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Elizabeth Bradley is a Actor British born on 20 may 1922 at Hampstead (United-kingdom)
Elizabeth Bradley (20 May 1922 - 30 October 2000) was an English actress, perhaps most famous for playing battle-axe Maud Grimes in the fictional soap Coronation Street.
Bradley was born Joan Abraham in Hampstead, London, and took her mother's maiden name as her stage surname. She started acting professionally at the age of 23. She married actor Garth Adams in 1950, and was so until his death in 1977 - they had three children.
Bradley's most famous role was as wheelchair-using pensioner Maud Grimes in Coronation Street in old age, from 1993 to 1999. She filmed 476 episodes during this time, and died suddenly in France a year after leaving the show.
She has also made TV appearances in The Bill, Casualty, Bad Girls, and The Sweeney. Her film roles included Four Dimensions of Greta and The Flesh and Blood Show (both 1972) with director Pete Walker, and as the old woman who encounters a naked David Naughton at London Zoo in An American Werewolf in London (1981).
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Birth name Joan Abraham
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 20 may 1922 at Hampstead (United-kingdom)
Death 30 october 2000 (at 78 years) at Paris (France)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 20 may 1922 at Hampstead (United-kingdom)
Death 30 october 2000 (at 78 years) at Paris (France)
Elizabeth Bradley (20 May 1922 - 30 October 2000) was an English actress, perhaps most famous for playing battle-axe Maud Grimes in the fictional soap Coronation Street.
Bradley was born Joan Abraham in Hampstead, London, and took her mother's maiden name as her stage surname. She started acting professionally at the age of 23. She married actor Garth Adams in 1950, and was so until his death in 1977 - they had three children.
Bradley's most famous role was as wheelchair-using pensioner Maud Grimes in Coronation Street in old age, from 1993 to 1999. She filmed 476 episodes during this time, and died suddenly in France a year after leaving the show.
She has also made TV appearances in The Bill, Casualty, Bad Girls, and The Sweeney. Her film roles included Four Dimensions of Greta and The Flesh and Blood Show (both 1972) with director Pete Walker, and as the old woman who encounters a naked David Naughton at London Zoo in An American Werewolf in London (1981).
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An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
, 2h10Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Ian William Richardson, Bob Peck, Rosemary Leach, Ian McNeice, Marc Warren, Elizabeth Bradley
Rating70%
, 1h37Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Michael Carter, Frank Oz
Roles Woman at Zoo
Rating74%
Two American college students, David Kessler (David Naughton) and Jack Goodman (Griffin Dunne), backpack across the North York Moors. As darkness falls, they stop for the night at a pub called "The Slaughtered Lamb". Jack notices a five-pointed star on the wall. When he asks about it, the pubgoers stop talking and become hostile, telling them to keep to the road and beware of the full moon. The pair decide to leave, but while talking they wander off the road onto the moors.
The Flesh and Blood Show (1972)
, 1h26Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jenny Hanley, Ray Brooks, Luan Peters, Candace Glendenning, Robin Askwith, Tristan Rogers
Rating54%
A anonymous producer assembles a group of unemployed actors and actresses to be in a play, rehearsing in an abandoned theatre beside the sea. A murderer, who wears black gloves, kills all of the actors in various ways. The murderer is later revealed to have previously been an actor, who trapped his wife and her new lover in the wall, re-emerging 30 years later to commit murder again.
The Four Dimensions of Greta (1972)
, 1h25Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Tristan Rogers, Robin Askwith, Alan Curtis, John Clive, Martin Wyldeck, Elizabeth Bradley
Rating44%
Hans a young German journalist arrives in London to write an article about au-pair girls, but is requested by friends to investigate the whereabouts of their teenage daughter Greta. He interviews four individuals who all paint distinctly different pictures of the missing girl - each revealing a different aspect or dimension. These reminiscences constitute the film's 3-D sequences. Hans finally tracks down Greta and discovers she has been kidnapped by an East End gangster.