Ashcroft debuted on celluloid in The Wandering Jew (1933) and played a minor role in 1935's The 39 Steps (directed by Alfred Hitchcock). Though her film appearances were sporadic, Ashcroft's memorable movie credits include The Nun's Story (1959), Secret Ceremony (1968) and Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).
In 1984, the esteemed British actress starred in the critically hailed TV miniseries "The Jewel in the Crown," while her first-rate supporting turn in A Passage to India resulted in an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award. Ashcroft died from a stroke June 14, 1991.
Caught on a TrainBritish playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter (Michael Kitchen), an English businessman on an overnight trip through Europe, shares a compartment with a beautiful American woman, Lorraine (Wendy... Read More
Georgie and Bonnie's PicturesTwo affluent siblings (Victor Banerjee and Aparna Sen) own a priceless collection of Indian art, which is currently being stored in their palace's dusty storeroom. Lady Gee (Dame Peggy Ashcroft) is a shrewd London art dealer who heads to India to track down the precious anthology and finds she'll... Read More
The Cherry Orchard (1962 / 1981)Judi Dench stars in these two productions of Anton Chekhov's play about a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who loses her cherry orchard estate to foreclosure. A young Dench is cast alongside John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Holm and Dorothy Tutin in the 1962 Royal Shakespeare Company presentation,... Read More
Cream in My CoffeeIn the seaside British resort town of Eastbourne circa 1980, elderly bickering couple Bernard (Lionel Jeffries) and Jean (Peggy Ashcroft) visit the hotel where they had a romantic fling back in the early 1930s, before they were married. Famed British dramatist Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective)... Read More
Madame Sousatzka (1988) | PG-13 | |
NR | ||
Playing Shakespeare (1984) | NR | |
A Passage to India (1984) | PG | |
NR | ||
Six Centuries of Verse (1984) | NR | |
Little Eyolf (1982) | NR | |
Cream in My Coffee (1980) | NR | |
Caught on a Train (1980) | NR | |
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978) | TV-PG | |
NR | ||
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) | R | |
NR | ||
The Nun's Story (1959) | NR | |
NR | ||
The 39 Steps (1935) | NR | |
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