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Moira Redmond is a Actor British born on 14 july 1928 at Bognor Regis (United-kingdom)

Moira Redmond

Moira Redmond
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 july 1928 at Bognor Regis (United-kingdom)
Death 16 march 2006 (at 77 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Moira Redmond (14 July 1928 – 16 March 2006) was an English actress.

She was born in Bognor Regis, Sussex, England. Her parents were actors and director managers. Her grandfather was the actor manager playwright E Hill Mitchelson.

As a young actress, she joined the Windmill Girls (recently evoked in the film Mrs Henderson Presents) who performed non-stop revues and nude tableux at the Windmill Theatre in the West End. Several years later, she married her first husband and emigrated to Australia, but the marriage did not endure so she returned to Britain determined to make her name as an actress. While in Australia, Moira became a successful radio actress. She played in the major radio features, Caltex Theatre and General Motors' Hour as well as plays for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Her best remembered radio drama was Linday Hardy's Stranger in Paradise along Guy Doleman, a New Zealand actor who later had a movie career both in the US and Britain.

She made her stage debut as an understudy to Vivien Leigh in Peter Brook's revival of Titus Andronicus with Laurence Olivier. In July of that year, she made her London debut at the Stoll in the same production.

In 1958, she made her film debut in a thriller, entitled Violent Moment (1958), which was followed by several more roles in the films Doctor in Love (1960), A Shot in the Dark (1964) and several B-film thrillers.

Meanwhile her theatrical career had taken off with roles in Verdict (Strand), in which she played Helen Rollander; Detour After Dark (Fortune Theatre), Horizontal Hold (Comedy Theatre); Patrick Peace Hotel (Queen's); The Winter's Tale (Cambridge Theatre) and 'Flint (Comedy Theatre).

She was also a founder member of the Actors' Company with Ian McKellen. She played at the Edinburgh Festival as Helen of Troy in The Trojan Women with Flora Robson, and as Hermione in The Winter's Tale with Laurence Harvey.

Throughout the 1960s she appeared in London and the provinces in the plays of Alan Ayckbourn; she was also Lady Sheerwell in Jonathan Miller's revival of Sheridan's The School for Scandal; Maria in Twelfth Night; Mrs Wickstead in Habeas Corpus; Brand's mother in Brand; and Jocasta in Stephen Spender's trilogy Oedipus. She later toured South America for the British Council in revivals of Habeas Corpus and Shaw's Heartbreak House (as Hesione). Television appearances in the 1960s included Danger Man among others.

By the 1970s she was increasingly in demand for television series, her theatrical training earning her roles in some of the best known television dramas of the period, including Edward the Seventh (playing Edward's mistress Alice Keppel); I, Claudius (in which she played Domitia, Claudius's mother-in-law); and Boswell's London Journey. She also appeared in The Alleyn Mysteries; Dixon of Dock Green, The Avengers and The Sweeney.

She was twice married and divorced: firstly to Anthony Hughes and secondly to Herbert Wise (1962–1972).

Usually with

John Huston
John Huston
(1 films)
Lance Comfort
Lance Comfort
(1 films)
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards
(1 films)
Val Guest
Val Guest
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Moira Redmond (8 films)

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Actress

Nightmare
Nightmare (1964)
, 1h23
Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Timothy Bateson, Brenda Bruce, George A. Cooper, John Welch (Welsh)
Roles Grace Maddox
Rating66% 3.347733.347733.347733.347733.34773
The film's protagonist, Janet, is a young student attending boarding school. After a number of nightmares concerning her mother, whom she saw kill her father when she was young, the girl is sent home to her guardian, Attorney Henry Baxter. At home, she is assigned a nurse. Janet begins having more nightmares this time concerning an unknown woman with a scar and a birthday cake. The dreams get worse and worse. Finally, her guardian brings home his wife, whom Janet has never met. Janet is introduced to the woman at her birthday celebration. The cake and woman from her dreams with the scar appearing at once is enough to make Janet snap. She kills the woman by stabbing her - the same way her mother killed her father. Janet is committed. Meanwhile, her guardian Henry and the nurse, who was disguised to look like the woman with a scar to drive Janet mad, celebrate the loss of Janet. However, the two do not go unpunished.
A Shot in the Dark, 1h42
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Serial killer films, Films based on plays
Actors Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Tracy Reed, Moira Redmond
Roles Simone
Rating73% 3.6987953.6987953.6987953.6987953.698795
Inspector Clouseau is called to the country home of Paris plutocrat Benjamin Ballon to investigate the murder of his Spanish chauffeur Miguel. The chauffeur was having an affair with the maid, Maria Gambrelli, who claims that he often beat her. Although all the evidence points to Gambrelli as the killer, Clouseau refuses to admit her guilt after he develops an instant attraction to her.
Freud: The Secret Passion, 1h56
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse
Actors Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Susan Kohner, Fernand Ledoux, Larry Parks, David McCallum
Roles Nora Wimmer (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.589733.589733.589733.589733.58973
This pseudo-biographical movie depicts Sigmund Freud's life from 1885 to 1890. At this time, most of his colleagues refused to treat hysteric patients, believing their symptoms to be ploys for attention. Freud, however, learns to use hypnosis to uncover the reasons for the patients' neuroses through his mentor and friend Josef Breuer. His main patient in the film is a young woman who refused to drink water and is plagued by a recurrent nightmare.
Jigsaw
Jigsaw (1962)
, 1h47
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, John Le Mesurier, Moira Redmond
Roles Joan Simpson
Rating71% 3.593333.593333.593333.593333.59333
A woman is murdered near Brighton. Two local detectives lead an investigation, methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove, but also further afield.
Kill or Cure, 1h28
Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Lionel Jeffries, Moira Redmond, David Lodge
Roles Frances Roitman
Rating60% 3.045863.045863.045863.045863.04586
Un agent de police inepte est appelé à enquêter sur d'étranges allées et venues dans un club sportif.
Pit of Darkness, 1h16
Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors William Leo Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Leonard Sachs, Bruno Barnabe, Nigel Green, Anthony Booth
Roles Julie Logan
Rating62% 3.1484353.1484353.1484353.1484353.148435
Safe-designer Richard Logan (Franklyn) comes to consciousness on a patch of waste ground with no recollection of how he came to be there. Assuming he must have been attacked and hit over the head, but feeling no apparent ill-effects, he returns home to wife Julie (Redmond) to apologise for being late and tell his story. He is astonished to learn from Julie that he has been missing not for a few hours, but for three weeks. Furthermore, a troubling series of events has occurred during his absence, which appear to point to his involvement in criminal activity. A safe which he personally installed in a large house has been robbed and its contents stolen, with no explanation as to how its supposedly foolproof security mechanisms were so easily overridden. In an attempt to trace her missing husband, Julie has employed a private detective, who discovered evidence implicating Richard of involvement with another woman, and more seriously the private detective has recently been found murdered.
Doctor in Love, 1h33
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors James Robertson Justice, Michael Craig, Virginia Maskell, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Carole Lesley
Roles Sally Nightingale
Rating57% 2.854912.854912.854912.854912.85491
Dr Richard Hare is a recently graduated medical intern at St Swithins Hospital. When his new romantic interest, nurse Sally Nightingale, suddenly leaves the hospital, he is devastated. He also leaves after being offered a job in private practice. But when his senior partner, Dr Cardew, has to visit California for a few months, Hare is left in charge. Dr Nicola Barrington joins the practice and Hare is suddenly in love again.
Violent Moment, 1h1
Directed by Sidney Hayers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton, Rupert Davies, John Paul, Moira Redmond, Bruce Seton
Roles Kate Glennon
Rating63% 3.193213.193213.193213.193213.19321
A deserter from the British Army kills his wife during a fight. Although he becomes a successful businessman, his past eventually catches up with him.