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  • The Small Back Room
  • The Small Back Room review by Leni from London
    Rated - 0.0 stars The backroom boys 1 November 2009
    ...in support roles. The leads were the relatively unknown (now) David Farrar and Kathleen Byron, who had worked together in Black Narcissus. Although there is a very tense upp...   Read customer review
  • Black Narcissus
  • Black Narcissus review by ChrisTiffer from London
    Rated - 0.0 stars The Blu Ray is.... 24 April 2009
    ... appreciation of any given film, then this is an excellent example. The shot of Kathleen Byron's mad eyes is horrific even now, and with this Blu Ray it feels like she's star...   Read customer review
  • Black Narcissus - Blu-ray
  • Black Narcissus - Blu-ray review by A customer from West Yorkshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars Worth Watching 19 September 2008
    ...y view is very good. All the actors put in an excellent performance, especially Kathleen Byron. The film takes place in India, but was filmed entirely in studios in England e...   Read customer review

Kathleen Byron - filmography


  • Hedda Gabler (1981)
    Starring: Kathleen Byron,  Denis Lill,  Philip Bond
    Director: David Cunliffe
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Drama based on Henrik Ibsen's classic play. Diana Rigg stars as the beautiful but manipulative Hedda Gabler, the daughter of an aristocrat, who is bored with life and craves nothing more than the power to determine someone's fate. An opportunity to do this arrives in the form of an ex-lover.
    1 star out of 5 22% from 8 members
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  • The Moonstone (2 discs) on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Kathleen Byron,  Basil Dignam,  Robin Ellis
    Director: Paddy Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Originally broadcast in 1971 this detective drama series is based on the hugely popular novel by Wilkie Collins. Starring Robin Ellis and Colin Baker, the plot centres around The Moonstone, an Indian treasure given to Rachel Verrinder (Kathleen Byron) as an 18th birthday present. It has been stolen ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 243 members
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  • The Golden Bowl on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Daniel Massey,  Jill Townsend,  Gayle Hunnicutt
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel in which a damaged golden bowl plays a key role in exposing the artifice and fraudulence within a wealthy 19th century family. Italian prince Amerigo (Daniel Massey) is set to marry American heiress Maggie Verver (Jill Townsend), but this doesn't prevent him ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Twins Of Evil on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Peter Cushing,  Christopher Lee,  Mary Collinson
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Classic Hammer Studios vampire tale. Starring stunning identical twins Mary and Madeleine Collinson as the "Twins of Evil". Both look exactly alike - which one was the twin of evil? Victims of a vampire curse lead to a witch-hunt headed by Peter Cushing, a fanatical Puritan leader of a bizarre ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 680 members
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  • Young Bess (1953)
    Starring: Jean Simmons,  Stewart Granger,  Charles Laughton
    Director: George Sidney,  george sidney (2)
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch - the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 5 members
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  • Scarlet Thread on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Kathleen Byron,  Laurence Harvey,  Sydney Tafler
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    1950s British crime drama directed by Lewis Gilbert. Petty criminal Freddie (Laurence Harvey) teams up with mob boss Marcon (Sydney Tafler) to pull off a jewellery heist but their attempt does not go to plan and the situation gets quickly out of hand. Harry Fowler, Kathleen Byron and Dora Bryan co-star.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 13 members
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  • Hell Is Sold Out on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Kathleen Byron,  Herbert Lom,  Mai Zetterling
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The renowned French author Dominic Danges (Herbert Lom) returns from a prisoner of war camp with his old friend Pierre Bonnet (Richard Attenborough). Danges was missing, presumed dead, but when he turns up unannounced at his old house, he finds that not only has he unknowingly written a best-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 104 members
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  • Black Narcissus (1946)
    Starring: Kathleen Byron,  Jenny Laird,  Judith Furse
    Director: Emeric Pressburger,  Michael Powell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' well-ordered ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 2,511 members
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  • The Mummy (1932)
    Starring: Kathleen Byron,  Boris Karloff,  Edward Van Sloan
    Director: Karl Freund
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Mummy represented Boris Karloff's second horror starring role after his overnight success in Frankenstein. Brought back to life after nearly 3,700 years, Egyptian high priest Imhotep wreaks havoc upon the members of the British field exposition that disturbed his tomb (shades of the King Tut ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 860 members
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  • The Mummy - Blu-ray (1932)
    Starring: Kathleen Byron,  Boris Karloff,  Edward Van Sloan
    Director: Karl Freund
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    During a 1921 archaeological dig, the expedition members discover a sarcophagus in an unmarked grave. It in fact contains the mummy of priest Im-Ho-Tep (Boris Karloff), who was buried alive 3,700 years ago as a punishment for attempting to bring a vestal virgin he loved back to life. Returned to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 33 members
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Kathleen Byron facts

5 most recent films

Midsomer Murders - Stranglers Wood - 3.5 stars
Hedda Gabler - 1.0 stars
The Moonstone - 2.5 stars
The Golden Bowl - 3 stars
Twins Of Evil - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Black Narcissus - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Midsomer Murders - Stranglers Wood - 3.5 stars
Black Narcissus - 3.5 stars
A Matter Of Life And Death - 3.5 stars
Silver Fleet - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Golden Bowl - 3 stars
Hedda Gabler - 1.0 stars
Scarlet Thread - 2.5 stars
The Mummy - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Young Bess - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Esmond Knight - 3 times - show films
David Farrar - 3 times - show films
Jean Simmons - 3 times - show films
Deborah Kerr - 3 times - show films
David Manners - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Powell - 4 times - show films
Emeric Pressburger - 4 times - show films
Karl Freund - 2 times - show films
David Cunliffe - 1 times - show films
John Hough - 1 times - show films