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Freda Dowie is a Actor British born on 22 july 1928 at Carlisle (United-kingdom)
Freda Dowie (born 1928 in Carlisle, Cumberland) is an English actress.
Her television credits include: Dixon of Dock Green, Doomwatch, Edna, the Inebriate Woman, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Carnforth Practice, I, Claudius, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, Lillie, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Our Friends in the North, Lovejoy and Heartbeat.
Her film career includes roles in Subterfuge (1968), The Omen (1976), The Monk (1990), Butterfly Kiss (1995), Jude (1996), and Fragile (2005). However she is perhaps best known for co-starring as the Mother in the 1988 film Distant Voices, Still Lives, for which she was nominated for a European Film Award.
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Freda Dowie
Her television credits include: Dixon of Dock Green, Doomwatch, Edna, the Inebriate Woman, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Carnforth Practice, I, Claudius, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, Lillie, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Our Friends in the North, Lovejoy and Heartbeat.
Her film career includes roles in Subterfuge (1968), The Omen (1976), The Monk (1990), Butterfly Kiss (1995), Jude (1996), and Fragile (2005). However she is perhaps best known for co-starring as the Mother in the 1988 film Distant Voices, Still Lives, for which she was nominated for a European Film Award.
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The Monk (1990)
Directed by Francisco Lara Polop
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Paul McGann, Sophie Ward, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Isla Blair, Freda Dowie, Manuel de Blas
Rating49%
The film begins in 18th century Spain, with Father Lorenzo (Paul McGann) and Mother Agueda (Isla Blair) being tried before the Spanish Inquisition, and Lorenzo agreeing to confess and tell his story in order to escape torture. The setting then turns to the past, where Lorenzo is a charismatic and admired priest. He listens to a confession by a young nun named Sister Ines (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon), who has become pregnant, and reports her to the covenant’s leader, Mother Agueda, despite the girl’s pleas for help.
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
, 1h25Directed by Terence Davies
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about families
Actors Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Lorraine Ashbourne, Jean Boht, Michael Starke, Pauline Quirke
Rating73%
Le deuxième film de la série autobiographique de Terence Davies (avec "Trilogy" et "The Long Day Closes") est une vision impressionniste d'une famille ouvrière dans le Liverpool des années 1940 et 1950, basée sur la propre famille du réalisateur. A travers une série de tableaux exquis, Davies crée un album photo profondément émouvant d'une famille troublée aux prises avec la complexité de l'amour.
The Omen (1976)
, 1h51Directed by Richard Donner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Leo McKern
Roles Nun
Rating74%
In Rome, American diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) is in a hospital where his wife Katherine (Lee Remick) gives birth to a boy, whom he is told dies moments after being born. Robert is convinced by the hospital chaplain, Father Spiletto (Martin Benson), to secretly adopt an orphan whose mother died at the same time. Robert agrees, but does not reveal to his wife that the child is not theirs. They name the child Damien (Harvey Spencer Stephens).