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Amy Veness is a Actor British born on 25 february 1876 at Aldeburgh (United-kingdom)

Amy Veness

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 25 february 1876 at Aldeburgh (United-kingdom)
Death 22 september 1960 (at 84 years)

Amy Veness (26 February 1876 – 22 September 1960) was an English film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in The Huggetts Trilogy.

Biography

Amy Veness entame sa carrière d'actrice au théâtre et dans son pays natal, joue notamment à Londres (ex. : Yellow Sands d'Adelaide et Eden Phillpotts en 1925-1926, avec Cedric Hardwicke et Ralph Richardson). Elle se produit également aux États-Unis, à Broadway (New York), dans quatre pièces au cours des années 1910 (dont Le Canard sauvage et Une maison de poupée d'Henrik Ibsen en 1918, avec Lionel Atwill et Alla Nazimova), avant une cinquième en 1929-1930.

Au cinéma, elle débute dans trois films muets américains, les deux premiers réalisés par Dell Henderson, sortis respectivement en 1917 et 1918. Le troisième est The Brat d'Herbert Blaché, sorti en 1919, où elle retrouve Alla Nazimova, aux côtés de Charles Bryant.

Amy Veness ne revient ensuite au cinéma qu'après le passage au parlant, contribuant à soixante-et-onze films britanniques, sortis de 1931 à 1955, auxquels s'ajoute une coproduction américano-britannique (Capitaine sans peur de Raoul Walsh en 1951, avec Gregory Peck et Virginia Mayo).

Fait particulier, elle apparaît dans trois réalisations de David Lean, Heureux mortels (1944, avec Robert Newton et Celia Johnson), Oliver Twist (1948, avec Alec Guinness et Robert Newton) et Madeleine (1950, avec Ann Todd et Norman Wooland). Mentionnons encore The Beloved Vagabond de Curtis Bernhardt (1936, avec Maurice Chevalier, Betty Stockfeld et Margaret Lockwood) et Ceux de chez nous de Sidney Gilliat et Frank Launder (1943, avec Patricia Roc et Gordon Jackson).

Signalons aussi sa participation à Yellow Sands d'Herbert Brenon (1938, avec Wilfrid Lawson et Robert Newton), adaptation de la pièce pré-citée.

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Filmography of Amy Veness (66 films)

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Actress

Doctor in the House, 1h32
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall, James Robertson Justice
Roles Grandma Cooper (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.295613.295613.295613.295613.29561
The story follows the fortunes of Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde), starting as a new medical student at the fictional St Swithin's Hospital in London. His five years of student life, involving drinking, dating women, and falling foul of the rigid hospital authorities, provide many humorous incidents.
The Magic Box, 1h58
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, Margaret Rutherford, Janette Scott
Roles Grandmother in Wedding Group
Rating69% 3.491393.491393.491393.491393.49139
In 1921, William Friese-Greene, in dire financial straits and separated from his wife, but still working, attends a film conference in London. He is saddened that all the attendees are businessmen interested only in moneymaking. He attempts to speak, but no-one is interested and he sits down. He thinks back to his early pioneering days.
Angels One Five, 1h38
Directed by George More O'Ferrall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, John Gregson, Harold Goodwin, Veronica Hurst
Roles Aunt Tabitha
Rating63% 3.194473.194473.194473.194473.19447
The film begins with a replacement, Pilot Officer T. B. "Septic" Baird (John Gregson), landing his Hawker Hurricane at "Pimpernel" Squadron's airfield. Just as he touches down however, a straggler from an earlier mission taxis across his path. Septic's quick reactions allow him to "leapfrog" the other Hurricane, averting a costly disaster. However, this causes him to crash his replacement plane into the bungalow of Squadron Leader Barry Clinton (Cyril Raymond) at the end of the runway.
Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1h57
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, James Robertson Justice, Moultrie Kelsall
Roles Mrs. McPhee (Hornblower's Housekeeper)
Rating72% 3.645823.645823.645823.645823.64582
In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, British Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower (Gregory Peck) commands the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia on a lengthy secret mission to Central America. He is to provide arms and support to a megalomaniac named Don Julian Alvarado, who is calling himself "El Supremo" or "The Almighty" (Alec Mango), in his rebellion against Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France. As Hornblower observes to First Lieutenant Bush (Robert Beatty), "War breeds strange allies."
The Astonished Heart, 1h25
Directed by Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Margaret Leighton, Joyce Carey, Amy Veness, Ralph Michael
Roles Alice Smith
Rating59% 2.999092.999092.999092.999092.99909
The film follows the growing obsession of a psychiatrist (Coward) for a good-time girl (Leighton) and the resulting tragedy this leads to.
Madeleine
Madeleine (1950)
, 1h54
Directed by David Lean, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Actors Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Barbara Everest, Susan Stranks
Roles Miss Aiken
Rating68% 3.445863.445863.445863.445863.44586
The film dramatizes events leading up to the 1857 trial of an otherwise-respectable young woman, Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd), for the murder of her draper's-assistant lover, Emile L'Angelier (Ivan Desny). The trial produced the uniquely Scottish verdict of "not proven", which left Madeleine a free woman.
Chance of a Lifetime, 1h29
Directed by Bernard Miles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Basil Radford, Kenneth More, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Geoffrey Keen, John Harvey
Roles Lady Davis
Rating67% 3.3802153.3802153.3802153.3802153.380215
In the times of austerity after the Second World War a failing factory's owner hands the factory over to the workers to run it for themselves.
Portrait of Clare, 1h40
Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Margaret Johnston, Richard Todd, Robin Bailey, Ronald Howard, Jeremy Spenser, Molly Urquhart
Roles Lady In The Train
Rating64% 3.219973.219973.219973.219973.21997
As told in flashback to her granddaughter: the three marriages of Clare Hingston. These are: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister.
The Woman with No Name, 1h24
Directed by Ladislao Vajda
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Edward Underdown, Patrick Troughton, Helen Cherry, Leslie Phillips, Richard Burton
Rating64% 3.2233.2233.2233.2233.223
Yvonne Winter is an amnesiac, a victim of the wartime bombing of the London hotel where she's staying. At a country hospital she meets the pilot, Lake Chamerd, who saved her life. They fall in love and plan to marry, but he's killed on active duty. Yvonne's real husband hires detectives to find her, and she's brought home and starts to piece together her past. But not everything she finds there brings her happiness.
The Huggetts Abroad, 1h29
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark, David Tomlinson, Dinah Sheridan
Roles Grandma Huggett
Rating57% 2.8624152.8624152.8624152.8624152.862415
After Joe Huggett loses his job, the family decide to emigrate to South Africa, travelling via a land route that takes them across Africa. On their journey they become entangled with a diamond smuggler.
Vote for Huggett, 1h24
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark, David Tomlinson, Diana Dors
Roles Grandma
Rating61% 3.0509253.0509253.0509253.0509253.050925
After writing a letter to the local newspaper, calling for the construction of a pleasure garden for a new war memorial, Joe Huggett is overwhelmed by the response of the public. However, his call is awkward for a corrupt local counciller who has plans of his own for the space.
Blanche Fury, 1h30
Directed by Roger Vadim, Marc Allégret, Alexandre Astruc, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Romance
Actors Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough, Marc Allégret, Walter Fitzgerald, Maurice Denham
Roles Mrs. Winterbourne
Rating66% 3.3410253.3410253.3410253.3410253.341025
The plot is based on an actual homicide case from Victorian England. Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) is a beautiful and genteel woman, forced into menial domestic service after the death of her parents. After a succession of failed positions, she receives an invitation to become governess for the granddaughter of her rich uncle Simon, whom she has never previously met due to an unspecified dispute between him and her father. On arriving at the impressive country estate she first encounters Philip Thorn (Stewart Granger), whom she mistakes for her cousin Laurence. In fact, he is the illegitimate and only son of the former owner of the estate, Adam Fury. Thorn tells her the legend of the founder of the Fury family, killed in battle, his body defended by the ghost of his pet Barbary ape. The ape of the Furies is said to protect the family and wreak vengeance on anyone who crosses them.
Oliver Twist, 1h56
Directed by David Lean, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Melodrama
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, John Howard Davies, Kay Walsh, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan
Roles Mrs. Bedwin
Rating77% 3.89663.89663.89663.89663.8966
A young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) by the workhouse authorities. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) and matron Mrs. Corney (Mary Clare). At the age of nine, the hungry children draw straws; Oliver loses and has to ask for a second helping of gruel ("Please sir, I want some more").