Shelagh Fraser

Acting

Shelagh Fraser

Born 1920-11-25 · Surrey, England, UK

Sheila Mary Fraser (25 November 1920 – 29 August 2000) was a British actress. She was best-known for her role as Luke Skywalker's ill-fated aunt, Beru Lars in Star Wars (though Fraser's voice was dubbed in some prints of the film). She appeared in more than 50 films and TV shows during her career, including Z-Cars and Softly, Softly, A Family at War and Heartbeat on television, and such films as The Witches, Till Death Us Do Part, Doomwatch, and Hope and Glory. She was married and divorced from Anthony Squire. She was the sister of ballerina/actress Moyra Fraser.

Acting credits

Star Wars poster
8.2

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

Star Wars

1977

Hope and Glory poster
6.9

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

Hope and Glory

1987

Absolute Hell poster
6.0

Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."

Absolute Hell

1991

Nothing But the Night poster
6.2

When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.

Nothing But the Night

1973

The Son of Robin Hood poster
5.3

Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.

The Son of Robin Hood

1958

The Witches poster
6.0

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.

The Witches

1966

A Touch of Love poster
6.6

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.

A Touch of Love

1969

Rope poster
NR

Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

Rope

1947

Doomwatch poster
6.1

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.

Doomwatch

1972

Till Death Us Do Part poster
7.6

Based on the hit sitcom of the same name; racist, anti-Socialist Tory Alf Garnett and his long-suffering wife Else raise their daughter Rita during the Blitz.

Till Death Us Do Part

1969

Persecution poster
3.6

A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).

Persecution

1974

Work Experience poster
6.7

Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Work Experience

1989

Two Gentlemen Sharing poster
5.5

An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.

Two Gentlemen Sharing

1969

Trio poster
6.4

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Trio

1950

The Body Stealers poster
4.8

In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of otherworldly origin.

The Body Stealers

1969

The Last Man to Hang poster
6.2

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.

The Last Man to Hang

1956

Staircase poster
5.7

An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.

Staircase

1969

Your Witness poster
6.2

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.

Your Witness

1950

I Live in Grosvenor Square poster
7.3

The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

I Live in Grosvenor Square

1945

The History of Mr. Polly poster
7.5

Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.

The History of Mr. Polly

1949

Salute the Toff poster
5.7

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.

Salute the Toff

1952

Frankie and Johnnie poster
9.0

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.

Frankie and Johnnie

1986

Death in the Hand poster
7.0

A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.

Death in the Hand

1948

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NR

A social comedy about the relationship between two couples with different political beliefs. Edward and Jane Noble are right wing, but with some liberal leanings, whereas Sean and Marcia are more radical and left wing.

The Common

1973