Virginia McKenna
Birthday: 1931-06-07
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dame Virginia Anne McKenna, DBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with The Born Free Foundation.
Movies
The Lady in Waiting
In 1970s New York, a drag queen and elderly woman meet during a blackout. The film was nominated for...
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Blood Link
A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's no...
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The Smallest Show on Earth
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegra...
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Swallows and Amazons
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to ...
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Born Free
At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three or...
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Carve Her Name with Pride
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo jo...
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The Cruel Sea
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp...
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The Ship That Died of Shame
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into bus...
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Simba
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans again...
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Ring of Bright Water
Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated...
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A Town Like Alice
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The ...
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove t...
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Father's Doing Fine
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give b...
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Ba...
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Two Living, One Dead
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the superviso...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in ...
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Julius Caesar
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...
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An Elephant Called Slowly
Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is awa...
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Beauty and the Beast
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save h...
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Waterloo
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocke...
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The Scold's Bridle
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was fo...
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A Passage to India
The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month stran...
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Echoes of Camusfearna
This fascinating and haunting wildlife program is narrated by Virginia McKenna and centers on the We...
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Love/Loss
A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apa...
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Holocaust 2000
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to...
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The Lions Are Free
The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Trave...
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The Admirable Crichton
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual...
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Puccini
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his ...
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The Whistle-Blower
A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregu...
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Golden Years
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived ...
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Staggered
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a S...
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The Lion at World's End
The astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of Harrods, th...
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Ethel & Ernest
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an int...
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Storm Over Jamaica
A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting n...
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Sliding Doors
Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she run...
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Leona Calderon
Leona Calderon is a retiring altruistic music lover earning her living cleaning establishments and p...
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Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up,...
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The Oracle
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national ...
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Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writ...
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Widow's Walk
Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on th...
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The Case of the Frightened Lady
A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer....
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The Disappearance
The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry...
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Wings
A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War...
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Duel of Hearts
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is bei...
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Have a Nice Night
Movie star Barbara Jenkins arrives in Cannes to host an auction of her costumes, under protection of...
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Romeo and Juliet
Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespea...
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