Davina Whitehouse
Know for: Acting
Born: 1912-12-16
Place of birth: London, England, UK
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Braindead (1992)
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town...
The Farmer's Wife (1941)
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version...
Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a...
Where There's a Will (1936)
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet...
Dusty Ermine (1936)
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his...
Rugged Gold (1994)
A woman struggles to survive in the Alaskan frontier after separating from her family because of an earthquake.
London Melody (1937)
Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with...
Solo (1977)
When a young Australian hitchhiker, Judy (Peers), enters a prohibited forest area, she encounters Paul (Gil) whose job is spotting fires from a...
I'll Turn to You (1946)
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
South Riding (1938)
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...
Tangled Evidence (1934)
A medium is murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.
The Ghost Camera (1933)
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a...
I Lived with You (1933)
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves...
The Black Abbot (1934)
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
This Week of Grace (1933)
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby...
Crown v. Stevens (1936)
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after...
The Private Secretary (1935)
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
Annie, Leave the Room! (1935)
British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Forgotten Silver (1997)
The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.
Tower of Terror (1941)
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a...
Hoots Mon (1940)
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
Traitor Spy (1939)
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
The Night Nurse (1978)
A private nurse, working for a retired opera star, runs into opposition from the diva's longtime servant/companion. When she pushes back, she starts...
Mrs Mopp Entertains (1943)
Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.
Anything to Declare? (1938)
John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and...