Pauline Melville
Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948 of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series 'The Young Ones', before turning her hand to writing in 1990. Her short stories and novels have been critically acclaimed, earning her numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 14.67 |
| Birthday | 1948-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Guyana |
| Also Known As |
1967
Far from the Madding Crowd
6.9/82
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely diverg...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
1992
Utz
5.4/5
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the l...
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Utz
1967
Ulysses
6/16
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship a...
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Ulysses
1986
Mona Lisa
6.866/231
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class...
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Mona Lisa
1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
6.26/96
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising
2010
Brighton Rock
5.7/103
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
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Brighton Rock
1982
Scrubbers
5.1/17
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
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Scrubbers
1980
The Long Good Friday
7.136/342
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia t...
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The Long Good Friday
1991
The House of Bernarda Alba
0/0
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have n...
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The House of Bernarda Alba
1982
Britannia Hospital
6.393/60
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...
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Britannia Hospital
1993
Shadowlands
6.919/259
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
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Shadowlands
1987
Rat in the Skull
0/0
In a cell in a London police station, a suspected I.R.A. bomber, Roche, has been detained for questioning. To help them in the interrogation, the Lond...
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Rat in the Skull
1988
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
0/0
Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation office...
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Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1993
Home Away from Home
0/0
To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural memory exerts a healing power, combatting cultura...
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Home Away from Home
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
7.972/18
After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
5.182/11
In the seventh film in the series, in April 1916, a disillusioned Indy hops the ocean to Europe where he figures the Great War might offer him a great...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2014
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
7.333/12
Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit...
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