Kathleen Byron

Kathleen Byron

Date of Birth: 11 Jan 1921

Country: UK

Total Credits at Criticker: 31 (Actor)

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    Black Narcissus
    Anglican nuns, led by the stern Sister Clodagh, attempt to establish a religious community in the Himalayas, and must battle not only suspicious locals and the elements, but their own demons as well. (imdb)
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    The Elephant Man
    A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity. (imdb)
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    Les Misérables
    Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives... (imdb)
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    A Matter of Life and Death
    A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court. (imdb)
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    Emma
    In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman. (imdb)
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    Young Bess
    Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues, she has an unhappy love for admiral Thomas Seymour, and dreams of building a navy to match the Portuguese and the Spanish. (imdb)
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    The Small Back Room
    The best bomb disposal officer during World War II was badly injured and is in frequent pain. He finds solace and relief from his pain in the whisky bottle & the pills that are never far away. A new type of booby trapped bomb push his nerves & resolution to the limit. (imdb)
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    Twins of Evil
    In nineteenth century middle-Europe, orphaned teenage twins Maria and Frieda go to live with their uncle Gustav Weil, who heads the Brotherhood, a vigilante group trying to stamp out vampirism. But their methods are random and misplaced and the only result is a terrorised populace. The real threat lies with Count Karnstein, and although the twins seem outwardly to be identical, Frieda finds herself much more drawn than her sister to the Count's castle dominating the skyline. (imdb)
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    One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
    Lord Southmere escapes from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", and is captured by Chinese spies who have been instructed to retrieve the microfilm from him.
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    The Silver Fleet
    Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers ? (imdb)
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    Burn, Witch, Burn!
    A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life. (imdb)
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    Prelude to Fame
    While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell (Robin Dowell), son of John Morell (Guy Rolfe), a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine (Kathleen Ryan), becomes friendly with young Guido (Jeremy Spenser), and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. (imdb)
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    I\
    A scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th-century London, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman. (imdb)
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    Craze
    A nutty antiques dealer starts to sacrifice women to an African idol. (imdb)
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    The Gambler and the Lady
    A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past. (imdb)
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    Painting with Light
    An examination of the great advances in cinematography achieved by Jack Cardiff. (imdb)
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    The Abdication
    Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church. Today, she is mostly known for the rumors that she was lesbian.
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    Private Road
    Up-and-coming short story writer Peter (Bruce Robinson) meets pretty young secretary Ann (Susan Penhaligon) at the publishing house. Shunning her rather old-fashioned parents, Ann begins an intense love affair with Peter and the two seem to spend all their time together. Peter's laid back lifestyle and bohemian friends seems to appeal to Ann, who has been raised in mainly middle-class surroundings. (imdb)
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    Hand in Hand
    A little Roman Catholic boy and a little Jewish girl become fast friends despite the prejudice that surrounds them. (imdb)
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    Hammerhead
    Hammerhead is a dangerous international criminal suspected by British Intelligence of trying to steal NATO defense secrets. In desperation, a young, charming soldier of fortune is called in to match wits and guts in man-to-man combat with Hammerhead. His name is Charles Hood and he operates in London (the wilder parts) and moves on to the Portuguese coast in pursuit of Hammerhead and pursued by pert, kooky London model Sue Trenton. (imdb)
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    From a Far Country
    The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later Nazi Germany attacks Poland and invades the country while Wojtila seeks refuge at the house of Cardinal Wyszynski. Also appear all the other important stations of the life of the Pope. (imdb)
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    Edward the King
    Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This classic 13-part British miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman. (amazon.com)
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    Hedda Gabler
    Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results. (imdb)
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    Hell Is Sold Out
    A book is sent to the publishers under the name of "Danges", a popular writer, long believed to be dead. The real "Danges" turns up & meets the new authoress using his name. (imdb)
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    Madness of the Heart
    Lydia Garth meets Paul de Vandiere, a French nobleman, but their romance is plagued by Lydia's complaint of recurring spells of blurred vision. Paul leaves for France, promising to return and marry Lydia, but she loses her sight while he is gone. Given no hope of recovery, she enters a convent and quickly finds that she has no vocation for life in a nunnery. She finally marries Paul, but encounters strong opposition from Verite Faimont, a neighbor who is very fond of Paul. (imdb)
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    Tom Brown\
    The adventures of a young boy at Rugby School, including his clashes with the bully Flashman.
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    A Profile of \
    A short documentary about the Oscar winning film renowned for the Nuns driven crazy by passion. Interviews with some of those who helped to make it and some of those who were influenced by it.
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    Portrait of a Marriage
    Melodrama detailing the real-life love affair between feminist writer Vita Sackville-West and novelist Violet Keppel against the backdrop of post-World War I England and opposition by Vita's politician husband Harold Nicolson. (imdb)
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    The Reluctant Widow
    An English governess marries a complete stranger while he is on his deathbed. After he dies, she inherits his estate but is soon involved with some French spies working for Napoleon. At the same time, she finds herself attracted to her late husband's cousin.
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    Scarlet Thread
    Two villains team up to steal some jewelry. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot.
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    Four Days
    The bored wife of a business man has an affair with one of his employees.
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