Queenie Watts
Also Known As: Mary Spenton
Biography: Queenie Watts was an English actress of film and television, as well as an occasional singer. A resident Londoner 'til the day she died, Watts starred in many films and TV programmes and ran pubs (including the Iron Bridge Tavern, East India Dock Road, London and the Rose and Crown, Pennyfields, Poplar) with her husband, "Slim Watts", where she also sang and played piano with an eight-piece band to pull in more customers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: July 21, 1926
Deathday: January 25, 1980
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Holiday on the Buses
Overview: Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-19
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Poor Cow
Overview: A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-05
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Come Play with Me
Overview: Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in the surrounding towns and men from all over the region are frequent visitors to the small countryside home, hoping to encounter one, or preferably both, of the seductive nieces. Of course, the aunt has equally strong desires and refuses to be outdone. Soon all three are offering the many courters the chance to Come Play with Me!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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The Best House in London
Overview: In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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All Coppers Are...
Overview: A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-24
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Sparrows Can't Sing
Overview: Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-26
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Alfie
Overview: A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-29
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Up the Junction
Overview: A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-25
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Schizo
Overview: A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-11
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Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair
Overview: Professional astrologer and lothario David Galaxy (Alan Lake, aka Mr Diana Dors), finds himself entangled with the Law and must be able to provide an alibi to clear himself from an incident that involved robbery and murder five years previously.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-01
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Half a Sixpence
Overview: "If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But can his newfound wealth buy happiness?
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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Keep It Up, Jack!
Overview: Failed music hall performer Jack James inherits a brothel when his ancient Aunt dies. He takes over the running of the business and falls in love with its star attraction, beautiful prostitute Virginia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-27
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The Hallelujah Handshake
Overview: Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-17
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The Best House in London
Overview: In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Intimate Games
Overview: A university professor opens a sexual Pandora's box when he hands his class an assignment to explore their deepest carnal fantasies and desires. As the students begin to plumb their secret passions, they find themselves propelled into an erotic world where theory soon yields to practice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-31
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Waterloo Sunset
Overview: Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-23
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Portrait of Queenie
Overview: Film profiling actress and singer, Queenie Watts as she entertains at her London pub.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-02
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Murder Rap
Overview: Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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