Date of birth: 1896-07-10
Place of birth: Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Beatrice Evelyn Varley


1960-06-01
Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of pass

1953-08-07
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

1943-08-06
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage ac

1958-12-29
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in

1961-04-29
Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe (Ronald Hines). Paula Brown (Maureen Connell)

1959-04-29
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.

1946-07-08
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington

1956-11-27
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used

1957-09-15
A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabb

1942-02-02
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a
1951-01-01
A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depress
1959-01-01
A BAFTA award nominated dramatised documentary telling the story of two steelworkers who attempt to

1947-07-09
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

1950-12-01
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have

1947-08-13
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued

1953-05-01
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school w

1944-11-20
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Corn

1947-08-05
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the

1947-06-24
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

1948-02-08
Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?

1945-01-24
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mar

1939-07-03
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with ma

1943-03-01
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players

1948-02-05
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the

1948-02-18
The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect. Note this should not
1954-05-11
Be careful of what you wish for - it might come true, but no in the way you expect.

1946-12-23
Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they inve
1944-01-01
A young couple prepare for post-war marriage. Propaganda short encouraging women to contribute to th

1943-01-01
An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) w

1954-12-01
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motor

1936-10-06
Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After ponderin

1962-12-28
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George T

1944-03-20
Four pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.

1945-02-05
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft

1943-08-16
John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to

1958-12-12
A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.

1949-06-07
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his

1957-04-22
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

1948-04-28
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in p

1948-08-19
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young

1957-08-20
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small

1952-11-10
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to ke

1942-10-05
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a h

1949-05-31
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.

1945-11-15
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.

1956-11-08
A mixed party of West Indian settlers arrives in London, where they encounter prejudice from the whi

1943-06-01
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the service

1957-10-01
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circum

1947-06-17
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a marri

1954-03-15
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the

1945-10-29
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable

1945-07-09
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with

1957-07-23
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

1950-05-31
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a promin

1944-05-18
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left p

1947-08-20
Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be

1943-05-16
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service)

1950-09-08
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
1938-11-16
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver

1956-06-19
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NH

1937-10-18
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inherit
1961-01-01
A woman and her injured son are detained by one crook, whilst the other takes the safe keys to rob a

1950-11-06
Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in part

1943-04-15
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a B

1948-08-19
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young