Elizabeth Sellars
Acting
Biography
Elizabeth Macdonald Sellars (6 May 1921 – 30 December 2019) was a Scottish actress.
Born: May 6, 1921
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Known For
Beasts: During Barty's Party
A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.
The Avengers
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
A Voyage Round My Father
A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals with bitter memories of their relationship, he also seeks his father's respect and love and in the process learns to love in return.
The Man in the Sky
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
The Chalk Garden
The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the cliffs of the English south coast. Edith Evans plays a matriarchal grandmother who, in raising her granddaughter, has neglected her other love – a barren chalk garden. Mayhem ensues as Laurel's behavior frightens away a succession of governesses until an enigmatic one is hired in spite of her mysterious references. She skillfully sets about tending to the girl's reckless emotions and the pitifully failed garden.
Beasts
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976.
55 Days at Peking
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Hunted
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
Jet Storm
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
The Barefoot Contessa
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then star in, his next big picture. But as the producer's possessive nature and the realities of stardom weigh on Maria, she seeks a genuine lover with whom she can escape.
Filmography
as Countess Kissler
as Jean Sutherland
as Mother
as Annabel Fox
as Lady Bradford
as Angie Truscott
as Angie Truscott
as Albrida
as Lady Franklin's mother
as Mrs. Coade
as Annabel Fox
as Isabel
as Barbara Preston
as Olivia
as Lady Sarah Robertson
as Margaret Webster
as Laura
as Iris Muldoon
as Anne Cummings
as Inez Barrington
as Mary Low
as Gina Laselle
as Françoise de Gaillemarde
as Marge
as Mary Mitchell
as Daphne Strood
as Anne Norbury
as Elizabeth ("You Killed Elizabeth" segment)
as Asia Booth
as Julie
as Jerry
as Rita Compton
as Jean Talbot
as Fay Lowther
as Della Freeman
as Maureen Fagan
as Magda Lloyd
as Sally
as Carol Graham
as Linda
as Christina Haggott
as Judy