Anne Heywood
Actor
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Anne Heywood (born 11 December 1932) is a British film actress. Born as Violet Pretty in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, she won the Miss Great Britain title under her real name in 1950, At one time she was the personal assistant of Radio's Talent Spotter Carroll Levis, a show which toured the countries main Theatres throughout Great Britain. later she also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She began acting in films in the early 1950s, first in supporting roles but gradually evolving into a leading lady.
One of her more prominent film roles was in a film adaptation of a D. H. Lawrence novel, The Fox, co-starring Sandy Dennis, made in 1967, which caused controversy at the time due to its lesbian themes. In the 1970s, she appeared in several giallo-type thrillers made in Italy.
Her career declined in the 1980s. Her penultimate role was on the United States television series The ... Show more...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne Heywood (born 11 December 1932) is a British film actress. Born as Violet Pretty in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, she won the Miss Great Britain title under her real name in 1950, At one time she was the personal assistant of Radio's Talent Spotter Carroll Levis, a show which toured the countries main Theatres throughout Great Britain. later she also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She began acting in films in the early 1950s, first in supporting roles but gradually evolving into a leading lady.
One of her more prominent film roles was in a film adaptation of a D. H. Lawrence novel, The Fox, co-starring Sandy Dennis, made in 1967, which caused controversy at the time due to its lesbian themes. In the 1970s, she appeared in several giallo-type thrillers made in Italy.
Her career declined in the 1980s. Her penultimate role was on the United States television series The Equalizer, which starred actor Edward Woodward, in 1988 as Manon Brevard Marcel. The following year she appeared in a television movie, Memories of Manon, based on this same character. After this role she retired. She resides in California.
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What Waits Below (1984)
As: Frieda Shelley
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens (Bottoms) and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen (Powell) including scientist Leslie Peterson ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Don Sharp
Stars: Timothy Bottoms | Lisa Blount | Anne Heywood | Richard Johnson | Robert Powell
Ring of Darkness (1979)
As: Carlotta Rhodes
Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage daughter, Daria, starts showing the evil influence of dear old Dad. Convinced that she can stop the devil's power on earth, Carlotta calls upon an exorcist for help.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Pier Carpi
Stars: John Phillip Law | Valentina Cortese | Anne Heywood | Irene Papas | Marisa Mell
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
As: Evelyn Wyckoff
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Robert Vaughn | Donald Pleasence | Anne Heywood | Earl Holliman | Carolyn Jones
Love Under the Elms (1975)
An adolescent boy and girl meet at a rural, turn-of-the-century Austrian resort where they are vacationing with their respective liberal-minded, single parents. Their budding love affair hits a serious snag when their two parents fall in love as well.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Gianluigi Calderone
Stars: Anne Heywood | Mark Lester | Claudio Cassinelli | Monica Guerritore | Giovanna Di Bernardo
Trader Horn (1973)
As: Nicole Mercer
In the tradition of "King Solomon's Mines" and "Mogambo." Now the greatest adventure of them all.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Reza Badiyi
Stars: Stack Pierce | Don Knight | Anne Heywood | Rod Taylor | Jean Sorel
The Nuns of Saint Archangel (1973)
As: Mother Giulia
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Domenico Paolella
Stars: Martine Brochard | Ornella Muti | Luc Merenda | Muriel Catalá | Claudia Gravy
The Killer is on the Phone (1972)
As: Eleanor Loraine
A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer, who wants to eliminate her as a potential witness. What he doesn't know is that the shock of his murder caused her to have amnesia, and she doesn't remember anything.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Alberto De Martino
Stars: Willeke van Ammelrooy | Anne Heywood | Telly Savalas | Osvaldo Ruggieri | Giorgio Piazza
I Want What I Want (1972)
As: Roy/Wendy
Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: John Dexter
Stars: Anne Heywood | Harry Andrews | Jill Bennett
The Chairman (1969)
As: Kay Hanna
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button!
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Anne Heywood | Arthur Hill | Gregory Peck | Keye Luke | Alan Dobie
Midas Run (1969)
As: Sylvia Giroux
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Alf Kjellin
Stars: Richard Crenna | Ralph Richardson | Anne Heywood | Cesar Romero | Fred Astaire
The Lady of Monza (1969)
As: Virginia de Leyva
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Eriprando Visconti
Stars: Margarita Lozano | Anne Heywood | Antonio Sabàto | Hardy Krüger | Anna Maria Alegiani
The Fox (1967)
As: Ellen March
Two women who live a quiet life on a farm in rural Canada are surprised by the visit of the former tenant’s grandson.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Mark Rydell
Stars: Anne Heywood | Keir Dullea | Sandy Dennis | Glynne Morris
Ninety Degrees In The Shade (1965)
As: Alena
A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jiří Weiss
Stars: James Booth | Anne Heywood | Ann Todd | Donald Wolfit | Rudolf Hrušínský
The Very Edge (1963)
As: Tracey Lawrence
Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all men totally repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not change with time, and to make matters worse her husband has got romantically involved with his secretary. Also, the police still have not tracked down Tracey's attacker and there is no guarantee that she is safe.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Cyril Frankel
Stars: Anne Heywood | Richard Todd | Jeremy Brett | Jack Hedley | Nicole Maurey
The Brain (1962)
As: Anna Holt
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Freddie Francis
Stars: Anne Heywood | Bernard Lee | Peter van Eyck | Cecil Parker | Ellen Schwiers
Petticoat Pirates (1961)
As: Chief Oficer Anne Stevens
Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts. Hardly a feminist masterpiece, but fans will relish the nightmare court-martial in which Drake plays all the parts
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: David MacDonald
Stars: Thorley Walters | Anne Heywood | Cecil Parker | John Turner | Charlie Drake
A Terrible Beauty (1960)
As: Neeve Donnelly
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil (Robert Mitchum) finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can he get out?
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Stars: Richard Harris | Robert Mitchum | Dan O'Herlihy | Anne Heywood | Niall MacGinnis
Carthage in Flames (1960)
As: Fulvia
Carthage in Flames is a 1960 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin and Anne Heywood. The film depicts the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Carmine Gallone
Stars: Daniel Gélin | Terence Hill | Anne Heywood | Pierre Brasseur | Aldo Silvani
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
As: Kate Barry
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Claudia Cardinale | Michael Craig | Anne Heywood | Barbara Steele | Mylène Demongeot
Floods of Fear (1958)
As: Elizabeth Matthews
A man (Howard Keel) framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman (Anne Heywood) in distress.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Charles Crichton
Stars: Anne Heywood | Harry H. Corbett | Cyril Cusack | John Crawford | Howard Keel
Violent Playground (1958)
As: Cathie
Struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Basil Dearden
Stars: David McCallum | Anne Heywood | Peter Cushing | Stanley Baker | John Slater
Dangerous Exile (1957)
As: Glynis
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Louis Jourdan | Martita Hunt | Keith Michell | Belinda Lee | Richard O'Sullivan
The Depraved (1957)
As: Laura Wilton
Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover, American Army captain Dave Dillon (Robert Arden), to have her boozy spouse meet an "accidental" demise. But a nosy copper (Denis Shaw) suspects foul play, and soon the lovers' crafty scheme deteriorates into fear, distrust and betrayal. Paul Dickson directs this ...
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Paul Dickson
Stars: Anne Heywood | Basil Dignam | Carroll Levis | Robert Arden | Denis Shaw
Doctor at Large (1957)
As: Emerald
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Dirk Bogarde | Donald Sinden | James Robertson Justice | Muriel Pavlow | Shirley Eaton
Find the Lady (1956)
As: Receptionist
During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.
Runtime: 54 min.
Directed by: Charles Saunders
Stars: Donald Houston | Mervyn Johns | Maurice Kaufmann | Kay Callard | Beverley Brooks
Bikini Baby (1951)
As: Dorothy Marlowe
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Frank Launder
Stars: Diana Dors | Dennis Price | Kay Kendall | John McCallum | Stanley Holloway