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Patricia Laffan is a Actor British born on 19 march 1919 at London (United-kingdom)
Patricia A. Laffan (born 19 March 1919) is an English actress. She is the daughter of Arthur Charles Laffan and Elvira Alice Vitali. Patricia was educated at Folkstone and at the Institut Français in London. At the Webber-Douglas Dramatic School, she studied for the stage.
Her first credited part was a minor role as Betty in Caravan (1946). The following year she was featured in the mystery film Death in High Heels (1947) with Don Stannard. In 1950, she appeared in the crime drama Hangman's Wharf as Rosa Warren. In the 1951 film Quo Vadis, she played Poppaea, the second wife of the Roman Emperor Nero. In Escape Route (1952), a crime thriller, she played Irma Brooks. She starred as the ruthless, PVC-clad alien Nyah in the Devil Girl from Mars (1955). Next year she had a supporting part as Miss Alice MacDonald in the mystery thriller 23 Paces to Baker Street
(1956). By the 1960s she mainly appeared on television. In 2008 Laffan was interviewed for the British documentary British B Movies: Truly, Madly, Cheaply.
Elle tourne également deux films américains, Quo vadis de Mervyn LeRoy (1951 ; rôle de Poppée, épouse de Néron, personnifié par Peter Ustinov), puis À vingt-trois pas du mystère d'Henry Hathaway (1956, avec Van Johnson et Vera Miles).
Pour la télévision, Patricia Laffan participe à sept séries de 1954 à 1963, dont Colonel March (un épisode, 1956). S'y ajoutent deux téléfilms, diffusés en 1961 et 1965.
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Birth name Patricia Alice Laffan
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 march 1919 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 10 march 2014 (at 94 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 march 1919 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 10 march 2014 (at 94 years)
Her first credited part was a minor role as Betty in Caravan (1946). The following year she was featured in the mystery film Death in High Heels (1947) with Don Stannard. In 1950, she appeared in the crime drama Hangman's Wharf as Rosa Warren. In the 1951 film Quo Vadis, she played Poppaea, the second wife of the Roman Emperor Nero. In Escape Route (1952), a crime thriller, she played Irma Brooks. She starred as the ruthless, PVC-clad alien Nyah in the Devil Girl from Mars (1955). Next year she had a supporting part as Miss Alice MacDonald in the mystery thriller 23 Paces to Baker Street
(1956). By the 1960s she mainly appeared on television. In 2008 Laffan was interviewed for the British documentary British B Movies: Truly, Madly, Cheaply.
Biography
Après des études d'art dramatique à la Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art de Londres, Patricia Laffan contribue pour le cinéma à treize films britanniques, sortis entre 1945 et 1964. L'un de ses plus connus est le film de science-fiction La Martienne diabolique de David MacDonald (1954), où elle tient le rôle principal.Elle tourne également deux films américains, Quo vadis de Mervyn LeRoy (1951 ; rôle de Poppée, épouse de Néron, personnifié par Peter Ustinov), puis À vingt-trois pas du mystère d'Henry Hathaway (1956, avec Van Johnson et Vera Miles).
Pour la télévision, Patricia Laffan participe à sept séries de 1954 à 1963, dont Colonel March (un épisode, 1956). S'y ajoutent deux téléfilms, diffusés en 1961 et 1965.
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Crooks in Cloisters (1964)
, 1h38Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Ronald Fraser, Barbara Windsor, Corin Redgrave, Bernard Cribbins, Francesca Annis, Grégoire Aslan
Roles Lady Florence
Rating54%
After pulling off a small train robbery, 'Little Walter' and his gang are forced to hide out on a remote Cornish island in an abandoned monastery, disguised as monks. With them comes 'Bikini' (Barbara Windsor), Walter's girlfriend, who is given the job of cook to the group, despite never having cooked in her life. After a few initial setbacks, they slowly adjust to their new contemplative life of tending animals and crops, surviving the added tribulations of visits by a group of tourists and two of the real monks who had been forced to sell the monastery after falling on hard times, including Brother Lucius (Corin Redgrave).
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
, 1h43Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité, Children's films
Actors Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Isobel Elsom, Estelle Winwood, Patricia Laffan
Roles Miss Alice MacDonald
Rating68%
Le dramaturge à succès Hanon s'est installé à Londres, fuyant les États-Unis et la femme qu'il aime depuis qu'il est devenu subitement aveugle. Or, sa fiancée le relance et entend renouer. Il tente de l'écarter en lui expliquant qu'il s'est refait une vie, secondé par un secrétaire, qui lui fait également office de valet de chambre, ayant même appris à se déplacer sans aide jusqu'au pub du coin. Un jour que, dans cet établissement, il est attablé, seul, il entend une conversation où il est question de kidnapping et de meurtre. Il alerte la police qui n'est guère convaincue par sa déposition, même s'il a enregistré de mémoire, l'échange entendu dès son retour à l'appartement.
Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
, 1h16Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films about extraterrestrial life, Martiens, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri, Hazel Court, Joseph Tomelty, John Laurie
Roles Nyah
Rating49%
Nyah, a female alien commander from Mars, dressed in shiny black vinyl, heads for London in her flying saucer. She is part of the advanced alien team that is looking for Earth men to replace the dying male population on her world. Because of damage to her saucer, caused by entering Earth's atmosphere and then colliding with an aircraft, she is forced to land her damaged flying saucer in the remote Scottish moors, near a local village. She is armed with a raygun that can paralyze or kill, and she also has a tall, menacing robot named Chani.
Rough Shoot (1953)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Parrish
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Joel McCrea, Evelyn Keyes, Herbert Lom, Roland Culver, Marius Goring, Frank Lawton
Roles Magda
Rating60%
A retired American army officer living in the English countryside shoots at a man he takes to be a poacher. Believing he has killed him he goes on the run from the British police and security service.
Escape Route (1952)
, 1h17Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Raft, Sally Gray, Clifford Evans, Frederick Piper, Reginald Tate, Patricia Laffan
Roles Irma Brookes
Rating55%
An American, Steve Rossi, enters Britain by slipping past immigration at Heathrow Airport, leading to a national manhunt by the police. He is finally intercepted by Joan Miller, an MI5 agent, who takes him to her superiors. Rossi reveals himself to be an FBI agent posing as a nuclear scientist in an attempt to infiltrate a gang kidnapping western scientists and taking them across the Iron Curtain. His contact in London is a man named Michael Grand who has recently arranged the kidnap of an American. With MI5's assistance, Rossi monitors Grand and arranges a meeting with him. Growing increasingly suspicious of Rossi, Grand and his organisation make several attempts to kill him.
Quo Vadis (1951)
, 2h51Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie
Roles Poppaea
Rating70%
The action takes place in ancient Rome from AD 64–68, a period after Emperor Claudius' illustrious and powerful reign, during which the new corrupt and destructive Emperor Nero ascends to power and eventually threatens to destroy Rome's previous peaceful order. The main subject is the conflict between Christianity and the corruption of the Roman Empire, especially in the last period of the Julio-Claudian line. The characters and events depicted are a mixture of actual historical figures and situations and fictionalized ones.
Hangman’s Wharf (1950)
, 1h13Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors John Witty, Campbell Singer, Patricia Laffan
Roles Rosa Warren
Rating48%
Death in High Heels (1947)
Genres Crime
Actors Don Stannard, Patricia Laffan
Roles Magda Doon
Rating54%
The police are called in when a woman is murdered at a luxury Bond Street shop.
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
, 1h52Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley, Brenda Bruce
Roles Bit Part (uncredited)
Rating69%
In May 1944, during World War II, when nationalistic Irishwoman Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) turns 21, she sets out to fulfill a lifelong dream engendered by listening to her late father's stories of the Irish Revolution. She leaves her small rural village and goes to Dublin. On the way, she shares a train compartment with J. Miller (Raymond Huntley), but believing him to be English, she is very brusque with him. Once in the city, she seeks out a famous ex-radical her father had supposedly fought alongside, Michael O'Callaghan (Brefni O'Rorke), and asks him to help her join the Irish Republican Army. However, he has mellowed as the situation in Ireland has improved and tries unsuccessfully to dissuade her from her overly romantic notion.
Caravan (1946)
, 1h20Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Anne Crawford, Dennis Price, Robert Helpmann, Patricia Laffan
Roles Betty (uncredited)
Rating61%
In the late 19th-century, writer Richard Darrell (Stewart Granger) saves Don Carlos (Gerard Heinz) from two robbers. Don Carlos gives Richard the task of taking a valuable necklace to Spain. Bidding farewell to his fiancée, Oriana (Anne Crawford), Richard sets out. On the way, he meets Wycroft (Robert Helpmann), who assaults, robs and nearly kills Richard on behalf of his dastardly master Sir Francis Castteldow (Dennis Price), an aristocrat who plans to steal Oriana from Richard.
The Rake's Progress (1945)
, 2hDirected by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle, Griffith Jones, Margaret Johnston, Guy Middleton
Roles Miss Fernandez
Rating65%
The plot follows the career of upper-class cad Vivian Kenway (Rex Harrison). He is sent down from Oxford University for placing a chamber pot on the Martyrs' Memorial. Sent to South America, he rebels against plantation life, eventually becoming a car racing driver. He descends to a life of woman-chasing and drunkenness, which causes the death of his father, Colonel Kenway (Godfrey Tearle). The plot diverges from the theme of the Rake's Progress paintings by having him redeem himself by a hero's death in World War II.