Anne Heywood

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Anne Heywood (born December 11, 1932 in Handsworth, now Birmingham ; born Violet Pretty ) is a British actress .

Life

The daughter of a violinist won the Miss Great Britain title in 1949 . She played with the Highbury Players in Birmingham Theater and, still under her real name, received her first small film role in 1951 in Maxie's career as a participant in a beauty pageant.

From 1955 she was seen in larger roles. Especially in Italian productions, she embodied women passionately and tragically in love. In Carthage in Flames she played the slave Fulvia, who was in love with a Roman soldier, and a lesbian in love with The Fox , which earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe Award and a Laurel Award . In The Nun of Monza she portrayed a nun who is walled up alive as a punishment for a misstep, in The Nun of Verona the leader of a criminal clique of nuns who are ultimately sentenced to publicly drinking the hemlock .

Heywood was married to the film producer Raymond Stross (1916–1988) and remarried in 1991.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1951: Maxie makes a career (Lady Godiva Rides Again)
  • 1956: Checkpoint - Road of Death (Checkpoint)
  • 1957: In the service of the king (Dangerous Exile)
  • 1957: Help, the doctor is coming! (Doctor at Large)
  • 1958: Children of the Street (Violent Playground)
  • 1959: Floods of Fear
  • 1959: Upstairs - Downstairs (Upstairs and Downstairs)
  • 1960: Carthage in flames (Cartagine in fiamme)
  • 1960: Uprising at dawn (A Terrible Beauty)
  • 1962: A dead man seeks his killer (The Brain)
  • 1965: 31 degrees in the shade (Ninety Degrees in the Shade)
  • 1967: The Fox
  • 1969: The Nun of Monza (La monaca di Monza)
  • 1969: Allow me, these are my coals! (Midas Run)
  • 1969: The Most Dangerous Man in the World (The Chairman)
  • 1972: A man goes all out (L'assassino ... è al telefono)
  • 1973: Trader Horn
  • 1973: The nun of Verona (Le monache di Sant'Arcangelo)
  • 1974: Love dance under the elms (La prima volta sull'erba)
  • 1979: Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
  • 1984: The Secret of the Phantom Caves (What Waits Below)
  • 1988: Der Equalizer ( The Equalizer ; series, 2 episodes)

Remarks

  1. ↑ cf. Anne Heywood , p. 623. In: Ephraim Katz: The Macmillan international film encyclopedia . Macmillan, New York, NY 1994. ISBN 0-333-61601-4 ;
    Kay Wenigers Das Großer Personenlexikon des Films gives 1930 as the year of birth; other internet sources mention 1931

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personal data
SURNAME Heywood, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pretty, Violet (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Handsworth, today at Birmingham