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Jane Wenham is a Actor British born on 26 november 1927 at Southampton (United-kingdom)

Jane Wenham

Jane Wenham
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Birth name Ann Jane Wenham Figgins
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 26 november 1927 at Southampton (United-kingdom)
Death 15 november 2018 (at 90 years)

Jane Wenham (born 26 November 1927) is an English actress.

She was born in Southampton, Hampshire and led a long career in film, television and the stage. She made her film debut in the film adaptation of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls (1954). From 1957 to 1961 she was married to the actor Albert Finney, nine years her junior, by whom she has a son Simon who is a cameraman.

Usually with

W.P. Lipscomb
W.P. Lipscomb
(1 films)
John Cox
John Cox
(2 films)
Marvin J. Chomsky
Marvin J. Chomsky
(1 films)
Guy Hamilton
Guy Hamilton
(1 films)
Bryan Forbes
Bryan Forbes
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jane Wenham (4 films)

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Actress

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
, 3h15
Directed 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% 3.290973.290973.290973.290973.29097
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.
An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls (1954)
, 1h20
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham, Brian Worth, Olga Lindo, Arthur Young, Bryan Forbes
Roles Eva Smith
Rating74% 3.7443653.7443653.7443653.7443653.744365
Set in 1912, a dinner party held by the upper class Birling family is interrupted by a man calling himself Inspector Poole, investigating the suicide of a lower class girl Eva Smith whose death is linked to each family member.