Flora Robson

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)

This is a documentary that revisits the making of Gone with the Wind with Archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: David Hinton

Stars: Christopher Plummer | Susan Hayward | Tallulah Bankhead | George Cukor | Margaret Mitchell

Clash of the Titans (1981)

As: A Stygian Witch

To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head, and battling the Kraken monster.

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Desmond Davis

Stars: Maggie Smith | Claire Bloom | Harry Hamlin | Laurence Olivier | Jack Gwillim

A Tale of Two Cities (1980)

As: Miss Pross

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.

Runtime: 162 min.

Directed by: Jim Goddard

Stars: Chris Sarandon | Alice Krige | Peter Cushing | Barry Morse | Kenneth More

Gauguin the Savage (1980)

As: Sister Allandre

Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Fielder Cook

Stars: David Carradine | Lynn Redgrave | Michael Hordern | Barrie Houghton | Flora Robson

A Man Called Intrepid (1979)

As: Sister Luke

Directed by: Peter Carter

Stars: Michael York | Barbara Hershey | David Niven | Flora Robson | Paul Harding

Dominique (1979)

As: Mrs. Davis

The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this horror-thriller. He is after her money and must try several times before he finally succeeds. Because she is mentally exhausted from being frightened all the time, she commits suicide, but soon the husband begins experiencing her ghostly presence.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Michael Anderson

Stars: Cliff Robertson | Simon Ward | Jean Simmons | Jenny Agutter | Ron Moody

Les Misérables (1978)

As: the Prioress

Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.

Runtime: 150 min.

Directed by: Glenn A. Jordan

Stars: Ian Holm | Richard Jordan | Anthony Perkins | Caroline Langrishe | Christopher Guard

The Canterville Ghost (1974)

As: Mrs. Umney

The ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.

Directed by: Robin Miller

Stars: James Whitmore | Audra Lindley | David Niven | Flora Robson | Maurice Evans

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)

As: Queen of Hearts

An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: William Sterling

Stars: Peter Sellers | Spike Milligan | Robert Helpmann | Michael Crawford | Fiona Fullerton

The Beast in the Cellar (1971)

As: Joyce Ballantyne

Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: James Kelley

Stars: Beryl Reid | Flora Robson | John Hamill | Tessa Wyatt | T. P. McKenna

The Beloved (1971)

As: Antigone

When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, who is married to his childhood friend Yanni. Their adultery soon leads to violence and crime.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: George P. Cosmatos

Stars: Raquel Welch | Richard Johnson | Renato Romano | Jack Hawkins | Flora Robson

Fragment of Fear (1970)

As: Lucy Dawson

A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Richard C. Sarafian

Stars: David Hemmings | Gayle Hunnicutt | Adolfo Celi | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Flora Robson

The Shuttered Room (1967)

As: Aunt Agatha

In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah ...

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: David Greene

Stars: Oliver Reed | Carol Lynley | Gig Young | Flora Robson | Judith Arthy

The Epic That Never Was (1967)

As: Herself (Livia) (as Dame Flora Robson)

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

Runtime: 74 min.

Directed by: Bill Duncalf

Stars: Dirk Bogarde | Merle Oberon | Flora Robson | Josef von Sternberg | Robert Graves

Eye of the Devil (1966)

As: Countess Estelle

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

Stars: David Hemmings | Donald Pleasence | David Niven | Deborah Kerr | Sharon Tate

7 Women (1966)

As: Miss Binns

In a mission in China in 1935, Agatha Andrews is a rigid missionary beset by Mongolian bandits led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan. With her are her assistant Jane Argent, staff members Emma Clark, Miss Russell and Miss Binns, head of the British mission, Charles Pather, a teacher at the mission and his pregnant wife Florrie. When Dr. D.R. Cartwright arrives, she agrees to sacrifice herself to the Tunga Khan ...

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: John Ford

Stars: Anne Bancroft | Mildred Dunnock | Margaret Leighton | Flora Robson | Sue Lyon

Young Cassidy (1965)

As: Mrs. Cassidy

Dublin playwright Sean O'Casey (Rod Taylor) loves a librarian (Maggie Smith), sleeps with a chorus girl (Julie Christie) and meets Yeats.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Jack Cardiff | John Ford

Stars: Maggie Smith | Julie Christie | Edith Evans | Rod Taylor | Michael Redgrave

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965)

As: Mother Superior

Star studded comedy about a early 20th century air race from Britain to France.

Runtime: 138 min.

Directed by: Ken Annakin

Stars: James Fox | Stuart Whitman | Alberto Sordi | Robert Morley | Sarah Miles

Guns at Batasi (1964)

As: Miss Barker-Wise

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: John Guillermin

Stars: Mia Farrow | Richard Attenborough | Jack Hawkins | Flora Robson | John Leyton

55 Days at Peking (1963)

As: Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

Runtime: 154 min.

Directed by: Nicholas Ray | Guy Green

Stars: Charlton Heston | Burt Kwouk | Ava Gardner | David Niven | Flora Robson

Murder at the Gallop (1963)

As: Miss Milchrest

Miss Marple and Mr Stringer are witness to the death of the very old and rich Mr. Enderby by heart attack. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don’t believe them thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself. A cult film starring Margaret Rutherford.

Runtime: 81 min.

Directed by: George Pollock

Stars: Margaret Rutherford | Stringer Davis | Robert Morley | Flora Robson | Charles Tingwell

Innocent Sinners (1958)

As: Olivia Chesney

A neglected girl (June Archer) in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Philip Leacock

Stars: David Kossoff | Lyndon Brook | Catherine Lacey | Flora Robson | Susan Beaumont

The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958)

As: Mrs. Haggard

About to enter a marriage he wants no part of, rich nobleman Mitchell takes up with gypsy Mecouri. They marry, but she soon discovers he's deeply in debt. (TCM)

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Joseph Losey

Stars: Patrick McGoohan | Flora Robson | Keith Michell | Melina Mercouri | June Laverick

No Time for Tears (1957)

As: Sister Birch

No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance. The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that ...

Runtime: 86 min.

Directed by: Cyril Frankel

Stars: Sylvia Syms | George Baker | Anthony Quayle | Anna Neagle | Flora Robson

High Tide at Noon (1957)

As: Donna MacKenzie

After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel (Patrick McGoohan), the steadfast friend (Michael Craig) and the poetry-quoting newcomer (William Sylvester). As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Philip Leacock

Stars: Michael Craig | William Sylvester | Alexander Knox | Flora Robson | Betta St. John

Romeo and Juliet (1954)

As: Nurse

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

Runtime: 141 min.

Directed by: Renato Castellani

Stars: Laurence Harvey | Norman Wooland | Mervyn Johns | Flora Robson | Susan Shentall

Malta Story (1953)

As: Melita Gonzar

In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to ...

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Brian Desmond Hurst

Stars: Alec Guinness | Anthony Steel | Jack Hawkins | Renée Asherson | Muriel Pavlow

Tall Headlines (1952)

As: Mary Rackham

A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Terence Young

Stars: André Morell | Michael Denison | Mai Zetterling | Jane Hylton | Flora Robson

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

As: Countess Clara Platen

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Basil Dearden

Stars: Stewart Granger | Françoise Rosay | Joan Greenwood | Frederick Valk | Flora Robson

Good-Time Girl (1948)

As: Miss Thorpe

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.

Runtime: 81 min.

Directed by: David MacDonald

Stars: Herbert Lom | Dennis Price | Jean Kent | Flora Robson | Griffith Jones

Holiday Camp (1947)

As: Esther Harman

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Ken Annakin

Stars: Dennis Price | Jack Warner | Kathleen Harrison | Hazel Court | Flora Robson

Frieda (1947)

As: Nell Dawson

A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Basil Dearden

Stars: Glynis Johns | David Farrar | Mai Zetterling | Flora Robson | Albert Lieven

Black Narcissus (1947)

As: Sister Philippa

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, ...

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Michael Powell | Emeric Pressburger

Stars: Kathleen Byron | Deborah Kerr | David Farrar | Flora Robson | Sabu

The Years Between (1946)

As: Nanny

Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne Du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the ...

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Compton Bennett

Stars: James McKechnie | Felix Aylmer | Valerie Hobson | Flora Robson | Michael Redgrave

Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

As: Ftatateeta

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

Runtime: 138 min.

Directed by: Gabriel Pascal

Stars: Stewart Granger | Francis L. Sullivan | Claude Rains | Vivien Leigh | Flora Robson

Saratoga Trunk (1945)

As: Angelique Buiton

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: Sam Wood

Stars: Ingrid Bergman | Gary Cooper | Jerry Austin | Flora Robson | John Warburton

Great Day (1945)

As: Mrs. Liz Ellis

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

Runtime: 80 min.

Directed by: Lance Comfort

Stars: Walter Fitzgerald | Sheila Sim | Eric Portman | Isabel Jeans | Flora Robson

Two Thousand Women (1944)

As: Miss Manningford

Downed English airmen hide out with women in a Nazi concentration camp in France.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Frank Launder

Stars: Reginald Purdell | Phyllis Calvert | Patricia Roc | Flora Robson | Renée Houston

Bahama Passage (1941)

As: Mrs. Ainsworth

A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth, descendant of many ancestors who have handled it over the years to the satisfaction of its 250 native residents. He is married to a woman who stays away from the island because she is lonely when there. Adrian doesn't want ...

Runtime: 82 min.

Directed by: Edward H. Griffith

Stars: Mary Anderson | Sterling Hayden | Leo G. Carroll | Madeleine Carroll | Flora Robson

The Sea Hawk (1940)

As: Queen Elizabeth

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Runtime: 127 min.

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Stars: Errol Flynn | Claude Rains | Donald Crisp | Flora Robson | Brenda Marshall

Invisible Stripes (1939)

As: Mrs. Taylor

Invisible Stripes is a 1939 Warner Bros. crime film about a gangster (George Raft) unable to go straight after returning home from prison. The movie was directed by Lloyd Bacon and also features William Holden and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay by Warren Duff was based on the novel of the same name by Warden Lewis E. Lawes, a fervent crusader for prison reform, as adapted by Jonathan Finn.

Runtime: 81 min.

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon

Stars: William Holden | George Raft | Humphrey Bogart | Flora Robson | Jane Bryan

We Are Not Alone (1939)

As: Jessica Newcome

A British doctor (Paul Muni) and his son's Austrian governess (Jane Bryan) have an affair and are accused of killing his wife (Flora Robson).

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Edmund Goulding

Stars: Flora Robson | Una O'Connor | Paul Muni | Raymond Severn | Jane Bryan

The Lion Has Wings (1939)

As: Queen Elizabeth I (archive footage)

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.

Runtime: 76 min.

Directed by: Michael Powell | Brian Desmond Hurst | Adrian Brunel

Stars: Ralph Richardson | Merle Oberon | Robert Douglas | Flora Robson | June Duprez

Poison Pen (1939)

As: Mary Rider

A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as "poison pen letters".

Runtime: 79 min.

Directed by: Paul L. Stein

Stars: Ann Todd | Robert Newton | Reginald Tate | Flora Robson | Geoffrey Toone

Smith (1939)

As: Mrs. Smith

John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Embankment Fellowship Centre, a charity that provides hostelling, retraining and help finding work for men in his position.

Runtime: 10 min.

Directed by: Michael Powell

Stars: Ralph Richardson | Wally Patch | Allan Jeayes | Flora Robson

Wuthering Heights (1939)

As: Ellen

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Moors and despite the continued ...

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: William Wyler

Stars: David Niven | Merle Oberon | Donald Crisp | Flora Robson | Laurence Olivier

Fire Over England (1937)

As: Queen Elizabeth I of England

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: William K. Howard

Stars: Leslie Banks | Raymond Massey | Vivien Leigh | Flora Robson | Laurence Olivier

Farewell Again (1937)

As: Lucy Blair

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various ...

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Tim Whelan

Stars: Leslie Banks | Sebastian Shaw | Flora Robson | Robert Cochran | Patricia Hilliard

The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)

As: Empress Elisabeth

In 1745 a German princess, renamed Catherine, arrives to marry Grand Duke Peter of Russia, whom she initially likes. But his suspicious, unstable nature gradually estranges them, and Peter finds solace with pretty courtiers. Catherine invents her own (fictitious) lovers, temporarily improving matters. Alas, accession to the throne brings out the worst in Peter, and loyal Catherine is urged to assume power.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Alexander Korda

Stars: Gibb McLaughlin | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Flora Robson | Griffith Jones | Elisabeth Bergner

Dance Pretty Lady (1932)

As: Mrs. Raeburn

During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.

Runtime: 64 min.

Directed by: Anthony Asquith

Stars: Carl Harbord | Moore Marriott | Flora Robson | Ann Casson | Michael Hogan