Acting
Freda Jackson
Born December 29, 1909 · Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Died October 10, 1990 · aged 80
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Freda Maud Jackson (29 December 1907 – 20 October 1990) was an English stage actress who also worked in film and TV. Born in Nottingham, she was famous for her stage role as the cruel landlady Mrs. Voray in the play No Room at the Inn in the mid-1940s; she appeared in the film adaptation of 1948. Her later screen roles were mostly on TV, including a role on t…
Known For
Clash of the Titans · 1981Clash of the Titans
★ 6.91981
MovieAdventureFantasy
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
Great Expectations · 1946Great Expectations
★ 7.31946
MovieDramaRomance
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
The Brides of Dracula · 1960The Brides of Dracula
★ 6.71960
MovieHorror
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
The Valley of Gwangi · 1969The Valley of Gwangi
★ 7.11969
MovieScience FictionWestern
A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse. This leads to an expedition to the Forbidden Valley where they discover living dinosaurs. They capture one and take it back to be put on display, leading to inevitable mayhem.
Tom Jones · 1963Tom Jones
★ 5.91963
MovieComedyRomance
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
A Tale of Two Cities · 1958A Tale of Two Cities
★ 6.81958
MovieDramaHistory
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
Flesh and Blood · 1951Flesh and Blood
★ 7.01951
MovieDrama
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
The Good Die Young · 1954The Good Die Young
★ 6.41954
MovieThrillerCrime
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Movies
Clash of the Titans · 1981Clash of the Titans
★ 6.91981
MovieAdventureFantasy
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
Great Expectations · 1946Great Expectations
★ 7.31946
MovieDramaRomance
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
The Brides of Dracula · 1960The Brides of Dracula
★ 6.71960
MovieHorror
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
The Valley of Gwangi · 1969The Valley of Gwangi
★ 7.11969
MovieScience FictionWestern
A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse. This leads to an expedition to the Forbidden Valley where they discover living dinosaurs. They capture one and take it back to be put on display, leading to inevitable mayhem.
Tom Jones · 1963Tom Jones
★ 5.91963
MovieComedyRomance
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
A Tale of Two Cities · 1958A Tale of Two Cities
★ 6.81958
MovieDramaHistory
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
Flesh and Blood · 1951Flesh and Blood
★ 7.01951
MovieDrama
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
The Good Die Young · 1954The Good Die Young
★ 6.41954
MovieThrillerCrime
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Henry V · 1944Henry V
★ 6.71944
MovieHistoryDrama
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
The Third Secret · 1964The Third Secret
★ 6.21964
MovieMysteryThriller
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
The Crowded Day · 1954The Crowded Day
★ 5.81954
MovieDrama
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Die, Monster, Die! · 1965Die, Monster, Die!
★ 5.61965
MovieScience FictionHorror
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Bhowani Junction · 1956Bhowani Junction
★ 6.11956
MovieAdventureRomance
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Greyfriars Bobby · 1961Greyfriars Bobby
★ 6.91961
MovieDramaFamily
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.
The Jokers · 1967The Jokers
★ 6.31967
MovieComedyCrime
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
A Canterbury Tale · 1944A Canterbury Tale
★ 6.91944
MovieMysteryWar
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance · 1961Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
1961
Movie
Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.
Boy With a Flute · 1964Boy With a Flute
★ 10.01964
Movie
An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
The Last Man to Hang · 1956The Last Man to Hang
★ 6.31956
MovieCrimeDrama
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
She Fell Among Thieves · 1978She Fell Among Thieves
★ 7.01978
MovieDramaTV Movie
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
West 11 · 1963West 11
★ 6.91963
MovieDramaCrime
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer.
Attempt to Kill · 1961Attempt to Kill
1961
MovieCrime
A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.
Women of Twilight · 1953Women of Twilight
★ 6.01953
MovieDramaCrime
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
The Flesh Is Weak · 1957The Flesh Is Weak
★ 5.91957
MovieCrimeDrama
Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.
TV Shows
Blake's 7 · 1978Blake's 7
★ 7.31978
SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
Maigret · 1960Maigret
★ 7.11960
SeriesCrimeDrama
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
BBC2 Play of the Week · 1977BBC2 Play of the Week
★ 7.01977
SeriesDramaComedy
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
The World of Hammer · 1994The World of Hammer
★ 6.81994
SeriesDocumentary
The World of Hammer is a thirteen-part British documentary series created and written by Robert and Ashley Sidaway for Channel 4. Initially broadcast from 12 August to 4 November 1994, the series is narrated by English actor and frequent Hammer collaborator Oliver Reed.
The Old Curiosity Shop · 1979The Old Curiosity Shop
★ 7.51979
SeriesDrama
The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Armchair Theatre · 1956Armchair Theatre
★ 6.01956
SeriesDrama
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.