Googie Withers
Acting
Biography
Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers CBE, AO was a British entertainer who had a lengthy career in theatre, film, and television.
Born: March 12, 1917
Place of Birth: Karachi, British India
Known For
Kate Plus Ten
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
Night and the City
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
The Lady Vanishes
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
Shine
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Dead of Night
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
On Approval
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
The Loves of Joanna Godden
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
Convict 99
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
Forever Ealing
This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions
Trouble Brewing
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
Filmography
as Self
as Katharine Susannah Prichard
as Hannah
as Mrs Allen
as Interviewee
as Mrs. Pusey
as Leda Klein
as Faye Boswell
as Muriel
as Anne Stirling
as Betty Molloy
as Sitter in Bath Studio
as Susan Foster (actress in clip, "The Shadow of the Orient") (uncredited)
as Dr. Sophie Dean
as Bumble Pelham
as Helen Nosseross
as Carol Gilbert
as Clare Martin
as Rose Sandigate
as Joanna Godden
as Pearl Bond
as Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
as Alice
as Helen Hale
as Helène van Leyden
as Jo de Vries
as Bobbie
as Polly
as Alice Forrest
as Mary Brown
as Lola Matthews
as Blanche
as Lottie
as Elsie
as Lady Moya
as Miki
as Mary
as Ninette Duval
as Miss Dupres
as Ella Levine
as Daphne Tomkins
as Effie
as Minnie