Glenda Jackson
Date of Birth: 09 May 1936
Country: UK
Biography: Few in modern British history have come as far or achieved as much from humble beginnings as Glenda Jackson has. From acclaimed actress to respected MP (Member of Parliament), she is known for her high intelligence and meticulous approach to her work. She was born to a working-class household in Birkenhead, where her father was a bricklayer. When she was very young, her father was recruited into the Navy, where he worked aboard a minesweeper. She graduated from school at 16 and worked for a whil
Total Credits at Criticker: 38 (Actor)
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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 (imdb)
This is an exploration of the relationships, personalities, and philosophies of two men and two women in the high society of the early 1900s... (imdb)
A CIA agent tired of his incompetent colleagues retires and dares them to stop him from publishing an embarrassing book of memoirs. (imdb)
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann... (imdb)
Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as the mood takes him. (imdb)
Director Robert Altman ventures into Woody Allen territory with this comic romp about a group of neurotic adults living, dating, and undergoing therapy in New York City.
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean. (imdb)
A 1970s style romantic comedy. Steve is a philandering American businessman living in London, heavily inclined towards cheating his lovely wife Gloria. He meets divorced British fashion designer Vicki, and soon the two go on a secret holiday together in Spain. They rent a flat for their trysts -- and constant arguments -- in a seedy London building filled with prostitutes. A friend, Walter, tries to give Steve some good advice, but Steve won't listen until it's too late. (imdb)
In this historical drama, Mary must battle Queen Elizabeth I, her brother James, the Scottish Lords, the Scottish protestants, her husband and herself to secure the crown for her son and heir, the future James I of England. (imdb)
The compelling and bizarre story of Tchaikovsky's life and music. In Ken Russell's own words: "It's the story of the marriage between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac." (imdb)
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company (Polly Browne) is forced to understudy for the leading lady (Rita) at a matinee performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director (Cecil B. DeThrill) is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.(imdb)
Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War... (imdb)
The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become more and more possessed by the violence of the play and become extremely difficult to control. Finally, all chaos breaks loose. (imdb)
Kitty's husband Chris returns from the front during the First World War shell-shocked and suffering amnesia, not knowing who she is and determined for a reunion with Margaret, a working class lover from his past. Kitty employs a psychiatrist to help unscramble her husband's feelings for the women in his new disoriented life including his all-too caring cousin Jenny. (imdb)
Caine plays a successful English novelist whose discontented wife, played by Jackson, decides to take a holiday to Germany in order to 'find herself'. There she meets an ambiguous young man in an elevator which initiates an often bizarre, but extremely mature examination of desire, responsibility and the nature of love.
A Murder of Quality (1991) - TV Movie
Taken from the book by John le Carre, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague.
Elizabeth R (1971) - TV Mini-Series
When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisors know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/ matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement. (imdb)
In 1892, Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace) arrives at a high-class brothel where a surprise awaits - the brothel keeper (Stratford Johns) is staging his play "Salome," with parts played by prostitutes. (Hulu.com)
In the tradition of classic classroom dramas such as "To Sir, With Love," comes the story of dedicated teacher Conor MacMichael, who tries to reach out and give to her pupils, juvenile delinquents, at a London alternative school. (imdb)
Generally considered to be one of Altman's more underrated movies, HealtH takes a satirical look behind the scenes at a health-food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president. The election is rife with backroom deals and scandal. (Wikipedia.org)
Stevie is not a he but a she--famed British poet Stevie Smith. As portrayed by Glenda Jackson, Stevie escapes her dull middle-class existence through her poetry. Though she takes many a spiritual flight of fancy, she never truly leaves the small apartment wherein all the action of the film takes place. (imdb)
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants. (imdb)
Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale - a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a society held together by kinship and class... (imdb)
A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her. (imdb)
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time. (imdb)
A convent is used to house and cure a group of ecclesiastical and lay exiles who transgressed the limits of the faith for political or personal reasons. (imdb)
Deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection; liking the female role he goes to a dance with another soldier and is exposed. (imdb)
Every so often, an actor or actress will achieve a fame which transcends any memory of their work, and he or she becomes synonymous with the word "star." Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was one such person. A commanding performance by Glenda Jackson towers over this episodic drama chronicling the early life of legendary stage actress Bernhardt. (allmovie.com)
A college professor (George Segal) and an English divorcee (Glenda Jackson) meet and marry while on a vacation in France. When the bride returns home she finds life less than rosey as the jungle of academia unfolds and the mirth of marriage fades. (imdb)
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty (1990) - Short Film
When Glitch the Witch and Scratch the Cat set out to steal eggs from Farmer Dumpty's farm for a poison pie, Glitch zaps one, and Humpty Dumpty is born! The real story of Humpty Dumpty. (imdb)
A television documentary team tries to present honest programs about Ireland and about local government corruption. (imdb)
Elizabeth is missing (2019) - TV Movie
A woman affected by dementia struggles to solve the disappearance of her friend.
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Young George Matcham visits his uncle Lord Nelson and the vulgar Lady Hamilton. With the clear eyes of youth, he measures Nelson's stature and notes his feet of clay. And yet, Nelson is a hero, a great man. How can this be resolved? Meanwhile, the combined French and Spanish fleet puts out to sea.
A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman. (imdb)
Bernard Jordan escapes from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.