Acting

Lily Kann

Born — Died

1893-10-26 — 1978-11-02

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

Known for

Theatre 625 poster
7.2

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

Theatre 625

1964

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8.0

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.

Festival

1963

I Was a Male War Bride poster
6.9

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

I Was a Male War Bride

1949

A Kid for Two Farthings poster
6.6

Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.

A Kid for Two Farthings

1955

Betrayed poster
5.8

When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.

Betrayed

1954

Foreign Intrigue poster
5.8

When a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.

Foreign Intrigue

1956

Film credits

1950s · 17 titles

A Kid for Two Farthings poster
6.6

Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.

A Kid for Two Farthings

1955

Betrayed poster
5.8

When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.

Betrayed

1954

Foreign Intrigue poster
5.8

When a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.

Foreign Intrigue

1956

Nowhere to Go poster
6.6

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

Nowhere to Go

1958

No Trees in the Street poster
5.8

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.

No Trees in the Street

1959

A Day to Remember poster
7.4

A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.

A Day to Remember

1953

A Tale of Five Cities poster
5.0

An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory

A Tale of Five Cities

1951

Beautiful Stranger poster
5.2

An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.

Beautiful Stranger

1954

The Awakening poster
6.5

"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".

The Awakening

1954

Street Corner poster
5.5

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.

Street Corner

1953

The House of the Seven Hawks poster
6.1

A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.

The House of the Seven Hawks

1959

Eight O'Clock Walk poster
6.9

Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.

Eight O'Clock Walk

1954

Background poster
7.0

Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.

Background

1953

The Clouded Yellow poster
6.3

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.

The Clouded Yellow

1950

Cat Girl poster
4.9

A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.

Cat Girl

1957

Flesh and Blood poster
7.0

Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.

Flesh and Blood

1951

Whirlpool poster
6.3

The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.

Whirlpool

1959

1940s · 8 titles

Series credits