Barbara Couper

Acting

Barbara Couper

Born 1903-01-06 · London, England, UK

Acting credits

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery poster
6.2

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover £2.5 million hidden in their school.

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

1966

Goodbye, Mr. Chips poster
6.8

Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1969

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders poster
5.7

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

1965

The Lady with a Lamp poster
6.6

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.

The Lady with a Lamp

1951

Happy Go Lovely poster
6.1

Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting financiers. Bruno meets several leading ladies; through a misunderstanding, he doesn't correct their impression that he's a newspaper reporter.

Happy Go Lovely

1951

The Weak and the Wicked poster
6.5

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

The Weak and the Wicked

1954

Macready's Gala poster
7.0

The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

Macready's Gala

1966

The Story of Shirley Yorke poster
5.9

Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.

The Story of Shirley Yorke

1949

The Last Days of Dolwyn poster
6.9

An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.

The Last Days of Dolwyn

1949

Paul Temple's Triumph poster
9.0

A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".

Paul Temple's Triumph

1950

Dark Secret poster
8.0

A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.

Dark Secret

1949

No artwork available
9.0

A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...

Heaven Is Round the Corner

1944