Amy Veness

Amy Veness

Birthday: 1876-02-25

Place of Birth: 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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Murder on the Second Floor
Murder on the Second Floor

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants......

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Angels One Five
Angels One Five

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front ...

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A Southern Maid
A Southern Maid

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended...

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Tom Brown's Schooldays
Tom Brown's Schooldays

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bul...

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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Tonight's the Night - Pass It On

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three ye...

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This Happy Breed
This Happy Breed

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to...

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The Brat
The Brat

An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is ...

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The Astonished Heart
The Astonished Heart

Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton)...

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Black Roses
Black Roses

Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British ...

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The Show Goes On
The Show Goes On

A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer w...

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Bond Street
Bond Street

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Li...

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This England
This England

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well App...

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The Huggetts Abroad
The Huggetts Abroad

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to S...

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Vote for Huggett
Vote for Huggett

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land,...

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Here Come the Huggetts
Here Come the Huggetts

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Ro...

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Portrait of Clare
Portrait of Clare

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barri...

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Drake of England
Drake of England

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's ...

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Flying Fifty-Five
Flying Fifty-Five

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just abo...

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Please Help Emily
Please Help Emily

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Red Wagon
Red Wagon

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan ...

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Fanny by Gaslight
Fanny by Gaslight

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father...

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The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over wat...

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Play Up the Band
Play Up the Band

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition....

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Self Made Lady
Self Made Lady

Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashio...

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The Love Nest
The Love Nest

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an un...

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Doctor in the House
Doctor in the House

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 an...

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Windbag the Sailor
Windbag the Sailor

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coa...

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The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of d...

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Hawleys of High Street
Hawleys of High Street

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

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Just William
Just William

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city coun...

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The Beloved Vagabond
The Beloved Vagabond

Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!...

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Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone ...

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Aren't Men Beasts!
Aren't Men Beasts!

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 ye...

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Aren't Men Beasts!
Aren't Men Beasts!

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 ye...

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Their Night Out
Their Night Out

An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of mastermindin...

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Joy Ride
Joy Ride

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

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The World Owes Me a Living
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...

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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...

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Flat No. 9
Flat No. 9

A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson...

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Hobson's Choice
Hobson's Choice

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler....

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My Wife's Family
My Wife's Family

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the pu...

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The Marriage Bond
The Marriage Bond

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

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Money for Nothing
Money for Nothing

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Ched...

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Pyjamas Preferred
Pyjamas Preferred

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

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Millions Like Us
Millions Like Us

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the service...

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Crime Over London
Crime Over London

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they...

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Good-Time Girl
Good-Time Girl

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in p...

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Blanche Fury
Blanche Fury

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury fami...

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My Brother's Keeper
My Brother's Keeper

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young...

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Chance of a Lifetime
Chance of a Lifetime

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the ...

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Madonna of the Seven Moons
Madonna of the Seven Moons

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in t...

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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which...

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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements ...

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The Magic Box
The Magic Box

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...

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Let Me Explain, Dear
Let Me Explain, Dear

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has ...

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The Turners of Prospect Road
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 t...

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The Man in Grey
The Man in Grey

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage ac...

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Don Chicago
Don Chicago

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mul...

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Don't Take It to Heart
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 visiti...

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The Master of Bankdam
The Master of Bankdam

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be ...

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Skylarks
Skylarks

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Skylarks is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Thornton F...

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My Wife
My Wife

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They Were Sisters
They Were Sisters

The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second ...

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