Katie Johnson
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Biography: Katie Johnson (18 November 1878 in Clayton, Sussex, England - 4 May 1957, Elham, Kent), born Bessie Kate Johnson, was an English actress who appeared on stage from the 1890s and on screen from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1908 she was married to the actor Frank Goodenough Bayley who predeceased her. She first appeared in a film at age 55, in 1932, but never received critical acclaim for her performances until 1955, when she starred, aged 77, in the Ealing Studios comedy The Ladykillers as Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce. The role earned her a British Film Academy award for best British actress. She died less than two years afterwards having only appeared in a single further film. She also appeared in the BBC science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and played a spy in I See a Dark Stranger (1946). Description above from the Wikipedia article Katie Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Clayton, Sussex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 18, 1878
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 04, 1957
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The Ladykillers
Overview: Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-08
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I See a Dark Stranger
Overview: Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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How to Murder a Rich Uncle
Overview: A broke British nobleman targets his Canadian uncle, but other relatives get in the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Dusty Ermine
Overview: A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Marigold
Overview: Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title by Lizzie Allen Harker and Francis R. Pryor.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-03
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The Shop at Sly Corner
Overview: The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-10
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Three Steps In The Dark
Overview: A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies. Before he can do this, he is murdered. His niece (Gynt), a detective story writer, has to put her theories into practice by solving a real-life murder mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-10
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Freedom Radio
Overview: Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-04
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Laburnum Grove
Overview: To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has in fact allowed the truth to slip out and now he is danger of being arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-16
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Lady in the Fog
Overview: In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-13
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Gaslight
Overview: Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Death of an Angel
Overview: The angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in the small British village where she lives thinks the world of Baxter; thus, when she is murdered, the authorities are out for blood. Dr. Barr seems above suspicion, at least until he begins behaving eccentrically. As time passes, most everyone learns that Baxter wasn't quite as angelic as she seemed-and that quite a few people might have wanted her dead.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Passionate Pilgrim
Overview: Tells the story of a group of nurses working with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. “The story is based on the diary of Miss Sarah Anne Terror who was one of the thirty-eight women to accompany Miss Florence Nightingale to the Crimea in 1854. The principle characters are the nurses and doctors who fought to make her venture a success. Their names may be unfamiliar, but in their different ways they possessed the qualities of true greatness.” - Radio Times (1953).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-31
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Farewell Again
Overview: Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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The Dark Stairway
Overview: “Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospital.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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A Glimpse of Paradise
Overview: “Ex-convict saves his estranged daughter from a blackmailer.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-08
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Tawny Pipit
Overview: Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-28
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Overview: A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-23
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The Delavine Affair
Overview: Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-03
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John and Julie
Overview: The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-26
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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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The Years Between
Overview: After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-08
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I Believe in You
Overview: A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-05
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Talk About Jacqueline
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-30
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