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Diana Coupland is a Actor British born on 5 march 1928 at Leeds (United-kingdom)
Diana Coupland (5 March 1928– 10 November 2006) was an English actress and singer best remembered for her role as Jean Abbott on Bless This House, which she played from 1971 to 1976.
She married Marc Miller, a producer, in 1980. Coupland, who was a patron of National Lupus UK, died aged 78 at the University Hospital, Coventry in 2006 after failing to recover following an operation to resolve long-term heart problems.
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Diana Coupland
Birth name Betty Diana Coupland
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 march 1928 at Leeds (United-kingdom)
Death 10 november 2006 (at 78 years) at Coventry (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 march 1928 at Leeds (United-kingdom)
Death 10 november 2006 (at 78 years) at Coventry (United-kingdom)
Biography
Diana Coupland married twice. She and her first husband, composer Monty Norman, divorced after 20 years of marriage, having had one daughter. In 2001, she gave evidence in a High Court case after her former husband sued the Sunday Times following a 1997 article suggesting that Norman had falsely taken credit and royalties for the James Bond theme music, which had actually been written by John Barry. Coupland described the article as "blatantly untrue" and her former husband was awarded £30,000.She married Marc Miller, a producer, in 1980. Coupland, who was a patron of National Lupus UK, died aged 78 at the University Hospital, Coventry in 2006 after failing to recover following an operation to resolve long-term heart problems.
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Filmography of Diana Coupland (11 films)
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Another Life (2001)
, 1h41Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Natasha Little, Nick Moran, Ioan Gruffudd, Imelda Staunton, Rachael Stirling, Tom Wilkinson
Roles Mrs. Lester
Rating61%
Chiefly set in London during the First World War and in the early 1920s (primarily 1921 and 1922) and based on a true story, the film concerns a daydreaming young woman, Edith Graydon (Little), who attracts, then marries, an ordinary shipping clerk, Percy Thompson (Moran), who reminds her of a character in books. Later, Edith carries on an affair with Frederick Bywaters (Gruffudd), a young merchant seaman and childhood friend of her younger brother. The Thompsons' marriage had been a failure for years when Edith became reacquainted with Bywaters, who by then was dating Avis (Stirling), Edith's younger sister. Over the course of their tempestuous affair, Edith writes to Bywaters during his extended absences at sea about her growing boredom and frustration with the dull Percy, who has grown jealous and violent at times. These letters burst with Edith's vivid imagination, including her hopes for a romantic future with Bywaters and her alleged attempts to kill her husband through feeding him glass and poisons. Edith's fantasy-driven promises to leave Percy stir Bywaters to a frenzy; he also resents the way Percy deprecates and even injures Edith. Finally, Bywaters attacks Percy with a knife, as the couple walk home from the theatre. The resulting trial and conviction of the lovers creates a sensation across Britain, as Edith maintains her innocence of any part in her husband's murder. Her letters paint a different picture, despite Bywaters' insistence he acted alone and impulsively. Despite a massive number of signatures on a petition protesting Edith's death sentence, the lovers hang on the same day. To the end, Edith conjures up dreams of her sentence's being commuted to life imprisonment, so her captors must sedate and carry her off to the scaffold.
Operation: Daybreak (1975)
, 1h58Directed by Lewis Gilbert, Ernest Day
Origin USA
Genres War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett, Anton Diffring
Roles Aunt Marie
Rating69%
En 1942, le gouvernement tchécoslovaque en exil à Londres ainsi que le Royaume Uni décident de mettre en place une opération visant à faire assassiner le protecteur du Reich en Bohème-Moravie, Reinhard Heydrich. Pour ce faire, ils forment et parachutent en Tchécoslovaquie deux agents chargé de s'en occuper : Jozef Gabčík et Jan Kubiš. Arrivés sur place, c'est avec le soutien du reste de la résistance tchèque qu'ils vont mettre en œuvre l'opération Anthropoid jusqu'au jour fatidique du 27 mai 1942 ou ils s'attaquent finalement à Heydrich...
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Reg Varney, Diana Coupland, Lee Montague, Johnny Briggs, Penny Spencer, Bill Dean
Roles Mary Sheridan
Rating60%
Bless This House (1972)
, 1h27Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Diana Coupland, Sid James, Terry Scott, June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Sally Geeson
Roles Jean Abbott
Rating61%
1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Then the rude and arrogant Ronald Baines and his family move in next door.
, 1h40Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Peter Cook, John Cleese, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Harold Pinter, Arthur Lowe
Roles Mrs. Spimm
Rating68%
The mysterious Michael Rimmer (Cook) appears at a small and ailing British advertising agency, where the employees assume he is working on a time and motion study. However, he quickly begins to assert a de facto authority over the firm’s mostly ineffectual staff and soon acquires control of the business from the incompetent boss Ferret (Arthur Lowe). Rimmer then succeeds in establishing the newly invigorated firm as the country’s leading polling agency, and begins to make regular TV appearances as a polling expert. He subsequently moves into politics, acting as an adviser to the leader of the Tory opposition, and then becomes an MP himself, for the constituency of Budleigh Moor (a reference to Cook's frequent collaborator, Dudley Moore), along the way acquiring a trophy wife (Vanessa Howard). Relying on a combination of charisma and deception—and murder—he then rapidly works his way up the political ladder to become prime minister (after throwing his predecessor off an oil rig), and finally, by public demand, a near-dictatorial president. Ferret attempts to assassinate Rimmer as he and his wife ride through the capital in an open-topped convertible, but fails and falls to his death.
Spring and Port Wine (1970)
, 1h41Directed by Peter Hammond
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films based on plays
Actors James Mason, Diana Coupland, Susan George, Rodney Bewes, Hannah Gordon, Len Jones
Roles Daisy Crompton
Rating69%
The Twelve Chairs (1970)
, 1h34Directed by Mel Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Ron Moody, Mel Brooks, Andreas Voutsinas, Diana Coupland
Roles Diana Coupland
Rating63%
In the Soviet Union in 1927, Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody), an impoverished aristocrat from Imperial Russia, is summoned, along with the village priest, to the deathbed of his mother-in-law. She reveals, before passing, that a fortune in jewels had been hidden from the Bolsheviks by being sewn into the seat cushion of one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining room set. After hearing the dying woman's Confession, the Russian Orthodox priest Father Fyodor (Dom DeLuise), who has arrived to give the Last Rites, decides to abandon the Church and attempt to steal the treasure. Shortly thereafter, a homeless con-artist, Ostap Bender (Frank Langella), meets the dispossessed nobleman and manipulates his way into a partnership in his search for the family riches.
Charlie Bubbles (1968)
, 1h29Directed by Albert Finney
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Liza Minnelli, Colin Blakely, Richard Pearson, Nicholas Phipps
Roles Maudie
Rating62%
Histoire d'amour entre un homme marié supporter de football et sa secrétaire sur fond de problèmes de classes sociales. Le stade de football d'Old Trafford illustre cette différence sociale en prenant l'exemple des toutes nouvelles loges vitrées dont le luxe tranche nettement avec les tribunes populaires.
The Family Way (1966)
, 1h55Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills, Marjorie Rhodes, Murray Head, Avril Angers
Roles Mrs Rose
Rating72%
Following the wedding of young Jenny Piper and Arthur Fitton (Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett), a rowdy reception is held at a local pub where the newlyweds are subjected to much well-meaning but vulgar ribaldry.
Dr. No (1962)
, 1h45Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films
Actors Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Ursula Andress, Jack Lord, John Kitzmiller, Bernard Lee
Roles Honey Ryder - Singing Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Rating71%
Strangways, the British Intelligence (SIS) Station Chief in Jamaica, is ambushed and killed, and his body taken by a trio of assassins known as the "Three Blind Mice". In response, British agent James Bond—also known as 007—is summoned to the office of his superior, M. Bond is briefed to investigate Strangways' disappearance and to determine whether it is related to his cooperation with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on a case involving the disruption of rocket launches from Cape Canaveral by radio jamming.
The Millionairess (1960)
, 1h30Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price, Gary Raymond
Roles Nurse
Rating54%
By the terms of her late father's will, spoiled London heiress Epifania Parerga, the richest woman in the world, cannot marry unless her prospective husband is able to turn £500 into £15,000 within a three-month period. When Epifania becomes smitten with Alastair, a muscular tennis player, she rigs the contest by giving him £500 in stock and then buying it back for £15,000. Alastair is unable to live with the domineering Epifania, however, and leaves her for the more domestic Polly Smith.