Peggy Ashcroft

Peggy Ashcroft

​Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.

  • Title: Peggy Ashcroft
  • Popularity: 1.55
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1907-12-22
  • Place of Birth: Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily «Peggy» Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft
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Peggy Ashcroft Movies

  • 1935
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    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps

    7.4 1935 HD

    Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it...

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  • 1986
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    When the Wind Blows

    When the Wind Blows

    7.4 1986 HD

    With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that...

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  • 1986
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    Murder by the Book

    Murder by the Book

    3 1986 HD

    Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which...

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  • 1959
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    The Nun's Story

    The Nun's Story

    7.126 1959 HD

    After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World...

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  • 1973
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    The Pedestrian

    The Pedestrian

    6.4 1973 HD

    When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find...

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  • 1984
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    A Passage to India

    A Passage to India

    6.763 1984 HD

    Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a...

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  • 1971
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    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    6.6 1971 HD

    Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also...

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  • 1968
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    Secret Ceremony

    Secret Ceremony

    5.9 1968 HD

    A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.

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  • 1962
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    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard

    8 1962 HD

    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...

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  • 1980
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    Caught on a Train

    Caught on a Train

    3.8 1980 HD

    British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train....

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  • 1988
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    Madame Sousatzka

    Madame Sousatzka

    6.5 1988 HD

    In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays...

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  • 1977
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    Joseph Andrews

    Joseph Andrews

    4.7 1977 HD

    Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph...

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  • 1969
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    3 Into 2 Won't Go

    3 Into 2 Won't Go

    5 1969 HD

    Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get...

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  • 1941
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    Quiet Wedding

    Quiet Wedding

    4.2 1941 HD

    A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

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  • 1963
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    Britain Welcomes the President of India

    Britain Welcomes the President of India

    1 1963 HD

    An account of the state visit to Britain by the President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in June 1963. In London he accompanied the Queen on...

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  • 1965
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    The Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses

    8.5 1965 HD

    A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the...

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  • 1978
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    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    10 1978 HD

    While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

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  • 1982
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    Little Eyolf

    Little Eyolf

    6 1982 HD

    Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and...

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  • 1978
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    Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

    Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

    5.3 1978 HD

    This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at...

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  • 1989
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    She's Been Away

    She's Been Away

    5.4 1989 HD

    A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in...

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  • 1980
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    Cream in My Coffee

    Cream in My Coffee

    6 1980 HD

    Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit...

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  • 1936
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    Rhodes of Africa

    Rhodes of Africa

    6 1936 HD

    Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter...

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  • 1968
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    Tell Me Lies

    Tell Me Lies

    6.3 1968 HD

    Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop...

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  • 1940
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    Channel Incident

    Channel Incident

    1 1940 HD

    During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to...

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  • 1933
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    The Wandering Jew

    The Wandering Jew

    7.6 1933 HD

    Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His...

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  • 1967
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    October Revolution

    October Revolution

    1 1967 HD

    French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock...

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  • 1989
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    The Heat of the Day

    The Heat of the Day

    1 1989 HD

    In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises...

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  • 1942
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    We Serve

    We Serve

    1 1942 HD

    Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.

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  • 1961
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    Terminus

    Terminus

    7 1961 HD

    This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

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  • 1986
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    The Wind and the Bomb

    The Wind and the Bomb

    7 1986 HD

    The making-of When the Wind Blows, featuring interviews with producer John Coates, director Jimmy T. Murakami and writer Raymond Briggs

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  • 1984
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    The Jewel in the Crown

    The Jewel in the Crown

    6.7 1984 HD

    A sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of World War II India, the story begins with an unjust arrest for rape. The consequences of this...

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  • 1978
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    Edward and Mrs Simpson

    Edward and Mrs Simpson

    6.2 1978 HD

    While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

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  • 1966
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    The Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses

    9 1966 HD

    The Wars of the Roses was a 1963 theatrical adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI &...

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  • 1984
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    Six Centuries of Verse

    Six Centuries of Verse

    6 1984 HD

    Sir John Gielgud is joined by an outstanding repertory of actors in this pioneering, imaginative series demonstrating the immense variety and...

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  • 1987
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    A Perfect Spy

    A Perfect Spy

    6.5 1987 HD

    The life of British MI6 spy Magnus Pym, from his school days to his mysterious disappearance.

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  • 1984
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    Playing Shakespeare

    Playing Shakespeare

    10 1984 HD

    John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.

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  • 1970
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    Caught on a Train

    Caught on a Train

    1 1970 HD

    Caught On A Train is a critically successful British television play written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Peter Duffell, based on an...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    4.9 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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