Virginia McKenna
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dame Virginia Anne McKenna, DBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with The Born Free Foundation.
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens...
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Waterloo
as Duchess of RichmondAfter defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is...
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Born Free
as Joy AdamsonAt a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for...
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The Cruel Sea
as Julie HallamAt the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with...
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Ethel & Ernest
as Lady of the House (voice)This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an...
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Holocaust 2000
as Eva CaineAn executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns...
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Peter Pan
as Mrs. DarlingPeter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow...
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as Janet TaggartA disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to...
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Carve Her Name with Pride
as Violette SzaboLondon, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette...
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Love/Loss
as MaryA chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years...
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A Town Like Alice
as Jean PagetIn 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly....
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Simba
as Mary CrawfordA European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans...
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The Ship That Died of Shame
as Helen RandallAfter World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into...
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The Oracle
as ShelaghAn Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a...
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Golden Years
as MarthaFate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have...
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Staggered
as FloraVery much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on...
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The Disappearance
as CatherineThe wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to...
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The Smallest Show on Earth
as Jean SpenserJean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a...
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Blood Link
as Woman in BallroomA man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: September
as VioletVerena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy...
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Duel of Hearts
as Lady BreconLady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is...
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Swallows and Amazons
as Mrs. WalkerOn holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over...
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Puccini
as ElviraIn Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when...
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Ring of Bright Water
as Mary MacKenzieStuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an...
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Widow's Walk
as MyrtleEve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house...
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Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as SelfA Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor,...
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Beauty and the Beast
as LucyA beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to...
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Have a Nice Night
as Jennifer WarrentonMovie star Barbara Jenkins arrives in Cannes to host an auction of her costumes, under...
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The Gathering Storm
as Clemmie ChurchillWinston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Henrietta BarrettDirector Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets...
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Wings
as DoraA heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World...
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The Whistle-Blower
as Theresa ElliotA bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting...
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The Case of the Frightened Lady
as Lady Lebanon AmershamA woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.
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Father's Doing Fine
as CatherineLady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to...
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The Admirable Crichton
as Lady MaryA group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The...
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Storm Over Jamaica
as Judy WaringA British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an...
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Julius Caesar
as PortiaThe assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic...
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An Elephant Called Slowly
as GinnyBill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is...
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Leona Calderon
as uncreditedLeona Calderon is a retiring altruistic music lover earning her living cleaning establishments...
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Echoes of Camusfearna
as NarratorThis fascinating and haunting wildlife program is narrated by Virginia McKenna and centers on...
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The Lion at World's End
as uncreditedThe astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of...
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A Passage to India
as Adela QuestedThe BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month...
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The Lady in Waiting
as Miss PeachIn 1970s New York, a drag queen and elderly woman meet during a blackout. The film was nominated...
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Agatha Christie's Marple
as Belle GoedlerThe adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...
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Richard & Judy
as SelfRichard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and...
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The Merv Griffin Show
as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
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Natural World
as ParticipantNatural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and...
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GMTV
as SelfGMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee,...
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Lovejoy
as Harriet FisherThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Milborough LangThe Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...
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BBC Play of the Month
as Adela QuestedPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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Kavanagh Q.C.
as Alice AldermartenJames Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling...
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Mystery and Imagination
as uncreditedMystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lady MaryHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mrs. DarlingHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as LucyHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Clementine ChurchillHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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The First Olympics: Athens 1896
as Annabel FlackThis two part mini-series shows the trials and tribulations all the participants endured to be a...
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The Edwardians
as uncreditedIt was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay...
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The Camomile Lawn
as Polly (older)The Camomile Lawn is British adaptation of the Mary Wesley's classic novel that aired on Channel...
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September
as VioletScottish aristocrats' secrets and relationships are threatened by the return of a woman who left...
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