Ursula Howells
Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father worked as Director of Music. She made her first stage appearance at Dundee in 1939, in John Drinkwater's Bird in Hand, then moved to Oxford in 1942 and three years later made her London debut at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage. In 1947 she appeared in the comedy Jane at the Aldwych Theatre. After several years in the West End, and a brief stint on Broadway where she appeared in Springtime for Henry in 1951, she began to appear in films.
After the death of her father in 1983, Ursula Howells instigated the "Herbert Howells Society" and became a standard bearer for the promotion of his work. She financially supported the recording of his compositions and did much to encourage the publishing and promotion of church music.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.026 |
| Birthday | 1922-09-17 |
| Place of Birth | Hammersmith, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1968
Assignment K
6/7
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap...
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Assignment K
1965
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
6.4/173
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An arch...
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1970
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
6.1/36
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the per...
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Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
1986
Time After Time
0/0
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three...
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Time After Time
1957
Now Let Him Go
0/0
A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily ol...
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Now Let Him Go
1957
Account Rendered
5.8/8
Police find that everyone had a motive for the murder of a wealthy woman.
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Account Rendered
1969
Crossplot
5.5/22
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination...
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Father Dear Father
4.8/6
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1955
Track the Man Down
5.8/6
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Track the Man Down
1955
The Gilded Cage
5.2/2
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence...
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The Gilded Cage
1952
The Cocktail Party
0/0
Troubled married couple who, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger, settle their problems and move on with their lives.
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The Cocktail Party
1963
80,000 Suspects
6.5/8
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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80,000 Suspects
1974
Miss Nightingale
0/0
The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.
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Miss Nightingale
1956
The Long Arm
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West of Suez
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In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.
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West of Suez
1967
Torture Garden
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Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises t...
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1980
Gentle Folk
0/0
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Gentle Folk
1962
Two Letter Alibi
5/1
Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whis...
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Two Letter Alibi
1972
Franklin's Farm
0/0
A grandson's attempt to help his grandma produces problems for the family.
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Franklin's Farm
1974
Little Fears
0/0
Four people are circling each other. But for what? - for love or for terror?.
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Little Fears
1963
The Sicilians
5.5/2
An aide at the American Embassy in London finds himself involved with both Scotland Yard and the French police over the kidnapping of the son of a Maf...
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The Sicilians
1998
A Rather English Marriage
5.7/11
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They...
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A Rather English Marriage
1955
They Can't Hang Me
6/4
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
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They Can't Hang Me
1951
Flesh and Blood
0/0
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various con...
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Flesh and Blood
1998
The Tichborne Claimant
8/2
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwrec...
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The Tichborne Claimant
1994
A Pinch of Snuff
0/0
Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showi...
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A Pinch of Snuff
1953
The Oracle
5/2
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
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The Oracle
1955
The Constant Husband
6.9/8
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his lif...
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The Constant Husband
1954
The Weak and the Wicked
5.9/9
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At...
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The Weak and the Wicked
1956
Keep It Clean
4.5/4
A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.
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Keep It Clean
1963
The Madhouse on Castle Street
0/0
A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried siste...
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The Madhouse on Castle Street
1984
The Cold Room
3.3/3
A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there dur...
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The Cold Room
1952
I Believe in You
6.1/7
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers an...
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I Believe in You
1980
The Enigma
0/0
When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps, cracking the first good joke of his life. Sergeant Jenning...
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The Enigma
1978
When the Actors Come
0/0
On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary....
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When the Actors Come
1953
The Blakes Slept Here
0/0
The story of a family house through four generations
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