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Freda Jackson

Freda Jackson

Freda Maud Jackson (29 December 1907 – 20 October 1990) was an English stage actress who also worked in film and TV. Born in Nottingham, she was famous for her stage role as the cruel landlady Mrs. Voray in the play No Room at the Inn in the mid-1940s; she appeared in the film adaptation of 1948. Her later screen roles were mostly on TV, including a role on the first episode of Adam Adamant Lives and on Blake's 7. Her final film appearance was in 1981; she died nine years later in Northampton, aged 82.

She was married to the artist Henry Bird. She "was reputed to have had a relationship" with Errol Flynn while both were at the Northampton Repertory Theatre.

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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods. ...

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Clash of the Titans (1981)

To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken. ...

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She Fell Among Thieves (1978)

While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a mo ...

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The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse. This leads to an expedition to the Forbidden Valley where they discover living dinosaurs. They capture one and take it back to ...

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The Jokers (1967)

Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous. ...

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Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mys ...

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The Third Secret (1964)

A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, the ...

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Boy With a Flute (1964)

An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined. ...

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West 11 (1963)

In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer. ...

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Tom Jones (1963)

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love? ...

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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1961)

Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come. ...

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Attempt to Kill (1961)

A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered. ...

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Greyfriars Bobby (1961)

In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars k ...

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The Shadow of the Cat (1961)

Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific ...

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The Brides of Dracula (1960)

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. L ...

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A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met. ...

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The Flesh Is Weak (1957)

Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, 'just off the bus' young women who come to post-war London for fortune. ...

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The Last Man to Hang (1956)

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose. ...

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Bhowani Junction (1956)

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India. ...

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The Crowded Day (1954)

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store. ...

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The Good Die Young (1954)

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong. ...

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Women of Twilight (1953)

When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret. ...

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Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the ...

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Flesh and Blood (1951)

Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances. ...

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No Room at the Inn (1948)

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman. ...

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Great Expectations (1946)

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold ...

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Beware of Pity (1946)

A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues. ...

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Henry V (1944)

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France. ...

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A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury. ...

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