Amy Veness
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amy Veness (26 February 1876 – 22 September 1960) was a British film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in The Huggetts Trilogy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Veness, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: February 25, 1876
Place of Birth: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK
Known For
Flying Fifty-Five
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Windbag the Sailor
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
This Happy Breed
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
Bond Street
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Drake of England
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.
Vote for Huggett
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
The Huggetts Abroad
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Filmography
as Grandma Cooper (uncredited)
as Aunt Tabitha
as Grandmother in Wedding Group
as Mrs. Wixie
as Mrs. McPhee (Hornblower's Housekeeper)
as Lady In The Train
as Lady Davis
as Alice Smith
as Grannie
as Grandma Huggett
as Grandma
as Grandma Huggett
as Mrs. Gully
as Mrs. Bedwin
as Seamstress
as Mrs. Chalk
as Mrs. Winterbourne
as Mrs. Pilling
as Mrs Pursley
as Tessa
as Mrs. Waterman
as Cook
as Mrs. Flint
as Mrs. Heaviside
as Mrs. Armstrong (uncredited)
as Mrs. Blythe
as Jenny
as Aunt Eliza
as Mrs. Scowcroft, Sally's Mother
as Mrs. Flower
as Harry Harper
as Mrs. Deane
as Emma Harbottle
as Cafe Owner
as Lady Clara Mutch-Twistleton
as Lady Heckdyke
as Mother Moore
as Mrs. Jarley
as Betty Muxworthy
as Donna Rosa
as Petal Schultze
as Ma
as Mrs. Hawley
as Aunt Fanny
as Mrs Armitage
as Old Sookey
as Emma Bolt
as Emily Smithers
as Mrs. Hepworth
as Mrs. Forrester
as Mrs. Hammond
as Mrs. Lethbridge