Eleanor Bron

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Eleanor Bron (1968)

Eleanor Bron (born March 14, 1938 in Stanmore , Middlesex , England ) is a British actress .

Life

Eleanor Bron was educated at Newnham College ( Cambridge University Women's College ).

After she played in a small television series from 1964 to 1965 (Not So Much a Program , More a Way of Life) , she appeared in the role of Ahme in the Beatles film Help! on. She would have become the best-known British series actress of the 1960s, if she had not turned down the role of Emma Peel in the television series The Avengers (German: With umbrella, charm and bowler hat ). She appeared in a wide variety of roles in numerous films of the 1960s, The Canterville Ghost (1966) and Alfie (1966), where she played the doctorate alongside Michael Caine and alongside McCartney friend Jane Asher as Annie. In Two for the Road ( Two for the Road with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney , 1967) for the script by Frederic Raphael Bron played the supporting role of Cathy Manchester is a love story in the form of Retrospect on a difficult marriage, during a trip to France , is a recapitulation . She played Hermione Roddice in the literary adaptation of the David Herbert Lawrence novel Loving Women (1969) - a complicated discourse about love in high society in the early 20th century. Bron proved to be very versatile and adaptable and masters the entire spectrum of classic, mostly dramatic roles in socially critical films and sophisticated film adaptations of upscale, mostly British, literary works. This also includes cinematic adaptations of children's books, for example in 1995 in Little Princess (A Little Princess) , where she played the authoritarian Miss Minchin, head of a New York Nobel boarding school during the First World War . The template was provided by the children's book novel of the same name by the author Frances Hodgson Burnett (1909).

She has now advanced to become the grande dame of British film and played demanding roles in various literary adaptations: In Vanity Fair - a 1998 mini-series based on an often-filmed novel by William Makepeace Thackeray , in which she embodied the aging lady Lady Bareacres. In House of Mirth (German: Haus Bellomont , 2000) she appeared on the side of Gillian Anderson and Dan Aykroyd . In the film by Terence Davies based on Edith Wharton's sharp-tongued novel about the downfall of the naive Lily Bart (Gillian Anderson), Bron played her aunt Julia Peniston. The classic costume film in New York at the turn of the 20th century never came into cinemas in Germany. Most recently, Bron appeared again in a historical drama: at the side of Paul Bettany , Helena Bonham Carter and Olivia Williams , she played the 'Mrs. Burkett 'in The Heart of Me , a romantic drama set in London in the 1930s and 1940s.

Eleanor Bron is also active as a writer, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s for British television ( Not So Much a Program, More a Way of Life , 1964; My Father Knew Lloyd George , 1965; The Late Show , 1966; most recently After That, This from 1972).

In addition to her ability to cover the whole spectrum of classical roles, her comic talent is particularly noteworthy. Her somewhat exotic appearance at a young age gave her the role of 'Ahme' in the Beatles film Help! . Because the Beatle Paul McCartney wrote Eleanor Rigby while filming his song , it has often been suggested that Eleanor Bron inspired him to use this personal name. She received an unusual honor from the song Tom Courtenay by the group Yo La Tengo :

“I spent so much time dreaming about Eleanor Bron in my room with the curtains drawn. See her in the arms of Paul… ”

“I've spent so much time dreaming about Eleanor Bron in my room with the curtains closed. I see her in Paul's arms ... "

Eleanor Bron was married to the English architect and architecture writer Cedric Price (1934-2003) until his death.

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personal data
SURNAME Bron, Eleanor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stanmore , Middlesex , England , UK