Agnes Bernelle

Acting

Agnes Bernelle

Born 1923-03-07 · Berlin, Germany

Acting credits

The First Great Train Robbery poster
6.7

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.

The First Great Train Robbery

1978

Caesar and Cleopatra poster
6.2

At the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to rule Egypt.

Caesar and Cleopatra

1945

An Awfully Big Adventure poster
6.5

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.

An Awfully Big Adventure

1995

Hear My Song poster
5.9

Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.

Hear My Song

1991

Sweety Barrett poster
6.0

Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unleashing a spiral of dangerous and unexpected events.

Sweety Barrett

1999

The Quare Fellow poster
5.7

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.

The Quare Fellow

1962

The Good Companions poster
7.0

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

The Good Companions

1957

No artwork available
3.3

Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she hunted as a teenager with friend Barb Gale. Matters are complicated when she rekindles her friendship with Barb, who still works for a hunt. The plot thickens further when it becomes aparent that the House of Lords is likely break with convention and block the bill, an event which the Prime Minister hopes to use for his own ends.

Giving Tongue

1996

The Love She Sought poster
6.8

An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bishop (Prosky). As a result she retires and takes a trip to Ireland where she seeks an admirer (Elliott) with whom she has been corresponding for five years.

The Love She Sought

1990

Another Shore poster
5.7

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

Another Shore

1948

Newton : A Tale of Two Isaacs poster
5.0

As Newton devotes himself to the difficult and solitary path of challenging the existing view of the universe and proving his own theories on celestial movement and gravity, his young scribe Humphrey wavers between pursuing science or following his heart.

Newton : A Tale of Two Isaacs

1997

The Country Girls poster
7.0

The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for the big city, each with different life goals in mind.

The Country Girls

1983

The Fantasist poster
4.4

A young Dublin woman is stalked by a telephone charmer who poses victims nude and then stabs them.

The Fantasist

1986

Woman to Woman poster
6.5

A Canadian officer, David Anson, who falls for French dancer Nicolette Bonnett during wartime, has a child with her, and returns heartbroken after her death from a weak heart, only for his wife to adopt the son, linking their lives across continents and tragedy, exploring themes of love, duty, and lost time.

Woman to Woman

1947

No artwork available
8.2

In Over the Garden Wall, a working class couple (Jimmy James and Norman Evans) are planning to give their only daughter and their new GI son-in-law a right Northern welcome. As always, though, riotous trouble starts to flare up when a young man starts to flirt with James and Evans's daughter!

Over the Garden Wall

1950