Gwynne Whitby

Acting
1903-07-08
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles

#1Sergeant Cork

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Major Henrietta Washbourne

7.2 / 10
Drama

Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.

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#2Theatre Night

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes as Mrs Anthony J. Drexel Biddle

8.8 / 10
Drama

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

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#3Distant Trumpet

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Lady Marriot-Stokes

6.5 / 10
Drama

David Anthony, a Harley Street physician, swaps duties with his brother, a medical missionary in Africa.

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#4The Blue Lamp

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Police Sgt Grace Millard (Uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeThrillerAction

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

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#5Time Without Pity

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Stanford's Housekeeper

6.5 / 10
CrimeThrillerMystery

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

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#6Mine Own Executioner

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Miss English

7.0 / 10
ThrillerDrama

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

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#7I Believe in You

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Policewoman Andrews

6.8 / 10
Drama

A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.

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#8The Forbidden Street

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Miss Bryant

6.9 / 10
DramaHistory

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.

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#9Quiet Weekend

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Marcia Brent

5.2 / 10
Comedy

Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son.

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