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Irene Worth is a Actor American born on 23 june 1916 at Omaha (USA)

Irene Worth

Irene Worth
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Birth name Harriet Elizabeth Abrams
Nationality USA
Birth 23 june 1916 at Omaha (USA)
Death 10 march 2002 (at 85 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Emmy Award, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Irene Worth, CBE (June 23, 1916 – March 9, 2002) was an American stage and screen actress who became one of the leading stars of the English and American theatre. (She pronounced her given name with three syllables: "I-REE-nee".)

Biography

She died following a second stroke in a New York City hospital, aged 85. At her memorial service, held at The Public Theater in New York City, speakers included Edward Albee, Christopher Walken, Mercedes Ruehl, Meryl Streep and Alan Rickman.
There was also music performed by flutist Paula Robison and pianist Horacio Gutiérrez.

Best films

The Stratford Adventure (1954)
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Filmography of Irene Worth (19 films)

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Actress

Just the Ticket, 1h55
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Andy García, Andie MacDowell, Richard Bradford, Alice Drummond, Laura Harris, Fred Asparagus
Roles Mrs. Haywood
Rating56% 2.8020052.8020052.8020052.8020052.802005
Gary Starke (Garcia) is a New York ticket scalper who, in the old traditional style of scalping "works the street", known as "the walk", as opposed to the plethora of modern-day ticket brokers who ply the Internet for sales. Yet when his girlfriend Linda (MacDowell) gets enough of his lifestyle and leaves him, he decides to mend his ways and make one last big score, something that will help him win Linda back and straighten out his life. He finds his chance in an epiphanic moment; an opportunity to scalp a large stack of tickets to see the hottest show in town --- the Pope at Yankee Stadium.
Onegin
Onegin (1999)
, 1h46
Directed by Martha Fiennes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Liv Tyler, Irene Worth, Toby Stephens, Ralph Fiennes, Lena Headey, Martin Donovan
Roles Princess Alina
Rating67% 3.3958253.3958253.3958253.3958253.395825
In early 19th century Russia, Onegin, a bored St Petersburg socialite, inherits his uncle's estate in the country. There he meets a neighbouring landowner and poet, and a widowed mother and her two daughters. The poet is engaged to the elder daughter. Her sister writes Onegin a passionate love letter but is cruelly spurned by him. His flirtatious attentions towards the poet's fiancée leads to a duel, and the death of the poet. Onegin disappears. On his return, six years later, he encounters the woman he spurned, who is now married to a prince. Onegin begs her forgiveness for his past behaviour. The film compresses the events of the novel somewhat; for example, the Naming Day celebrations take place on the same day as Onegin's speech to Tatyana. As a result, Onegin's reasons for dancing with Olga and insulting Lensky are left somewhat confusing. Much like the 1988 film version, Onegin gives the impression that, during the duel sequence, Onegin shoots to kill.
Lost in Yonkers, 1h54
Directed by Martha Coolidge
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth, Mike Damus, David Strathairn, Chambers Stevens
Roles Grandma Kurnitz
Rating67% 3.396493.396493.396493.396493.39649
Leur pere ayant trouve un poste de voyageur de commerce, deux garcons sont obliges de vivre avec leur grand-mere acariatre et vieux jeu, qui a deja par ses talents gache la vie de ses propres enfants...
Forbidden
Forbidden (1985)
, 1h54
Directed by Anthony Page
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Peter Vaughan
Roles Ruth Friedländer
Rating64% 3.2378853.2378853.2378853.2378853.237885
German countess Nina von Hadler (Bisset) is a student in veterinary medicine in Berlin, Germany on the eve of World War II. Ostracized by her family due to her liberal views and opposition to the Nazi government, she lives alone, independent and strong-willed. The film opens with Nina studying at the library the day Germany invades Poland. She is angered and tells a classmate she knows the reasons Hitler gave for the invasion (to allegedly rescue ethnic Germans) are a pack of lies.
Deathtrap
Deathtrap (1982)
, 1h56
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Henry Jones, Irene Worth, Joe Silver
Roles Helga ten Dorp
Rating69% 3.4965453.4965453.4965453.4965453.496545
Famed playwright Sidney Bruhl (Caine) debuts the latest in a series of Broadway flops and returns to his opulent Long Island home and his wife, Myra (Cannon). Although their financial situation is not dire, Sidney is hungry for a hit. He has received a manuscript of a play called Deathtrap written by one of his students, Clifford Anderson, that he considers near perfection. Clifford recently attended one of Sidney's writing workshops and now asks for input on his play. Sidney suggests that he murder Clifford and producing the play as his own. He invites Clifford to their secluded home, decorated with weapons from Sidney's plays, to discuss it.
Eyewitness
Eyewitness (1981)
, 1h43
Directed by Peter Yates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods, Morgan Freeman, Steven Hill
Roles Mrs. Sokolow
Rating58% 2.9479652.9479652.9479652.9479652.947965
New York janitor Daryll Deever (Hurt) is an avid fan of television news reporter Tony Sokolow (Weaver). A wealthy man suspected of criminal connections is murdered in Daryll's office building and Tony suspects Deever knows something about it.
Rich Kids
Rich Kids (1979)
, 1h41
Directed by Robert Malcolm Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Trini Alvarado, Kathryn Walker, John Lithgow, David Selby, Terry Kiser, Roberta Maxwell
Roles Madeline's Mother
Rating64% 3.2393753.2393753.2393753.2393753.239375
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
Nicholas and Alexandra, 3h9
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films about royalty
Actors Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson, Lynne Frederick, Candace Glendenning
Roles The Queen Mother Marie Fedorovna
Rating71% 3.596743.596743.596743.596743.59674
The story begins with the birth of Tsarevich Alexei on 12 August 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) is warned by the Prime Minister Count Witte (Laurence Olivier) and his uncle Grand Duke Nicholas (Harry Andrews) that the war is futile and costing too many lives. They tell him the Russian people want representative government, health care, voting and workers' rights, but Nicholas wants to maintain the autocracy. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine) and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed.
To Die in Madrid, 1h25
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about anarchism, Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about anarchism, Political films
Actors John Gielgud, Irene Worth, Suzanne Flon, Germaine Montero, Pierre Vaneck, Jean Vilar
Roles Co-Narrator (English version) (voice)
Rating79% 3.960573.960573.960573.960573.96057
1936. Une guerre civile éclate en Espagne. Durant quatre années, Républicains et Nationalistes s'affrontent jusqu'à la dictature franquiste.
Seven Seas to Calais, 1h42
Directed by Primo Zeglio, Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Rod Taylor, Keith Michell, Edy Vessel, Terence Hill, Anthony Dawson, Irene Worth
Roles Queen Elizabeth I
Rating56% 2.8062652.8062652.8062652.8062652.806265
Sir Francis Drake (Rod Taylor) is Queen Elizabeth I of England's (Irene Worth), leading commanders in the battles with Spain over the gold of the New World. He is a pirate who has no problems about raiding Spanish gold arsenals. He is a military commander who plans and executes naval battles with the Spanish Armada. He is a diplomat who knows how to maneuver in courtly circles.
The Scapegoat, 1h31
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey, Bette Davis, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Geoffrey Keen
Roles Francoise
Rating67% 3.397473.397473.397473.397473.39747
John Barratt (Alec Guinness), a lonely, discontented teacher of French at a British university, vacations in France. There, by chance, he meets his double, French nobleman Jacques De Gué (Guinness again). They become acquainted. Barratt becomes drunk and accepts De Gué's invitation to share his hotel room. When he wakes up the next morning, Barratt finds himself alone in the room, with his clothes and passport missing. De Gué's chauffeur Gaston (Geoffrey Keen) shows up to take his master home, and Barratt is unable to convince him that he is not the nobleman. Gaston calls Dr. Aloin (Noel Howlett), who diagnoses the Englishman as suffering from schizophrenia.
Orders to Kill, 1h52
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Irene Worth, Philip Bond, Leslie French
Roles Léonie
Rating70% 3.537933.537933.537933.537933.53793
A young American bomber pilot Gene Summers (Paul Massie) is selected by Maj. Kimball (John Crawford) to go on a mission to Nazi-occupied Paris and there kill a man believed to be a double agent working in the French Resistance. He is picked because of his fluency in French and military experience. Summers receives rigorous training by his handler Maj. MacMahon (Eddie Albert) and a British Naval Commander (James Robertson Justice). Summers is enthusiastic, and remembers all of the information he needs by setting his instructions to melodies of childhood songs.