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Delphi Lawrence is a Actor born on 23 march 1932 at Hertfordshire (United-kingdom)
Delphi Lawrence (23 March 1932 – 11 April 2002) was an English actress.
She was educated at Halidon House School in Slough, Berkshire whilst living in Colnbrook. Of Hungarian ancestry, Lawrence trained as a concert pianist before becoming an actress. She made her first film in 1952 and over the next decade established a following in British films. She graduated to lead roles, but almost exclusively in "B" films.
In 1966 she moved to the United States where she began to appear in films and television, and settled there. By the end of the 1960s her roles began to decrease in frequency and importance, and in 1973 she retired.
She made a brief return in 1975, in the Broadway production of The Constant Wife playing the sister of Ingrid Bergman's character.
In 1990 she appeared as Vera Charles in the national tour of Mame starring Juliet Prowse.
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Birth name Delphi Enever
Birth 23 march 1932 at Hertfordshire (United-kingdom)
Death 11 april 2002 (at 70 years) at Northport (USA)
Birth 23 march 1932 at Hertfordshire (United-kingdom)
Death 11 april 2002 (at 70 years) at Northport (USA)
She was educated at Halidon House School in Slough, Berkshire whilst living in Colnbrook. Of Hungarian ancestry, Lawrence trained as a concert pianist before becoming an actress. She made her first film in 1952 and over the next decade established a following in British films. She graduated to lead roles, but almost exclusively in "B" films.
In 1966 she moved to the United States where she began to appear in films and television, and settled there. By the end of the 1960s her roles began to decrease in frequency and importance, and in 1973 she retired.
She made a brief return in 1975, in the Broadway production of The Constant Wife playing the sister of Ingrid Bergman's character.
In 1990 she appeared as Vera Charles in the national tour of Mame starring Juliet Prowse.
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The Last Challenge (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Angie Dickinson, Chad Everett, Gary Merrill, Jack Elam, Delphi Lawrence
Roles Marie Webster
Rating60%
Depuis qu'il a décidé de passer du côté de la loi, le shérif Dan Blaine fait tout pour oublier son passé de pistolero. Pourtant, sa réputation de fin tireur attire l'attention de jeunes hors-la-loi qui aimeraient se mesurer à lui dans un duel. Cette même ambition pousse Lot McGuire à s'installer dans la ville. Malgré la solide amitié qui s'est construite entre le shérif et le jeune voyou et les multiples tentatives de Lisa, la propriétaire du saloon, pour l'empêcher, le duel a finalement lieu...
The Last Challenge (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Angie Dickinson, Chad Everett, Jack Elam, Robert Horton, Kevin Hagen
Roles Marie Webster
Rating60%
A cocky young man from Tennessee, Lot McGuire (Chad Everett), seeks to back up his notion that he's the fastest gun there is. "If a man is second best, he might as well be dead," says McGuire. He travels to a town with the intention of forcing a duel with Marshal Dan Blaine (Ford), who's renowned for his skill with a gun.
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
, 1h47Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Martita Hunt, Anna Massey, Finlay Currie
Roles 1st Mother
Rating72%
American single mother Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), who recently moved to London from New York, arrives at the Little People's Garden preschool to collect her daughter, Bunny. The child has mysteriously disappeared. An administrator recalls meeting with Ann but claims never to have seen the missing child. Ann and her brother Stephen (Keir Dullea) search the school and find a sinister woman living upstairs, who claims she collects children's nightmares. In desperation, the Lakes call the police and Superintendent Newhouse (Laurence Olivier) arrives on the scene.
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
, 1h34Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Kirk Douglas, Paul Frees, John Merivale, Clive Brook
Rating67%
A writer named Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery.
Farewell Performance (1963)
, 1h13Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Delphi Lawrence, Frederick Jaeger, Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Denise Coffey, Donald Tandy
Rating61%
After a pop singer is murdered, the police have to figure out which of his many enemies is responsible.
Seven Keys (1961)
, 57minutesDirected by Pat Jackson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Jeannie Carson, Delphi Lawrence, Jack Carson, John Carson, John Lee, Anthony Nicholls
Roles Natalie Worth
Rating68%
Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.
Trouble in the Sky (1960)
, 1h28Directed by Charles Frend
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Elizabeth Seal, George Sanders, André Morell
Roles Joyce Mitchell
Rating64%
Captain George Gort (Bernard Lee) is a pilot for British Empire Airways, flying their route London - Rome - Cairo - Ranjibad - Calcutta - Singapore. He has been found to be at fault after crashing his Phoenix 1 jetliner on takeoff from Ranjibad airport, killing his co-pilot. He is accused of rotating too early, increasing drag to such an extent that the aircraft cannot achieve flying speed.
The Greeneyed Elephant (1960)
, 1h16Directed by Peer Guldbrandsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Comedy
Actors Dirch Passer, Naura Hayden, Delphi Lawrence, Ove Sprogøe, Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, Kirsten Passer
Roles Lisa
Rating38%
Beat Girl (1960)
, 1h25Directed by Edmond T. Gréville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors David Farrar, Christopher Lee, Noëlle Adam, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Field
Roles Greta (uncredited!)
Rating59%
Paul Linden (David Farrar), a wealthy and prominent architect, returns home to London bringing his new wife, beautiful 24-year-old Nichole (Noelle Adam), whom he has just married in Paris. Paul is anxious to introduce Nichole to his teenage daughter Jennifer (Gillian Hills), but Jennifer appears less than happy about her father's remarriage and coldly rejects all of Nichole's friendly overtures all evening. After Paul and Nichole go to bed, Jennifer sneaks out to the local beatnik club for an evening of rock music and dancing with her friends, including Dave (Adam Faith), a youth from a working-class background who plays guitar and writes songs; Tony (Peter McEnery) , a general's son whose mother was killed in the Blitz and who has a drinking problem, although beatniks frown on alcohol; and Dodo (Shirley Anne Field), Tony's well-bred girlfriend. Dave and Jennifer are attracted to each other.
Too Many Crooks (1959)
, 1h27Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw, Sid James, Vera Day
Roles Secretary
Rating68%
The members of a gang, especially Sid (Sid James), grow impatient as their incompetent leader, Fingers (George Cole), botches the robbery of a fur store, the latest in a series of disasters. Fingers then comes up with the idea of robbing businessman William Gordon (Terry-Thomas). Gordon bluffs them into believing the police are on their way. Fingers refuses to give up, plotting to kidnap Gordon's daughter. However, he errs yet again and ends up with Gordon's meek wife Lucy (Brenda De Banzie) instead.
, 1h23Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Delphi Lawrence, Francis De Wolff, Ronald Adam
Roles Margo Phillipe
Rating61%
In Paris during 1890, 104-year-old Georges Bonnet (Diffring) is a sculptor who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly murdering women and using their parathyroid glands as an elixir to ward off the signs of age. When Bonnet requires a vital surgery to be undertaken he asks his old colleague Prof. Ludwig Weiss (Arnold Marlé) to perform it. He declines and Bonnet then blackmails Pierre Gerard (Lee) into performing the operation by endangering the life of Janine Dubois (Hazel Court), a young lady in whom both Bonnet and Gerard are romantically interested.
Blind Spot (1958)
, 1h12Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson, John Le Mesurier, George Pastell, Ernest Clark, Michael Caine
Roles Yvonne Dubar
Rating52%
Un militaire américain est momentanément aveugle suite à une blessure de guerre et attend d'être opéré dans un hôpital. Alors qu'il est invité à une soirée, il est déposé à une mauvaise adresse. Dans la maison, il trouve le corps d'un homme mort. Les meurtriers, se rendant compte qu'il est aveugle, le font tomber dans l'escalier. Lorsqu'il se réveille dans le même hôpital, personne ne croit à son histoire.
Son of Robin Hood (1958)
, 1h21Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors David Hedison, June Laverick, David Farrar, Marius Goring, Philip Friend, Delphi Lawrence
Roles Sylvia
Rating46%
The imposter son of Robin Hood gets locked up in the dungeon. His brother later gets locked up in the dungeon in the next cell. He calls out to him 'Robert, Robert' but he does not believe it his real brother saying that he lies in a foreign grave. He takes off a ring and ties it to some string and swings it to the next cell. When Robert sees the ring his brother tells him that it is the ring he gave him when he left for a foreign land that nobody else knows about and so he realizes that it really is his brother Jamie. He tells him that there is a plan to break him out of the dungeon.Then Jamie is taken to torture a forester Des Roches has captured. Jamie delays the torture until a guard interrupts with a blue cloak dropped by Deering Hood when she went to shoot the Hawk carrying a message from the traitor lady in the priory. Des Roches cries seize him but he uses the dagger given him to torture the forester and takes the guards sword. He engages in a sword fight managing to free the imprisoned forester. Together they escape and open the gate to the secret tunnel letting Little John, Deering and some of Robin Hood's allies into the castle of Des Roches. Jamie then goes back to fight Des Roches and kills him. Little John fights with the guards and manages to lower the drawbridge to let the rest of Robin Hoods men in and the castle is secured. Des Roches had won the support of many Lords and their Knights who are gathering for the coronation of the King in Winchester. But now without his leadership they can support the King at his coronation in place of Des Roches. Jamie declares his love for Deering and they kiss as acceptance of marriage. Jamie pardons Sylvia Des Roches' sister as she helped their cause to defeat Des Roches. everyone lives happily ever after.
Just My Luck (1957)
, 1h26Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Margaret Rutherford, Norman Wisdom, Leslie Phillips, Jill Dixon, Delphi Lawrence, Joan Sims
Roles Miss Daviot
Rating61%
Norman Hackett (Norman Wisdom) works in a jewellers workshop and dreams about meeting the shop window dresser over the road from his workshop.
Strangers' Meeting (1957)
, 1h4Directed by Robert Day
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Peter Arne, Delphi Lawrence, Conrad Phillips, Barbara Archer, Victor Maddern, Doris Hare
Roles Margot Sanders
Rating47%
Trapeze artist Harry is wrongly convicted of murder after his partner falls to her death. He escapes from jail and hides out in a country pub, on a mission to uncover the identity of the real killer.