Acting

Anna Turner

Born May 6, 1918 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Died March 29, 2014 · aged 95

Anna Turner was born on 6 May 1918 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Empire of the Sun (1987), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Night of the Big Heat (1967) She died on 29 March 2014 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.

Known For

Empire of the SunEmpire of the Sun · 1987
Empire of the Sun
★ 7.51987
MovieDramaHistory
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Stolen FaceStolen Face · 1952
Stolen Face
★ 5.81952
MovieDramaThriller
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.
Night of the Big HeatNight of the Big Heat · 1967
Night of the Big Heat
★ 5.31967
MovieScience FictionHorror
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
BedazzledBedazzled · 1967
Bedazzled
★ 6.21967
MovieFantasyComedy
A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
The Treasure of San TeresaThe Treasure of San Teresa · 1959
The Treasure of San Teresa
★ 6.41959
MovieAdventureCrime
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.
MantrapMantrap · 1953
Mantrap
★ 5.61953
MovieThrillerCrime
Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.
LostLost · 1956
Lost
★ 6.81956
MovieCrimeMystery
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
The Last Man to HangThe Last Man to Hang · 1956
The Last Man to Hang
★ 6.21956
MovieCrimeDrama
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.

Filmography

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Sunday Night TheatreSunday Night Theatre · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
★ 3.51950
SeriesDrama
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.

Petra Stockmann

Fabian of the YardFabian of the Yard · 1954
Fabian of the Yard
1954
SeriesDramaCrime
Fabian of the Yard is a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, produced by the BBC and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest plice procedural made for British TV, sharing many points of commonality with the U.S. series Dragnet. There were 36 episodes in total, of 30 minutes each. The first thirty were broadcast consecutively on Saturday evenings between 13 November 1954 and 22 June 1955, with the exceptions of Christmas Day and New Year's Day which happened to fall on a Saturday. For unknown reasons, the final six were held back, and later broadcast intermittently between November 1955 and February 1956.

Kitty Penley