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Louisa Wilberforce: Philip Stainton ... The Sergeant: Frankie Howerd ... The Barrow Boy: Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Madge Brindley ... Large Lady (uncredited) Hélène Burls ... Hypatia (uncredited) Jimmy Charters ...
It stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, and Katie Johnson as the old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce. [2] William Rose wrote the screenplay, [2] for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.
The producers originally rejected director Alexander Mackendrick's choice of Katie Johnson for the role of Mrs. Wilberforce on the grounds that she might be too frail for the project, and so they cast a younger actress who died before filming began.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Alexander Mackendrick
- 1956-02-03
She first appeared in a film at age 53, in 1932, but never received critical acclaim for her performances until 1955, when she starred, aged 76, in the Ealing Studios comedy The Ladykillers as Mrs Louisa Wilberforce. The role earned her a British Film Academy award for best British actress.
Mrs Wilberforce, a sweet little old lady, rents out a room in her lopsided house to Marcus, a professor of music. She is blissfully unaware that he is actually a maniacal criminal who is putting together against a gang of misfits who will stop at nothing to commit the heist of their careers.
Louisa Wilberforce : [Mrs. Wilberforce knocks on the door, and starts pacing in no answer] Oh, oh dear, oh dear. Poor Mr. Robinson.
Nov 7, 2018 · Carol Oddy plays kindly Mrs Wilberforce, a sweet old lady blissfully unaware of the true intentions of Professor Marcus and Co. ...more.
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- 144
- The Playhouse Company, Cheltenham
