Rachel Roberts
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Rachel Roberts (20 September 1927 – 26 November 1980) was a Welsh actress noted for her fervour and passion; Roberts is best remembered for her forthright screen performances in two key films of the 1960s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, in both of which she played the older mistress of the central male character. In Australia, she is remembered for her performance as Mrs Appleyard in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8344 |
| Birthday | 1927-09-20 |
| Place of Birth | Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK |
| Also Known As | Рэйчел Робертс, |
1974
Murder on the Orient Express
7.146/1570
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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Murder on the Orient Express
1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock
7.233/879
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the g...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
1979
Yanks
5.884/63
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don...
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Yanks
1975
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
6/1
A documentary exploring the fascinating subject of the film, its production history and success. The documentary, which was produced by Patricia Lovel...
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A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
1973
O Lucky Man!
6.848/112
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
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O Lucky Man!
1960
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
7.016/159
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1978
Foul Play
6.324/259
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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Foul Play
1979
When a Stranger Calls
6.215/298
A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to...
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When a Stranger Calls
1974
Great Expectations
6.5/13
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood...
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Great Expectations
1981
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
5.132/34
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling gr...
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1963
This Sporting Life
7/122
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by l...
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This Sporting Life
1976
Alpha Beta
5.667/3
E. A. Whitehead adapted the script of Alpha Beta from his own play. Albert Finney is cast as "The Man," while Rachel Roberts plays "The Woman." The re...
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Alpha Beta
1978
The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands
0/0
While studying the behavior of birds on one of the western Florida island wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, the Wild family encounters hunters and an is...
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The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands
1953
The Limping Man
5.368/19
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a...
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The Limping Man
1968
A Flea in Her Ear
6.5/6
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
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A Flea in Her Ear
1954
The Weak and the Wicked
6.5/12
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At...
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The Weak and the Wicked
1970
The Reckoning
7.5/16
Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to hi...
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The Reckoning
1971
Doctors' Wives
4.941/17
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and...
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Doctors' Wives
1973
Baffled!
5.609/23
Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 14...
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Baffled!
1961
Girl on Approval
7.25/4
Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after...
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Girl on Approval
1957
The Good Companions
7/1
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Good Companions
1969
Destiny of a Spy
9/1
A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love w...
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Destiny of a Spy
1953
Valley of Song
8/1
A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd. Bas...
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Valley of Song
1960
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
8/1
A dramatized account of a Victorian cause célèbre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for...
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A Subject of Scandal and Concern
1966
Blithe Spirit
7/1
The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to condu...
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Blithe Spirit
1979
The Sorrows of Gin
10/2
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.
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The Sorrows of Gin
1980
The Hostage Tower
4.75/8
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, th...
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The Hostage Tower
1971
Wild Rovers
6.144/52
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too ol...
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Wild Rovers
1973
The Belstone Fox
7.458/12
Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In...
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The Belstone Fox
1977
A Circle of Children
8/1
A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.
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A Circle of Children
1954
The Crowded Day
5.833/9
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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The Crowded Day
1960
Our Man in Havana
6.697/122
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t ve...
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Our Man in Havana
1974
Back of Beyond
0/0
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper a...
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Back of Beyond
1982
The Wall
6.833/6
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held o...
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The Wall
1992
Under Milk Wood
7/2
A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
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Under Milk Wood
1979
The Old Crowd
5.4/10
George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortuna...
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The Old Crowd
1974
Graceless Go I
10/1
Film "Graceless Go I" based of the 1969 novel of the same name by Anthony Storey. A young and crass Yorkshire footballer and teacher embroils himself...
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Graceless Go I
1972
You're Free
0/0
Speaking from his Oldham home today, Mr Rick Taylor, this weekend's big winner, said "The money will not change my life."'
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You're Free
1966
Frankenstein Mark 2
0/0
A stranger calls at the home of divorcée Anna Preston, asking to collect some of her ex-husband's belongings. Anna agrees, but is suspicious, and trie...
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