Dandy Nichols
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Dandy Nichols (21 May 1907 – 6 February 1986) was an English actress most noted for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part.
She appeared in numerous films, which included Carry On Doctor, Ladies Who Do, The Holly and the Ivy, The Vikings, the Beatles' film Help!, Georgy Girl, Doctor in Clover, The Birthday Party, The Bed Sitting Room, O Lucky Man!, Confessions of a Window Cleaner and Britannia Hospital amongst others.
After finding fame in Till Death Do Us Part, Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite Alastair Sim in William Trevor's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances in Flint, The Tea Ladies and Bergerac. Onstage, she appeared in Ben Travers's comedy Plunder, as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud in David Storey's Home, in both London and on Broadway.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.292 |
| Birthday | 1907-05-21 |
| Place of Birth | Fulham, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1967
Carry On Doctor
6.5/66
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his...
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Carry On Doctor
1956
Yield to the Night
6.9/34
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
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Yield to the Night
1948
The Fallen Idol
7.156/163
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...
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The Fallen Idol
1974
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
4.833/24
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Youn...
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1969
Till Death Us Do Part
7.2/11
The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London...
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Till Death Us Do Part
1949
The History of Mr. Polly
7.8/6
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is i...
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The History of Mr. Polly
1972
The Alf Garnett Saga
4.5/4
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home'...
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The Alf Garnett Saga
1962
Don't Talk to Strange Men
6.4/8
An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker.
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Don't Talk to Strange Men
1949
Now Barabbas
6.5/2
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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Now Barabbas
1948
Here Come the Huggetts
6.4/5
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix'...
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Here Come the Huggetts
1952
The Happy Family
7.2/4
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the ped...
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The Happy Family
1972
Home
7.8/6
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
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Home
1955
The Deep Blue Sea
5.2/10
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle....
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The Deep Blue Sea
1963
Ladies Who Do
7.045/11
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save thei...
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Ladies Who Do
1968
The Birthday Party
6.3/15
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask...
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The Birthday Party
1956
Not So Dusty
6.3/3
Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one...
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Not So Dusty
1973
O Lucky Man!
6.8/94
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in mod...
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O Lucky Man!
1958
The Strange World of Planet X
4.125/16
Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications b...
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The Strange World of Planet X
1972
The General's Day
0/0
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
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The General's Day
1969
The Bed Sitting Room
5.833/42
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the no...
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The Bed Sitting Room
1970
First Love
5.2/6
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
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First Love
1953
Street Corner
5.6/10
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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Street Corner
1964
The Leather Boys
6.6/18
An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband's relationship with h...
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The Leather Boys
1955
Where There's a Will
6.4/6
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face th...
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Where There's a Will
1954
Time Is My Enemy
5.5/4
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
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Time Is My Enemy
1952
The Holly and the Ivy
6.739/23
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
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The Holly and the Ivy
1953
Meet Mr. Lucifer
5/14
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
1952
Emergency Call
6.5/6
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare,...
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Emergency Call
1956
Lost
7/4
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London...
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Lost
1966
Georgy Girl
6.3/47
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while attempting to please her glamorously stuck...
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Georgy Girl
1979
Design for Living
0/1
Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo. Set in Paris, Otto and Leo both fall in love wit...
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Design for Living
1962
Crooks Anonymous
6.3/21
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a depart...
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Crooks Anonymous
1950
Your Witness
5.714/7
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is...
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Your Witness
1967
How I Won the War
5.588/34
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
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How I Won the War
1965
Help!
6.8/301
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off)....
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Help!
1966
The Stable Door
0/0
This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as...
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The Stable Door
1958
The Vikings
7.036/303
Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
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The Vikings
1957
Doctor at Large
5.6/22
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bog...
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Doctor at Large
1953
Women of Twilight
5.3/6
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers tha...
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Women of Twilight
1953
The Wedding of Lilli Marlene
6/1
The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.
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The Wedding of Lilli Marlene
1948
Scott of the Antarctic
7.1/32
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only t...
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Scott of the Antarctic
1956
Tiger in the Smoke
7.1/5
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he ta...
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Tiger in the Smoke
1950
Dance Hall
4.6/5
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its st...
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Dance Hall
1954
Mad About Men
6.1/16
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
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Mad About Men
1954
The Crowded Day
5.4/7
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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The Crowded Day
1965
Rotten to the Core
6.5/9
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl...
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Rotten to the Core
1948
Woman Hater
7/2
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
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Woman Hater
1949
Don't Ever Leave Me
7.5/2
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor...
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Don't Ever Leave Me
1965
The Early Bird
7.6/29
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best...
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The Early Bird
1975
Three for All
1/1
A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain
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Three for All
1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
5.833/12
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1964
Act of Murder
0/0
A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
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Act of Murder
1982
Britannia Hospital
6.393/60
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...
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Britannia Hospital
1980
Kate: The Good Neighbour
0/0
Kate lives fiercely alone, cut off the from present and haunted by the memories of grief from her past.
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Kate: The Good Neighbour
1973
The Death of Glory
0/0
Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when he...
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The Death of Glory
1966
Doctor in Clover
6/11
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospi...
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Doctor in Clover
1954
Adventure in the Hopfields
7.5/2
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
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Adventure in the Hopfields
1956
The Feminine Touch
6/4
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospit...
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The Feminine Touch
1952
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
4.158/19
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to...
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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
1961
The Trouble with Our Ivy
0/0
A feud over rose-growing escalates to manic proportions when one neighbor acquires a fast-growing creeper.
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The Trouble with Our Ivy
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
1976
In the Labyrinth
0/0
After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward.
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In the Labyrinth
1955
A Time to Kill
6.5/2
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper jour...
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A Time to Kill
1948
The Winslow Boy
6.9/25
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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