Judith Anderson Filmography

Coffee, Tea, or Me?

Synopsis: An aspiring flight attendant learns "the friendly skies" is more than an advertising slogan in this adults-only escapade. Kathy (Tara Aire) is a college student who has grown tired of her studies and is interested in becoming a airline stewardess, much like her sister Julie (Judith Anderson). Read More

Hitchcock, II Brivido Del Genio

Actors: Patricia Hitchcock, Sylvia Sidney, Anne Baxter, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred Hitchcock. Among those interviewed who provide a bit of humor in the bargain are Philippe Noiret and Joan Fontaine. The "master of suspense" is shown according to stereotypes Read More

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, James Doohan

Synopsis: When last we left the crew of the star ship Enterprise, they were heading home following a skirmish with the despotic Khan. The unpleasant incident had cost the life of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy)--or so it seemed. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) is informed by Spock's Vulcan father Sarek (Mark Lenard Read More

Inn of the Damned

Actors: Hilary Bamberger, Don Barkham, Diana Dangerfield, Anna King, Nat Levison, Josie McKay, John Nash, Graham Ware, Louis Wishart

Synopsis: This Aussie/Western variation on the Psycho formula is set in the tiny Outback town of Gippsland in the 1890s, where travelers visiting a remote inn are being bumped off by a mysterious interloper. After a perfectly dreary hour or so, wily lawman Alex Cord solves the mystery that somehow managed Read More

The Borrowers

Actors: Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes

Synopsis: Fans of the 1970s cartoon series The Littles may enjoy its live-action spiritual ancestor The Borrowers. Dennis Larson plays an eight-year-old boy living in Victorian England. While exploring his aunt's (Dame Judith Anderson) mansion, Larson peeks under the floorboards...and what should he see but Read More

A Man Called Horse

Actors: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou, Corinna Tsopei

Synopsis: A Man Called Horse stars Richard Harris as Lord John Morgan, an English peer cast somewhat adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Lord Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. The Englishman passes many of the Read More

Elizabeth, the Queen

Synopsis: In this historical drama, the romantic and political relationships between England's Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex is chronicled. The two frequently engaged in power struggles, and it is she who causes his final downfall. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Why Bother to Knock?

Actors: Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey, Elke Sommer, June Thorburn, Judith Anderson, Rik Battaglia

Synopsis: In this British bedroom farce, Bill Ferguson (Richard Todd), a Scottish travel agent, has a major row with his fiancée Stella (June Thorburn) shortly before leaving for a jaunt through Europe. Considering himself free to do as he pleases, Bill gives keys to his Edinburgh apartment to a number of Read More

Cinderfella

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Both director Frank Tashlin and his comic star Jerry Lewis dilute their comic talents to play for the kiddie crowd in this fractured fairy tale version of the Cinderella story. This simply-told tale lards over the fairy story with un-needed songs and production numbers, but the basic story is Read More

Macbeth

Actors: Malcolm Keen, Maurice Evans, Judith Anderson, Michael Hordern, Ian Bannen, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: Breaking with their usual videotape tradition, the producers of NBC television's Hallmark Hall of Fame decided to commit its 1960 production of Macbeth to film. Maurice Evans stars as the fatally ambitious Scots warrior, with Judith Anderson as Lady MacBeth and Malcolm Keen as Duncan, whom MacBeth Read More

Medea

Synopsis: This ancient romance tells the story of Medea whose love for Jason inspires her to betray her homeland and let him to steal the Golden Fleece. Later, he becomes bored with her and this makes Medea angry. She soon goes out to get her revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

DuPont Show of the Month: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Actors: Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Viveca Lindfors, Eva Le Gallienne, Rita Gam

Synopsis: Previously filmed twice in Hollywood, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey was brought to television in this lavish, live, star-studded DuPont Show of the Month adaptation. The story essentially begins at the end -- July 20, 1714 -- when the famous San Luis Rey Read More

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Actors: Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood

Synopsis: This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over their dying father's millions. Wealthy plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), celebrating his 65th birthday, is visited by his sons, Brick (Paul Newman Read More

The Ten Commandments

Actors: James Coburn, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard Read More

Salome

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel, Charles Laughton

Synopsis: "Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a slogan which became laughable whenever a radio announcer would mispronounce Salome as "salami." Using the very sketchy Biblical story of the death of John the Baptist as its Read More

The Furies

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston give standout performances in this dark, psychological western, which Martin Scorsese has compared to the work of Dostoevsky. T.C. Jeffords (Huston) is a cunning and highly successful ranch owner who has announced his engagement to a wealthy socialite, Flo Read More

Tycoon

Actors: John Wayne, Laraine Day, Judith Anderson, James Gleason

Synopsis: This John Wayne adventure is set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful US mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. The two men lock horns over the route the railroad will take. The cost-conscious, people-insensitive industrialist wants Read More

The Red House

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Allene Roberts, Julie London

Synopsis: Delmer Daves directs the noirish thriller The Red House, based on the novel by George Agnew Chamberlain. Edward G. Robinson plays Pete Morgan, a farmer who harbors dark secrets and refuses to let anyone near the red house in the woods behind the house. In order to fend off trespassers, he hires Read More

Pursued

Actors: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Harry Carey, Jr., Alan Hale

Synopsis: Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the arrival of the men tracking them, as they try to reason out what has gone wrong in their lives. Jeb can't remember anything about his early childhood except for a horrible Read More

Specier of the Rose

Diary of a Chambermaid

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Octave Mirbeau, Diary of a Chambermaid is a noble experiment: a "Continental" sex drama with a virtually all-Anglo cast. Paulette Goddard plays the title character, a saucy servant named Celestine whose forthrightness has a curious effect on a wealthy Parisian household. Read More

The Specter of the Rose

Actors: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: Ben Hecht wrote and directed this bizarre comedy/suspense/dance film, featuring a discordant musical score by George Antheil. The film concerns a love affair between young, innocent ballerina Haidi (Viola Essen) and her psychotic genius dance partner Andre Sanine (Ivan Kirov). The crux of the tale Read More

Spectre of the Rose

Synopsis: Writer/director Ben Hecht brings "art" to the artless environs of Republic Pictures in the one-of-a-kind melodrama Spectre of the Rose. The film is set in the rarefied world of the Ballet, featuring a curious blend of ballet artists and veteran Hollywood character actors. Ivan Kirov plays Andre Read More

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Roman Bohnen, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Charles D. Brown, Ann Doran, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) is the prime mover of the small Pennsylvania town of Iverston. Martha lives in a huge mansion with her DA husband, Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), an Read More

And Then There Were None

Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez

Synopsis: Based on the classic novel by mystery author Agatha Christie that was later adapted as the Broadway hit Ten Little Indians , And Then There Were None begins with ten characters, each with a skeleton in his or her closet, on a remote island off the English coast. They soon realize that they have Read More

Laura

Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the film was ultimately credited to director Otto Preminger and cameraman Joseph LaShelle (who won an Read More

Stage Door Canteen

Actors: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early

Synopsis: This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising concerns. Most of the story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th Read More

Edge of Darkness

Actors: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Tom Fadden, Judith Anderson, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: The Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation of their country inspired several wartime films from Hollywood, including this Warner Bros. production, filmed in and around Monterey, California. In October 1942, a German observation airplane discovers a seaside village named Trollness where the Read More

All Through the Night

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving when Gloves tries to find out what's holding up his favorite restaurant's daily shipment of cheesecake. Paying a call on the bakery, Gloves stumbles into a Nazi spy ring Read More

Kings Row

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Betty Field, Charles Coburn

Synopsis: A seemingly quiet Midwestern town is the hiding place for a number of sordid secrets in this melodrama based on Henry Bellamann's best-selling novel. Parris Mitchell (Scotty Beckett) is a young boy growing up in the town of King's Row, where he becomes close friends with Cassandra (Mary Thomas), a Read More

Free and Easy

Actors: Robert Cummings, Ruth Hussey, Judith Anderson, C. Aubrey Smith, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: This brief (56-minute) MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Naturally, a few plot twists and supporting characters had to be eliminated, but at its base, the film follows the original plotline with reasonable fidelity. Hoping to land wealthy wives, a father-and-son Read More

Lady Scarface

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Frances Neal, Judith Anderson, Mildred Coles, Eric Blore

Synopsis: A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great Judith Anderson. Embittered over the ugly facial scar which covers the left side of her face, a woman named Slade becomes a criminal mastermind. The cops have no idea that Read More

Rebecca

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the classic psychological thriller Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock's first American film. Joan Fontaine plays the unnamed narrator, a young woman who works as a companion to the well-to-do Mrs. Van Hopper (Florence Bates). She meets the wealthy widower Maxim Read More

Forty Little Mothers

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Judith Anderson, Rita Johnson, Bonita Granville, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: In this drama, a former big-man-on-campus, finds himself almost destitute twenty years later because he cannot find a job. This does not prevent him from helping out a depressed single mother who is about to commit suicide. He saves her and helps her find a job as a waitress. She thanks him by Read More

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Actors: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Vincent Price, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale

Synopsis: It is no secret that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn were at each other's throats throughout the filming of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Boiled down to essentials: Davis felt that Flynn was unprofessional, while Flynn thought that Davis took herself too damned seriously. Besides, Davis Read More

Blood Money

Actors: George Bancroft, Frances Dee, Chick Chandler, Judith Anderson, Blossom Seeley

Synopsis: The passage of seven decades has not dimmed the impact of the powerhouse melodrama Blood Money. Written and directed by Rowland Brown, an aficionado of underworld fact and fiction, the film star Frances Dee as Elaine Talbert, a decadent young heiress who will do anything for a quick thrill. Her Read More