold
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Nicol Williamson, Jane Lapotaire, Ian Hogg, Tony Doyle, Brenda Bruce, David Lyon
Roles First Witch
Rating68%
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
, 1h40Directed by Mike Newell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about families
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Jenny Agutter, Patrick McGoohan, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, Louis Jourdan
Roles Reine Anne d'Autriche
Rating65%
L'adaptation du classique roman d'Alexandre Dumas : la lutte entre deux frères jumeaux pour le bien et le mal : l'un est emprisonné, visage caché dans ce hideux masque de fer alors que l'autre jumeau est l'élégant roi de France Louis XIV.
, 1h27Directed by David Susskind, Claude Whatham
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Simon Ward, Anthony Hopkins, Lisa Harrow, Freddie Jones, T.P. McKenna, Brenda Bruce
Roles Miss Harbottle
Rating63%
It is 1937, and newly qualified veterinarian James Herriot travels to Yorkshire to apply for the post of assistant in Siegfried Farnon’s practice. He soon learns the facts of country life but struggles to overcome the prejudices of the Darrowby locals who are sceptical of the novice vet's ability. In between “cases,” Herriot courts pretty farmer’s daughter Helen Alderson and finally marries her.
That'll Be The Day (1973)
, 1h31Directed by Claude Whatham
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors David Essex, Ringo Starr, Rosemary Leach, James Booth, Deborah Watling, Robert Lindsay
Roles Doreen
Rating65%
Jim MacLaine (David Essex) was abandoned by his father when he was young. Later, as a suburban school dropout, Jim leaves home and drifts through a succession of dead-end jobs until he finds an outlet for his frustration in rock 'n' roll. Tossing away the chance of a university education much to the consternation of his mother, alienated MacLaine becomes a lowly deckchair attendant before streetwise friend Mike (Ringo Starr) gets him a job firstly as a barman and then with the fun fair. The initially shy MacLaine quickly becomes a heartless fairground Romeo leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake. Eventually MacLaine returns home to run the family store and marry his girlfriend, but despite the birth of a son, restless Jim feels the lure of rock ’n’ roll again.
The Virgin Soldiers (1969)
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Hywel Bennett, Lynn Redgrave, David Bowie, Nigel Davenport, Jack Shepherd, Nigel Patrick
Roles Nursing Sister
Rating61%
Private Brigg is a National Serviceman sent to Singapore during the Malayan Emergency along with a squad of naive new recruits. There he falls for Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major.
The Uncle (1965)
, 1h27Directed by Desmond Davis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Rupert Davies, Brenda Bruce, Ann Lynn, Maurice Denham, Helen Fraser, John Moulder-Brown
Roles Addie Morton
Rating68%
Nightmare (1964)
, 1h23Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Timothy Bateson, Brenda Bruce, George A. Cooper, John Welch (Welsh)
Roles Mary Lewis
Rating66%
The film's protagonist, Janet, is a young student attending boarding school. After a number of nightmares concerning her mother, whom she saw kill her father when she was young, the girl is sent home to her guardian, Attorney Henry Baxter. At home, she is assigned a nurse. Janet begins having more nightmares this time concerning an unknown woman with a scar and a birthday cake. The dreams get worse and worse. Finally, her guardian brings home his wife, whom Janet has never met. Janet is introduced to the woman at her birthday celebration. The cake and woman from her dreams with the scar appearing at once is enough to make Janet snap. She kills the woman by stabbing her - the same way her mother killed her father. Janet is committed. Meanwhile, her guardian Henry and the nurse, who was disguised to look like the woman with a scar to drive Janet mad, celebrate the loss of Janet. However, the two do not go unpunished.