Frances de la Tour
Acting
Biography
Frances de la Tour is an English television, stage and film actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom "Rising Damp" from 1974 until 1978; Madame Olympe Maxime in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" (2010) and Mrs. Lintott in Alan Bennett's "The History Boys". She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.
Born: July 30, 1944
Place of Birth: Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Known For
Wombling Free
The adventures of The Wombles, strange creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and pick up the litter left by the humans. There's always time for a nice song and dance as well. This was a film version of the popular childrens TV show.
Born and Bred
In the 1950s at the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston, a father and son, both doctors, navigate the challenges of running a cottage hospital under the newly established National Health Service.
Outlander
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
National Theatre Live: People
People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy wonders if an attic sale could be a solution.
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour, returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett’s play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.
Agatha Christie's Marple
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
Rising Damp
Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.
Filmography
as Queen Elizabeth (voice)
as Adelaide Tempest
as The Dowager
as Dragon (voice)
as The Rabbit (voice)
as Lady Matilda Crawley
as Mrs. March
as Yvette Sabine
as Aunt Imogene
as Ursula Vaughan Williams
as Jill
as Madame Schirmer
as Sally
as Giant
as Mother Hildegarde
as Ms Baron
as Aunt Elinor
as Violet Crosby
as Dorothy Stacpoole
as Nesta
as Grandma Wolf
as Madame Emilie
as The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
as Olympe Maxime
as Aunt Imogene
as Martha
as Mrs. Lintott
as Madame Olympe Maxime
as Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop
as Self
as Lesbian Lover (uncredited)
as Eugenia Maddox
as Alice Taylor-Garnett
as Charlotte Ivanovna
as Aunt Western
as Emma Porlock
as Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist
as Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger
as Tessa
as Beatrice
as Mrs de Vere
as Salome Otterbourne
as Miss Bellaver
as Celia
as Maud Cole
as Miss Jones
as Julia Frogmorton
as The Woman
as Marcia
as Salvation Army Major
as Ruth
as Miss Lockhart
as Elizabeth I
as Marcia
as Maria Waite
as Maud Crape