Amy Dalby

Acting
1888-01-03
Clerkenwell, London, England, UK

Biography

Amy Dalby was born on January 3, 1888 in Clerkenwell, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Wicked Lady (1945), Brandy for the Parson (1952) and The Avengers (1961). She died on March 10, 1969 in London, England, UK.

Known For & Full Filmography27 Titles

#1The Avengers

Drama Series - 1961, 16 episodes as Mrs. Forsythe

7.8 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

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#2The Wednesday Play

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Cynthia

5.2 / 10
Drama

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

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#3Dad's Army

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Dolly

7.4 / 10
ComedyWar & Politics

Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.

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#4The Haunting

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Abigail Crain at 80 years old (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
Horror

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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#5The Likely Lads

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Postmistress

7.3 / 10
Comedy

Terry Collier and Bob Ferris are good friends. Terry was working class and secure in his life, whereas Bob was more aspirational, determined to work his way to a better place. Both viewed the others' worldview with disdain, but they were united by events, generally revolving around the pursuit of women. Although 20 total episodes were filmed, only 10 are currently known to survive. There is one missing from the first season, three from the second, and six from the final run.

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#6Topkapi

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Nanny (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ComedyCrimeAdventure

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.

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#7Armchair Theatre

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes as Mummy

6.0 / 10
Drama

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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#8The Man Upstairs

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Miss Acres

6.5 / 10
Drama

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee.

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#9Doctor in Clover

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Mrs. Baker (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
Comedy

Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.

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#10Smashing Time

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Demolished Old Lady

6.3 / 10
ComedyMusic

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

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#11Millions Like Us

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Mrs. Bourne - Hostel Matron

5.6 / 10
DramaWarRomance

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.

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#12Waterloo Road

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
DramaRomanceWar

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

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#13Brandy for the Parson

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Postmistress

6.5 / 10
Comedy

A young couple get involved with a smuggler

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#14Further Up the Creek

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Eadie Lovelace

6.6 / 10
Comedy

The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.

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#15Smoke Over London

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Duchessa di Bradford

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Dante Fontana is an antique dealer from Perugia infatuated with the culture of the British upper classes. His wife and relatives mock him and snub him, seeing him as a silly daydreamer doing no serious work. Unfussed, Dante plans a vacation to London to learn more about the culture he so admires. However, once in London, he struggles to fit in, is awkward, often makes mistakes betraying his Italian origins, attracting the scorn of the British upper classes he would like to impress.

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#16The Wicked Lady

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Aunt Doll

6.3 / 10
DramaAdventureHistory

A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.

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#17Quiet Wedding

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Miss Dacres

5.3 / 10
ComedyRomance

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

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#18The Gentle Sex

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Lady Behind the Bar at the Dance (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyDramaWar

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.

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#19The Intelligence Men

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Woman in Wardrobe Dept. (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Comedy

A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?

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#20Your Witness

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Mrs. Widgely

6.2 / 10
DramaCrime

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.

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#21The Spy with a Cold Nose

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Miss Marchbanks

4.0 / 10
Comedy

A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British intelligence must get to the dog first and retrieve the spying device.

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#22The Secret of My Success

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Mrs. Tate

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Arthur Tate is a dull-minded, low-ranking police officer in a small English town. However, with help from his kindly, perceptive mother, Arthur solves a murder committed by a local seamstress, takes down a baroness who has been breeding terrifyingly large spiders, stops a revolutionary attempting to overthrow a Third World government, and might just manage to secure a big promotion.

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#23On the Night of the Fire

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
CrimeDrama

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

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#24The Straw Man

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Lucy Graham

6.3 / 10
Thriller

A newly married man is convicted of murdering a former lover in his apartment, and sentenced to hang. With a payout on his life worth 20,000 pounds, the insurance company sends an investigator to find out the truth.

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#25The Night Has Eyes

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as Miss Miggs

6.7 / 10
ThrillerMysteryHorror

Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

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#26Who Killed the Cat?

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Lavinia Galsworthy

8.0 / 10
Mystery

A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.

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#27The Great Mr Handel

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.6 / 10
MusicDrama

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

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