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Myrtle Devenish is a Actor born on 29 july 1912

Myrtle Devenish

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Birth name Myrtle Williams
Birth 29 july 1912
Death 21 january 2007 (at 94 years) at Paignton (United-kingdom)

Myrtle Devenish (1913 – 21 January 2007) was a film actor. She appeared in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil.

Biography

Devenish was born in Ebbw Vale, Wales, UK.

Usually with

Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam
(4 films)
Michael Palin
Michael Palin
(4 films)
Terry Jones
Terry Jones
(2 films)
John Cleese
John Cleese
(2 films)
Eric Idle
Eric Idle
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Myrtle Devenish (8 films)

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Actress

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1h42
Directed by Brian Mills
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films
Actors Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Kristoffer Tabori, Alastair Duncan, Bernard Horsfall, Ronald Pickup
Roles Postmistress
Rating77% 3.8936353.8936353.8936353.8936353.893635
Le célèbre détective Sherlock Holmes et son fidèle Dr Watson sont appelés pour résoudre une effroyable malédiction qui poursuit la malheureuse famille des Baskerville, décimée par un monstrueux chien, sorti tout droit de l'enfer, depuis que Sir Hugo, un ancêtre, tua une paysanne. Mais l'héritier actuel, qui arrive d'Amérique, ne croit pas en ces fariboles.
Brazil
Brazil (1985)
, 2h22
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Social science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Comic science fiction
Themes Monde imaginaire, Politique, Psychologie, Films about the labor movement, Comedy science fiction films, Political films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Lobotomie
Actors Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Ian William Richardson
Roles Typist in Jack's Office
Rating78% 3.948443.948443.948443.948443.94844
Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a low-level government employee who has frequent daydreams of saving a damsel in distress. One day he is assigned the task of trying to rectify an error caused by a fly getting jammed in a printer, misprinting a file it was copying, resulting in the incarceration and accidental death during interrogation of cobbler Archibald Buttle, instead of the suspected terrorist, freelance heating engineer Archibald Tuttle.
L'étincelle
Directed by Michel Lang
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Roger Hanin, Clio Goldsmith, Simon Ward, John Moulder-Brown, Lysette Anthony, Doudou Babet
Roles Grany
Rating56% 2.8027652.8027652.8027652.8027652.802765
Un français d'âge mûr, qui tient un restaurant à Londres, s'éprend d'une animatrice de radio mariée à un jeune anthropologue.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, 1h47
Directed by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about religion, Musical films
Actors Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Rating74% 3.748493.748493.748493.748493.74849
The film begins with a stand-alone 17-minute supporting feature entitled The Crimson Permanent Assurance (directed by Gilliam). A group of elderly office clerks in a small accounting firm rebel against their emotionlessly efficient, yuppie corporate masters. They commandeer their building, turn it into a pirate ship, and sail into a large financial district, where they raid and overthrow a large multinational corporation (before ultimately sailing to the edge of the earth and falling off).
The Crimson Permanent Assurance, 15minutes
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors John Scott Martin, Myrtle Devenish, Ross Davidson, Matt Frewer, Eric Idle, Michael Palin
Rating77% 3.8911853.8911853.8911853.8911853.891185
The elderly British employees of the Permanent Assurance Company, a staid London firm which has recently been taken over by the Very Big Corporation of America, rebel against their corporate masters when one of them is sacked. Having locked the surviving supervisors in the safe, and forced their boss to walk a makeshift plank out a window, they commandeer their Edwardian office building, which suddenly weighs anchor, uses its scaffolding and tarpaulins as sails, and is turned into a pirate ship. The stone office building starts to move as if it were a ship. Sailing through the City of London, they then proceed to attack The Very Big Corporation of America's skyscraper, using, among other things, wooden filing cabinets which have been transformed into carronades and swords fashioned from the blades of a ceiling fan. On ropes, they swing into the board room and engage the executives of VBCA in hand-to-hand combat, vanquishing them.
Runners
Runners (1983)
, 1h47
Directed by Charles Sturridge
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Kate Hardie, James Fox, Jane Asher, Lisa Howard, Robert Lang, Anna Wing
Roles Lady on Telephone
Rating56% 2.810452.810452.810452.810452.81045
An English father heads for London in search of his missing teenage daughter.
Time Bandits, 1h56
Directed by Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, David Warner, Sean Connery, Katherine Helmond, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Films about religion, Transport films, Time travel films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Craig Warnock, Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond
Roles Beryl
Rating68% 3.447953.447953.447953.447953.44795
Eleven-year-old Kevin has a vivid imagination and is fascinated by history, particularly Ancient Greece; his parents ignore his activities, having become more obsessed with buying the latest household gadgets to keep up with their neighbours. One night, as Kevin is sleeping, an armoured knight on a horse bursts out of his wardrobe. Kevin is scared and hides as the knight rides off into a forest setting where once his bedroom wall was; when Kevin looks back out, the room is back to normal and he finds one of his photos on the wall similar to the forest he saw. The next night he prepares a satchel with supplies and a Polaroid camera, but is surprised when six dwarves spill out of the wardrobe. Kevin quickly learns the group has stolen a large, worn map, and are looking for an exit from Kevin's room before they are discovered. They find that Kevin's bedroom wall can be pushed, revealing a long hallway. Kevin is hesitant to join until the visage of a menacing head – the Supreme Being – appears behind them, demanding the return of the map. Kevin and the dwarves fall into an empty void at the end of the hallway.