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Vanda Godsell is a Actor born on 17 november 1922 at Bognor Regis (United-kingdom)

Vanda Godsell

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Birth 17 november 1922 at Bognor Regis (United-kingdom)
Death 2 april 1990 (at 67 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Vanda Godsell (17 November 1922 – 11 April 1990) was an English actress. Hal Erickson writes in Allmovie, "Vanda Godsell specialized in playing disheveled housewives, busybody landladies, and blowsy domestics." She appeared as Mrs. Weaver in This Sporting Life (1963), Mrs. Pitt in Bitter Harvest (1965), Mrs. Goodge in The Wrong Box (1967)

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Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards
(2 films)
Val Guest
Val Guest
(2 films)
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
(5 films)
Graham Stark
Graham Stark
(4 films)
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Filmography of Vanda Godsell (29 films)

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Actress

The Pink Panther Strikes Again, 1h43
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Leonard Rossiter, Colin Blakely
Roles Mrs. Leverlilly
Rating70% 3.5474353.5474353.5474353.5474353.547435
At a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is largely recovered from his obsession to kill the new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is about to be released when Clouseau, arriving to speak on Dreyfus' behalf, drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus promptly escapes from the asylum and once again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The bomb destroys Clouseau's apartment and injures Cato, but Clouseau himself is unharmed, being lifted from the room by an inflatable disguise. Determining a more elaborate plan is needed, Dreyfus enlists an army of criminals to his cause and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and the Professor's daughter Margo (Briony McRoberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's freedom.
The Wrong Box, 1h45
Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
Roles Mrs. Goodge
Rating66% 3.3469153.3469153.3469153.3469153.346915
Elderly brothers Masterman (Mills) and Joseph Finsbury (Richardson) are the surviving members of a tontine, an investment scheme set up many years before, in which the last member stands to receive a fortune. Masterman is attended by his medical student grandson, Michael (Caine), while his greedy cousins Morris (Cook) and John (Moore) do their best to keep their annoying uncle Joseph alive. Masterman, who hasn't talked to his despised brother in many years, summons Joseph to his "deathbed," intending to kill him so that Michael can get the money.
The Earth Dies Screaming, 1h2
Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Thorley Walters, Anna Palk, Vanda Godsell
Roles Violet Courtland
Rating58% 2.904262.904262.904262.904262.90426
After a mysterious gas attack which kills off most of the Earth's population, a few survivors gather at a country inn to figure out a plan for survival. However, the gas attack is only the first step in an alien invasion, in which groups of killer robots stalk the streets, able to kill anyone with the a mere touch of their hands. The group's members find additional weaponry in a nearby drill hall, but the robots continue their campaign of terror, which only increases when their victims rise from the dead as zombies, eager to kill anyone who might try to stop them. Yet despite frictions within the group -- and the birth of a baby, which further complicates matters -- most of the members survive. After discovering that the robots are being controlled from a local transmitting tower, the survivors blow it up and head to a nearby airport, where they commandeer a plane and fly towards an unknown destination, hoping additional survivors see their plane and join them.
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 Madame LaFarge
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.
This Sporting Life, 2h14
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, Rugby, Rugby à XIII
Actors Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell, Colin Blakely, Arthur Lowe
Roles Mrs Anne Weaver
Rating74% 3.7450153.7450153.7450153.7450153.745015
Set in Wakefield, the film concerns a bitter young Yorkshire coal miner, Frank Machin (Harris). Following a nightclub altercation, in which he takes on the captain of the local rugby league club and punches a couple of the others, he is recruited by the team's manager, who sees profit in his aggressive streak.
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 Mrs. Agnes Davis
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.
Bitter Harvest, 1h36
Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Janet Munro, John Stride, Alan Badel, Dame Thora Hird, Vanda Godsell, Richard Thorpe
Roles Mrs. Pitt
Rating61% 3.050273.050273.050273.050273.05027
Jennie Jones hails from the countryside when she decides to the travel to the big city. There, she is continually befriended by the wrong crowd and finds herself down on her luck and ultimately contemplating her own demise.
The Wrong Arm of the Law, 1h34
Directed by Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Bill Kerr, Nanette Newman, Michael Caine
Roles Annette
Rating66% 3.345993.345993.345993.345993.34599
In London, a gang of criminals from Australia led by Jack Coombes (Bill Kerr) impersonate policemen to carry out robberies. Local gang leader "Pearly" Gates (Sellers), who operates from the cover of a French couturier, finds his takings cut severely, and blames rival crook "Nervous" O'Toole (Bernard Cribbins). When it emerges that they are both being scammed by the same gang, they join forces, along with Lionel Jeffries' Police Inspector "Nosey" Parker, to bring the so-called "I.P.O. mob" (I.P.O. - Impersonating a Police Officer) to justice. Nanette Newman provides the love interest, the ubiquitous John Le Mesurier plays a senior policeman, and a young Michael Caine has a small and uncredited role as a young PC. Other uncredited roles include John Junkin (Maurice), Dennis Price (Educated Ernest), Cardew Robinson (Mailman), Dick Emery (Man in Flat 307), Mario Fabrizi (Van Driver), John Harvey (Police Station Sergeant), Harold Siddons (PC in Basement Garage), Jack Silk (Police Station PC), Derek Guyler (non-speaking PC at Scotland Yard), Gerald Sim (Airfield Official) and Marianne Stone (Woman in Front Row at Gangsters' Meeting).
Term of Trial, 2h10
Directed by Peter Glenville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, Hugh Griffith, Roland Culver
Roles Mrs. Thompson
Rating70% 3.5355653.5355653.5355653.5355653.535565
Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career. Now, years later, he is in a school where teens who don't like to be there and is married to a very embittered wife. While in school, he meets Shirley Taylor, a new girl in the school who starts to have a crush on him. Graham does not realize it, but Shirley's infatuation will lead to serious trouble, including the threat of a false sexual molestation charge.
Waltz of the Toreadors, 1h44
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, John Fraser, Cyril Cusack, Prunella Scales
Roles Emma Bulstrode
Rating58% 2.9009052.9009052.9009052.9009052.900905
This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now a shrewish and hypochondriac woman, all the more bitter as she still loves him. The General has two plain-looking daughters he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years. When Ghislaine resurfaces, determined to complete her love with him and to get rid of Emily, Leo is at a loss what to do...