Mary Ure

Acting

Mary Ure

Born — Died

1933-02-18 — 1975-04-03

Place of birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Mary Eileen Ure (February 18, 1933 – April 3, 1975) was a Scottish actress of stage and film. She was nominated for a Tony Award as well as an Academy Award, becoming the second Scottish actress to achieve the latter.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 7 titles

Where Eagles Dare poster
7.5

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

Where Eagles Dare

1968

Custer of the West poster
5.9

The story of U.S. Army commander George Armstrong Custer, a flamboyant hero of the Civil War who later fought and was exterminated with his entire command by warring Sioux and Cheyenne tribes at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.

Custer of the West

1967

The Luck of Ginger Coffey poster
6.8

An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his constant lying, pigheadedness and instability.

The Luck of Ginger Coffey

1964

Sons and Lovers poster
6.5

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.

Sons and Lovers

1960

The Mind Benders poster
6.3

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.

The Mind Benders

1963

On Location: Where Eagles Dare poster
6.0

A behind-the-scenes look at the difficulties of shooting a movie on location in the Austrian Alps.

On Location: Where Eagles Dare

1968

Mondo Hollywood poster
6.7

A documentary analyzing the social, political and cultural climate of Hollywood in the mid-1960s.

Mondo Hollywood

1967

1950s · 3 titles

Series credits