Vanda Godsell
Also Known As: Nancy Evelyn Godsell, Ванда Годселл
Biography: Vanda Godsell was born on November 17, 1922 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England as Nancy Evelyn Godsell. She was an actress, known for The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), A Shot in the Dark (1964) and The Earth Dies Screaming (1964). She was married to Alan J Orchard and George Selway. She died on April 2, 1990 in London, England
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 17, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 02, 1990
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The Shadow of the Cat
Overview: Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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Hell Is a City
Overview: Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-10
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The Man Who Was Nobody
Overview: A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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The Large Rope
Overview: After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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80,000 Suspects
Overview: A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Clash by Night
Overview: A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-29
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In the Wake of a Stranger
Overview: An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and tracking down the real culprits, several unsavory characters cross his path as well as a rather interesting woman who sets romantic sparks flying.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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Innocent Sinners
Overview: A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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80,000 Suspects
Overview: A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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The Earth Dies Screaming
Overview: A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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Payroll
Overview: A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Wrong Arm of the Law
Overview: The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-17
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The Wrong Box
Overview: In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-23
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This Sporting Life
Overview: In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-07
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The Brain Machine
Overview: A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Johnny-on-the-Spot
Overview: An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Bitter Harvest
Overview: A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-08
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Term of Trial
Overview: A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-16
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Overview: Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-15
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The Frightened City
Overview: A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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Horrors of the Black Museum
Overview: A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-29
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Sword of Sherwood Forest
Overview: Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury. The plotters, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Earl of Newark, have set an ambush for Walter and Lady Marian Fitzwater. Will Robin get to them before it is too late?
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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Who Killed the Cat?
Overview: A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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Konga
Overview: Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Waltz of the Toreadors
Overview: General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, something always seems to get in the way of his bedding the breathtakingly lovely Ghislaine, a more-than-willing town local.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-12
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Dateline Diamonds
Overview: In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me."
Genres: Comedy Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-27
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Many Mansions
Overview: The 30 minute play, specially written for television by Scottish writer, Duncan Ross, takes place in a pub in Yorkshire. Marius plays Lester Hockley, a man blind from birth. Lester has been secretary to a deceased artist, Paul Stanton, whose character and work are being discussed by the regulars in the pub that night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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Night Without Pity
Overview: A woman and her injured son are detained by one crook, whilst the other takes the safe keys to rob a factory. They fall out, and the boy is rescued while they fight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Upstairs and Downstairs
Overview: On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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