
Virginia McKenna
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.213 |
Birthday | 1931-06-07 |
Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Virginia Anne McKenna, |

1992

The Lady in Waiting
6.3/3
In 1970s New York, a drag queen and elderly woman meet during a blackout. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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The Lady in Waiting

1982

Blood Link
5.1/17
A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes...
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Blood Link

1957

The Smallest Show on Earth
6.613/31
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died a...
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The Smallest Show on Earth

1974

Swallows and Amazons
7.6/17
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up...
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Swallows and Amazons

1966

Born Free
6.8/122
At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are s...
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Born Free

1958

Carve Her Name with Pride
5.7/23
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses t...
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Carve Her Name with Pride

1953

The Cruel Sea
6.909/66
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. Th...
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The Cruel Sea

1955

The Ship That Died of Shame
6.9/9
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudab...
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The Ship That Died of Shame

1955

Simba
6.5/13
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-...
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Simba

1969

Ring of Bright Water
5.6/21
Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set ou...
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Ring of Bright Water

1956

A Town Like Alice
6.3/32
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no...
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A Town Like Alice

1974

The Gathering Storm
7/3
Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
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The Gathering Storm

1959

The Wreck of the Mary Deare
6.2/37
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a resu...
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1952

Father's Doing Fine
6.3/3
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The...
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Father's Doing Fine

1957

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
6.2/3
Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1961

Two Living, One Dead
7/1
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one o...
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Two Living, One Dead

1996

Rosamunde Pilcher: September
7.8/2
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all the...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: September

1979

Julius Caesar
8.5/2
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
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Julius Caesar

1969

An Elephant Called Slowly
6/1
Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orpha...
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An Elephant Called Slowly

1976

Beauty and the Beast
6/3
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
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Beauty and the Beast

1970

Waterloo
7.1/201
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the...
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Waterloo

1998

The Scold's Bridle
7/5
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.
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The Scold's Bridle

1965

A Passage to India
0/0
The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, an...
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A Passage to India


Echoes of Camusfearna
0/0
This fascinating and haunting wildlife program is narrated by Virginia McKenna and centers on the West of Scotland not far from the Isle of Mull, the...
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Echoes of Camusfearna

2010

Love/Loss
0/0
A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apart, is there still love between them? How have the...
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Love/Loss

1977

Holocaust 2000
5.9/51
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
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Holocaust 2000

1969

The Lions Are Free
0/0
The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their fr...
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The Lions Are Free

1968

The Admirable Crichton
6/1
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks...
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The Admirable Crichton

1984

Puccini
1/1
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their...
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Puccini

2001

The Whistle-Blower
8/4
A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the Na...
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The Whistle-Blower

2016

Golden Years
6.3/37
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and M...
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Golden Years

1994

Staggered
5.3/12
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil enco...
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Staggered

1971

The Lion at World's End
8/3
The astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of Harrods, then the cellar of an antique shop in London and, ul...
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The Lion at World's End

2016

Ethel & Ernest
7.4/114
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and t...
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Ethel & Ernest

1958

Storm Over Jamaica
6/1
A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.
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Storm Over Jamaica

1998

Sliding Doors
6.6/1328
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apa...
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Sliding Doors

2013

Leona Calderon
0/0
Leona Calderon is a retiring altruistic music lover earning her living cleaning establishments and private homes. Having a fun loving nature she is fa...
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Leona Calderon

1976

Peter Pan
6/1
Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark H...
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Peter Pan

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

2013

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
8.333/3
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's fra...
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Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

2019

Widow's Walk
4.167/6
Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone els...
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Widow's Walk

1983

The Case of the Frightened Lady
0/0
A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.
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The Case of the Frightened Lady

1977

The Disappearance
5.6/19
The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with he...
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The Disappearance

2020

Wings
0/0
A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War II.
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Wings

1992

Duel of Hearts
7/1
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets...
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Duel of Hearts

1990

Have a Nice Night
6.5/8
Movie star Barbara Jenkins arrives in Cannes to host an auction of her costumes, under protection of Tom Lepski. She is under surveillance of a politi...
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