Rachel Roberts
Date of birth: 1927-09-20
Place of birth: Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Рэйчел Робертс
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rachel Roberts (20 September 1927 – 26 November 1980) was a Welsh actress noted for her fervour and passion; Roberts is best remembered for her forthright screen performances in two key films of the 1960s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, in both of which she played the older mistress of the central male character. In Australia, she is remembered for her performance as Mrs Appleyard in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel Roberts (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Murder on the Orient Express
1974-11-22
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975-09-02
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the s
Yanks
1979-09-01
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
1975-01-01
A documentary exploring the fascinating subject of the film, its production history and success. The
O Lucky Man!
1973-03-25
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960-10-27
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, o
Foul Play
1978-07-14
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albino
When a Stranger Calls
1979-08-24
A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasin
Great Expectations
1974-01-01
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that h
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981-02-13
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a
This Sporting Life
1963-02-07
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a
Alpha Beta
1976-08-04
E. A. Whitehead adapted the script of Alpha Beta from his own play. Albert Finney is cast as "The Ma
The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands
1978-02-28
While studying the behavior of birds on one of the western Florida island wetlands in the Gulf of Me
The Limping Man
1953-12-11
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved
A Flea in Her Ear
1968-11-27
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
The Weak and the Wicked
1954-02-02
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence
The Reckoning
1970-01-31
Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 ye
Doctors' Wives
1971-02-03
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their caree
Baffled!
1973-04-11
Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal cr
Girl on Approval
1961-01-01
Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a childr
The Good Companions
1957-04-22
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Destiny of a Spy
1969-10-27
A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotag
Valley of Song
1953-06-08
A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah"
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
1960-11-06
A dramatized account of a Victorian cause célèbre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true s
Blithe Spirit
1966-12-07
The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and
The Sorrows of Gin
1979-10-24
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their negl
The Hostage Tower
1980-09-19
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel
Wild Rovers
1971-06-23
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods
The Belstone Fox
1973-01-01
Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a
A Circle of Children
1977-03-10
A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child w
The Crowded Day
1954-10-01
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Our Man in Havana
1960-01-27
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter
Back of Beyond
1974-11-14
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only
The Wall
1982-02-16
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of
Under Milk Wood
1992-04-19
A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
The Old Crowd
1979-01-27
George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in Londo
Graceless Go I
1974-10-08
Film "Graceless Go I" based of the 1969 novel of the same name by Anthony Storey.