Amy Veness

AKA: Amy Clarice Beart
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1876-02-25

Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amy Veness (26 February 1876 – 22 September 1960) was a British film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in The Huggetts Trilogy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Veness, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Mrs Armitage

1932-03-04 0

Murder on the Second Floor

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants... ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Comedy

Aunt Tabitha

1952-03-19 6.1

Angels One Five

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming ...
Genre :Drama, War

Donna Rosa

1934-03-01 0

A Southern Maid

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure. ...
Genre :Music

Mrs. Wixie

1951-04-17 6.9

Tom Brown's Schooldays

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; ...
Genre :Drama

Emily Smithers

1931-12-26 0

Tonight's the Night - Pass It On

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Flint

1944-05-28 7.2

This Happy Breed

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the suburbs, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and thre ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Forrester

1919-09-01 0

The Brat

An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing. He takes her i ...
Genre :Drama

Alice Smith

1950-03-17 4.5

The Astonished Heart

Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (N ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Annushka

1936-12-13 0

Black Roses

Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after several years in Hollywood. The delectable Harvey play ...
Genre :

Mrs. Scowcroft, Sally's Mother

1937-03-31 5

The Show Goes On

A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs. ...
Genre :

Seamstress

1948-05-12 6.8

Bond Street

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flem ...
Genre :Drama

Jenny

1941-07-22 6.2

This England

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Grandma Huggett

1948-12-02 6.5

Here Come the Huggetts

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Grandma

1949-02-01 6.6

Vote for Huggett

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center. ...
Genre :Comedy

Grandma Huggett

1949-03-21 6.6

The Huggetts Abroad

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truc ...
Genre :Comedy

Lady In The Train

1950-11-13 6.5

Portrait of Clare

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young. ...
Genre :Drama

Mother Moore

1935-05-16 6.8

Drake of England

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 o ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Aunt Eliza

1939-05-01 7.6

Flying Fifty-Five

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Lethbridge

1917-11-19 0

Please Help Emily

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Petal Schultze

1933-12-06 0

Red Wagon

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Heaviside

1944-05-08 5.7

Fanny by Gaslight

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs. Deane

1937-01-09 4

The Mill on the Floss

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin. ...
Genre :Drama

Lady Heckdyke

1935-11-01 6

Play Up the Band

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Old Sookey

1932-03-01 3.5

Self Made Lady

Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashion designer. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Ma

1933-07-01 0

The Love Nest

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond. ...
Genre :Comedy

Emma Harbottle

1936-12-01 7.5

Windbag the Sailor

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an u ...
Genre :Comedy

Cafe Owner

1936-08-24 5.4

The Beloved Vagabond

Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both! ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Grandma Cooper (uncredited)

1954-03-23 6.5

Doctor in the House

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Fallin ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Bott

1940-07-20 6

Just William

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Jarley

1934-12-14 5.3

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Hawley

1933-06-07 0

Hawleys of High Street

A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council. ...
Genre :Comedy

Betty Muxworthy

1934-12-09 5.8

Lorna Doone

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Harry Harper

1937-01-19 0

Aren't Men Beasts!

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father! ...
Genre :

Mrs. Flower

1937-01-19 0

Aren't Men Beasts!

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father! ...
Genre :

Gertrude Bunting

1933-03-01 6

Their Night Out

An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang! ...
Genre :Comedy

Lady Clara Mutch-Twistleton

1935-12-16 0

Joy Ride

Two cousins invite their girlfriends on a joy-ride, but car trouble leads to catastrophe! ...
Genre :

Mrs. Waterman

1945-01-01 6

The World Owes Me a Living

When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Mrs. Bedwin

1948-06-28 7.527

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, Crime, Comedy

Mrs. Brandon Partridge

1932-05-12 0

Flat No. 9

A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Hepworth

1931-10-02 4

Hobson's Choice

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Arabella Nagg

1931-06-03 0

My Wife's Family

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitima ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Crust

1932-03-22 0

The Marriage Bond

A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is. ...
Genre :Drama

Emma Bolt

1932-01-20 0

Money for Nothing

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supp ...
Genre :Comedy

Mme. Gautier

1932-12-31 0

Pyjamas Preferred

In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Blythe

1943-06-01 5.5

Millions Like Us

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other ...
Genre :Drama, War, Romance

1936-10-21 6

Crime Over London

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store. ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance, Crime

Mrs. Chalk

1948-04-28 6.1

Good-Time Girl

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Mrs. Winterbourne

1948-02-19 6

Blanche Fury

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she ha ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance

Mrs. Gully

1948-08-19 6.1

My Brother's Keeper

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Lady Davis

1950-04-24 6.3

Chance of a Lifetime

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out. ...
Genre :Drama

Tessa

1945-01-22 6.3

Madonna of the Seven Moons

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Ma ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Mrs. McPhee (Hornblower's Housekeeper)

1951-04-10 6.893

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels. ...
Genre :Adventure, War, History

Grannie

1949-05-23 4.9

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Grandmother in Wedding Group

1952-01-01 6.3

The Magic Box

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more im ...
Genre :Drama

Aunt Fanny

1933-06-03 5

Let Me Explain, Dear

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket! ...
Genre :Comedy

Grandma

1947-06-16 6

The Turners of Prospect Road

A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Gr ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Armstrong (uncredited)

1943-08-06 6

The Man in Grey

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Bowie Knife Bella

1945-08-06 4

Don Chicago

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cook

1944-11-13 5.9

Don't Take It to Heart

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mrs. Pilling

1947-08-20 6

The Master of Bankdam

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam. ...
Genre :Drama

1937-04-01 0

Skylarks

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Skylarks is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox and Nancy Burn. Nervo and Knox were a comic team, who b ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Hammond

1918-02-18 0

My Wife

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs Pursley

1945-07-02 5.6

They Were Sisters

The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelti ...
Genre :Drama