Flora Robson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dame Flora McKenzie Robson, DBE (28 March 1902 – 7 July 1984) was an English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity. Her range extended from queens to murderesses.
Clash of the Titans
as A Stygian WitchTo win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny,...
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
as Mother SuperiorIn order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers...
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Wuthering Heights
as Ellen DeanThe Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns...
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55 Days at Peking
as Dowager Empress Tzu-HsiDiplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the...
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Murder at the Gallop
as Miss MilchrestMiss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr....
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The Sea Hawk
as Queen ElizabethDashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love...
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Black Narcissus
as Sister PhilippaA group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The...
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Les Misérables
as the PrioressIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Countess Clara PlatenSophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of...
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Fragment of Fear
as Lucy DawsonA reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as Queen of HeartsAn all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale....
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A Tale of Two Cities
as Miss ProssDissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the...
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Eye of the Devil
as Countess EstelleA French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
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7 Women
as Miss BinnsIn a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by...
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Invisible Stripes
as Mrs. TaylorA gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
as FtatateetaThe aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard...
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Guns at Batasi
as Miss Barker-WiseAn anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat...
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The Rise of Catherine the Great
as Empress ElisabethThe woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she...
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Poison Pen
as Mary RiderThe inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone...
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The Lion Has Wings
as Queen Elizabeth I (archive footage)This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the...
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Fire Over England
as Queen Elizabeth I of EnglandThe film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on...
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Saratoga Trunk
as Angelique BuitonAn opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join...
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The Beast in the Cellar
as Joyce BallantyneTwo spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he...
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Romeo and Juliet
as NurseIn Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy,...
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Malta Story
as Melita GonzarMalta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island,...
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Young Cassidy
as Mrs. CassidyIn Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are...
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Dominique
as Mrs. DavisThe wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
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Gauguin the Savage
as Sister AllandreBased on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his...
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We Are Not Alone
as Jessica NewcomeA British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his...
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Two Thousand Women
as Miss ManningfordDuring the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp...
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Holiday Camp
as Esther HarmanThe Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on...
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The Years Between
as NannyMichael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and...
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No Time for Tears
as Sister BirchNo Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who...
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests,...
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Frieda
as Nell DawsonAn RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new...
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The Shuttered Room
as Aunt AgathaIn a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious...
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Good-Time Girl
as Miss ThorpeGood Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home...
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The Big Black Sow
as La NonnaEnrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to...
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A Man Called Intrepid
as Sister LukeDuring World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage...
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Bahama Passage
as Mrs. AinsworthA girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to...
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Farewell Again
as Lucy BlairFarewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people...
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Great Day
as Mrs. Liz EllisAn impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles...
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The Canterville Ghost
as Mrs. UmneyThe ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a...
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Tall Headlines
as Mary RackhamA family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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The Epic That Never Was
as Herself (Livia) (as Dame Flora Robson)The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of...
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The Gypsy and the Gentleman
as Mrs. HaggardA lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
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Innocent Sinners
as Olivia ChesneyA neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny...
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High Tide at Noon
as Donna MacKenzieAfter returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig,...
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Sin
as AntigoneWhen Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his...
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One Precious Year
as Julia SkeneA classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as SelfThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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The Human Jungle
as Dorothy WyleyThe Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...
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