Joan Plowright
Acting
Biography
Joan Ann Plowright, Lady Olivier, DBE (28 October 1929 - 16 January 2025), better known as Dame Joan Plowright, was an English actress, whose career has spanned over sixty years. Throughout her career she has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy, and two BAFTA Awards. Joan Plowright is also one of only four actresses to have won two Golden Globes in the same year.
Born: October 28, 1929
Place of Birth: Brigg, Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Known For
Scrooge and Marley
Ebenezer Scrooge is back in a made-for-TV film produced by Coral Ridge Ministries. The ill-tempered miser is played by skilled Christian actor Dean Jones, widely acclaimed for his acting ability in St. John in Exile and well-known for many Disney movies and Broadway shows.
Laurence Olivier: a life
A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Golden Globe Awards
An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The Oscars
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Drowning by Numbers
Cissie Colpitts drowns her cheating husband and, in the ensuing cover-up, enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett, an old friend with a longstanding weakness for her charms. But when Cissie's daughter and granddaughter—both also named Cissie Colpitts—decide to resort to the same methods for solving conflicts with their own frustrating husbands, the women and their repeated appeals for help begin to wear on Madgett's conscience.
Equus
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
The Merchant of Venice
An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.
Laurence Olivier Presents
Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of Hindle Wakes, all starred Laurence Olivier. Some of the plays were based on productions staged at the National Theatre during the period when Olivier was Artistic Director. In addition to distinguished English actors, the casts assembled for these productions included several Hollywood stars, such as Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton.
Filmography
as Herself
as Self
as Marjorie Blake
as Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
as Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
as Beatrice Fairfield
as Mrs. Palfrey
as Mother Superior
as Sophie
as Mrs. Virginia Arness
as Sarah Keller
as Lady Foxley
as Narrator
as Aunt Angie
as Phoebe Harkness
as Martha Sowerby
as Baylene (voice)
as Mrs Bartholomew
as Mary Wallace
as Jeanne Vertefeuille
as Bea Johnson
as Nanny
as Françoise's Grandmother
as Mrs. Crawford
as Mrs. Fairfax
as Harriet Hibbons
as Mrs. Linzer
as Marge Morrisey
as Frau Yeobright
as Dorothy
as Mrs. Appletree
as Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
as Mrs. Monro
as Teacher
as Martha Wilson
as Olga
as Poncia
as Mrs Fisher
as Eva Krichinsky
as Nadja
as Mam
as Nellie
as Cissie Colpitts
as Lady Bracknell
as Meg Bowles
as Mrs. McConnahay
as Mrs. Monro
as Self
as Norma Bates
as Phyllis Grimshaw
as Edith
as Edith Frank-Holländer
as Lady Pitts
as Rosa
as Dora Strang
as Rosa
as Lady Pitts
as Portia
as Self
as Viola
as Masha
as Sonya
as Jean Rice
as Agnes Cole
as A Young Actress /Pip
as Self
as Mrs. Yeobright
as Dorothy
as Adriana
as Phoebe
as Self - Nominee