Great Performances
1971
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Acting
Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.
Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring Peggy Ashcroft
BBC Play of the Month
1965
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A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadca...
Playhouse
1974
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A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Theatre 625
1964
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Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 19...
The Jewel in the Crown
1984
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In India, during the final years of British rule in World War II, an unjust arrest for rape sets off questions...
Playing Shakespeare
1984
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John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, an...
Six Centuries of Verse
1984
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Sir John Gielgud is joined by an outstanding repertory of actors in this pioneering, imaginative series demonst...
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978
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While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. T...
The Nun's Story
1959
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After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows dur...
A Perfect Spy
1987
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The life of British MI6 spy Magnus Pym, from his school days to his mysterious disappearance.
The 39 Steps
1935
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Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back....
A Passage to India
1984
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Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, a...
When the Wind Blows
1986
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With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impe...
The Wars of the Roses
1965
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An epic chronicle of the dysfunctional Plantagenet family from the accession of the young Henry to the death of...
The Wars of the Roses
1965
star 9.0
An epic chronicle of the dysfunctional Plantagenet family from the accession of the young Henry to the death of...
Madame Sousatzka
1988
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In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali i...
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
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Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin...
Secret Ceremony
1968
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A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of...
The Cherry Orchard
1962
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Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherr...
She's Been Away
1989
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A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of wha...
The Wars of the Roses
1965
star 8.7
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI a...
Joseph Andrews
1977
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Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the att...
Tell Me Lies
1968
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Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long...
Cream in My Coffee
1980
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Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were youn...
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1978
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A legendary collection of miniature paintings have been locked up in the storeroom of an Indian palace for year...
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969
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Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker...
We Serve
1942
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their ch...
The Wandering Jew
1933
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Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is c...
Little Eyolf
1982
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Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result...
Quiet Wedding
1941
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A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Channel Incident
1940
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During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flo...
Murder by the Book
1986
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Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years e...
Terminus
1961
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This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patt...
The Heat of the Day
1989
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In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found...
The Pedestrian
1973
star 7.0
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his pas...
Rhodes of Africa
1936
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Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Bert...