Penelope Keith
Also Known As: Penelope Anne Constance Keith, Penelope Keith CBE
Biography: Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith, DBE, DL is an English actress and presenter, active in all genres, including radio, stage, television and film and primarily known for her roles in the British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sutton, Surrey, England, UK
Birthday: April 02, 1940
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Gender: Female
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Beauty and the Beast
Overview: As a merchant sets off for market, he asks his three lovely daughters what they would like as a present upon his return. His youngest daughter, who he adoringly calls Beauty, replied. "All I'd like is a rose you've picked specially for me." Remembering his promise to Beauty he plucks a rose, enraging the owner of the rosebush, a fearsome boarlike beast who inhabits the nearby castle. The Beast agrees to spare his life, but on one condition, that he brings him the daughter for which he plucked the rose.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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John Clare: "I Am"
Overview: A film biography by David Jones with Freddie Jones as John Clare "I am - yet what I am, none cares or knows" (John Clare) John Clare (1792-1864), farm labourer, had three obsessions: his youthful love for Mary Joyce, the countryside of his native Northamptonshire, and the need to celebrate both in his poetry. Clare cracked under the increasing strain of poverty and neglect, and spent the last 23 years of his life in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum. He imagined himself to be Lord Byron, a bigamist, and a prize-fighter; but the poems of his madness are perhaps the most remarkable he ever wrote. "Clare's asylum foretells our need for an asylum, his deprivation foretells our deprivation" (Geoffrey Grigson) Commentary spoken by Tony Church (from BBC Midlands) (David Jones and Patrick Stewart are members of the Royal Shakespeare Company; Tony Church appears by permission of the Northcott Theatre, Exeter)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-08
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A Touch of Love
Overview: Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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Secret Ceremony
Overview: A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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Priest of Love
Overview: Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-11
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Ghost Story
Overview: Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark house. For one thing, he's run across several people whom he's never met. For another, they all seem to be of a different time and place.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-19
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Margery and Gladys
Overview: When wealthy, recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery (PENELOPE KEITH), and her ‘rough diamond’ of a cleaner, Gladys (JUNE BROWN), disturb a house burglar, they knock him unconscious, panic and leave him for dead, fleeing in the cleaner’s wrecked old car. What follows is a comedy of misunderstandings in which these two very different, mature ladies are led on an unfortunate series of incidents which snowballs into a crime spree. They prove to be more than a match for the unlikely pair of policemen, DI Woolley (Roger Lloyd Pack) and DS Stringer (Martin Freeman), who are left to solve the ladies disappearance and puzzling string of crimes which follow. As the police net tightens around them, the two very different, mature ladies are propelled on a shared voyage of self-discovery as skeletons fall from the closets forcing both women to reflect on their past lives.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-21
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The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
Overview: The cosy sitcom had storylines tackling mid-life crises, drunken wife-swapping and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-12
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Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Overview: A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Donkeys' Years
Overview: Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
Overview: A feature-length special retrospective of one of Britain's most beloved sitcoms, with new and archival interviews and footage examining the production and enduring cultural impact of the BBC's 'To the Manor Born'.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-27
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Penny Gold
Overview: While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-22
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Aladdin
Overview: A young man's life is turned around with the help of a genie inside a lamp.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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On Approval
Overview: Adaptation of the play by Frederick Lonsdale
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-21
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Spider's Web
Overview: Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-26
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Every Home Should Have One
Overview: Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which his wife is a senior member.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-05
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Private Lives
Overview: Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot have both recently remarried. On their honeymoons, however, they discover that they have accidentally booked adjoining suites at the same hotel. Containing some of Coward's best dialogue, the play revolves around the agonising realisation that despite their ferocious incompatibility, they are still drawn to each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-28
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Sherlock Holmes is out to uncover the truth about a hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the heir to the Baskerville estate.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-01
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Hay Fever
Overview: Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss family when they each invite a guest to spend the weekend. Best described as a cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, Hay Fever is one of Coward's most popular plays.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-04
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All About The Good Life
Overview: What was it really like behind the scenes of The Good Life? With contributions from Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Monty Don, Brian Sewell and John O'Farrell.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-29
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Take a Girl Like You
Overview: Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a liking to her. But who will be the lucky one who wins her affections?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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Rentadick
Overview: Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-31
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Britain's Most Expensive Home: Building for a Billionaire
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2020-02-05
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