Irene Handl

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Irene Handl (born December 27, 1901 in London- Maida Vale, † November 29, 1987 in London- Kensington , United Kingdom ) was a British stage and film actress and book author .

Live and act

Irene Handl had German and Austrian ancestors and was born in Maida Vale, London; her father was a Viennese banker. Nothing is known about Irene Handl's early years. It was not until she was 35 that the 1.51 meter tall woman started acting. Handl received her acting skills from Sybil Thorndike's sister and made her theater debut in London in February 1937. In the same year she came to film. On stage, where she appeared in Goodnight Mrs Puffin, Move Over Mrs Markham and as Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's classic Bunbury , as well as in the film, she celebrated her greatest successes with humorous roles of lively and sometimes slightly over-the-top women of advanced age .

While Irene Handl initially often played small domestic servants such as housekeeping and kitchen help on the screen, after the Second World War she again and again embodied wives, talkative widows, housekeepers and simple representatives of the lower to middle bourgeoisie with a slight tendency towards eccentricity . She was seen not only as a simple Englishwoman, but also as a foreigner, less often as a lady of the upper class. Many of these roles were batch format, yet fueled Irene Handl's popularity in the UK. A last of her performances she did in her death 1987 in the BBC - sitcom In Sickness and in Health , before the end of the same year from the effects of breast cancer died. She was cremated and buried in the Golders Green Crematorium in London .

Irene Handl tried her hand at writing twice with success in the mid-1960s: her first novel, The Sioux , appeared in 1965, and the following year, The Gold Tip Pfitzer, her second novel.

Filmography

  • 1937: Missing, Believed Married
  • 1938: Strange Boarders
  • 1938: The Creature from the Piccadilly ( The Terror )
  • 1939: Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
  • 1939: Murder on Capnor Street ( On the Night of the Fire )
  • 1940: Dr. O'Dowd
  • 1940: Girl in the News
  • 1940: Night Train to Munich
  • 1941: Gasbags
  • 1941: Spellbound
  • 1941: Pimpernel Smith
  • 1942: Uncensored
  • 1942: Get Cracking
  • 1943: The Flemish Farm
  • 1943: Dear Octopus
  • 1943: Millions Like Us
  • 1944: English Without Tears
  • 1944: Give Us the Moon
  • 1944: Mr. Emmanuel
  • 1944: Medal for the General
  • 1945: Kiss the Bride Goodbye
  • 1945: For You Alone
  • 1945: Great Day
  • 1945: Encounter ( Brief Encounter )
  • 1946: Port of temptation ( Temptation Harbor )
  • 1946: The Man Who Became the Murderer ( The Shop at Sly Corner )
  • 1947: Code of Scotland Yard
  • 1947: The Hills of Donegal
  • 1948: The misogynist ( Woman Hater )
  • 1948: The silent darkness ( Silent Dust )
  • 1949: The History of Mr. Polly
  • 1949: Great days ( Cardboard Cavalier )
  • 1949: Convicted Innocent ( For Them That Trespass )
  • 1949: Made-to-measure lovers ( The Perfect Woman )
  • 1949: Adam and Evelin ( Adam and Evelyne )
  • 1949: The Red Lola ( Stage Fright )
  • 1950: One Wild Oat
  • 1951: With use of the kitchen ( Young Wives' Tale )
  • 1952: Treasure Hunt
  • 1952: Meeting point Moscow ( Top Secret )
  • 1953: Meet Mr. Lucifer
  • 1953: The Wedding of Lilli Marlene
  • 1954: Duel in the Jungle ( Duel in the Jungle )
  • 1954: The Fair of St. Trinian's ( The Belles of St Trinian's )
  • 1954: Burned evidence ( Burnt Evidence )
  • 1955: Life is full of wonder (A Kid for Two Farthings)
  • 1955: Now and forever ( Now and Forever )
  • 1956: Who Done It?
  • 1956: The Silken Affair
  • 1956: Brothers in Law
  • 1957: Small Hotel
  • 1957: When two wedding make ( Happy Is the Bride )
  • 1957: Mad Mr. Webb ( Next to No Time )
  • 1958: The Key ( The Key )
  • 1958: Welcome to Kittchen ( Law and Disorder )
  • 1958: Charlie Brown of all people ( Carlton-Browne of the FO )
  • 1959: 41 degrees of love ( Carry On Nurse )
  • 1959: The Wahlk (r) ampf ( Left, Right and Center )
  • 1959: Young man from a good home ( I'm All Right Jack )
  • 1959: Upstairs - Downstairs ( Upstairs and Downstairs )
  • 1959: The Green Minna ( Two-Way-Stretch )
  • 1959: It's crazy - lots of lovable teachers ( Carry On Teacher )
  • 1960: We can't be shaken by a crooked thing ( Carry On Constable )
  • 1960: Love three times a day ( Doctor in Love )
  • 1960: A Nwerz on the hook ( Make Mine Mink )
  • 1960: The French lady ( A French Mistress )
  • 1961: The Rebel
  • 1961: A Weekend with Lulu
  • 1961: Double Bunk
  • 1961: Watch it, Sailor!
  • 1962: Heavens Above! )
  • 1963: The Reg Trade (TV series)
  • 1964: You Must Be Joking!
  • 1965: Protest ( Morgan, a Suitable Case for Treatment )
  • 1965: Last Greetings from Uncle Joe ( The Wrong Box )
  • 1967: Good times ( Smashing Time )
  • 1968: Wonderwall
  • 1968: Charlie dusts off millions ( The Italian Job )
  • 1969: A stowaway has a hard time ( Doctor in Trouble )
  • 1969: On a Clear Day ... ( On a Clear Day You Can See Forever )
  • 1969: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ( The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes )
  • 1970: Rookery Nook (TV movie)
  • 1970: Dirty Work (TV movie)
  • 1970–71: For the Love of Ada (TV series)
  • 1972: For the Love of Ada
  • 1975: A Legacy (TV series)
  • 1976: Confessions of a Driving Instructor
  • 1976: My dear boss, you're a bottle ( Adventures of a Private Eye )
  • 1976: Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers
  • 1976: Three Foreign Legionnaires ( The Last Remake of Beau Geste )
  • 1977: Come Play with Me
  • 1978: The Hound of the Baskervilles ( The Hound of the Baskervilles )
  • 1976–79: Maggie and Her (TV series)
  • 1979: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
  • 1980–83: Metal Mickey (TV series)
  • 1981: Riding High
  • 1986: Absolute Beginners
  • 1987: Never Say Die (TV series)

literature

  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 588

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