Wendy Hiller

Wendy Hiller
Total Credits at Criticker: 28 (Actor)
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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)
Pygmalion
Shaw's play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady. (imdb)
A Man for All Seasons
The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage. (imdb)
I Know Where I\
Young middle-class Englishwoman Joan Webster is determined to have the finer things in life, and to that end she plans to marry Sir Robert Bellinger... (imdb)
The Cat and the Canary
When an elderly man dies, some of his relatives gather to hear the reading of the will. When it is read by his attorney, the old man lets it be known how much he despised and loathed his worthless kin. (imdb)
Outcast of the Islands
Set on a Malayan island where a trader becomes a criminal and a huge manhunt is organised to capture him. Trying to start a new life the trader takes refuge at a trading post.
Separate Tables
It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life at the Beauregard is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel.(imdb)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Judith Hearne (Smith) is an aging spinster who finds one last chance at love with her landlady's brother, James (Hoskins). Unfortunately, James believes only in her fortune, which itself is an illusion propagated by Judith's upper-class demeanor. Doomed to loneliness, Judith begins to relapse into alcoholism...
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
Anne Shirley accepts a teaching position at a girls boarding school in a town dominated by a rich and belligerent family determined to make her life miserable. (imdb)
Sons and Lovers
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older woman from the town it enrages his jealous mother. (tcm.com)
Making Love
A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. (imdb)
Richard II
A clash of wills arises as the Duke of Hereford, Henry Bolingbroke, goes up against King Richard II for the English throne in this retelling of Shakespeare's play.
Something of Value
Even though Peter and Kimani grow up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently. After the father of Kimani is jailed for following tribal customs, Kimani joins a band of rebels that wants all non-Kenyans out of their country. While Kimani believes in the cause, he does not agree with the indiscriminate killing of women, children and those who will not join or agree with them...
Sailor of the King
A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on. (imdb)
The Curse of King Tut\
After an archeological expedition discovers the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen, many of the scientists, engineers and workmen begin mysteriously dying off. (imdb)
Toys in the Attic
Sisters Carrie and Anna Berniers have been supporting their ne'er-do-well brother Julian through various failed businesses; now, he returns home with a sudden fortune and his young bride. Jealousies both old and new will play a part as the sisters try to understand what Julian's been up to, and as his wife wonders if there's another woman involved. (imdb)
I Know Where I\
Nancy Franklin' was so overwhelmed by the film 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) that she traveled from New York to the Western Isles of Scotland to see the places where it was made and to find out more about the people who made it. This documentary retraces her steps on a subsequent visit. (imdb)
Major Barbara
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary. (imdb)
David Copperfield
This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school. (allmovie.com)
Witness for the Prosecution
Efficient, but bitter and stubborn, barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts returns to his office in London, having recovered from a heart attack. He is subsequently invited to defend Leonard Stephen Vole, who is the prime suspect in a murder case. Leonard is a former soldier that fought in World War II and is married to his beloved German wife Christine Helm Vole. He is unemployed and accused of seducing and murdering the wealthy middle-aged single woman, Emily French, to inherit 80,000 pounds. (imdb)
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
In this film, a destitute British nobleman conspires to murder his rich Canadian uncle for the inheritance. Unfortunately he continually fails in his efforts to off him. Instead he winds up killing his own family one-by-one. In the end, the slightly addled fellow walks into one of his own traps. (allrovi.com)
The Kingfisher
A bachelor sets out to win the love of a women he lost 50 years previous. (allmovie.com)
Miss Morison\
The film is based on a purportedly true story, which has since become one of the most famous "time slips". The two ladies' real names were Annie Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, who at the time occupied high teaching positions within Oxford University. The script is based on their book "An Adventure" (1911) which was published under assumed names. (imdb)
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5
To Be a Woman
An educational short subject dissecting the imbalances in pay between men and women in the early 50s UK,showing the dilemma faced by women teachers, nurses,artists, politicians and factory workers.
A Taste for Death
A Taste for Death (1988) - TV Mini-Series
Sir Paul Berowne a prominent Government Minister turns to his old friend Adam Dalgleish following a series of threatening letters delivered to his London home. (imdb)
All Passion Spent
All Passion Spent (1986) - TV Mini-Series
After decades as a politician's wife, 85-year-old Lady Slane retires to a cottage after her husband dies. Struggling to rediscover her identity, she contends with intrusive family members. (imdb)