Phyllis CalvertFilmography

Victoria Wood [TV Series]

Actors: Victoria Wood, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Duncan Preston, Lill Roughley

Synopsis: Having previously headlined a series of short TV skits and monologues, British comedienne-composer Victoria Wood graduated to the anthology format in this six-episode offering. Individual episode titles included "Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah," "The Library," "Over to Pam," "We'd Quite Like to Read More

The Woman He Loved

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Phyllis Calvert, Olivia de Havilland, Lucy Gutteridge, Robert Hardy, Jane Seymour, Julie Harris

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, The Woman He Loved is the story of the romance between Britain's King Edward VII (Anthony Andrews) and American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson (Jane Seymour). Forbidden by the Church of England and Royal Protocol to wed Mrs. Simpson, Edward abdicates in 1936, spending Read More

Across the Lake

Synopsis: Across the Lake details the final two months in the life of British "speed king" Donald Campbell, here played by the ubiquitous Anthony Hopkins. Haunted by the spectre of his equally famous father, who years earlier had set the world land speed record, Campbell is determined to carve his own niche Read More

Death of the Heart

Actors: Jojo Cole, Patricia Hodge, Nigel Havers, Wendy Hiller, Miranda Richardson

Synopsis: Based on what some consider to be Elizabeth Bowen's best novel, The Death of the Heart focuses on one of her primary themes, a young woman's first love. Portia Quayne (Jojo Cole) is orphaned, and at the age of 16 she must go live with her relatives, Anna (Patricia Hodge) and Thomas Quayne (Nigel Havers Read More

The Walking Stick

Actors: David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Emlyn Williams, Phyllis Calvert, Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Winston Graham, The Walking Stick stars Samantha Eggar as Deborah, a polio-stricken woman courted by charming artist Leigh Hartley (David Hemmings). She moves in with Leigh, who immediately suggests that she help him rob the antique store where she works. Her common sense Read More

Oh! What a Lovely War

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell, Ian Holm

Synopsis: Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by Joan Littlewood. The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms, beginning with a verbal free-for-all involving the Crowned Heads of Europe. The war is presented Read More

Twisted Nerve

Actors: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Phyllis Calvert, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: In a disturbing movie about psychosis, Hayley Mills plays Susan Harper, a young student who tries to help a rich, emotionally ill and sinister young man, Martin Durnley (Hywel Bennett). Martin is a schizophrenic who assumes the personality of a six-year-old boy when he is in his "nice" phase. Read More

The Affair at Villa Fiorita

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd, Phyllis Calvert, Olivia Hussey, Martin Stephens

Synopsis: Originally released in Great Britain as The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, this film is not a wartime epic but a cozy domestic drama. Maureen O'Hara plays an American woman who leaves British husband Richard Todd, taking their two children along. While vacationing on the Riviera, Maureen falls in Read More

Oscar Wilde

Actors: Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Neville, Ralph Richardson, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Robert Morley is ideally cast as the legendary playwright, poet, and wit Oscar Wilde in this biographical look at the author's tumultuous life. While he was married to a woman named Constance (Phyllis Calvert), Wilde was primarily attracted to men, and at the height of his fame, he became involved Read More

A Lady Mislaid

Synopsis: In this comedy, two spinsters find their holiday in a rented cabin interrupted when a police detective appears looking for the corpse of the former renter's wife. A skeleton is discovered and the man is formally charged for the murder of his wife until it is revealed that the skeleton belongs to Read More

The Young and the Guilty

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Andrew Ray, Edward Chapman, Janet Munro, Campbell Singer

Synopsis: The Young and the Guilty was part of the "misunderstood youth" British film cycle of the 1950s. Young Eddie (Andrew Ray) and Sue (Janet Munro) are in love, albeit chastely. One of the kids sends a mash note to the other, which is intercepted by their parents. There's nothing remotely suggestive in Read More

Indiscreet

Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff

Synopsis: Adapted by Norman Krasna from his play Kind Sir, Indiscreet stars Ingrid Bergman as a wealthy actress and Cary Grant as an international financial wizard. While Grant is visiting London, Bergman's sister Phyllis Calvert and brother-in-law Cecil Parker introduce Grant to Bergman. Because he feels Read More

Child in the House

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman, Stanley Baker, Mandy Miller, Dora Bryan

Synopsis: In this tragic melodrama, a lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to Read More

It's Never Too Late

Synopsis: It's Never Too Late stars Phyllis Calvert as a sedate and settled British wife and mother. Deciding that her family has taken her for granted far too long, the bored Ms. Calvert types up a movie script. Her work becomes a hit film and Phyllis suddenly finds herself a celebrity. Now she must choose Read More

Project M7

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Muriel Pavlow

Synopsis: Project M7 is the American title for the British The Net. Based on a novel by John Pudney, the film is set in an aviation research station. At the moment, the researchers are working on a revolutionary new aircraft, and competition to be first with the results is fierce. There's little love lost Read More

The Story of Mandy

Mandy

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan, Mandy Miller, Godfrey Tearle

Synopsis: Released in Britain as Crash of Silence, Mandy is a straightforward story about a handicapped child's efforts to adapt to a normal world. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. Her desperate parents enroll her in special education classes. It's a slow, uphill climb, but by film's end Read More

Appointment with Danger

Actors: Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling, Jack Webb

Synopsis: Al Goddard, (Alan Ladd) special investigator for the U.S. post office, is assigned to collar two criminals who've murdered a postal detective. Goddard must first locate the only witness to the crime, attractive young nun, Sister Augustine (Phyllis Calvert). Posing as a crook, Goddard gains the Read More

Mr. Denning Drives North

Actors: John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore, Sam Wanamaker, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Mr. Denning (John Mills) is bedeviled by a blackmailer with whom his daughter Liz (Eileen Moore) has fallen in love. In a sudden fit of rage, Denning murders the scoundrel. Panicking, he drives northward with the corpse in the back seat, dumps the body in a lonely rural area, and carefully Read More

The Woman with No Name

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Edward Underdown, Helen Cherry, Richard Burton

Synopsis: The title is a reference to the mental state of leading lady Phyllis Calvert. Ms. Calvert plays an amnesiac, a victim of the wartime air raids, whose past is literally closed off to her. She doesn't know why, but everyone at every turn seems to want something from her--and some of these strangers Read More

The Golden Madonna

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, Tullio Carminatti, David Greene, Al Silvani

Synopsis: The Golden Madonna is a peppy romantic adventure, utilizing its tight budget to the utmost. British actress Phyllis Calvert plays an American girl who inherits an Italian villa. Part of the legacy is "The Golden Madonna", a valuable religious painting. When the painting is stolen, Calvert enlists Read More

My Own True Love

Synopsis: After supervising several of the best "psychological" horror films ever made, producer Val Lewton shifted his base of operations from RKO to Paramount. Lewton's first project at his new studio -- and the last -- was My Own True Love, an uncharacteristically sentimental offering. Based on the novel Read More

Broken Journey

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Margot Grahame, James Donald, Francis L. Sullivan, Raymond Huntley

Synopsis: This disaster movie is based on the true story of ways in which a diverse group of plane passengers managed to survive after their plane crashed in the Swiss Alps. Some of the surviving passengers were publically prominent people. All of them had to face new challenges that tested their inner Read More

Time out of Mind

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind is a slow-moving costume drama enlivened by its stars. Servant girl Kate Ferald (Phyllis Calvert, in her first Hollywood film) falls in love with Christopher Fortune (Robert Hutton), the scion of a wealthy New England sailing family. Read More

The Magic Bow

Actors: Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: The dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger is at least physically well cast as the charismatic 18th century violinist Paganini. The fact that the illusion explodes whenever he opens his mouth mattered not at all to Granger's legions of British female fans. Luckily for the screenwriters, Paganini was Read More

The Root of All Evil

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, John McCallum, Michael Rennie, Brefni O'Rourke, Arthur Young

Synopsis: Based on a novel by J. S. Fletcher, The Root of All Evil casts Phyllis Calvert as a grimly ambitious woman scorned. Jilted by wealthy Albert Grice (Hubert Gregg), farmer's daughter Jeckie Farnish (Calvert) vows to accumulate enough money so as to never again be dependent on any man's attentions. Read More

Men of Two Worlds

Actors: Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Orlando Martins, Robert Adams, Cyril Raymond

Synopsis: An aboriginal man is torn between the modern world in which he lives and the ancient culture in which he was brought up in this British drama. Kisenga (Robert Adams) is a musician and composer who has risen from his humble birth in a primitive African tribe to popular and critical success in Read More

They Were Sisters

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray, Anne Crawford, James Mason, Barry Livesey

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Dorothy Whipple, the British They Were Sisters is not so far removed from the standard Hollywood plot of three sisters' lives taking divergent paths. The siblings in this instance are Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray and Anne Crawford. Each sister is married, thus the film Read More

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville

Synopsis: A classic in gothic-romantic excess, Madonna of Seven Moons was one of the most successful British films of its genre. Though she doesn't know it at first, young convent-bred Rosalinda (Phyllis Calvert) has been born under a curse: before her life comes to a close, she will be wife, mother and Read More

2,000 Women

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renee Houston, Reginald Purdell

Synopsis: The "2000 Women" of the film's title are the female inmates in a WW II German concentration camp in France. Though many of the women don't get along, they are united in their hatred for their Nazi captors. The story takes a truly melodramatic turn when three English airmen parachute into the camp Read More

Man of Evil

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfred Lawson, Stewart Granger, Jean Kent

Synopsis: In this period drama from England, Fanny Hopwood (Phyllis Calvert), upon graduating from finishing school, returns to her family's home in London. However, bad luck awaits her at nearly every turn. After her father is killed in a fist fight by the aristocratic but dastardly Lord Manderstoke (James Mason Read More

The Man in Grey

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Stewart Granger, Raymond Lovell

Synopsis: A set of flashbacks to 19th century London provide the action in this British wartime film, in which a wealthy girl (Phyllis Calvert) becomes friends with a young waif (Margaret Lockwood) while at school. The waif later becomes a governess for the girl, but betrays their relationship by having an Read More

The Young Mr. Pitt

Actors: Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills, Max Adrian, Raymond Lovell

Synopsis: Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th century British prime minister William Pitt Jr., here played by Robert Donat. Appointed to his office at the tender age of 24, Mr. Pitt spends most of his time in Parliament Read More

Uncensored

Actors: Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones, Irene Handl, Peter Glenville, Frederick Culley

Synopsis: This WWII drama, based on a novel by Oscar E. Millard, takes place in Nazi-occupied Belgium. Andre Delange (Eric Portman) owns a nightclub but is connected with the resistance movement. He used to secretly publish an anti-Nazi paper before the German invasion. Now his underground comrades want to Read More

Kipps

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Wilding, Sr., Arthur Riscoe, Max Adrian, Philip Sydney Frost

Synopsis: Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash society; it was later the basis of the Tommy Steele musical Half a Sixpence. Michael Redgrave is Arthur Kipps, a nondescript storekeeper who finds himself heir to a large Read More

Mail Train

Actors: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert, Edward Chapman, Charles Oliver

Synopsis: One of the few "Inspector Hornleigh" films to gain a wide US distribution, Mail Train stars Gordon Harker as Hornleigh and Alastair Sim as his dumb-like-a-fox assistant Sergeant Bingham. Borrowing a bit from the 1939 British box-office hit Night Train, the plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a Read More

Neutral Port

Actors: Will Fyffe, Leslie Banks, Yvonne Arnaud, Phyllis Calvert, Hugh McDermott

Synopsis: Scottish stage, radio and film favorite Will Fyffe heads the cast of Neutral Port. The star is cast as crusty Captain Ferguson, who is forced to dry-dock his torpedoed ship at the mythical port of Esperanto. Anxious not to injure its neutrality, the country refuses to allow Ferguson to seize a Read More

They Came by Night

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Anthony Hulme, George Merritt, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Based on a play by Barre Lyndon, They Came by Night stars beloved Scottish actor Will Fyffe as jeweler James Fothergill. When a valuable ruby is stolen right from under his nose, Fothergill offers to help Scotland Yard capture the crooks. To do this, he pretends to go crooked himself, the better Read More

Let George Do It

Actors: George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby plays a dimwitted entertainer who is mistaken for a notorious Nazi spy. The misunderstanding is played to the hilt, culminating with our hero battling the forces of the Axis Read More

Charley's Big-Hearted Aunt

Synopsis: This film is an adaptation of the Brandon Thomas stage perennial Charley's Aunt, starring bespectacled British radio comedian Arthur Askey. Since Askey's professional nickname was "Big-Hearted Arthur", and since another Charley's Aunt starring Jack Benny went before the cameras in 1941, the title Read More

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