Anita Sharp-Bolster

AKA: Anita Bolster
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1895-08-28

Glenlohane, Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland

Biography

Anita Sharp-Bolster (28 August 1895 – 1 June 1985)[1] was an Irish-born American actress who appeared in films and TV series from 1928 to 1978. She was sometimes billed as Anita Bolster.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {63}

Christine

1947-03-04 6.438

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home w ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Mrs. Foley

1945-11-29 7.6

The Lost Weekend

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and ...
Genre :Drama

Hilda

1944-12-24 7.1

The Thin Man Goes Home

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Mrs. Todd

1948-05-07 5.5

The Woman in White

A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange youn ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Mrs. Michaels

1945-12-25 7.6

Scarlet Street

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Ethel

1947-11-15 5.7

Love from a Stranger

Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent he ...
Genre :Drama

Lady Diana

1949-05-23 6

The Perfect Woman

In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be th ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

Miss Gill

1956-01-31 7

Lost

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the coupl ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Landlady

1955-05-13 4.8

The Hornet's Nest

Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

Effie the Bearded Lady (uncredited)

1943-07-09 6.2

Three Little Twirps

The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When trying to scalp their tickets gets them in trouble, they hide out backs ...
Genre :Comedy

Sasha's Mother (uncredited)

1942-07-14 7.4

The Pride of the Yankees

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig. ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Postmistress

1959-07-13 6.9

Alive and Kicking

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. O'Brien

1960-11-01 5.214

The House in Marsh Road

When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair. ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror

Mlle. Dulac

1938-01-01 6.2

The Villiers Diamond

A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Spinster Resident

1939-02-01 5

Dead Men Are Dangerous

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house. ...
Genre :Crime

Mrs. Wetherall

1966-04-13 4.5

The Boy Cried Murder

A young lad with a penchant for spinning elaborate yarns gets himself in deep trouble when he tries to tell people that he really did witness a terrible murder. Unfortunately no one believes him--exc ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Landlady (uncredited)

1961-01-19 6.6

Payroll

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with t ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mrs. Hattie Quimp (uncredited)

1944-01-01 6.7

Going My Way

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowle ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Music

Woman with Grapes on Hat

1931-10-08 0

Night Shadows

Michel, a young sailor, returns home to Marseilles to find that his former lover, Francine, now works in the local brothel. In a jealous rage, he picks a fight with her and an aggressive client, Julo ...
Genre :Crime

Miss Rafferty

1951-03-12 0

Talk of a Million

A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative decepti ...
Genre :Comedy

Sacristan

1951-03-12 0

Talk of a Million

A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative decepti ...
Genre :Comedy

Woman (uncredited)

1947-09-05 7.3

Dark Passage

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence. ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Mrs. Pringle (as Anita Bolster)

1943-01-15 5

London Blackout Murders

A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartme ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Housekeeper

1956-11-03 0

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

American horror television movie from 1956. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Horror

Mrs. Slattery (uncredited)

1963-05-23 6.6

The List of Adrian Messenger

Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason wh ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Mrs. Buttons

1955-02-21 6.5

Raising a Riot

Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to hand ...
Genre :Comedy

Woman at Will Reading (uncredited)

1974-05-16 4.881

Craze

A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up hum ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

Stewardess (uncredited)

1944-11-02 7.3

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Richardson

1978-01-01 0

Magpie's Talking Duck

Magpie wins a duck which proves to be alive and no use for the Sunday dinner. The kids invent a device which makes the duck seem to talk. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Esmeralda the Bearded Lady

1942-04-24 6.9

Saboteur

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend. ...
Genre :Thriller

Woman in Audience

1938-08-16 6

Lassie from Lancashire

Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Wiggy (uncredited)

1944-01-19 6.4

The Lodger

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper. ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Horror

Mrs. Cooper-Cooper (uncredited)

1943-08-05 6.9

Heaven Can Wait

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets He ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Fantasy, Drama

Martha

1947-12-15 7

The Judge Steps Out

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Sparkes

1945-11-08 6.692

My Name Is Julia Ross

Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity. ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

1932-05-05 0

Mr. Bill the Conqueror

A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Miller (uncredited)

1944-05-11 6.7

The White Cliffs of Dover

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to ...
Genre :Drama, War, Romance

Teacher

1932-01-19 0

The Temperance Fête

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol. ...
Genre :Comedy

Agnes

1944-01-31 4.8

Passport to Destiny

An English charwoman, believing herself protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler. ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Gossiper

1944-04-15 6

Tale of a Dog

When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Mrs. Simon

1950-07-26 6.4

Waterfront

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Smithers

1943-07-05 6

Thumbs Up

In this wartime musical, a feisty singer working in a London dive swears that she will become a star. She gets a job in an airplane plant when she learns that her fiance, a producer, and his partner a ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Moll Cudlip (as Anita Bolster)

1952-12-26 6.6

Botany Bay

Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to the n ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance, Action

Daisy

1953-04-09 6.7

The Final Test

Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings. But Reggie pref ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Cyril's Wife

1937-01-01 5

Jump for Glory

A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Comedy

Alice

1960-03-24 6.884

School for Scoundrels

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by uns ...
Genre :Comedy

Mullens

1945-10-16 5.5

Kitty

Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, History

Tea Shop Customer

1942-05-12 6.7

This Above All

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice ag ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Mrs. Fogarty

1955-08-01 5

The Reluctant Bride

A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost while ...
Genre :Comedy

Nurse

1958-08-01 4.8

Stormy Crossing

After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicid ...
Genre :Mystery

Colonel Frobisher's Wife (segment 'A Minute's Wait')

1957-08-10 6.9

The Rising of the Moon

Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's pri ...
Genre :Comedy

Lady Hunter

1959-01-01 0

The Man Who Liked Funerals

A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing the relatives of the recently deceased, threatening to publish incriminating stories about them. The ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Bluther

1975-09-23 0

The Next Victim

A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie, Horror

Mrs. Egan (uncredited)

1966-02-22 3.5

Promise Her Anything

A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Julia Ann Dermody (as Anita Bolster)

1949-08-15 6

Saints and Sinners

What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. MacDonald

1942-11-10 5

Nightmare

An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Woman at Hairdressers (uncredited)

1962-12-11 7.7

On the Beat

Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of ch ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Volcheff's Assistant

1960-12-01 3.875

The Hands of Orlac

Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac. Unfortunately, they're th ...
Genre :Horror, Crime, Thriller

2nd Witch

1964-03-16 6

Macbeth

Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Mrs. Cartwright

1963-03-30 8.2

The Human Jungle

The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two ...
Genre :

Gran Foskett

1958-09-19 7

The Larkins

'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to 1960. An additional two series aired from 1963 to 19 ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ada Harmer

1962-10-04 7.4

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lady Trimmer

1963-10-09 8

Festival

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. ...
Genre :Drama