Acting

Eily Malyon

Born October 30, 1879 · London, England, UK

Died September 26, 1961 · aged 81

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eily Malyon (born Eily Sophie Lees-Craston, 30 October 1879 – 26 September 1961) was an English character actress in the 1930s and 1940s. Malyon was born in London in 1879. Her mother, Agnes Thomas, was also an actress. Malyon specialised in playing stern schoolteachers, maids, nurses, nuns, governesses and spinsters, usually in melodramas, historical dramas…

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire · 1935

Mark of the Vampire

MovieMysteryHorror

Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body, are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora or his daughter. Receiving little help from the law, Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with their investigation.

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt · 1943

Shadow of a Doubt

MovieThrillerMystery

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent · 1940

Foreign Correspondent

MovieThrillerMystery

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

The Secret Heart

The Secret Heart · 1946

The Secret Heart

Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her Lee's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.

Rasputin and the Empress

Rasputin and the Empress · 1932

Rasputin and the Empress

MovieDramaHistory

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

The Little Princess

The Little Princess · 1939

The Little Princess

MovieFamilyDrama

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch · 1942

I Married a Witch

MovieRomanceFantasy

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Mrs. Skatcher

Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire · 1935

Mark of the Vampire

MovieMysteryHorror

Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body, are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora or his daughter. Receiving little help from the law, Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with their investigation.

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt · 1943

Shadow of a Doubt

MovieThrillerMystery

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

Mrs. Cochran (uncredited)

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent · 1940

Foreign Correspondent

MovieThrillerMystery

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

College Arms Hotel Cashier (uncredited)

The Secret Heart

The Secret Heart · 1946

The Secret Heart

Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her Lee's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.

Miss Hunter

Rasputin and the Empress

Rasputin and the Empress · 1932

Rasputin and the Empress

MovieDramaHistory

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Woman Yelling 'Blessed Among Women!' (uncredited)

The Little Princess

The Little Princess · 1939

The Little Princess

MovieFamilyDrama

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Cook

I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch · 1942

I Married a Witch

MovieRomanceFantasy

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.

Tabitha Wooley (uncredited)

Man Hunt

Man Hunt · 1941

MovieThrillerWar

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.

Postmistress

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter · 1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Miss Peabody (uncredited)

Les Misérables

Les Misérables · 1935

Les Misérables

MovieDramaHistory

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Mother Superior

Camille

Camille · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

Therese the Maid in Country House (uncredited)

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy · 1936

Little Lord Fauntleroy

MovieDramaFamily

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.

Landlady

She-Wolf of London

She-Wolf of London · 1946

She-Wolf of London

MovieMysteryHorror

A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

Hannah, the Housekeeper

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles · 1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

MovieMysteryCrime

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Mrs. Barryman

The Devil-Doll

The Devil-Doll · 1936

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

Laundry Supervisor (uncredited)

Going My Way

Going My Way · 1944

MovieDramaComedy

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

Mrs. Carmody

The Man from Down Under

The Man from Down Under · 1943

The Man from Down Under

MovieActionComedy

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

Sarah

Parnell

Parnell · 1937

MovieDramaHistory

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.

Irish Woman with Dead Child (uncredited)

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy · 1939

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Mrs. McLaughlin

The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross · 1944

The Seventh Cross

In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.

Fraulein Bachmann

Diamond Jim

Diamond Jim · 1935

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Organist

Clive of India

Clive of India · 1935

MovieActionAdventure

Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.

Mrs. Clifford

Above Suspicion

Above Suspicion · 1943

Above Suspicion

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Walmer Hotel Proprietess (Uncredited)