Acting

Coral Browne

Born July 23, 1913 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Died May 29, 1991 · aged 77

Coral Edith Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian-American stage and screen actress. Her film appearances included Auntie Mame (1958), The Killing of Sister George (1968), The Ruling Class (1972) and Dreamchild (1985). She was actor Vincent Price's third wife since 1974 when she met him on the set of British film, Theatre of Blood (1973).

Known For

Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame · 1958

MovieComedyDrama

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals · 1967

The Night of the Generals

MovieThrillerMystery

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

Xanadu

MovieFantasyScience Fiction

Kira, a Greek muse incarnated on Earth to inspire people, helps Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone to meet. She inspires them to build a huge disco roller rink called Xanadu.

The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool · 1975

The Drowning Pool

MovieThrillerMystery

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone · 1961

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

MovieDramaRomance

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.

Dreamchild

Dreamchild · 1985

MovieDramaFantasy

80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close friendship with the writer was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she slowly realises the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare · 1968

The Legend of Lylah Clare

MovieDramaCrime

A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class · 1972

The Ruling Class

MovieComedyDrama

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

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Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame · 1958

MovieComedyDrama

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

Vera Charles

The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals · 1967

The Night of the Generals

MovieThrillerMystery

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

Eleanore von Seidlitz-Gabler

Xanadu

MovieFantasyScience Fiction

Kira, a Greek muse incarnated on Earth to inspire people, helps Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone to meet. She inspires them to build a huge disco roller rink called Xanadu.

Heavenly Voice - Female

The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool · 1975

The Drowning Pool

MovieThrillerMystery

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

Olivia Devereaux

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone · 1961

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

MovieDramaRomance

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.

Meg

Dreamchild

Dreamchild · 1985

MovieDramaFantasy

80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close friendship with the writer was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she slowly realises the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.

Alice Hargreaves

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare · 1968

The Legend of Lylah Clare

MovieDramaCrime

A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Molly Luther

The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class · 1972

The Ruling Class

MovieComedyDrama

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

Lady Claire Gurney

The Killing of Sister George

The Killing of Sister George · 1968

The Killing of Sister George

MovieComedyDrama

The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.

Mercy Croft

Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Blood · 1973

Theatre of Blood

MovieComedyHorror

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

Chloe Moon

Tamahine

Tamahine · 1963

The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands.

Mme. Becque

Sparky's Magic Piano

Sparky's Magic Piano · 1987

Sparky's Magic Piano

MovieAnimationFamily

A boy becomes a virtuoso pianist, but when he gets too big-headed the piano decides to teach him a lesson.

Let George Do It!

Let George Do It! · 1940

Let George Do It!

MovieComedyMusic

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.

Iris

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

The Courtneys of Curzon Street · 1947

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

MovieDramaRomance

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.

Valerie

Yellow Sands

Yellow Sands · 1938

Village romance and gossip collide amongst the West Country fisherfolk of Yellow Sands, as the Varwell family gathers to celebrate the birthday of their aging matriarch, Jennifer. Apart from her Communist nephew, faithful companion and sozzled brother, everyone pays their homage with one eye towards shoring up their expected inheritances - but Jennifer may have her own ideas when she finally makes out her will.

Emma Copplestone

American Dreamer

American Dreamer · 1984

American Dreamer

MovieActionAdventure

American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.

Margaret McMann

Mrs. Warren's Profession

Mrs. Warren's Profession · 1972

Mrs. Warren's Profession

MovieDramaComedy

Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its audiences. Mrs. Warren has graduated from prostitution to opening and operating a chain of brothels throughout Europe. When her educated daughter Vivie discovers the truth about her mother's profession her reactions affect everyone around her.

Mrs. Warren

Piccadilly Incident

Piccadilly Incident · 1946

Piccadilly Incident

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.

Virginia Pearson

Beautiful Stranger

Beautiful Stranger · 1954

Beautiful Stranger

MovieDramaRomance

An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.

Helen

Waltzing Matilda

Waltzing Matilda · 1933

Waltzing Matilda

Chic Williams (Pat Hanna) and his friend James Brown (Norman French) elude a private detective who's been following them, and head off to the bush (only later is it revealed that the detective wants to tell James he's inherited a fortune).

Go to Blazes

Go to Blazes · 1962

A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.

Colette

Dr. Crippen

Dr. Crippen · 1963

MovieDramaCrime

A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.

Belle Crippen

We're Going to Be Rich

We're Going to Be Rich · 1938

We're Going to Be Rich

MovieComedyHistory

A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.

Pearl

The Amateur Gentleman

The Amateur Gentleman · 1936

The Amateur Gentleman

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.

Pauline Darville

BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month · 1965

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez

Time Express

Time Express · 1979

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Time Express was a short-lived American fantasy TV series, broadcast April–May 1979 on CBS and later syndicated. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts who had both previously been involved in the creation of Charlie's Angels. The series ran for only four episodes before being cancelled.