Patricia Dainton
Know for: Acting
Born: 1930-04-12
Place of birth: Hamilton, Scotland, UK
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Dancing with Crime (1947)
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a...
Tread Softly (1952)
Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.
The House in Marsh Road (1960)
When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the...
Paul Temple Returns (1952)
A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the...
Operation Diplomat (1953)
A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
Ticket to Paradise (1961)
Travel agent Emrys Jones and tourist Patricia Dainton fall in love in sunny Italy. Jones has led Dainton to believe that he's fabulously wealthy, and...
Castle in the Air (1952)
The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He decides to use the ghost as a tourist attraction...
The Passionate Stranger (1957)
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young...
At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.
The Dancing Years (1950)
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart,...
Hammer the Toff (1952)
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
Witness in the Dark (1959)
A killer breaks into an apartment to steal a valuable brooch. He kills an old woman, but in fleeing he encounters a young woman on the stairs who...
The Third Alibi (1961)
A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted...
No Road Back (1957)
A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal...
Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous...
Uncle Silas (1947)
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...
Love in Waiting (1948)
The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.