
Rosalie Williams
Actor · 1919 – 2009 · Lancashire, England
Movies12
Movie7.1DramaWhile out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
A Taste of Honey
1961 · 118 votes
Movie7.4CrimeMysteryMary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
The Sign of Four
1987 · 83 votes
Movie7.0ThrillerDramaFor years, a blackmailer has been preying on the weaknesses of others throughout London. When Holmes hears of the utter misery this mystery man is creating, he adopts a campaign to thwart his evil scheming. The campaign astonishes Dr. Watson by its strangeness and finds Holmes falling in love.
The Master Blackmailer
1992 · 28 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerCrimeSherlock Holmes' problem with disturbing dreams proves to be both an impediment and an aid in the search for a missing woman.
The Eligible Bachelor
1993 · 24 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceDancing Queen is a 1993 British romantic comedy film starring Rik Mayall and Helena Bonham Carter. It follows the misfortune of Neil (Mayall), a bridegroom trying to get back to his bride with the help of his newfound friend Pandora/Julie (Bonham Carter) the stripper. It was the third episode of the first series of the Granada Television series Rik Mayall Presents.
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
1993 · 14 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaWhen June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
The Killing of Sister George
1968 · 64 votes
Movie10.0ComedyTV MovieTwo city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be.
Getting Away from It All
1972 · 1 votes
Movie6.7AdventureAnimationTruckers, the first of Terry Pratchett's novels to be adapted for TV brings to life the story of the Nomes. 15000 years ago the Nomes crashed to Earth in a scout ship from the starship Swan. Generations of them have come and gone with the passing years and the changing countryside. Suddenly faced with extinction, the ten surviving Nomes, guided by their reluctant leader Masklin, must face many exciting adventures during their search for a new home and hiding place in the big, bad world of the humans.
Truckers
1992 · 10 votes
Movie8.0DramaStuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide. Then a former flame, the successful Eilert, enters the picture, violence and blackmail aren't far behind.
Hedda Gabler
1981 · 3 votes
Movie3.3DramaTV MovieA mother wants her son to marry but has to accept he is living with a man.
Combat
1985 · 3 votes
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Sally meets some old friends of Murray's from his life in South Africa whom he has never mentioned. A pleasant reunion disguises the real purpose of a visit; revenge.
The Reunion
1982
Movie6.5HorrorA man travels to the country house of a distant aunt in search of peace and quiet. But when he arrives, he learns of a tragedy that happened there which keeps the house and the family frozen in time.
The Open Window
1972 · 2 votes
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TV8.2CrimeDramaSherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · 269 votes
TV8.2DramaWar & PoliticsThe Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.
The Sandbaggers
1978 · 12 votes
TV7.3DramaIn early 20th-century England, young orphan Christina Parsons is sent to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger, William, lives to fly aeroplanes. Christina finds herself struggling with the ideas of classism as she falls in love with country life, the hunt, and one of her cousins. But after an impulsive marriage, when her husband is called away by the First World War, Christina must keep Flambards afloat by herself.
Flambards
1979 · 6 votes
TV8.7MysteryCrimeIn this thrilling final series starring Jeremy Brett as the famous 'consulting detective' Sherlock Holmes, six of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories are adapted: The Three Gables, The Dying Detective, The Golden Pince-Nez, The Red Circle, The Mazarin Stone, and The Cardboard Box.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994 · 10 votes
TV8.6MysteryCrimeIn the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986 · 7 votes
TV7.8AnimationAction & AdventureFaced with imminent extinction, and guided by a mysterious handheld black box, the surviving members of an alien race of small people - Nomes - embark upon a quest to find a new home, safe from the unwelcome attentions of us destructive humans...
Truckers
1992 · 5 votes
- TV9.0Drama
Eleven-part mini-series featuring an ensemble cast of up-and-coming acting talent, in plays by young authors, each actor or actress taking the lead role in turn.
The Younger Generation
1961 · 1 votes
TV7.8DramaComedyThe Beiderbecke Connection is a four-part British television serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1988. It is the third and final part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. Now with a baby in tow, Jill and Trevor are asked by Big Al to look after a refugee called "Ivan".
The Beiderbecke Connection
1988 · 6 votes
TV7.0AnimationSci-Fi & FantasySoul Music is a seven-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall, and first broadcast on 12 May 1997. It was the first film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel. The series soundtrack was also released on CD, but the disc is now out of production. The soundtrack is, however, now available through iTunes.
Soul Music
1997 · 6 votes
TVDramaHolly Elliot is a university graduate taking an evening class in art appreciation. Her husband, David, on the other hand, works for a mail-order firm and is trying hard to keep up with Holly by taking an extramural degree in his spare time. Their lives are about to be irrevocably upended.
Holly
1972 · 1 votes
TV7.0MysteryDramaGet Lost! is a 1981 British television drama serial produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. Written by Alan Plater, the plot concerns the disappearance of the husband of Leeds schoolteacher Judy Threadgold. Investigating the disappearance, with the aid of her colleague, woodwork teacher Neville Keaton, Judy learns of a secret organisation that helps disaffected people leave their unhappy lives behind.
Get Lost!
1981 · 2 votes