Marie Burke
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 18, 1894
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
The Rebel
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
The Saint
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
The Saint
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
The Saint
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
The Saint
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
The Snorkel
On the Italian coast, writer Paul Decker has grown unhappy in his marriage and executes what appears to be a perfect murder of his wife. While Paul is believed to be writing a book in France, his stepdaughter, Candy, suspects him of murdering her mother, as well as her father years before. With the police unwilling to investigate any further, Candy sets out to confirm her suspicions and take Paul down herself.
The League of Gentlemen
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
The Green Man
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
Filmography
as Aunt Astrid
as Donna Maria
as Mother Raspeguy
as Mama
as Woman at first Seance
as Madame Yvonne Lavalle
as Signora Unciello
as Princess de Ribes
as Senora Artigas
as Donna Maria
as Dona Inez
as Maya
as Madame Laurent
as Mary's Housekeeper (uncredited)
as Mrs Boyle (uncredited)
as Woman at Private View
as Daily Woman
as Mama Gozzi
as Felicity
as Moma Sopranelli
as Mother Vecchi
as Señora Gallardo
as Mme. Gliere (uncredited)
as Paul's Mother
as Therese
as Lavita
as Mrs. Brookfield
as Senora Rojas
as Mrs. Fields
as Mrs. Ormsby Townsend
as Mrs. Schuyler
as Mrs. Dennis (John's Mother)
as Mrs. H. Clifton Brooke
as Mrs. Warren
as Mrs. Warburton
as Mrs. Bascom
as Mrs Hamilton
as Miss Heneage
as Lady-in-Waiting
as Lady Peterborough
as Mrs. Wakefield
as Geraldine Ridgley
as Mrs. Hollander
as Dowager Duchess
as Lady Helmstone
as Mrs. Pendleton
as Duchess of Northland