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Ursula Howells is a Actor British born on 17 september 1922 at London (United-kingdom)

Ursula Howells

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Birth name Ursula Howells
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 17 september 1922 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 16 october 2005 (at 83 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Ursula Howells (17 September 1922 – 16 October 2005) was an English actress whose elegant presence kept her much in demand for roles in film and television.
Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father worked as Director of Music. She made her first stage appearance at Dundee in 1939, in John Drinkwater's Bird in Hand, then moved to Oxford in 1942 and three years later made her London debut at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage. After several years in the West End, and a brief stint on Broadway where she appeared in Springtime for Henry in 1951, she began to appear in films.

After the death of her father in 1983, Ursula Howells instigated the "Herbert Howells Society" and became a standard bearer for the promotion of his work. She financially supported the recording of his compositions and did much to encourage the publishing and promotion of church music.

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Val Guest
Val Guest
(3 films)
Stanley Black
Stanley Black
(4 films)
Gordon Dines
Gordon Dines
(2 films)
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Filmography of Ursula Howells (23 films)

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Actress

The Tichborne Claimant, 1h38
Directed by David Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Pugh, Stephen Fry, Robert Hardy, John Gielgud, Charles Gray, James Villiers
Roles Lady Doughty
Rating60% 3.0033153.0033153.0033153.0033153.003315
Based on a true story, the film is set in the late 19th century. Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answers Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter successfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
Time After Time
Genres Comedy
Actors John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Helen Cherry, Ursula Howells, Brenda Bruce, Mark Lambert
Roles May Swift
Rating72% 3.64493.64493.64493.64493.6449
A constantly bickering aristocratic family live in a crumbling great house in Ireland, when their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a German cousin.
The Cold Room, 1h35
Directed by James Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Time travel films
Actors George Segal, Amanda Pays, Renée Soutendijk, Warren Clarke, Anthony Higgins, Elizabeth Spriggs
Roles Headmistress
Rating50% 2.523482.523482.523482.523482.52348
Carla Martin (Amanda Pays) is leaving an English parochial boarding school for the summer to live with her estranged father at an inn in East Berlin. The headmistress (Ursula Howells), a nun, gives her a 1936 guide to Berlin, telling her she may find it useful, even though Berlin has surely changed as much as she has. Her best friend, Sophie (Lucy Hornack), gives her a bag of marijuana.
Father Dear Father, 1h39
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Noël Dyson, Ursula Howells, Jack Watling, Donald Sinden
Roles Barbara
Rating49% 2.491212.491212.491212.491212.49121
Patrick feels his daughters need a mother so he decides to marry his agent Georgie (Jill Melford), only to then mistakenly propose to the cleaning lady (Beryl Reid).
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly, 1h41
Directed by Freddie Francis
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Imogen Hassall, Michael Ripper, Trevor Howard
Roles Mumsy
Rating64% 3.2442653.2442653.2442653.2442653.244265
Four individuals live in a secluded manor house in the English countryside, where they engage in an elaborate role-playing fantasy called The Game. In The Game, each individual assumes the role of a member in a "happy" family, completely subsuming his or her individual personality to the point that each individual is known only by the identity he or she is playing: Mumsy (the mother, Ursula Howells), Nanny (the nanny, Pat Heywood), Sonny (the son, played by Howard Trevor), and Girly (the daughter, Vanessa Howard). The Game is built around a set of strictly enforced yet ill-defined rules, the principal one of which is "Rule No. 1: Play the Game.
Crossplot
Crossplot (1969)
, 1h36
Directed by Alvin Rakoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Roger Moore, Claudie Lange, Alexis Kanner, Martha Hyer, Bernard Lee, Derek Francis
Roles Maggi Thwaites
Rating54% 2.709412.709412.709412.709412.70941
Roger Moore is Gary Fenn, a talent scout for a London modeling agency who finds the perfect target and calculates the events which mean that only one girl will be good enough for his bosses, a Hungarian Marla Kugash (Lange). He finds her among the anti-war movement in the bohemian depths of swinging London. She is in the company of a young man, Tarquin, who is extremely protective of her and overtly aggressive to Fenn.
Assignment K, 1h37
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Stephen Boyd, Michael Redgrave, Camilla Sparv, Camilla Sparv, Leo McKern, Jeremy Kemp
Roles Estelle
Rating55% 2.7651452.7651452.7651452.7651452.765145
A British spy has his cover blown, leading to the East German Stasi kidnapping his girlfriend to try to extract information about his double agents' activities.
Torture Garden, 1h33
Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about religion, Natural horror films, Demons in film, Robot films
Actors Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Michael Bryant, Timothy Bateson
Roles Miss Maxine Chambers (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")
Rating60% 3.049983.049983.049983.049983.04998
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by showman Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith). Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra. Their curiosity gets the better of them, and the small crowd follows him behind a curtain, where they each view their fate through the shears of an effigy of the female deity Atropos (Clytie Jessop).
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, 1h38
Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Natural horror films, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Max Adrian, Donald Sutherland, Michael Gough, Jennifer Jayne
Roles Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf")
Rating65% 3.297433.297433.297433.297433.29743
Five men enter a train carriage in London bound for Bradley, and are joined by a sixth, the mysterious Doctor Schreck (Peter Cushing) whose name, he mentions, is German for "terror". During the journey, the doctor opens his pack of Tarot cards (which he calls his "House of Horrors") and proceeds to reveal the destinies of each of the travellers. This provides the framework to tell five horror stories.
80,000 Suspects, 1h53
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan, Cyril Cusack, Michael Goodliffe, Mervyn Johns
Roles Joanna Duten
Rating60% 3.0044353.0044353.0044353.0044353.004435
A romantic melodrama set against the backdrop of a smallpox epidemic which features Richard Johnson as the diligent doctor in control and Claire Bloom as his outwardly serene and devoted wife. Commencing on New Year’s Eve in the city of Bath, Dr. Steven Monks (Richard Johnson) diagnoses a mystery patient as being infected with smallpox and sets in motion a city wide quarantine to contain the outbreak. His commitment to the task is affected by the deterioration of his marriage to ex-nurse Julie (Claire Bloom) following his clandestine affair with a family friend. Monk receives an unexpected blow when the disease strikes closer to home than anticipated and Julie is diagnosed as having contracted the virus. The medical team gradually contain the outbreak until only one unidentified case remains. The search narrows the identity of final carrier down to Ruth Preston (Yolande Donlan), the woman with whom Monks had been having an affair and the wife of his close colleague Clifford (Michael Goodliffe). She’s eventually traced to a deserted house where she’s sheltering, lonely and desperately ill.
Account Rendered, 59minutes
Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Griffith Jones, Ursula Howells, Honor Blackman, Ewen Solon, Philip Gilbert, John Van Eyssen
Roles Lucille Ainsworth
Rating60% 3.000313.000313.000313.000313.00031
When wealthy Lucille Ainsworth is found strangled on Hampstead Heath, Detective Inspector Marshall is put on the case. Lucille's husband Robert suspected her of being unfaithful, and had been following her. But he is just one of many suspects with a motive for murder.
The Long Arm, 1h36
Directed by Charles Frend
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Samuel John Kydd, Glyn Houston, Richard Leech
Roles Mrs. Elliot / Mrs. Gilson
Rating69% 3.4944653.4944653.4944653.4944653.494465
When police respond to a burglar alarm they find nothing amiss after meeting the nightwatchman who allowed them to search the premises. However the next day the safe, having been opened with a key, is found empty. Supt Tom Halliday (Jack Hawkins) and his new Detective Sergeant, Ward (John Stratton), begin searching for the fraudulent nightwatchman.
The Constant Husband, 1h28
Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Nicole Maurey, George Cole
Roles Ann
Rating63% 3.197743.197743.197743.197743.19774
A man (Rex Harrison) wakes up in a hotel room in Wales, suffering from amnesia. He has no recollection of who he is or where he comes from. With the help of mental specialist Doctor Llewellyn (Cecil Parker), he manages to trace himself back to his wife and home in London, but soon discovers that she is just one of his many wives in his many homes all over the country.