Patricia Burke

Acting

Patricia Burke

Born 1917-03-23 · Milan, Italy

Patricia Burke was an English singer and actress in cinema, stage and TV. She was the daughter of actress Marie Burke and British operatic tenor Thomas Burke.

Acting credits

Forbidden poster
7.1

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.

Forbidden

1949

Soft Beds, Hard Battles poster
4.6

In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

1974

The World of Budgerigars poster
8.5

Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar.

The World of Budgerigars

1976

The Day the Fish Came Out poster
4.8

A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.

The Day the Fish Came Out

1967

Strangler's Web poster
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What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging one time showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that nobody can verify.

Strangler's Web

1965

While I Live poster
6.9

In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. 25 years on, Olwen has gained posthumous fame as a result of her tragic death and her haunting uncompleted composition 'The Dream of Olwen'. Her reclusive sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), who has never come to terms with Olwen's death, becomes convinced that Olwen has returned when she meets an amnesiac woman who looks like her.

While I Live

1947

The Desperate Man poster
5.0

Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.

The Desperate Man

1959

The Happiness of Three Women poster
6.5

Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote the original play and collaborated on the screenplay) to help them out and set them straight.

The Happiness of Three Women

1954

Daylight Robbery poster
8.0

Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store the same day in order to get to the bank next door.

Daylight Robbery

1964

Marriage of Convenience poster
5.5

A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.

Marriage of Convenience

1960

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NR

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The Film That Never Was

1957

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6.5

Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.

The Trojan Brothers

1946

The Impersonator poster
6.1

When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race to clear his name and find the real killer.

The Impersonator

1961

Jennifer Hale poster
6.0

Quota quickie with Rene Ray as Jennifer Hale, a chorus girl wanted for questioning in the murder of a theatrical producer. Fleeing to Manchester she becomes a taxi dancer under an assumed name, meets architect Ballard Berkley who falls in love with her.

Jennifer Hale

1937

Dilemma poster
5.8

Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing.

Dilemma

1962

Lisbon Story poster
6.3

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.

Lisbon Story

1946