Lana Morris

Acting

Lana Morris

Born March 11, 1930 · Ruislip, London, England, UK

Died May 28, 1998 · aged 68

From Wikipedia Lana Morris, born Averil Maureen Anita Morris (11 March 1930 – 28 May 1998) was a British film, stage and television actress during the 1950s and 1960s. She played the role of Helene in the 1967 BBC adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, and appeared in many other television programmes. She worked with Roger Moore in The Saint, appearing on the cover of an early 1960s tie-in reprinting o…

Known For

The Woman in QuestionThe Woman in Question · 1950
The Woman in Question
★ 6.31950
MovieMysteryCrime
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
No Trees in the StreetNo Trees in the Street · 1959
No Trees in the Street
★ 5.81959
MovieDramaCrime
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Passport to ShamePassport to Shame · 1958
Passport to Shame
★ 6.11958
MovieDramaCrime
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
The Red BeretThe Red Beret · 1953
The Red Beret
★ 6.71953
MovieWarDrama
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
Trottie TrueTrottie True · 1949
Trottie True
★ 7.01949
MovieMusicDrama
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
I Start CountingI Start Counting · 1970
I Start Counting
★ 6.51970
MovieThrillerDrama
An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is a serial killer.
Morning DepartureMorning Departure · 1950
Morning Departure
★ 6.91950
MovieDrama
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Jet StormJet Storm · 1959
Jet Storm
★ 6.91959
MovieThriller
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

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The Forsyte SagaThe Forsyte Saga · 1967
The Forsyte Saga
★ 8.41967
SeriesDrama
The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.

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