Nanette Newman
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nanette Newman (born 29 May 1934) is an English actress and author. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nanette Newman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: May 29, 1934
Place of Birth: Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Known For
Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful
Hancock fan Jack Dee presents Tony Hancock: Very Nearly An Armful. Taking its title from celebrated Hancock episode The Blood Donor, this two-hour retrospective features previously unseen scripts, scrapbooks and production files belonging to the lad himself, as well as personal items such as photos and letters.
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
The comedy pioneer behind the Goon Show, Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther series is explored in depth in this film, surveying his meteoric rise to fame and troubled personal life.
From Roger Moore with Love
Friends, family and co-stars take part in this revealing and entertaining look at British icon Roger Moore and his rise to global fame. With rare home-movie footage.
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.
International Velvet
Sarah Brown is sent to England after her parents die in a car crash. There, she lives with her aunt Velvet who introduces Sarah to the world of equestrian competition and gives her the last foal of her own prize horse, The Pie. Under the watchful eye of her aunt and horse trainer Capt. Johnson, Sarah develops into a talented rider who might have a shot at the Olympics.
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.
Maigret
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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 Madwoman of Chaillot
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
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.
Filmography
as Self
as Herself
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Contestant
as Self - Guest
as Herself
as Passenger
as Jessie
as Velvet Brown
as Carol Van Sant
as Lady Alex Ackerman
as Kate Goonahan
as Jill Matthews
as Helena Beckett
as Irma
as Nurse
as The Girl
as Jill Collins
as The Girl Upstairs
as Julia Finsbury
as Sally Athelny
as Mrs. Clayton
as Valerie
as Girl at End
as Geraldine McLeod
as Mary
as Joyce
as Yana
as Mary
as Josey
as Joan Trevor
as Janet
as Odette
as Elizabeth
as Hannah
as Isobel
as Sally