Mary Clare
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Mary Clare (17 July 1892 – 29 August 1970) was a British actress of stage, film and television. In films, she was mainly a character actress, in later life often portraying mature ladies who had strength of character or were autocratic. She appeared in two of the British-made Alfred Hitchcock films, Young and Innocent (1937) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.392 |
Birthday | 1892-07-16 |
Place of Birth | Lambeth, London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Mary Clare Absalom, |
1938
The Lady Vanishes
7.453/881
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befrien...
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The Lady Vanishes
1937
Young and Innocent
6.6/221
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to...
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Young and Innocent
1948
Oliver Twist
7.5/214
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...
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Oliver Twist
1935
The Clairvoyant
5.8/16
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
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The Clairvoyant
1938
The Citadel
6.3/26
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the...
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The Citadel
1939
On The Night Of The Fire
5.222/9
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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On The Night Of The Fire
1939
There Ain't No Justice
6/1
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
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There Ain't No Justice
1935
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
7.6/10
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1942
The Night Has Eyes
6.3/16
Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they...
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The Night Has Eyes
1948
Esther Waters
5.9/7
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter....
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Esther Waters
1948
The Three Weird Sisters
7/3
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estat...
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The Three Weird Sisters
1934
Lorna Doone
5.8/2
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the...
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Lorna Doone
1940
Miss Grant Goes to the Door
4/2
Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.
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Miss Grant Goes to the Door
1937
The Rat
6.5/2
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "r...
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The Rat
1950
Portrait of Clare
6.5/2
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
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Portrait of Clare
1949
Cardboard Cavalier
5.7/3
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depict...
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Cardboard Cavalier
1931
Gipsy Blood
0/0
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s cl...
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Gipsy Blood
1938
Climbing High
6.5/1
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering...
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Climbing High
1946
London Town
0/0
Veteran music-hall entertainer Jerry Stanford a washed-up comedian hopes to stage a comeback in a glittering new revue. Alas, Stanford is hired as mer...
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London Town
1933
The Constant Nymph
0/0
Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous...
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The Constant Nymph
1937
The Mill on the Floss
6/1
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owne...
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The Mill on the Floss
1938
The Challenge
5.9/8
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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The Challenge
1939
A Girl Must Live
4.3/3
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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A Girl Must Live
1948
My Brother Jonathan
7/3
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work a...
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My Brother Jonathan
1941
Old Bill and Son
6.5/4
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enl...
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Old Bill and Son
1931
Hindle Wakes
0/0
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
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Hindle Wakes
1940
Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard
6.6/7
An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.
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Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard
1928
The Constant Nymph
0/0
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a lo...
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The Constant Nymph
1953
The Beggar's Opera
4.9/4
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
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The Beggar's Opera
1942
The Next of Kin
5/6
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi sp...
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The Next of Kin
1950
The Black Rose
6.6/19
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of...
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The Black Rose
1934
Say It with Flowers
0/0
Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
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Say It with Flowers
1935
The Guv'nor
7.3/3
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings...
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The Guv'nor
1940
The Briggs Family
0/0
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
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The Briggs Family
1944
The Hundred Pound Window
0/0
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
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The Hundred Pound Window
1944
One Exciting Night
6/4
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
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One Exciting Night
1931
Bill's Legacy
0/0
A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
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Bill's Legacy
1931
Keepers of Youth
0/0
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colle...
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Keepers of Youth
1931
Many Waters
0/0
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
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Many Waters
1931
The Outsider
0/0
An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.
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The Outsider
1931
Shadows
0/0
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
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Shadows
1941
The Patient Vanishes
0/0
Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackma...
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The Patient Vanishes
1959
The Price of Silence
5.8/6
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
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The Price of Silence
1952
Hindle Wakes
5/6
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help...
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Hindle Wakes
1952
Penny Princess
6.4/5
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a ric...
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Penny Princess
1944
Fiddlers Three
8.2/4
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
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Fiddlers Three
1954
Mambo
5.5/6
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.
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Mambo
1947
Mrs. Fitzherbert
6/2
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between t...
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
1921
The Skin Game
0/0
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village. The original silent version of a film Hitchcock later adapt...
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The Skin Game
1952
Moulin Rouge
6.7/93
Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a mi...
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Moulin Rouge
1929
The Feather
0/0
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
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The Feather
1924
Becket
0/0
The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
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