Rachel Roberts
Also Known As: Рэйчел Робертс
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rachel Roberts (20 September 1927 – 26 November 1980) was a Welsh actress noted for her fervour and passion; Roberts is best remembered for her forthright screen performances in two key films of the 1960s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, in both of which she played the older mistress of the central male character. In Australia, she is remembered for her performance as Mrs Appleyard in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel Roberts (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Birthday: September 20, 1927
Deathday: November 26, 1980
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Murder on the Orient Express
Overview: In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Overview: In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-02
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Yanks
Overview: During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
Overview: A documentary about the disappearance of school girls on St. Valentine's Day, 1900 at Australia's Hanging Rock.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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O Lucky Man!
Overview: An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-25
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Overview: A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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Foul Play
Overview: A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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When a Stranger Calls
Overview: A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Great Expectations
Overview: A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Overview: Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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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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Alpha Beta
Overview: E. A. Whitehead adapted the script of Alpha Beta from his own play. Albert Finney is cast as "The Man," while Rachel Roberts plays "The Woman." The rest of the film remains in this pretentious vein, as we watch Finney and Roberts' marriage crumble before our eyes. One suspects that they might have patched things up had they ignored Whitehead's florid prose. Alpha Beta is salvaged dramatically by the dynamic performances of its stars, who far outshine the material.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-04
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The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands
Overview: While studying the behavior of birds on one of the western Florida island wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, the Wild family encounters hunters and an island recluse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-28
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The Limping Man
Overview: An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-11
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A Flea in Her Ear
Overview: Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-27
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The Weak and the Wicked
Overview: Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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The Reckoning
Overview: Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-31
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Doctors' Wives
Overview: The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Baffled!
Overview: Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She leads him to the manor house that appeared in his vision, which in turn leads him into a world of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Kovack must tap into his newfound power to conquer the evil forces at work.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-11
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Girl on Approval
Overview: Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make a home for her, her future looks bleak.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Good Companions
Overview: The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-22
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Destiny of a Spy
Overview: A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-27
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Valley of Song
Overview: A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd. Based on a stage play "Choir Practice".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-08
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A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Overview: A dramatized account of a Victorian cause célèbre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-06
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Blithe Spirit
Overview: Adaptation of the Noel Coward play.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-07
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The Sorrows of Gin
Overview: An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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The Hostage Tower
Overview: A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Wild Rovers
Overview: Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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The Belstone Fox
Overview: Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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A Circle of Children
Overview: A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-10
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The Crowded Day
Overview: One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Our Man in Havana
Overview: Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-27
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Back of Beyond
Overview: Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest friendship. But they also mean a time to 'put aside childish things.'
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-14
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The Wall
Overview: A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
Genres: Action War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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Under Milk Wood
Overview: A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
Genres: TV Movie Animation Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-19
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The Old Crowd
Overview: George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, after ten days none of their furniture has arrived, having been sent to Carlisle by mistake, three of the four toilets don't work and cracks are starting to appear in the ceiling. However, nothing can dent their determination to have a good time.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-27
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