Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.952 |
| Birthday | 1907-12-22 |
| Place of Birth | Croydon, Surrey, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily «Peggy» Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, |
1935
The 39 Steps
7.353/936
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it a...
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The 39 Steps
1986
When the Wind Blows
7.4/272
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that time...
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When the Wind Blows
1986
Murder by the Book
3/2
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally ki...
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Murder by the Book
1959
The Nun's Story
7.126/174
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World W...
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The Nun's Story
1973
The Pedestrian
6.4/5
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find caus...
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The Pedestrian
1984
A Passage to India
6.763/285
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a Bri...
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A Passage to India
1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
6.6/118
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately...
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
1968
Secret Ceremony
5.9/54
A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.
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Secret Ceremony
1962
The Cherry Orchard
8/1
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pa...
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The Cherry Orchard
1980
Caught on a Train
3.8/2
British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter...
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Caught on a Train
1988
Madame Sousatzka
6.5/18
In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent...
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Madame Sousatzka
1977
Joseph Andrews
4.7/9
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph An...
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Joseph Andrews
1969
3 Into 2 Won't Go
5/6
Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get aw...
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3 Into 2 Won't Go
1941
Quiet Wedding
4.2/5
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Quiet Wedding
1963
Britain Welcomes the President of India
0/0
An account of the state visit to Britain by the President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in June 1963. In London he accompanied the Queen on...
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Britain Welcomes the President of India
1965
The Wars of the Roses
8.5/2
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the c...
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The Wars of the Roses
1978
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
10/1
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the p...
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1982
Little Eyolf
6/1
Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beau...
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Little Eyolf
1978
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
5.3/5
This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at...
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Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1989
She's Been Away
5.4/7
A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in ot...
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She's Been Away
1980
Cream in My Coffee
6/4
Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit r...
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Cream in My Coffee
1936
Rhodes of Africa
6/1
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston,...
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Rhodes of Africa
1968
Tell Me Lies
6.3/10
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in Lo...
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Tell Me Lies
1940
Channel Incident
0/0
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to se...
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Channel Incident
1933
The Wandering Jew
7.6/5
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His retur...
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The Wandering Jew
1967
October Revolution
0/0
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock footage...
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October Revolution
1989
The Heat of the Day
0/0
In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to...
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The Heat of the Day
1942
We Serve
0/0
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
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We Serve
1961
Terminus
7/15
This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...
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Terminus
1986
The Wind and the Bomb
7/1
The making-of When the Wind Blows, featuring interviews with producer John Coates, director Jimmy T. Murakami and writer Raymond Briggs
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