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Helen Haye is a Actor British born on 27 august 1874 at Assam (Inde)

Helen Haye

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Birth name Helen Hay
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 27 august 1874 at Assam (Inde)
Death 1 september 1957 (at 83 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Helen Haye (28 August 1874 – 1 September 1957) was a British stage and film actress.

Born Helen Hay, she began acting on the stage in 1898 and debuted in London in 1911 as Gertrude in Hamlet. Her film career began in 1917. She often worked with director Alexander Korda. She made her final film appearance in Laurence Olivier's Richard III (1955), as the Duchess of York.

Biography

Au cinéma, Helen Haye apparaît de 1917 à 1958. Fait particulier, elle participe (comme Edmund Gwenn) à la version muette de The Skin Game (1921), puis à son remake parlant, réalisé en 1931 - sous le même titre - par Alfred Hitchcock (qu'elle retrouvera en 1939 dans Les 39 Marches).

Au théâtre, où elle est très active de 1906 à 1955, elle joue surtout en Angleterre, à Londres essentiellement (notamment dans des pièces de théâtre de William Shakespeare) mais aussi, à trois reprises, à Broadway (New York).

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Helen Haye (47 films)

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Actress

The Gypsy and the Gentleman, 1h47
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Melina Mercouri, Keith Michell, Patrick McGoohan, June Laverick, Flora Robson, Lyndon Brook
Roles Lady Caroline Ayrton
Rating55% 2.762832.762832.762832.762832.76283
Angleterre, début du XIX siècle. Sir Paul Deverill, aristocrate débauché et ruiné par le jeu, est sur le point d'épouser sans amour Vanessa, une jeune femme de son rang, issue d'une famille encore prospère. Or, il fait la connaissance de Belle, une bohémienne qu'il rencontre dans une foire et vers laquelle il se sent irrémédiablement attiré. Belle, dupée par les apparences et par le faste de sa demeure, le croit immensément riche. Elle l'épouse avec l'arrière-pensée de s'emparer de sa fortune. Elle agit avec la complicité de son amant, Jess. Belle ne tarde pourtant pas à apprendre, par la bouche de Sarah, la sœur de Paul Deverill, la véritable situation financière de son époux. Profitant du décès de la tante de Sarah, et agissant de concert avec un notaire malhonnête, elle falsifie le contenu du testament qui devrait permettre à Sarah d'hériter avant sa majorité. Sarah, à la faveur d'un incident, découvre toutefois l'original du testament. C'est alors qu'elle est d'abord kidnappée, puis, plus tard, enlevée et séquestrée dans une clinique psychiatrique.
Action of the Tiger, 1h33
Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, Gustavo Rojo, José Nieto
Roles Countess Valona
Rating51% 2.567462.567462.567462.567462.56746
Un aventurier vient en aide à des prisonniers politiques en Albanie.
Richard III, 2h41
Directed by Laurence Olivier
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom, Cedric Hardwicke, John Gielgud, Laurence Naismith
Roles the Duchess of York, the mother of the King. Haye worked regularly for Alexander Korda. Her character's role is severely cut in the film from the play.
Rating73% 3.6962353.6962353.6962353.6962353.696235
King Edward IV of England (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) has been placed on the throne with the help of his brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Sir Laurence Olivier). After Edward's coronation in the Great Hall with his brothers George and Richard watching, he leaves with his son. Richard contemplates the throne, before advancing towards the audience and then addressing them, delivering a speech that outlines his physical deformities, including a hunched back and a withered arm. He goes on to describe his jealousy over his brother's rise to power in contrast to his lowly position.
Lilacs in the Spring, 1h34
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, David Farrar, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Graves, Helen Haye
Roles Lady Drayton
Rating51% 2.5781852.5781852.5781852.5781852.578185
An actress is knocked unconscious during the Blitz and imagines herself as various historical figures including Nell Gwynn and Queen Victoria.
Hobson's Choice, 1h47
Directed by David Lean
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Prunella Scales, Daphne Anderson, Richard Wattis
Roles Mrs. Hepworth
Rating76% 3.8463653.8463653.8463653.8463653.846365
Willie Mossop (John Mills) is a gifted but unappreciated bootmaker employed by the tyrannical Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) in his moderately upmarket shop in 1880s Salford in Lancashire. Hard-drinking widower Hobson has three daughters. Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) and her younger sisters Alice (Daphne Anderson) and Vicky (Prunella Scales) have worked in their father's establishment without wages and are eager to be married and free of the shop. Alice has been seeing Albert Prosser (Richard Wattis), a young up-and-coming solicitor, while Vicky prefers Freddy Beenstock (Derek Blomfield), the son of a respectable corn merchant. Hobson does not object to losing Alice and Vicky, but Maggie is far too useful to part with. To his friends, he mocks the plain, severe Maggie as a spinster "a bit on the ripe side" at 30 years of age.
Front Page Story
Directed by Gordon Parry
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan, Eva Bartok, Derek Farr, Michael Goodliffe, Martin Miller
Roles Susan's Mother
Rating66% 3.330333.330333.330333.330333.33033
Grant is a hard working Fleet Street newspaper editor who refuses to take a long planned holiday with his wife Susan. Instead, to her annoyance, he stays in his office to deal with a number of urgent stories. These include four children evicted from their home when their mother dies, a woman charged with euthanasia, and a drunken ex-reporter tracking down an atomic scientist. They all culminate in the story of a plane crash, in which Grant is shocked to find his wife listed as one of the passengers. He discovers Susan was leaving him and going away with one of his colleagues.
Third Time Lucky, 1h30
Directed by Gordon Parry
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh, Charles Goldner, Yvonne Owen, Sebastian Cabot, Harcourt Williams
Roles Old Lady
Rating56% 2.817152.817152.817152.817152.81715
A compulsive gambler falls in love with a woman, and believes she is bringing him luck. Unfortunately one of his gambling rivals has also caught her eye.
Anna Karenina, 2h19
Directed by Guy Hamilton, Julien Duvivier, Russell Lloyd
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide
Actors Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt, Mary Kerridge
Roles Countess Vronsky
Rating65% 3.2937853.2937853.2937853.2937853.293785
Anna Karenina (Vivien Leigh) is married to Alexei Karenin (Ralph Richardson), a cold government official in St Petersburg who is apparently more interested in his career than in satisfying the emotional needs of his wife. Called to Moscow by her brother Stepan Oblonsky (Hugh Dempster), a reprobate who has been unfaithful to his trusting wife Dolly (Mary Kerridge) once too often, Anna meets Countess Vronsky (Helen Haye) on the night train. They discuss their sons, with the Countess showing Anna a picture of her son Count Vronsky (Kieron Moore), a cavalry officer.
Mine Own Executioner, 1h48
Directed by Anthony Kimmins
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore, Walter Fitzgerald
Roles Lady Maresfield
Rating66% 3.34283.34283.34283.34283.3428
Felix Milne (Meredith) is an overworked psychologist with psychological problems of his own. Molly Lucian has a husband traumatized from having been in a Japanese POW camp, and she needs Milne's help in treating her husband, Adam. Adam is about to become severely schizophrenic. To make matters worse, Felix finds his own home life deteriorating.
Mrs. Fitzherbert, 1h39
Directed by Montgomery Tully
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Joyce Howard, Leslie Banks, Margaretta Scott, Mary Clare, Wanda Rotha, Frederick Valk
Roles Lady Sefton
Rating57% 2.850012.850012.850012.850012.85001
The Prince Regent falls in love with Mrs. Fitzherbert, a Catholic widow, but because of their great social divide, she laughs at his advances. The distraught prince responds with a suicide attempt. Mrs. Fitzherbert feels compassion, and the couple are secretly married. Unfortunately, their secret soon becomes the stuff of gossip and rumour, and when this threatens the relationship between the prince and the king, the prince denies his marriage. The jilted Mrs. Fitzherbert then runs away, and the prince marries the woman to whom he was originally betrothed.
Madonna of the Seven Moons, 1h50
Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville, John Stuart, Nancy Price
Roles Mother Superior
Rating61% 3.0985253.0985253.0985253.0985253.098525
A buried trauma from the past holds the key to the disappearance of a respectable married woman. Maddalena has a dual personality which leads her to forsake her husband and daughter, to flee to the house of the Seven Moons in Florence as the mistress of a jewel thief.
A Place of One's Own, 1h32
Directed by Bernard Knowles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price, Dulcie Gray, Helen Haye
Roles Florence Manning-Tutthorn
Rating61% 3.0942953.0942953.0942953.0942953.094295
(The plot summary is copied verbatim from the website "Britmovie".) Mr and Mrs Smedhurst (James Mason and Barbara Mullen) are a business couple wanting to retire. They find a mansion in the country, Bellingham House, at a bargain price. They move in along with their servants and soon learn the house is supposedly haunted – but Mr Smedhurst in particular is sceptical of the paranormal myth. They invite a young companion, Annette (Margaret Lockwood), to join them but within days of arriving she steadily begins hearing strange voices. The new owners learn that a young invalid girl was believed to have been murdered 40 years previously in the house – and their preconceptions of the supernatural are challenged.