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Athene Seyler, CBE (31 May 1889 – 12 September 1990) was an English actress.
Although better known as a stage actress - she first appeared on the stage in 1909 - she made her film debut in 1921, and became known for playing slightly dotty old ladies in many British films from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Her most memorable stage credits included Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, and a double-act, with her good friend Dame Sybil Thorndike, as the murderous spinster sisters in Arsenic and Old Lace.
Her film and television career lasted into the 1960s, and included roles in The Citadel (1938), Night of the Demon (1957), and The Avengers (1964, 1965). She was also a regular cast member in screen adaptations of Charles Dickens' novels.
She virtually retired from acting after 1970, but continued making public appearances until well into the 1980s. In 1990, at the age of 101, she appeared at the National Theatre, talking about her long life and career.
Athene Seyler was President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1950, and a member of the Theatrical Ladies' Guild. She also wrote The Craft of Comedy.
She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1959.
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01 June 1957
A broke British nobleman targets his Canadian uncle, but other relatives get in the way.
02 February 1954
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts.
30 September 1936
A musical comedy of false identities.
23 December 1934
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha.
15 April 1938
A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.
19 February 1951
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
01 June 1952
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
20 September 1943
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
30 June 1939
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds.
05 February 1952
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
26 December 1960
A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.
05 August 1962
Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet.
08 August 1933
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met.
26 November 1935
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit.
14 September 1962
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison.
23 November 1958
All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village.
09 January 1937
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights.
16 May 1935
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes.
04 March 1958
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot.
09 April 1966
Two well meaning spinsters' plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount of money, which was not made by the Royal Mint.
15 March 1948
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
09 November 1957
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before.
09 August 1960
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns.
31 July 1939
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
12 March 1947
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
01 February 1934
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him.
03 January 1963
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse.
02 December 1938
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the e
01 November 1921
A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.
22 February 1962
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way.
16 May 1938
Wallflower Jane Wilton has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful and popular sister Beatrice. Making things worse, Beatrice is spiteful and cruel, directing all manner of nastiness towards the submissive and uncomplaining Jane.
13 September 1937
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
31 October 1932
An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.
12 July 1961
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
03 September 1957
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather.
20 June 1954
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.
01 January 1937
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
29 October 1938
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have.
15 March 1955
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine, are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist, and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them.
07 February 1958
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
26 March 1957
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr.
16 March 1949
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
01 December 1941
Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London.
16 December 1936
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up.
19 June 1956
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
31 March 1937
In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball.
14 November 1952
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find.
01 November 1951
A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.
12 November 1931
'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)
06 May 1936
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page.
24 August 1953
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
13 August 1947
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home.
01 November 1952
Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.
25 August 1960
The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing.
06 July 1934
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
19 April 1941
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
09 February 1960
A witty but dissolute peer is about to engage as his secretary a young man who turns out to be his illegitimate son.
01 May 1962
An American airman stationed in the United Kingdom strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he's killed him, the airman goes on the run with a woman.
31 March 1963
Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by aliens.
16 December 1936
An impoverished Irish Duchess tries to survive on her small income.
