Peggy Ashcroft

Peggy Ashcroft

December 22, 1907 · 118 years old

​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 pa…

Known For

8 titles
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The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps

1935 · 1h 26m · Movie

A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.

7.6
2
A Passage to India

A Passage to India

1984 · 2h 44m · Movie

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

7.3
3
When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

1986 · 1h 24m · Movie

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

7.7
4
The Nun's Story

The Nun's Story

1959 · 2h 29m · Movie

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

7.5
5
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971 · 1h 50m · Movie

The emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.

7.0
6
Secret Ceremony

Secret Ceremony

1968 · 1h 49m · Movie

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.

6.2
7
Madame Sousatzka

Madame Sousatzka

1988 · 2h 2m · Movie

Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek Sen. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When his single mother Sushila's business fails, he must make a career decis...

6.6
8
Three Into Two Won't Go

Three Into Two Won't Go

1969 · 1h 32m · Movie

Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Middlesex, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Ella Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Frances. But when Ella moves into a room in Stev...

5.9