Helen Haye

Acting

Helen Haye

Born 1874-08-27 · Assam Province, British India

Helen Haye was born on August 28, 1874, in Assam Province, British India. She was an actress, known for 'The Frightened Lady (1940)', 'The 39 Steps (1935)', and 'Drake the Pirate (1935)'. She was married to Ernest Attenborough. She died on September 1, 1957, in London, England, UK.

Acting credits

The 39 Steps poster
7.3

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.

The 39 Steps

1935

Hobson's Choice poster
7.4

A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.

Hobson's Choice

1954

Bleak House poster
10.0

'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)

Bleak House

1920

Anna Karenina poster
6.0

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted— but in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

1948

Conspirator poster
5.8

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

Conspirator

1949

The Man in Grey poster
6.1

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.

The Man in Grey

1943

My Teenage Daughter poster
6.3

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.

My Teenage Daughter

1956

Action of the Tiger poster
4.8

A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.

Action of the Tiger

1957

St. Martin's Lane poster
7.4

Pickpocket Libby is protected by aging street performer Charles, who takes her into his troupe. Libby's dancing leads her to meet songwriter Harley and launch a stage career, while Charles is seemingly spurned by the waif he has helped.

St. Martin's Lane

1938

The Skin Game poster
5.4

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

The Skin Game

1931

Kipps poster
6.1

A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.

Kipps

1941

Fanny by Gaslight poster
5.5

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.

Fanny by Gaslight

1944

The Spy in Black poster
6.4

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

The Spy in Black

1939

Brown Sugar poster
10.0

The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.

Brown Sugar

1931

Cotton Queen poster
6.3

The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

Cotton Queen

1937

Madonna of the Seven Moons poster
6.3

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.

Madonna of the Seven Moons

1945

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6.6

A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's wife to show the girl how foolish she's been.

Her First Affaire

1932

Front Page Story poster
8.0

A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....

Front Page Story

1954

Mine Own Executioner poster
7.0

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

Mine Own Executioner

1947

A Girl Must Live poster
4.8

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

A Girl Must Live

1939

A Place of One's Own poster
5.8

An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.

A Place of One's Own

1945

The Case of the Frightened Lady poster
6.8

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

The Case of the Frightened Lady

1940

The Nipper poster
8.0

A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.

The Nipper

1930

Drake of England poster
6.8

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.

Drake of England

1935