Anne HeywoodFilmography

Sadat

Synopsis: Louis Gossett Jr. was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat in this two-part made-for-TV biopic. With 4 hours at its disposal, Sadat is able to trace its protagonist from his formative years fighting against the British occupiers of his country. The second part of Read More

La Prima Volta Sull' Erba

Actors: Anne Heywood, Claudio Cassinelli, Mark Lester, Monica Guerritore, Bruno Zanin

Synopsis: A Frenchwoman vacationing with her daughter and a Viennese professor vacationing with his son meet in the Tyrolean Alps of Italy. Of a liberal persuasion, both parents actively encourage the two young people to get to know one another, and perhaps have their first sexual liaison; the two adults Read More

Sisters of Satan

Synopsis: The Mexican convent of St. Archangelo has a "bad rep" long before Sisters of Satan gets under way. The eponymous sisters don't seem to have a very firm grasp on the concept of giving one's life to one's Lord. When they finally determine that neither God nor the Virgin Mary can satisfy their Read More

Le Monache Di Sant' Archangelo

Synopsis: From the Middle Ages onward, certain monasteries and nunneries were basically elegant retirement homes for rich noblemen and noblewomen. The position of abbot or abbess at one of these institutions often carried with it considerable wealth and worldly power. So it comes as no surprise that the Read More

Trader Horn

Actors: Rod Taylor

Synopsis: This film is based on the 1931 film, Trader Horn. In the earlier picture, explorers (including Trader Horn) who stumbled on a hostile tribe of Africans have their lives saved by a white girl whom the tribe members regard as a goddess. They discover that she is the daughter of some missing Read More

L'assassino ...e al telefono

Synopsis: Alberto De Martino (L'anticristo) directed this standard Italian giallo thriller, the story of an actress named Eleanor Lorraine (Anne Heywood) who has developed amnesia since the murder of her husband Peter, and faints when she spots professional hit man Ranko (Telly Savalas). When she awakens Read More

I Want What I Want

Actors: Anne Heywood, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, Paul Rogers, Michael Coles, Sheila Reid, Virginia Stride, Jill Melford, Rachel Gurney, Anthony Sharp

Synopsis: John Dexter's film explores the struggles faced by a young British man who wants to live as a woman and considers a sex change operation. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Actors: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Carolyn Jones, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Inge, this drama follows the attempts of two doctors to help a 35-year-old educator deal with a brutal rape. The incident is complicated by the fact that she was a virgin when it happened and that her attacker was a man she had been trying to help. The racial Read More

La Monaca di Monza: Una storia lombarda

Synopsis: In this nasty drama, a 17th-century Italian nun's long repressed sexual passion is awakened when a handsome nobleman rapes her. Confused by her unholy emotions, the nun sees that the aristocrat is arrested. Unfortunately, the louse impregnated her and shortly after bearing his child, she helps him Read More

Midas Run

Actors: Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire, Ralph Richardson, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: A disgruntled British secret service officer and an aspiring author turn to crime when they are again passed over for prominent career advancements. John Pedley (Fred Astaire) is the agent who has been passed over for knighthood one too many times for his liking. He proposes a plan to university Read More

The Chairman

Actors: Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie, Conrad Yama

Synopsis: J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) directed this Cold War action thriller. Gregory Peck is the American Dr. John Hathaway, a Noble Prize-winning scientist, teaching at a university in London. Lieutenant General Shelby (Arthur Hill), from the American Embassy, asks Hathaway to go on a mission Read More

The Fox

Actors: Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea, Anne Heywood, Glyn Morris

Synopsis: Based on a novella by D.H. Lawrence, this drama concerns Jill (Sandy Dennis) and Ellen (Anne Heywood), a lesbian couple who live in a remote, snowbound cabin. While Ellen dominates the relationship, she has also grown dissatisfied and is no longer sure she wants to stay with Jill. When Paul (Keir Dullea Read More

Ninety Degrees in the Shade

Actors: Anne Heywood, James Booth, Rudolf Hrusínsky, Ann Todd, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: The Anglo-Czech coproduction 90 Degrees in the Shade stars British actress Anne Heywood as a grocery clerk embroiled in an affair with manager James Booth. Though she knows that Booth is good for nothing, she remains with him because of the intensity of their physical relationship. Company Read More

The Very Edge

Actors: Anne Heywood, Richard Todd, Jack Hedley, Nicole Maurey, Jeremy Brett

Synopsis: This melodramatic tale of a sexual assault on a married woman has a few implausible moments but is believably acted by Anne Heywood as Tracey, the victim, Richard Todd as her husband Lawrence, and Jack Hedley as the man from Scotland Yard sent to track down the violent attacker. Tracey is pregnant Read More

The Brain

Synopsis: This third film version of the Curt Siodmak scare piece Donovan's Brain stars Peter Van Eyck as an overly dedicated scientist. When a powerful and ruthless financier dies in a plane crash, Van Eyck keeps the tycoon's brain alive in his laboratory. Gradually, the brain takes over the doctor's mind Read More

Stork Talk

Actors: Tony Britton, Anne Heywood, John Turner, Daphne Anderson

Synopsis: Dr. Paul Vernon (Tony Britton) is a gynecologist who is estranged from his wife in this situation comedy of errors. He gets drunk at a party, picks up a pretty French girl and takes her home for a night of pleasure. The perplexed physician wakes up to find the French femme has spent the night in Read More

Petticoat Pirates

Actors: Charles Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner, Maxine Audley

Synopsis: Any movie with a title like Petticoat Pirates would be hard to dislike--and equally hard to believe. Anticipating the "feminist" films of the 1970s, the plot concerns a group of female officers in the British Navy. Angered by the sexism inherent in the Admiralty, the uniformed ladies stage a Read More

Cartagine in Fiamme

Actors: Anne Heywood, José Suárez, Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Ilaria Occhini

Synopsis: This costume drama with spectacular special effects but a less-than-adequate storyline was one of the last films by director Carmine Gallone. The tale is set in 200 BC when Rome and Carthage were going at it, sending warships into battle over control of Carthage. Against this backdrop of warfare Read More

The Night Fighters

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy, Cyril Cusack, Richard Harris

Synopsis: This uneven, wartime drama delves into the complexities of the political situation in Northern Ireland, compounded in World War II when the IRA collaborated with the Nazis against England, their long-time foe. Robert Mitchum stars as the heroic Dermot O'Neill, willing to join the IRA yet unhappy Read More

Upstairs and Downstairs

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, Sidney James, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims

Synopsis: A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) return from their honeymoon, they discover Read More

The Heart of a Man

Actors: Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood, Tony Britton, Peter Sinclair, Michael Medwin, Anthony Newley

Synopsis: Herbert Wilcox wrapped up his long and prestigious film career as the director of Heart of a Man, which was produced by Wilcox' actress wife Anna Neagle. British teen idol Frankie Vaughn plays a sailor with a penchant for bursting into song. Vaughn has no intention of making a living as a Read More

Violent Playground

Actors: Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum, Peter Cushing, John Slater

Synopsis: Violent Playground opens with a few West Side Story style shots of a Liverpool street gang, commandeered by a very nasty-looking David McCallum. We're going to be seeing a lot more of McCallum before the final fadeout: His sister (Anne Heywood) is in love with an upright police officer (Stanley Baker Read More

Floods of Fear

Actors: Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack, Harry H. Corbett, John Crawford

Synopsis: After years of suffering through lookalike MGM musicals (at least, that was his complaint), Howard Keel was able to sink his teeth into a dramatic role in the British Floods of Fear. Serving a life term for murder, Donavan (Howard Keel) breaks out of jail with sadistic convict Peebles (Cyril Read More

Dangerous Exile

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Richard O'Sullivan, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: What if the Dauphin of France managed to escape the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? That's the premise of the opulent British swashbuckler Dangerous Exile. Louis Jourdan stars as the Duc de Beauvais, who manages, at great personal sacrifice, to smuggle the son (Richard O'Sullivan) of Read More

The Depraved

Actors: Anne Heywood, Robert Arden, Carroll Levis

Synopsis: Who's "depraved" in the British Depraved? Just about everyone, it seems. Married to drunken, abusive lout Basil Dignam, Anne Heywood inaugurates an affair with American army officer Robert Arden. Anne convinces Arden to help her do away with her husband. As if this is going to solve things in a Read More

Checkpoint

Actors: Anthony Steel, Odile Versois, Stanley Baker, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Filmed in Italy, this pulse-pounding race-car melodrama stars Anthony Steel as ambitious driver Bill Fraser. Stanley Baker costars as O'Donovan, the purchasing agent for unscrupulous auto magnate Warren Ingram (James Robertson Justice). O'Donovan has no reservations about resorting to murder to Read More

Doctor at Large

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Dandy Nichols, Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Eaton

Synopsis: The third of the droll British "Doctor" series, Doctor at Large once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young Dr. Simon Sparrow. Back in his old stamping grounds at St. Swithin's Teaching Hospital, Sparrow misses his chance at becoming chief surgeon when he crosses swords with the formidable Sir Lancelot Read More

Find the Lady

Synopsis: In this comedy-thriller, a woman returns to the country to see her godmother only to learn that the old woman has mysteriously disappeared. She quickly enlists the aide of a doctor to help her look. Like her godmother, the woman ends up in the clutches of the robbers. The fugitive thieves have Read More

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Actors: Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Henson, Pauline Stroud

Synopsis: Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests. Waitress Marjorie (Pauline Stroud) enters one competition after another, hoping for fame and fortune. She manages to make the finals of a "Lady Godiva" contest, never Read More