Acting
Vera Day
Born August 4, 1935 · London, England, UK (age 91)
A highly photogenic blonde starlet of the 1950s, petite, buxom Vera Day was once touted as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe. Having dropped out of school at the age of 15, she had tried her hand in retail and hospitality before finding steadier employment as a beauty parlour assistant and hairdresser's model. Modelling then became her full-time occupation, but Vera had loftier ambitions. Answeri…
Known For
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels · 1998Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
★ 8.11998
MovieComedyCrime
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Quatermass 2 · 1957Quatermass 2
★ 6.41957
MovieScience FictionHorror
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
The Prince and the Showgirl · 1957The Prince and the Showgirl
★ 6.41957
MovieComedyRomance
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
Hell Drivers · 1957Hell Drivers
★ 6.71957
MovieThrillerDrama
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
A Kid for Two Farthings · 1955A Kid for Two Farthings
★ 6.71955
MovieDrama
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
I Was Monty's Double · 1958I Was Monty's Double
★ 6.91958
MovieWarDrama
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
The Riddle · 2007The Riddle
★ 4.82007
MovieThrillerMystery
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub.
And the Same to You · 1960And the Same to You
★ 5.91960
MovieComedy
Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be devout 'men of the cloth'.
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