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Elisabeth Welch is a Actor American born on 27 february 1904 at Englewood (USA)
Elisabeth Margaret Welch (February 19, 1904 – July 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer, whose career spanned seven decades. Her best-known songs were "Stormy Weather", "Love for Sale" and "Far Away in Shanty Town". She was American-born but was based in Britain for most of her career.
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Birth name Elisabeth Margaret Welch
Nationality USA
Birth 27 february 1904 at Englewood (USA)
Death 15 july 2003 (at 99 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Nationality USA
Birth 27 february 1904 at Englewood (USA)
Death 15 july 2003 (at 99 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Biography
In 1928 she was married to Luke Smith, a musician, and remained with him until his death in 1936; they had no children.Usually with
Filmography of Elisabeth Welch (11 films)
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Arabian Adventure (1979)
, 1h38Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Christopher Lee, Oliver Tobias, Milo O'Shea, Peter Cushing, Capucine, Puneet Sira
Roles Beggarwoman
Rating57%
Un magicien adepte de la magie noire, Alquazar, obtient des forces du mal, en échange de son âme, le secret pour devenir le maître du monde. Mais les deux héros, le jeune Majeed et le prince Hasan, vont tout faire pour l'en empêcher.
The Tempest (1979)
, 1h32Directed by Derek Jarman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Heathcote Williams, Peter C. Bull, Toyah Willcox, Jack Birkett, Richard Warwick, Claire Davenport
Roles une déesse
Rating63%
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
, 1h39Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Andrew Sachs, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Graham Stark
Rating65%
Philippe Douvier (Robert Webber), a major businessman and secretly the head of the French Connection, is suspected by his New York Mafia drug trading partners of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier's aide Guy Algo (Tony Beckley) suggests a show of force with the murder of Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers). Unfortunately for Douvier, his first attempt at bombing him fails; and the subsequent attempt by Chinese martial artist 'Mr. Chong' (an uncredited appearance by the founder of American Kenpo, Ed Parker) is thwarted when Clouseau successfully fights him off, believing him to be his (Clouseau's) valet Cato (Burt Kwouk) who has orders to keep his employer alert with random attacks. That night, Douvier poses as an informant to lure Clouseau into a trap, but the Chief Inspector's car and clothes are stolen by transvestite criminal Claude Russo (Sue Lloyd), who is killed by Douvier's men. Subsequently Douvier and the French public believe Clouseau is dead and, as a result of this assumption, Clouseau's former boss, ex-Commissioner Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), is restored to sanity and is released from the lunatic asylum to perform the investigation.
Girl Stroke Boy (1971)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern, Clive Francis, Patricia Routledge, Peter C. Bull, Rudolph Walker
Roles Mrs Delaney
Rating60%
Our Man in Havana (1960)
, 1h43Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Ralph Richardson, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward
Rating71%
In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold (Alec Guinness), a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne (Noël Coward) of the British Secret Intelligence Service to be their Havana operative. Instead of recruiting his own agents, Wormold invents agents from men he knows only by sight, and sketches "plans" for a rocket-launching pad based on vacuum parts to increase his value to the service and to procure more money for himself and his expensive daughter Milly (Jo Morrow). Because his importance grows, he is sent a secretary, Beatrice (Maureen O'Hara), and a radioman from London to be under his command. With their arrival it becomes much harder for Wormold to maintain his facade. However, all of his invented information begins to come true: his cables home are intercepted and believed to be true by enemy agents who then act against his "cell". One of his "agents" is killed, and he is himself targeted for assassination. He admits what he's done to his secretary, and is recalled to London. At the film's conclusion, rather than telling the truth to the prime minister and other military intelligence services, Wormold's commanders (led by Ralph Richardson) agree to fabricate a story claiming his imagined machines had been dismantled, bestow honors on Wormold, and offer him a position teaching espionage classes in London.
Dead of Night (1945)
, 1h42Directed by Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Anthology film, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Renee Gadd, Frederick Valk, Roland Culver, Sally Ann Howes
Roles Beulah
Rating74%
Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house party where he reveals to the assembled guests that he has seen them all in a dream. He appears to have no prior personal knowledge of them but he is able to predict spontaneous events in the house before they unfold. The other guests attempt to test Craig's foresight, while entertaining each other with various tales of uncanny or supernatural events that they experienced or were told about. These include a racing car driver's premonition of a fatal bus crash; a light-hearted tale of two obsessed golfers, one of whom becomes haunted by the other's ghost (cut from the initial USA release); a ghostly encounter during a children's Christmas party (another tale cut from the initial USA release); a haunted antique mirror; and the story of an unbalanced ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) who believes his amoral dummy is truly alive. The framing story is then capped by a twist ending.
Fiddlers Three (1944)
, 1h28Directed by Harry Watt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Time travel films
Actors Tommy Trinder, Sonnie Hale, Frances Day, Francis L. Sullivan, Elisabeth Welch, James Robertson Justice
Rating54%
Tommy Taylor and "The Professor", two sailors returning from leave to Portsmouth, pick up Lydia, a Wren, on the road but get a puncture as they reach Stonehenge. The professor tells them of an old legend that those caught at Stonehenge at midnight on midsummer's night are transported back in time. Moments later the area is struck by lightning. Nearby a group of Roman soldiers have suddenly appeared whom they initially mistake for members of ENSA. However, they swiftly prove to be genuine Romans who arrest them and threaten instant death unless they can prove they are Druids.
Alibi (1942)
, 1h22Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair, Raymond Lovell, Enid Stamp Taylor, Hartley Power
Roles Singer
Rating64%
Police hunt for the killer of a nightclub hostess in pre-war Paris.
Over the Moon (1939)
, 1h25Directed by William K. Howard, Thornton Freeland
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas, Louis Borel, Carl Jaffe
Roles Cabaret Singer
Rating55%
Jane Benson (Merle Oberon) is a lowly Yorkshire girl who lives simply, caring for her elderly, ailing uncle and not wishing for anything more. She does take a fancy, however, to the local doctor, Freddie Jarvis (Rex Harrison), and she persuades him to marry her. Soon she finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds.
Big Fella (1938)
, 1h25Directed by James Elder Wills
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Roy Emerton, James Hayter, Joyce Kennedy, Dino Galvani
Roles Amanda 'Manda'
Rating58%
Big Fella is set on the docks and streets of Marseilles. Paul Robeson stars in the leading role, as a street-wise but honest dockworker who struggles with deep issues of integrity and human values. Elisabeth Welch plays opposite him as a café singer in love with him. Robeson’s wife, Eslanda Robeson, appears as the café owner.
Song of Freedom (1936)
, 1h20Directed by James Elder Wills
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esmé Percy, Robert Adams, Ronald Simpson, George Mozart
Roles Ruth Zinga
Rating63%
The first part of the film's story takes place in the year 1700 on an island called Casanga off the west coast of Africa. The island has not yet attracted the attention of the slave traders on the mainland, but its people are suffering fierce oppression under their hereditary queen Zinga - a tyrant, despot, and mistress of cruelty.