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Clarissa Kaye is a Actor Australienne

Clarissa Kaye

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Birth name Clarissa Knipe
Nationality Australie
Death 21 july 1994

Clarissa Kaye (ca. 1931 – 21 July 1994) was an Australian stage, film and television actress. She was the second wife (1971–84) of the British actor James Mason. After her marriage, she was often known as Clarissa Kaye-Mason.

Biography

Clarissa Kaye was born as Clarissa Knipe in Sydney around 1931. In 1958 she became one of a class of informal students of Hayes Gordon, who taught "The Method" (the group included Reg Livermore and Jon Ewing). Their first public performances were a series of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams. The group later became the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney's first theatre in the round and its longest established professional theatre company.

Her first film role was as Meg in Age of Consent (1969), in which she appeared in scenes with James Mason, including a sex scene that was censored from Columbia Pictures' UK and US releases.

Mason, who was over 20 years Kaye's senior, sent her a long letter telling her of his admiration; this was followed by a card the following Valentine's Day, and a long correspondence ensued.

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Filmography of Clarissa Kaye (9 films)

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Actress

The Good Wife
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Rachel Ward, Steven Vidler, Lisa Hensley, Clarissa Kaye
Roles Mrs. Jackson
Rating56% 2.84962.84962.84962.84962.8496
The film tells the story of a man and wife whose marriage is complicated by a relationship between the man's brother and his wife, and his wife's attraction to the manager of the local bar. The setting is pre-war Australia.
Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries), 3h4
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Julie Cobb
Roles Majorie Glick
Rating69% 3.4843453.4843453.4843453.4843453.484345
The prologue shows a church in Guatemala in which a man and a boy, Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, are filling small bottles with holy water. When one of the bottles begins to emit an eerie supernatural glow, Mears tells Petrie "They've found us again." Knowing an evil presence is there, they decide to fight it.
Frankenstein: The True Story, 3h5
Directed by Jack Smight
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Leonard Whiting, Jane Seymour, David McCallum, James Mason, Michael Sarrazin, Nicola Pagett
Roles Lady Fanschawe
Rating71% 3.5970853.5970853.5970853.5970853.597085
Part one Victor Frankenstein is a man training as a doctor, engaged to Elizabeth Fanshawe. After Victor's younger brother, William, drowns, Victor renounces his belief in God and declares that he would join forces with the Devil if he could learn how to restore his brother to life.
The MacKintosh Man, 1h38
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Nigel Patrick
Roles Guest at Reception (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.148153.148153.148153.148153.14815
Joseph Rearden, a British Intelligence agent, arrives in London and makes a rendezvous with MacKintosh, the head of his organisation, in a discreet office located just off Trafalgar Square. MacKintosh and his deputy, Mrs Smith, inform him of a simple way to steal diamonds which are transported via the post service to avoid attention. This he does, apparently getting successfully away after punching a postman, and making off with the diamond-filled parcel. However, that evening, in his hotel room he is paid a visit by two Metropolitan Police detectives who have received an anonymous phone call advising them about the robbery. They are unconvinced by Rearden's pretence to be an innocent Australian who had recently arrived in London.
Adam's Woman, 1h56
Directed by Philip Leacock
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Beau Bridges, Jane Merrow, John Mills, James Booth, Andrew Keir, Tracy Reed
Roles Matron (as Clarissa Kaye)
Rating63% 3.151623.151623.151623.151623.15162
In the 1840s, an American sailor ashore in Liverpool is wrongly convicted and sent to the penal colony in Sydney, Australia where he enters into a battle of wills with the Governor. The Governor offers him a pardon if he helps pioneer new land for the growing colony. He marries Irish woman Bess and they establish a farm despite the harassment of bushrangers.
Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly (1970)
, 1h39
Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Mick Jagger, Mark McManus, Serge Lazareff, Clarissa Kaye, Diane Craig, Bill Hunter
Roles Mrs. Kelly (as Clarissa Kaye)
Rating50% 2.505362.505362.505362.505362.50536
Ned Kelly is forced by police persecution to become a bushranger. He robs several banks and is eventually captured after the Siege of Glenrowan. He is hanged in Melbourne.
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go, 1h29
Directed by Burgess Meredith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors James Mason, Jack MacGowran, Irene Tsu, Jeff Bridges, Peter Lind Hayes, Clarissa Kaye
Roles Zelda
Rating35% 1.7781251.7781251.7781251.7781251.778125
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan (Jeff Bridges) becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go (James Mason), an oriental organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.
Age of Consent, 1h43
Directed by Michael Powell
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Peinture, Transport films
Actors James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Harold Douglas Hopkins, Frank Thring, Peggy Cass
Roles Brisbane Bird · Meg (as Clarissa Kaye)
Rating62% 3.1463453.1463453.1463453.1463453.146345
Bradley Morahan (James Mason) is an Australian artist who feels he has become jaded by success and life in New York City. He decides that he needs to regain the edge he had as a young artist and returns to Australia.