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Mary Clare is a Actor British born on 16 july 1892 at Lambeth (United-kingdom)

Mary Clare

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Birth name Mary Clare Absalom
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 16 july 1892 at Lambeth (United-kingdom)
Death 29 august 1970 (at 78 years)

Mary Clare Absalom (17 July 1892 - 29 August 1970) was a British actress, who performed in films, on the stage and later on television.

Biography

Absalom was born in 1892. She trained at a dramatic school and began her career on the London stage at the age of 18 in 1910. She appeared in the film The Black Spider in 1920, and thereafter divided her time between the stage and the cinema. In September 1936 she played the leading role in the play Laura Garnett, by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, at the Arts Theatre Club, London.

In the theatre, she played the lead role of the victim in Agatha Christie's 1945 play Appointment with Death.

In films, she was mainly a character actress and in later life often portrayed mature ladies who had strength of character or were autocratic. In April 1927, she appeared in Packing Up, a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The short featured Malcolm Keen and was directed by Miles Mander.

In 1938, she was featured opposite Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell in The Citadel. The sole film in which she played the leading role was Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard in 1939. She appeared in two of the British-made Alfred Hitchcock films, Young and Innocent and The Lady Vanishes, playing vastly different characters. She played the part of Linda Singer in two different versions of The Constant Nymph and had previously been in the stage version. In 1956, she was in several TV episodes in British television.

Usually with

Michael Balcon
Michael Balcon
(12 films)
Alma Reville
Alma Reville
(5 films)
Ivor Barnard
Ivor Barnard
(6 films)
Val Guest
Val Guest
(3 films)
Pen Tennyson
Pen Tennyson
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mary Clare (57 films)

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Actress

The Clairvoyant, 1h33
Directed by Maurice Elvey, Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Perry King, Fay Wray, Claude Rains, Elizabeth Kemp, Jane Baxter, Mary Clare
Rating55% 2.7556652.7556652.7556652.7556652.755665
After the body of murdered woman is found, nude and handcuffed, floating down the Hudson River in New York, a string of murders occur by an unseen serial killer who kills men by handcuffing them before killing them. Mac, a TV talk-show host, and Larry, a police detective, team up to try to find the killer and seek help from Virna, a clairvayant young artist, who draws visions of the murders before they happen. As Mac and Larry try to establish a connection between the victims and the first female victim, who may have been sexually involved all of the male victims, Virna's further visions begin to point to her as the next victim as she unknowingly closes in on the killer's identity.
The Price of Silence
Directed by Montgomery Tully
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn, Terence Alexander, Mary Clare, Victor Brooks, Olive Sloane
Roles Mrs. West
Rating62% 3.137153.137153.137153.137153.13715
Roger Fenton a été libéré de prison et regardé fixement pour construire une nouvelle vie. Mais son passé le rattrape lorsqu'un visiteur âgée est assassiné dans son bureau.
Mambo
Mambo (1954)
, 1h50
Directed by Robert Rossen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters, Katherine Dunham, Eduardo Ciannelli
Roles La contessa Luisa Marisoni
Rating58% 2.906622.906622.906622.906622.90662
The film stars Silvana Mangano as Giovanna Masetti, a poor Venetian who is admired by the crafty croupier Mario Rossi (Vittorio Gassman) and the rich count Enrico Marisoni (Michael Rennie). Giovanna lives out a dream to become a dancer and moves to Rome. She returns six months later to the competing affections of Mario and Enrico, resulting in a choice between the two and the dramatic finale.
The Beggar's Opera, 1h34
Directed by Peter Brook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Historical, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Stuart Burge, Stanley Holloway
Roles Mrs. Peachum
Rating60% 3.049683.049683.049683.049683.04968
In the 1700s, a beggar is tossed into London's Newgate jail, along with a pile of papers upon which his unfinished opera is scribbled. The beggar boasts to the other prisoners that his opera, unlike others of the day, is about a real person, the dashing highwayman Captain Macheath, who, dressed in a red coat, holds off the world with a pistol in each hand, seduces women with five notes of a tune, and generally leaps from misfortune. To the beggar's disappointment, the other prisoners point out that his hero Macheath is among them, in irons and behind bars, and Macheath, who is scheduled to be executed the next morning, admits that there is "no arguing with reality." Taking the first page of the opera, Macheath begins singing, and the beggar, encouraged by Macheath's good voice, urges him to continue, until the following story, the beggar's opera, is sung for the prison inmates: While riding to London, feeling merry and free, Macheath robs a carriage, and steals a kiss and a locket from a maiden. Later, in London, Macheath's wife, Polly Peachum, pines for him. Polly's parents, shopkeepers Mr. Peachum and his wife, are scandalized to learn from their employee Filch that Polly has secretly married the highwayman. To make the best of the situation, as they are always eager to make money, they urge her to lure Macheath into a trap and collect the reward for his capture. Meanwhile, outside of town, Macheath encounters a carriage ridden by Newgate's jailor Mr. Lockit, Lockit's daughter Lucy and Mrs. Trapes, whom Lockit is wooing. Lucy, who met Macheath when he was once imprisoned, scolds him for taking her virtue without making good on his promise to wed. When Macheath rides off, Mrs. Trapes suggests that Lucy betray him for the reward and give the money to her father. Later, during a tryst in a hayloft, Polly warns Macheath that her parents are mounting an ambush. Macheath escapes with Polly's help after a swashbuckling fight, then hides in a back room of a tavern, where he is unable to resist socializing with the prostitutes, whom he considers friends. However, prostitute Jenny Diver has been bribed by Peachum and Lockit to betray him, and with the help of her colleagues, Macheath is soon captured. From his jail cell, Macheath urges Lucy to steal the jail keys and set him free, promising to marry her in return, but then Polly shows up and he is forced to introduce the women to each other. During the night, Lucy steals the keys and releases him, but later Polly sneaks back and, finding Macheath gone from the cell, screams in anguish without thinking, thus drawing attention to his escape. Meanwhile, Macheath disguises himself in the stolen cape and gloves of a lord and slips into a gaming house to avoid making good his promise to unite with Lucy. However, the proprietor recognizes the cape and alerts Lockit and Peachum about the impostor wearing it. Back at the jail, Polly is accused of freeing Macheath and is locked in Lucy's room, where Lucy, after losing track of Macheath, attempts to drug her. When they hear the recaptured Macheath being returned to prison, Lucy and Polly proceed to Macheath's cell and demand that he choose between them. He refuses, as he will soon be hanged and sees no reason to disappoint either of them. The next morning, riding atop his coffin as it is carted through the streets to the gallows, Macheath waves farewell to the friendly crowd that has gathered to see him off. At the gallows, after kissing both Lucy and Polly goodbye, Macheath is blindfolded and awaits his fate, and the opera comes to its incomplete end. The real Macheath, who is still in the jail, protests that he should not have to hang twice. After pondering the complaint, the beggar agrees and yells for Macheath's reprieve. The rest of the prisoners join in the chant and mob the turnkey, who comes to investigate the ruckus, allowing Macheath to escape. The highwayman steals a horse from the cart containing his coffin and when safely out of London, sings that his freedom has been returned because of a beggar's opera.
Moulin Rouge, 1h59
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Peinture, Musical films
Actors José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier, Jill Bennett, Mary Clare
Roles Madame Loubet
Rating69% 3.4967653.4967653.4967653.4967653.496765
In 1890 Paris, as crowds pour into the Moulin Rouge nightclub, young artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec finishes a bottle of cognac and sketches the dancers as they perform. The nightclub's regulars each stop by: singer Jane Avril teases Henri charmingly, dancers La Goulue and Aicha fight, and owner Maurice Joyant offers Henri free drinks for a month in exchange for painting a promotional poster. At closing time, Henri waits for the crowds to disperse before standing to reveal his four-foot six-inch body. As he walks to his Montmartre apartment, he recalls the events that led to his disfigurement. It is learned Lautrec falls down a flight of stairs, where his legs fail to heal due to a genetic weakness resulting from his parents being first cousins. His legs stunted and pained, Henri loses himself in his art, while his father leaves his mother, the countess, to ensure they have no more children. Henri is a bright, happy child, revered by his father, the Count de Toulouse-Lautrec. As a young adult he proposes to the woman he loves, but when she tells him no woman will ever love him, he leaves his childhood home in despair to begin a new life as a painter in Paris.
Hindle Wakes, 1h22
Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lisa Daniely, Brian Worth, Leslie Dwyer, Joan Hickson, Ronald Adam, Mary Clare
Roles Mrs. Martha Jeffcote
Rating60% 3.043453.043453.043453.043453.04345
Lancashire mill-girls Jenny Hawthorne (Daniely) and Mary Hollins (Sandra Dome) go on holiday to Blackpool during the annual wakes week in their hometown of Hindle. They run into Alan Jeffcote (Worth), the son of the owner of the mill in which they work, who has also traveled to Blackpool with a group of friends while his fiancée is detained on business in London. Jenny and Alan hit it off immediately, and he persuades her to leave Blackpool to spend the week with him at Llandudno in North Wales. To cover her tracks, Jenny leaves a postcard with Mary, asking her to send it to her parents (Leslie Dwyer and Joan Hickson) later in the week. She and Alan leave their friends and set off for Wales.
Penny Princess, 1h31
Directed by Val Guest
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Yolande Donlan, Reginald Beckwith, A. E. Matthews, Mary Clare, Edwin Styles
Roles Maria
Rating60% 3.002723.002723.002723.002723.00272
The fictional European microstate of Lampidorra has "no taxes, no quotas, no tariffs, no forms to fill in". Its two thousand residents make their money from the national (and legal) profession of smuggling to and from its neighbors: France, Italy, and Switzerland. However, the country falls on hard times and becomes bankrupt.
Penny Princess, 1h34
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Yolande Donlan, Dirk Bogarde, Reginald Beckwith, Mary Clare, Edwin Styles, Kynaston Reeves
Roles Maria
Rating60% 3.002723.002723.002723.002723.00272
Lampidorra est un micro-état européen qui n'a ni taxes, ni quotas, ni droits de douane, ni formulaires à remplir. Ses deux mille habitants tirent leurs revenus de la profession nationale (et légale) de contrebande à destination et en provenance de ses voisins : France, Italie et Suisse. Cependant, le pays traverse une période difficile et fait faillite.
The Black Rose, 2h1
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Laurence Harvey, Michael Rennie
Roles Countess Eleanor of Lessford
Rating62% 3.100613.100613.100613.100613.10061
The story concerns 13th-century Saxon nobleman Walter of Gurnie (Tyrone Power), who, after sparking an unsuccessful rebellion against the Norman conquerors of his homeland, sets out to seek his fortune in the Far East during the times of Pax Mongolica. His friend, an archer, Tristam (Jack Hawkins) goes with him, since they are both outlaws now. Walter and Tristam seek the acquaintance of Mongol warlord Bayan (Orson Welles) and agree to fight for him. The "Black Rose" of the title is the beauteous Maryam (Cécile Aubry), a half-English, half-Mongol girl who has escaped from General Bayan of the Baarin's harem and is harbored by Walter and Tristam while Walter and Tristram are in service to Bayan. Maryam loves Walter but he is too interested in his adventure to pay her any attention. Tristam doesn't like all the killing and decides to get away. He takes Maryam with him, because she wants to go to England.
Portrait of Clare, 1h40
Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Margaret Johnston, Richard Todd, Robin Bailey, Ronald Howard, Jeremy Spenser, Molly Urquhart
Roles Lady Hingston
Rating64% 3.2201553.2201553.2201553.2201553.220155
As told in flashback to her granddaughter: the three marriages of Clare Hingston. These are: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister.
Oliver Twist, 1h56
Directed by David Lean, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Melodrama
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, John Howard Davies, Kay Walsh, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan
Roles Mrs. Corney
Rating77% 3.8966053.8966053.8966053.8966053.896605
A young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) by the workhouse authorities. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) and matron Mrs. Corney (Mary Clare). At the age of nine, the hungry children draw straws; Oliver loses and has to ask for a second helping of gruel ("Please sir, I want some more").
My Brother Jonathan, 1h42
Directed by Harold French
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Denison, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dulcie Gray, Fred Groves, Ronald Howard, Mary Clare
Roles Mrs. Dakers
Rating71% 3.5635453.5635453.5635453.5635453.563545
The story revolves around the life of Jonathan Dakers (Denison), a small town doctor. He is training to be a surgeon when his father dies. Due to the resulting financial problems, he cannot continue his training. He buys a share in Dr. Hammond's general practice in Wednesford, a poor foundry town.
The Three Weird Sisters, 1h22
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Raymond Lovell, Nova Pilbeam, Elwyn Brook-Jones
Roles Maude Morgan-Vaughan
Rating63% 3.1907653.1907653.1907653.1907653.190765
The elderly Morgan-Vaughan sisters Gertrude (Price), Maude (Clare) and Isobel (Merrall) live in a decaying and claustrophobic mansion in a Welsh mining village. Gertrude is blind, Maude almost deaf and Isobel crippled by arthritis. The local coal mine out of which the family made their fortune is almost worked-out and its tunnels and shafts are dangerously unstable. When a section of the underground workings collapses catastrophically, destroying a row of local cottages and unsettling the foundations of the mansion, the sisters feel honour-bound to finance repairs but have no capital with which to do so.