Googie WithersFilmography

Country Life

Actors: Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, John Hargreaves, Kerry Fox, Michael Blakemore

Synopsis: This Australian drama has been adapted from Chekov's Uncle Vanya. It is set in post WW I Australia at a time when the Aussies were getting ready to break away from England. After his father's death, Jack Dickens sacrificed his literary aspirations to run the family farm. He lives in the old farm Read More

Ending Up

Synopsis: Made for British television, this is a black comedy/drama concerning the exploits of five elderly people whose friendship during one long Christmas holiday is sorely tested. The film features a notable cast of distinguished performers from stage and film. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Northanger Abbey

Actors: Katherine Schlesinger, Peter Firth, Googie Withers, Robert Hardy

Synopsis: Northanger Abbey was filmed in England and first telecast in the U.S. on December 2, 1987. This 90-minute adaptation of Jane Austen's 1818 novel incorporates the author's usual interconnecting themes of true love and acquisition of wealth, and tosses in a little Gothic mystery for good measure. Katherine Schlesinger Read More

Hotel Du Lac

Synopsis: This made-for-TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel is an account of a novelist, still smarting from a failed relationship, who finds refuge at a Swiss lakefront resort. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Time After Time

Actors: John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Helen Cherry, Ursula Howells, Brenda Bruce

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Molly Keane, this literary drama focuses on the mutually antagonistic lives of three aging Irish sisters and a brother who live together in a run-down family mansion. One of the sisters is a widow, another a shoplifter, and a third a happy-go-lucky type. Although their brother Read More

Within These Walls [TV Series]

Actors: Googie Withers, Katherine Blake, Sarah Lawson, Jerome Willis, Mona Bruce

Synopsis: The British drama series Within These Walls chronicled the lives of those unfortunate souls incarcerated in Stone Park, a tough woman's prison. Running four years and 52 episodes, the series was on long enough to require the services of three different female wardens, each with her own penal Read More

The Nickel Queen

Actors: John Laws, Alfred Sandor

Synopsis: In this drama, a pub owner who lives in the Australian outback stakes a claim to an area where nickel is found. An American company buys her out on the condition that she not sell her shares in the company for a year, giving the company head a chance to make false reports and overvalue the Read More

Port of Escape

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two WW II veterans become fugitives from the police after one of them kills a man during a fight. A friendly reporter offers them sanctuary aboard her boat, but one of the two is so flighty he is almost psychotic. His erratic actions attract too much attention and during a Read More

Devil on Horseback

Actors: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Meredith Edwards, Liam Redmond

Synopsis: Real-life husband and wife John McCallum and Googie Withers top the cast of Devil on Horseback. A racetrack drama, the film centers on the activities of natural-born jockey Moppy Parfitt (Jeremy Spencer). As he gains prominence on the track, Moppy becomes insufferably egotistical. His "win at all Read More

Derby Day

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Googie Withers, John McCallum

Synopsis: Derby Day is a typically British omnibus feature, delineating the fates of several different people during a single day at the racetrack. Peter Graves (not the American actor of the same name) plays a superficial movie star who has been won in a fan-magazine raffle by housemaid Suzanne Cloutier. 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

Traveller's Joy

Actors: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Yolande Donlan, Maurice Denham, Colin Gordon

Synopsis: Real-life Mr. and Mrs. John McCallum and Googie Withers star in Travellers Joy. McCallum and Withers are cast as Reggie and Bumble Pelham, a divorced couple living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm. Before they can leave for their native England, Reggie and Bumble must first pay their hotel bill. To Read More

White Corridors

Actors: Googie Withers, Gerard Heinz, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle, Barry Jones

Synopsis: White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Read More

The Magic Box

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, John Charlesworth, James Kenney

Synopsis: The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler Read More

Night and the City

Actors: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: Jules Dassin's Night and the City opens with cheap grifter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) running for his life through the streets of London. Harry wants to be big-time, and he does not care how he raises cash for his schemes. Like a junkie, he uses and steals from his girlfriend Mary (Gene Tierney Read More

Once Upon a Dream

Actors: Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Guy Middleton, Betty Lynne, David Horne

Synopsis: British film star Googie Withers took a break from the steamy melodramas that had previously been her specialty in Once Upon a Dream. Withers plays Carol Gilbert, happily married to Major Gilbert (Guy Middleton). One evening, Carol dreams of an extramarital affair with Gilbert's former aide Read More

Miranda

Actors: Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum, Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis: Based on the play by Peter Blackmore, Miranda was the first of two British comedies starring Glynis Johns as a mischievous mermaid. Rescued from a watery grave by the finny-tailed Miranda (Johns), handsome doctor Paul Marten (Griffith Jones) agrees under durress to take his lovely rescuer to Read More

The Loves of Joanna Godden

Actors: Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Derek Bond, Henry Mollison, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: Set in the early 20th century, The Loves of Joanna Godden stars Googie Withers in the title role. The heir to a prosperous farm in the Romney Marshes, the headstrong Joanna shocks and outrages her tradition-bound neighbors by running the farm herself, refusing to enter into an arranged marriage Read More

It Always Rains on Sunday

Actors: Googie Withers, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett

Synopsis: After the war, British films began avoiding the heiresses and lordships that had dominated the drama field and began pursuing "realism" -- which often was just as artificial as the earlier white-telephone pictures. John McCallum plays Tommy Swann, a product of the working class who tries to better Read More

Dead of Night

Actors: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Considered the greatest horror anthology film, the classic British chiller Dead of Night features five stories of supernatural terror from four different directors, yet it ultimately feels like a unified whole. The framing device is simple but unsettling, as a group of strangers find themselves Read More

Pink String and Sealing Wax

Actors: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson, Sally Ann Howes, Googie Withers

Synopsis: The title is whimsical, but the storyline isn't. Googie Withers plays the frustrated wife of a 1880s Brighton tavern keeper, looking for an easy way out of the relationship. Withers entices a chemist's son to act as accomplice in a tricky murder scheme. She is certain that no one will suspect that Read More

They Came to a City

Actors: Mabel Terry-Lewis, Frances Rowe, A.E. Matthews, Raymond Huntley, Renée Gadd

Synopsis: This drama was faithfully adapted from a popular play and features many of the original actors. It is the story of how a carefully selected group of people prepare to live in the "ideal" city, a place totally different from the cities they are used to. As they get ready, each one presents his or Read More

On Approval

Actors: Clive Brook, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers, Roland Culver, O.B. Clarence

Synopsis: English actor Clive Brook's only directorial effort, On Approval, is based upon Frederick Lonsdale's frothy 1926 play, though reset in the late 19th century. Brook plays George, a titled duke whose wealth has largely been spent but who has no intention of settling further into genteel poverty. Read More

The Silver Fleet

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell

Synopsis: In this war drama set during WW II, an engineer in a Dutch shipyard assists the Nazis with the construction of two new kinds of submarines and finds himself a social pariah. Even his wife turns against her apparently traitorous husband. During the maiden voyage of one of the subs, the engineer Read More

Back Room Boy

Synopsis: British radio funster Arthur Askey inherits British film comedian Will Hay's longtime stooges Moore Marriot and Graham Moffatt in Back Room Boy. Big-Hearted Askey plays a cuckoo scientist seeking peace and quiet in a Scottish lighthouse. No such luck: the house is being used as a rendezvous for Read More

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Actors: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Pamela Brown, Hugh Burden

Synopsis: This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Six British bomber crewmen are obliged to bail out over Holland. To escape detection from the Nazis, the crewmen accept the hospitality of several Hollanders, all Read More

Jeannie

Actors: Barbara Mullen, Wilfred Lawson, Phyllis Stanley, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Barbara Mullen stars as Jeannie, a spirited Scots girl who comes into an inheritance. She heads for her family castle after encountering numerous adventures on a Continental holiday. Jeannie also finds romance in the form of handsome washing machine salesman Stewart Granger, who wins out over the Read More

Haunted Honeymoon

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton

Synopsis: Released in America as Haunted Honeymoon, this droll British comedy-mystery stars Hollywood's Robert Montgomery as Dorothy L. Sayers' erudite amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Upon marrying mystery writer Harriet Vane (Constance Cummings), Lord Peter swears off crime-solving and embarks upon his Read More

Murder in the Night

Actors: Jack LaRue, Sandra Storme, Bernard Lee, Martin Walker, James Hayter

Synopsis: Originally released in England in 1938 as Murder in Soho, this moody melodrama was advertised in America as "The rapid-fire story of an underworld mobster with a social bee in his bonnet and a rod on his hip"(Whew!) The mobster in question is Steve Marco, played with appropriate sneering menace by Read More

Bulldog Sees It Through

Synopsis: Though the title might suggest that Bulldog Sees it Through is another entry in the never-ending "Bulldog Drummond" series, this British programmer is instead a comedy-melodrama vehicle for song-and-dance- man Jack Buchanan. Our hero plays the butler to aviator Sebastian Shaw. Smarting over losing Read More

Trouble Brewing

Synopsis: Most of British regional comedian George Formby's vehicles were released in the US through Columbia Pictures; somehow Trouble Brewing slipped through the cracks. Bucktoothed Formby plays a newspaper printer who wins big at the racetrack. Unfortunately he is paid off in counterfeit bills. To avoid Read More

The Gang's All Here

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Googie Withers, Edward Everett Horton, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Dapper musical comedy favorite Jack Buchanan is practically the whole show in The Gang's All Here. Buchanan plays John Forrest, top investigator for the Stamford Insurance Company. Retiring from the firm, Forrest intends to devote the rest of his life to writing detective fiction, but this plan Read More

She Couldn't Say No

Dead Men Are Dangerous

Synopsis: Dead Men are Dangerous stars Robert Newton as a shabby, unsuccessful writer. Newton is of the opinion that he might improve his chances of selling his work if only he could acquire a better wardrobe. As luck would have it, he stumbles across the immaculately attired corpse of a wealthy man. Newton Read More

Strange Boarders

Actors: Tom Walls, Renée Saint-Cyr, Googie Withers, Ronald Adam, C.V. France

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a secret service agent is assigned to investigate the death of a bag lady who was discovered to be carrying highly classified airplane blueprints. He ends up taking a room at the boarding house where she lived. There he soon discovers that all of her housemates are part of Read More

You're the Doctor

Synopsis: In this comedy a young woman weasels out of a vacation with her parents and away from the young man they want her to date by conning a scientist to pose as a doctor and tell them she is terribly ill. The daughter and her "physician" end up traversing the country in their attempts to avoid her Read More

Convict 99

Synopsis: Beloved British comedian Will Hay plays Benjamin Twist, a disgraced school master who goes to an agency to apply for a job heading up a reform school for difficult boys. The agency mistakenly believes he is a Mr. Benjamin, a tough prison warden, and he is assigned to one of the country's nastiest Read More

If I Were Boss

Kate Plus Ten

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a police inspector pursues a Lord's secretary suspected of stealing his gold bullion. She is the prime suspect because she is the leader of an infamous gang of thieves. The cops do not realize that the gang acted on their own accord. The secretary and the inspector then team Read More

The Lady Vanishes

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock's comedy-thriller, came at the end of his British period; this film's success brought Hitchcock to the attention of Hollywood. He would complete only one other British production, Jamaica Inn, before crossing the Atlantic to working for David O. Selznick on Rebecca Read More

Paid in Error

Synopsis: In this comedy, a poor fellow is only able to survive because his landlady is willing to overlook his lack of payment. His luck changes when a bank teller makes an error in his favor. The delighted fellow immediately goes on a major spending spree. Meanwhile the head cashier and boyfriend of the Read More

Action for Slander

Actors: Clive Brook, Ann Todd, Margaretta Scott, Arthur Margetson, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: This film takes a look at British decorum and civilities when a highly conscientious army officer is accused of cheating at cards and turns to the courts to clear his name. At stake, of course, is his good name and the respect of his peers. The film depicts the British class and court systems and Read More

Pearls Bring Tears

Synopsis: A broken string of pearls provides the basis for this comedy. The pearls are lost by a woman who had borrowed the necklace to wear to a dance. It wouldn't be such a problem had not the pearls been loaned to her husband as security for a business deal. She tries to get them repaired, but they are Read More

The Gaiety Girls

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Patricia Ellis, Arthur Riscoe, Googie Withers, Sydney Fairbrother

Synopsis: British musical-comedy star Jack Hulbert and Hollywood ingenue Patricia Ellis share top billing in Gaiety Girls (aka Paradise for Two). Hulbert plays Martin, a straight-laced Parisian millionaire who falls in love with saucy chorus girl Jeannette (Ellis). The plot requires that Martin pose as a Read More

Accused

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Dolores Del Rio, Florence Desmond, Basil Sydney, Athole Stewart

Synopsis: Accused is a British melodrama starring American actor (and confirmed Anglophile) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Somewhat incongruously cast as an Apache dancer, Fairbanks and his dance partner/wife Dolores Del Rio headline a Paris musical. Fairbanks becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of Read More

King of Hearts

Synopsis: In this comedy, an aristocratic fellow encounters opposition from his mother after he falls in love with a lowly waitress. To stop the affair, the meddlesome matriarch gets the girl fired, and then tries bribing her father into helping her bust up the happy couple. Unfortunately, the woman's Read More

Crown Vs Stevens

Synopsis: Having a great deal in common with the plots of later film noir classics, Crown Vs. Stevens was one of five films that Michael Powell directed for producer Irving Asher. Ex-dancer and femme fatale Doris Stevens, in need of money to pay off a loan shark, has married wealthy Arthur Stevens only to Read More

Crime over London

Actors: Joseph Cawthorn, Basil Sydney, Margot Grahame, Paul Cavanagh, Renee Ray

Synopsis: In this British gangster movie, a Chicago gang goes to cool their heels in London. There they try to overtake the town. Meanwhile the mob boss searches for the perfect job. He convinces a millionaire, the owner of a department store, to help his gang rob the store blind. The plot fails and the Read More

She Knew What She Wanted

Synopsis: In this comedy, a spoiled brat of a young socialite finds herself tossed out of finishing school. This does not cure her of her selfish, manipulative ways, and perhaps it is for the best as everything the woman wants she gets, including her dream lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dark World

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, a jealous man seeks to murder his brother. He plans on electrocuting him, but slips up and fries the wrong fellow. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Windfall

Synopsis: In this drama, an aging ironworker inherits enough money to lead a comfortable life. Unfortunately his family seems determined to squander his new-found wealth. First his son becomes a lazy slug; then his brother kills someone. The ironworker decides to teach them a lesson. He returns to work and Read More

The Love Test

Actors: Judy Gunn, Louis Hayward, David Hutcheson, Googie Withers, Morris Harvey

Synopsis: This early comedy from director Michael Powell centers around a number of corporate researchers who are trying to discover a way to flameproof celluloid. (The tests are performed on little celluloid "dolls.") The team is headed by a Chief Chemist, who as the movie opens, announces that he will Read More

All at Sea

Synopsis: When a bland clerk gets a small wad of cash from an inheritance, he throws all caution to the wind. He quits his job, leaves home, and takes a incredible cruise at sea. Assuming the role of a writer, he attracts women to him on the ship, but his capers also start to attract trouble. ~ All Movie Read More

Her Last Affaire

Actors: Hugh Williams, Viola Keats, Francis L. Sullivan, Sophie Stewart, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1929 as S.O.S. (also the title of the Walter Ellis play that is its basis), Her Last Affaire switches the sexes of its leading characters so that the protagonist is now a male, Alan Heriot (Hugh Williams). Heriot is the secretary to Sir Julian Weyre (Francis L. Sullivan) a Read More

The Girl in the Crowd

Synopsis: David Gordon runs a bookshop that draws its customers primarily from the nearby college. One of these patrons is the attractive Marian, who has caught David's eye and married him. Bob, David's best friend, has never met Marian, but while talking to her on the phone one day confides that he is Read More