
Joy Shelton
Actor · 1922 – 2000 · Marylebone, London, England, UK
Movies17
Movie6.5AdventureHistoryDefiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
H.M.S. Defiant
1962 · 61 votes
Movie4.7ThrillerPrivate eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
Uneasy Terms
1948 · 7 votes
Movie4.7DramaCrimeSuave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.
Park Plaza 605
1953 · 11 votes
Movie7.3ComedyA petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Five Golden Hours
1961 · 3 votes
Movie7.1DramaImpoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
Once a Sinner
1950 · 5 votes
Movie6.1ComedyA young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
No Kidding
1960 · 9 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceDuring WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
Waterloo Road
1945 · 20 votes
Movie8.5DramaA group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
No Room at the Inn
1948 · 2 votes
Movie8.0CrimeA panhandler who opens car doors for people in London's theatre district finds himself involved in a deadly mystery when a corpse with a cash-stuffed wallet falls out of a vehicle and he helps himself to some of the money.
Midnight Episode
1950 · 2 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaA model’s scheme to murder a millionaire with the intention of inheriting his fortune is uncovered by a police constable.
A Case For P.C. 49
1951 · 2 votes
Movie5.6DramaWarWhen Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
Millions Like Us
1943 · 15 votes
Movie6.1ComedyMusicFour pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.
Bees in Paradise
1944 · 8 votes
Movie5.3CrimeNovelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.
Send for Paul Temple
1946 · 9 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerA 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
Emergency Call
1952 · 7 votes
Movie4.6CrimeDramaAn American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
Impulse
1954 · 15 votes
Movie6.6DramaTV MovieIn Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Anna Karenina
1961 · 5 votes
Movie7.0Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."
Designing Women
1948 · 2 votes
Series6
TV4.8CrimeDramaNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
No Hiding Place
1959 · 4 votes
TV7.9ComedyDramaAn idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.
The Darling Buds of May
1991 · 24 votes
TV8.2The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
The Human Jungle
1963 · 5 votes
- TV6.0
Sanctuary (1967–1968) is a British primetime television drama created by Philip Levene. Set in a convent in London, the series follows the daily lives and character conflicts of a community of nuns, starring Fay Compton, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, and Joanna Dunham. The show aired across two seasons with a total of 26 episodes, running from June 1967 through 1968. It is known for its intimate look at the religious life and the moral dilemmas faced by the sisters as they interacted with individuals seeking their help
Sanctuary
1967 · 3 votes
TV7.5ComedyMelvyn Solomons has a promising career in dentistry but he wants to pursue art school.
Roots
1981 · 2 votes
- TV
A serial play about a young married couple.