Patricia Laffan

Patricia Laffan

Birthday: 1919-03-19

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Biography: Patricia Alice Laffan (19 March 1919 – 10 March 2014) was an English stage, film, television and radio actress, and also, after her retirement from acting, an international fashion impresario. She was five feet, six inches tall, with dark reddish-brown hair and green eyes. She is best known for her film roles as the Empress Poppaea in Quo Vadis (1951) and the alien Nyah in Devil Girl from Mars (1954). Her biography, Devil Girl Remembered, was written by Andrew Ross in 2021.

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Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

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Devil Girl from Mars
Devil Girl from Mars

Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has lande...

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Hidden Homicide
Hidden Homicide

A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remem...

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Rough Shoot
Rough Shoot

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful Engli...

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Crooks in Cloisters
Crooks in Cloisters

Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of L...

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Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies

A look at the history of British B-movies....

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Death in High Heels
Death in High Heels

Crime Mystery directed by Lionel Tomlinson....

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Don't Blame the Stork
Don't Blame the Stork

When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promp...

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

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Hangman’s Wharf
Hangman’s Wharf

A doctor is framed for murder....

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Escape Route
Escape Route

When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British...

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Caravan
Caravan

During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, a...

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Thunder on Sycamore Street
Thunder on Sycamore Street

When Joseph Blake, who once did prison time, and his daughter, Anna, move to Sycamore Street, their ...

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I See a Dark Stranger
I See a Dark Stranger

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her...

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23 Paces to Baker Street
23 Paces to Baker Street

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads hi...

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