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Olga Lowe is a Actor British born on 14 september 1919

Olga Lowe

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 september 1919
Death 2 september 2013 (at 93 years)

Olga Lowe, née le 14 septembre 1919 à Durban et morte le 2 septembre 2013 au Royaume-Uni (à 93 ans), est une actrice britannique, originaire d'Afrique du Sud.

Biography

Fille d'une famille juive originaire de Russie du côté de son père, Olga Lowe naît en Afrique du Sud à Durban. Son père, chef d'orchestre, mène l'Orchestre symphonique de Johannesburg.

À l'adolescence, Olga suit des cours de danse et soutient qu'elle fut l'élève de Carmen Miranda, lors d'un voyage au Brésil à l'âge de 17 ans. Par la suite, elle rejoint la troupe des Folies Bergère à Paris, qu'elle accompagne en tournée en Amérique du Nord. Elle quitte son pays natal pour l'Angleterre et s'installe à Londres en 1935.

En 1940, elle est auditionnée pour Hoopla, un spectacle de charité pour lequel elle est entraînée aux claquettes par Sid James, un ami d'enfance. En 1942, alors qu'elle regagne l'Afrique du Sud, au cœur de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le navire City of New York sur lequel elle naviguait est torpillé par un sous-marin allemand.

Olga Lowe rentre alors en Angleterre à la fin du conflit et se produit dans de nombreuses comédies musicales, notamment au London Palladium. Elle fait ses débuts au cinéma en décrochant son premier rôle dans Trottie True en 1949, apparition toutefois non créditée. Ses principaux rôles sont dans EastEnders, Quand les aigles attaquent (1968), Carry On Abroad (1972), Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973) et The Riddle of the Sands (1979).

Elle se marie une première fois avec John Tore, décédé en 1959, puis une deuxième fois avec Peter Todd, de 1959 à 1962, date de leur divorce. Son troisième mari est l'acteur Keith Morris qu'elle épouse en 1970.

Usually with

Robert Fuest
Robert Fuest
(1 films)
Ronald Lacey
Ronald Lacey
(2 films)
Ferdy Mayne
Ferdy Mayne
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Olga Lowe (10 films)

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Actress

Hercule Poirot's Christmas, 1h40
Directed by Edward Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Christmas films
Actors David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Eric Carte, Sasha Behar, Olga Lowe
Roles Stella
Rating79% 3.992133.992133.992133.992133.99213
Hercule Poirot se prépare à passer tranquillement les fêtes de Noël. Mais cinq jours avant Noël, Simeon Lee, un vieillard impotent, tyrannique et très riche, lui demande de se faire passer pour un vieil ami et de venir s’installer dans son manoir pour les fêtes afin de protéger sa vie qu’il croit en danger. Il a réuni sa famille, trois fils sans affection, deux mystérieuses belles-filles et une nièce exotique, afin de leur annoncer qu’il va modifier son testament et procéder à quelques aménagements dans l’attribution des rentes. Il annonce cette nouvelle sans ménagement à sa famille. Peu après, Simeon est retrouvé mort dans sa chambre fermée à clef de l'intérieur.
Nijinsky
Nijinsky (1980)
, 2h9
Directed by Herbert Ross, Yves Amoureux
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Alan Bates, Leslie Browne, Alan Badel, Jeremy Irons, Ronald Pickup, Ronald Lacey
Roles Signora Cecchetti
Rating65% 3.286933.286933.286933.286933.28693
The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality. He became involved with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joined impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her. After this, his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to a diagnosis of schizophrenia begins.
The Riddle of the Sands, 1h39
Directed by Tony Maylam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale, Jenny Agutter, Alan Badel, Michael Sheard, Wolf Kähler
Roles Frau Dollmann
Rating63% 3.1965753.1965753.1965753.1965753.196575
Carruthers, an official in the British Foreign Office, is invited on a yachting holiday by his old friend Arthur Davies. Davies explains he has an agenda - while boating around the Frisian Islands he came across an old sailor, Dollman, and his beautiful daughter Clara. He says he believes some men tried to kill him.
The Final Programme, 1h29
Directed by Robert Fuest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about computing, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Political films, Dystopian films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Hugh Griffith, Sterling Hayden, Patrick Magee, Julie Ege
Roles Hari
Rating54% 2.702642.702642.702642.702642.70264
L'aventurier prix Nobel Jerry Cornelius (Finch) s'oppose à son frère Frank (O'Connor), qui a enlevé sa sœur Catherine (Douglas). Tous deux meurent tandis que Jerry se retrouve mêlé aux plans de Miss Brunner (Runacre) visant à créer l'homme parfait en fusionnant leurs deux corps...
Steptoe & Son Ride Again, 1h39
Directed by Peter Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Diana Dors, Milo O'Shea, Neil McCarthy, Bill Maynard
Roles Percy's Wife
Rating66% 3.346183.346183.346183.346183.34618
The Steptoes have retired their horse - because the horse is lame, after having to pull the cart (and Harold) home from York, after the horse walked into the back of a removal van which then drove off - and plan to buy a new one with Albert's life savings of £80, putting £9 away for "emergencies". Harold sends Albert home and returns several hours later drunk and introduces Hercules the Second, a short sighted racing greyhound. Harold reveals to Albert that he purchased this from local gangster and loan shark Frankie Barrow for the £80 plus a further £200 owing on top. Furthermore, he plans to pay a small fortune to keep it fed on egg and steak.
Carry On Abroad, 1h28
Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor
Roles Madam Fifi
Rating64% 3.2474953.2474953.2474953.2474953.247495
The film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain. Their twitching friend Harry (Jack Douglas) arrives and lets slip that the package holiday Vic has booked to the Mediterranean island Els Bels (a pun on the slang expression "Hell's Bells") also includes Sadie, much to Cora's outrage. Cora, who avoids holidays because she hates flying, suddenly decides to accompany her boorish husband on the trip, to ensure he keeps away from Sadie.
Where Eagles Dare, 2h38
Directed by Brian G. Hutton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern, William Squire
Roles Lt. Anne-Marie Kernitser (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.7991053.7991053.7991053.7991053.799105
In the winter of 1943–44, U.S. Army Brigadier General George Carnaby (Robert Beatty), a chief planner of the second front, is captured by the Germans when his aircraft is shot down en route to Crete. He is taken for interrogation to the Schloss Adler, a fortress high in the Alps of southern Bavaria. A team of Allied commandos, led by British Major John Smith (Richard Burton) and U.S. Army Ranger Lieutenant Morris Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), is briefed by Colonel Turner (Patrick Wymark) and Admiral Rolland (Michael Hordern) of MI6. Their mission is to parachute in, infiltrate the castle, and rescue General Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him. MI6 Agent Mary Elison (Mary Ure) accompanies the mission in secret, her presence known only to Major Smith.
So Little Time, 1h28
Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Marius Goring, Maria Schell, Lucie Mannheim, Gabrielle Dorziat, Barbara Mullen, John Bailey
Roles Florine
Rating68% 3.430973.430973.430973.430973.43097
In occupied Belgium during World War II, the chateau where Nicole de Malvines (Schell) lives with her mother (Gabrielle Dorziat) is partially requisitioned for use by German forces. Among those billeted there is Colonel Hohensee (Goring), a ruthlessly efficient officer. Having lost several male members of her family in the war, the proud and outspoken Nicole holds the Germans in contempt and has no hesitation in making her feelings clear.
Hotel Sahara, 1h36
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov, David Tomlinson, Roland Culver, Albert Lieven, Bill Owen
Roles Fatima
Rating61% 3.096463.096463.096463.096463.09646
A luxury hotel in the Sahara Desert faces occupation and destruction from a number of armies during the North African Campaign. The hotel is saved through the quick thinking and chameleon actions of the four headed staff in particular the owner Yasmin, who dresses, sings, and dances in a manner to make all the conquerors appreciate her charms.
State Secret, 1h44
Directed by Sidney Gilliat, Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Herbert Lom, Walter Rilla, Karel Štěpánek
Roles Baba 'Robinson'
Rating69% 3.489513.489513.489513.489513.48951
John Marlowe (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an American surgeon. He is visiting England when he is decoyed to the mythical European country of Vosnia. He finds that he is to operate on the Vosnian dictator. The dictator dies but is replaced by a look-alike. As one of the few who know, Marlowe is hunted by the country's secret police.