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: 6.621
  • 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

    7.348 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...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Robert Donat

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  • 1986
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    When the Wind Blows
    When the Wind Blows

    7.402 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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: John Mills

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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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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  • 1959
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    The Nun's Story
    The Nun's Story

    7.1 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Audrey Hepburn

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Maximilian Schell

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  • 1984
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    A Passage to India
    A Passage to India

    6.76 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judy Davis

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter Finch

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  • 1968
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    Secret Ceremony
    Secret Ceremony

    6 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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judi Dench

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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....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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  • 1988
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    Madame Sousatzka
    Madame Sousatzka

    6.7 1988 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Shirley MacLaine

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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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Ann-Margret

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Rod Steiger

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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.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Margaret Lockwood

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Warner

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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...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Edward Fox

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anthony Hopkins

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Walter Huston

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Mark Jones

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Conrad Veidt

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: John Gielgud

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Gambon

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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.

    Genre: War

    Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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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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    Cast: 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Geraldine James

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Edward Fox

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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 &...

    Genre:

    Cast: David Warner

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Gielgud

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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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter Egan

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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.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Lisa Harrow

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ingo Mogendorf

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  • 1962
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1962 HD

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

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Alfred Hitchcock

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  • 2024
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    Great Performances
    Great Performances

    5.2 2024 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bray Poor

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