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Dandy Nichols is a Actor British born on 21 may 1907 at Hammersmith (United-kingdom)
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.
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Birth name Daisy Sander
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 21 may 1907 at Hammersmith (United-kingdom)
Death 6 february 1986 (at 78 years) at Whitechapel (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 21 may 1907 at Hammersmith (United-kingdom)
Death 6 february 1986 (at 78 years) at Whitechapel (United-kingdom)
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.
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Dandy Nichols was married to the newspaper editor Stephen Bagueley Waters in 1942 but the marriage ended in divorce in 1955 due to his adultery. Nichols was an atheist most of her life. Her poor health led to a fall in her flat and she died of pneumonia and heart disease on 6 February 1986 aged 78 at the London Hospital, Whitechapel three days later.Usually with
Filmography of Dandy Nichols (54 films)
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Britannia Hospital (1982)
, 1h56Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Leonard Rossiter, Fulton Mackay, Joan Plowright, John Moffatt, Robin Askwith
Roles Florrie: The Workers
Rating62%
A new wing at Britannia Hospital is to be opened, and the Queen Mother – referred to as HRH – is due to arrive. The administrator of the hospital, Potter (Leonard Rossiter), is confronted with demonstrators protesting against an African dictator who is a VIP patient, striking ancillary workers (opposed to the exotic gastronomic demands of the hospital's private patients) and a less-than-cooperative Professor Millar (Graham Crowden), the head of the new wing. Rather than cancel the royal visit, Potter decides to go out and reason with the protestors. He strikes a deal with the protest leader — the private patients of Britannia Hospital are to be ejected and, in return, the protestors allow a number of ambulances into the hospital. However, unbeknown to the protestors, these ambulances actually contain the Queen Mother and her entourage.
Three for All (1975)
, 1h30Directed by Martin Campbell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Adrienne Posta, Jonathan Adams (acteur britannique), George Baker, Richard Beckinsale, Robert Lindsay, Diana Dors
Roles Henrietta
Rating42%
A British music group and their girlfriends go to Spain to make a record.
, 1h30Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Linda Hayden, Sheila White, Dandy Nichols, Bill Maynard
Roles Mrs. Lea
Rating47%
Like many British sex comedies of the 1970s the narrative involves a male protagonist who gets into compromising situations with a succession of women. The optimistic and inept Timothy Lea is freshly employed by his brother-in-law Sid as a window cleaner. With Sid an impending father to be, he looks to Timmy to fully 'satisfy' his customers, little realising that Timmy's accident prone ways often stretch to his sex life with his clients. Timmy bed hops from unsatisfied housewives to even a lesbian love tryst, all the while with his main eye on successful police woman, Elizabeth Radlett, who will have none of Timmy's sexual advances. He proposes as a result, much to his family's upset, unaware that Timmy's usual run of luck will affect the outcome!
O Lucky Man! (1973)
, 3h3Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Musical
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Graham Crowden
Roles Tea Lady / Neighbour
Rating75%
The film opens with a short fragment outside the plot but clearly related on repeated viewings. Grainy, black-and-white, and silent, a title "Once Upon a Time" leads to Latino labourers picking coffee beans while armed foremen push rudely between them. One worker (McDowell with black hair and moustache) pockets a few beans ("Coffee for the Breakfast Table") but is seen by a foreman. He is next seen before a fat Caucasian magistrate who loses some saliva as he removes his cigar only to say "Guilty." The foreman pulls his machete and lays it across the unfortunate laborer's wrists, bound to a wooden block, revealing that he is to lose his hands for the theft of a few beans. The machete lifts, descends, and we see McDowell draw back in a silent scream. The scene blacks out, the word NOW appears onscreen and expands quickly to fill it.
The Alf Garnett Saga (1972)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Dandy Nichols, Paul Angelis, Adrienne Posta, John Le Mesurier, John Bird, Joan Sims
Roles Else Garnett
Rating51%
With the Garnetts Wapping home up for demolition, Alf and his family are installed in a high-rise council flat. Alf struggles with ‘living in the sky”, using elevators (which frequently break down due to power cuts "caused by the striking miners") and walking long distances to the local pub.
First Love (1970)
, 1h29Directed by Maximilian Schell
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Dominique Sanda, John Moulder-Brown, Maximilian Schell, Valentina Cortese, Marius Goring, Dandy Nichols
Roles Prinzessin Zasekina
Rating64%
For plot details, see First Love the novella by Ivan Turgenev.
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
, 1h30Directed by Richard Lester
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Théâtre, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Political films, Films based on plays, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Harry Secombe, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe
Roles Mrs Ethel Shroake
Rating60%
The film is set in London on the third or fourth anniversary of a nuclear war which lasted two minutes and twenty-eight seconds, including signing the peace treaty. Three (or possibly four) years after the nuclear holocaust, the survivors wander amidst the debris. Penelope is 17 months pregnant and lives with her lover, Alan, and her parents in a tube train on the (still functioning) Circle Line.
Till Death Us Do Part (1969)
, 1h40Directed by Norman Cohen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs, Anthony Booth, Liam Redmond, Bill Maynard
Roles Else Garnett
Rating61%
The film begins in September 1939 shortly before World War II begins. Alf Garnett, a dockyard worker, and his wife Else have been married for only a few weeks, and are already weary of one another. Alf gets called up for military duty but is turned down because he's in a reserved occupation. The film depicts their lives during the London Blitz. Else eventually gets pregnant to Alf and Else's shock, and they have a baby daughter, Rita, in 1942. The war ends in 1945 with a huge street party and Alf, characteristically, gets drunk.
The Birthday Party (1968)
, 2h3Directed by William Friedkin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Dandy Nichols, Sydney Tafler, Moultrie Kelsall, Helen Fraser
Roles Meg Bowles
Rating63%
The protagonist is a lodger in his late 30s named Stanley (Webber), played by Robert Shaw, who is staying at a seaside boarding house; he is visited by two unexpected additional guests, menacing and mysterious strangers, Goldberg (Sydney Tafler) and McCann (Patrick Magee). Their neighbour, Lulu (Helen Fraser) brings her a parcel, a boy's toy drum presented to Stanley as his "birthday present." Goldberg and McCann offer to host Stanley's birthday party after Stanley's landlady, Meg (Boles), played by Dandy Nichols, tells them that it is Stanley's birthday, although Stanley protests that it is really not his birthday. In the course of the party, Goldberg and McCann break Stanley down and ultimately take him away from the house purportedly to get medical attention (from "Monty") in their car. The film ends (as the play ends) after Meg's husband Petey (Moultrie Kelsall), a deckchair attendant, who did not attend the party because he was out playing chess, calls after Stanley, "Stan, don't let them tell you what to do"; at the end, Meg, still somewhat hung over, is unaware that Stanley has been taken away, since Petey has not told her that, and tells him that she was "the belle of the ball.
How I Won the War (1967)
, 1h49Directed by Richard Lester
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller, Comedy, Action
Themes Military humor in film, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Jack MacGowran, Michael Hordern, Lee Montague
Roles 1st Old Lady
Rating55%
L'histoire, durant la seconde guerre mondiale, d'un commandant britannique qui emmènera ses troupes dans une série de mésaventures en Europe et dans le nord de l'Afrique.
Carry On Doctor (1967)
, 1h34Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Frankie Howerd, Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Barbara Windsor
Roles Mrs. Roper
Rating64%
Francis Bigger (Howerd) is a charlatan faith healer, convinced that "mind over matter" is more effective than medical treatment. During a lecture, he stumbles offstage and is admitted to the local hospital. In hospital, he incessantly groans and whines about being "maltreated", demanding better treatment than the other, eccentric patients. These include: bedridden layabout Charlie Roper (James) who shams illnesses to stay in hospital; Ken Biddle (Bresslaw) who makes frequent trips to the ladies' ward to flirt with his love interest, Mavis Winkle (Dilys Laye); and Mr Barron (Hawtrey) who seems to be suffering sympathy pains while his wife awaits the birth of their baby. While being treated, Bigger meets two very different doctors. Clumsy yet charming Dr Kilmore (Dale) is popular with the patients and loved from afar by the beautiful Nurse Clark (Harris) while hospital registrar Dr Tinkle (Kenneth Williams) is universally detested, as is his battleaxe Matron (Jacques), who harbours an unrequited love for him.
Doctor in Clover (1966)
, 1h41Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Fenella Fielding, Arthur Haynes, James Robertson Justice, Terry Scott
Roles Patient with Kidney Stones
Rating57%
The film is based at the (fictitious) St Swithin's Hospital, with Leslie Phillips as Dr Gaston Grimsdyke, an accident-prone doctor and cad, more interested in the nurses than the patients.
Georgy Girl (1966)
, 1h39Directed by Silvio Narizzano
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, Bill Owen, Rachel Kempson
Roles Hospital Nurse
Rating68%
Georgina Parkin (Lynn Redgrave) is a 22-year-old Londoner who has considerable musical talent, is well educated, and has an engaging if shameless manner. On the other hand, she believes herself to be plain, slightly overweight, dresses haphazardly, and is incredibly naïve on the subjects of love and flirtation; she has never had a boyfriend. She has an inventive imagination and loves children.
, 2h6Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, George Sanders
Roles Orphanage Superintendant
Rating57%
In the 18th Century, an orphan, Moll Flanders, grows up to become a servant for the town's mayor, who has two grown sons. Moll is seduced and abandoned by one, then marries the other, a drunken sot who dies, making her a young widow.
Help! (1965)
, 1h32Directed by Richard Lester
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Les Beatles, Chase films
Actors John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron
Roles Neighbour
Rating70%
An eastern cult (a parody of the Thuggee cult) is about to sacrifice a woman to the goddess Kaili. Just as she is about to be killed, the high priestess of the cult, Ahme, notices that she is not wearing the sacrificial ring. Ringo Starr, drummer of the Beatles, has and is wearing it; it was secretly sent to him by the victim in a fan letter. Determined to retrieve the ring and sacrifice the woman, the great Swami Clang, Ahme, and several cult members including Bhuta, leave for London. After several failed attempts to steal the ring, they confront the Beatles in an Indian restaurant. Ringo learns that if he does not return the ring soon, he will become the next sacrifice. Ringo then discovers that the ring is stuck on his finger.