Acting

Helen Dickson

Born May 7, 1892 · Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA

Died May 8, 1956 · aged 64

No biography available.

Known For

It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

It's a Wonderful Life

★ 8.31946

MovieDramaFamily

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

Witness for the Prosecution · 1957

Witness for the Prosecution

★ 8.21957

MovieDramaMystery

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

The War of the Worlds · 1953

The War of the Worlds

★ 6.81953

MovieScience FictionAction

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.

Phantom of the Opera · 1943

Phantom of the Opera

★ 6.21943

MovieHorrorRomance

Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.

The Lost Weekend · 1945

The Lost Weekend

★ 7.61945

MovieDrama

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

The Bad and the Beautiful · 1952

The Bad and the Beautiful

★ 7.31952

MovieDramaRomance

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

Filmography

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It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

It's a Wonderful Life

★ 8.31946

MovieDramaFamily

Woman at Graduation Dance (uncredited)

Witness for the Prosecution · 1957

Witness for the Prosecution

★ 8.21957

MovieDramaMystery

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

The War of the Worlds · 1953

The War of the Worlds

★ 6.81953

MovieScience FictionAction

Woman in Church (uncredited)

Phantom of the Opera · 1943

Phantom of the Opera

★ 6.21943

MovieHorrorRomance

Operagoer (uncredited)

The Lost Weekend · 1945

The Lost Weekend

★ 7.61945

MovieDrama

Mrs. Frink (uncredited)

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

Party Guest (uncredited)

The Bad and the Beautiful · 1952

The Bad and the Beautiful

★ 7.31952

MovieDramaRomance

Symposium Guest (uncredited)

Mother on Ship (uncredited)

It Should Happen to You · 1954

It Should Happen to You

★ 7.11954

MovieComedyRomance

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

Shopper (uncredited)

Annie Get Your Gun · 1950

Annie Get Your Gun

★ 6.71950

MovieComedyWestern

Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Sour-Faced Wife (uncredited)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

★ 7.51936

MovieComedyDrama

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Party Guest (uncredited)

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Tourist (uncredited)

Make Way for Tomorrow · 1937

Make Way for Tomorrow

★ 7.51937

MovieDramaRomance

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.

Bridge Player (uncredited)

All That Heaven Allows · 1955

All That Heaven Allows

★ 7.31955

MovieDramaRomance

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

Party Guest (uncredited)

Phantom of the Rue Morgue · 1954

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

★ 6.21954

MovieThrillerCrime

When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.

Concierge's Wife (uncredited)

Executive Suite · 1954

Executive Suite

★ 7.01954

MovieDrama

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.

Guest (uncredited)

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?

Miss Tracy (uncredited)

The File on Thelma Jordon · 1949

The File on Thelma Jordon

★ 6.61949

MovieThrillerDrama

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

The Mask of Dimitrios · 1944

The Mask of Dimitrios

★ 7.11944

MovieCrimeDrama

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.

Casino Patron (uncredited)

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

Fashion Show Attendee

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

Party Guest (uncredited)

They Won't Believe Me · 1947

They Won't Believe Me

★ 6.61947

MovieDramaRomance

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Woman (uncredited)

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

War Relief Worker (uncredited)

Edison, the Man · 1940

Edison, the Man

★ 6.81940

MovieHistoryDrama

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.

Minor Role

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

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