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Rachel Roberts

Rachel Roberts

Rachel Roberts (20 September 1927 – 26 November 1980) was a Welsh actress noted for her fervour and passion; Roberts is best remembered for her forthright screen performances in two key films of the 1960s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, in both of which she played the older mistress of the central male character. In Australia, she is remembered for her performance as Mrs Appleyard in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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Movies Starring Rachel Roberts (36)

Under Milk Wood (1992)

A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub. ...

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The Wall (1982)

A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jew ...

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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)

Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime sus ...

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The Hostage Tower (1980)

A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them. ...

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The Sorrows of Gin (1979)

An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter. ...

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When a Stranger Calls (1979)

A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation. ...

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Yanks (1979)

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British ...

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The Old Crowd (1979)

George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, after ten days none of their furniture has arrived, having been sent to Carlisle by mistake, three o ...

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Foul Play (1978)

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church. ...

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The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands (1978)

While studying the behavior of birds on one of the western Florida island wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, the Wild family encounters hunters and an island recluse. ...

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A Circle Street of Children (1977)

A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish. ...

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Alpha Beta (1976)

E. A. Whitehead adapted the script of Alpha Beta from his own play. Albert Finney is cast as "The Man," while Rachel Roberts plays "The Woman." The rest of the film remains in this pretentious vein, as we watch Finney and Roberts' marriage crumble before o ...

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules ...

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A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900 (1975)

A documentary about the disappearance of school girls on St. Valentine's Day, 1900 at Australia's Hanging Rock. ...

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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before. ...

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Back of Beyond (1974)

Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest ...

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Great Expectations (1974)

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. ...

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Baffled! (1973)

Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She le ...

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O Lucky Man! (1973)

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism. ...

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The Belstone Fox (1973)

Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him! ...

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Wild Rovers (1971)

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one ...

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Doctors' Wives (1971)

The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze. ...

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The Reckoning (1970)

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he's confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father die ...

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Destiny of a Spy (1969)

A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent. ...

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A Flea in Her Ear (1968)

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act. ...

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Blithe Spirit (1966)

Adaptation of the Noel Coward play. ...

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This Sporting Life (1963)

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver. ...

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Girl on Approval (1961)

Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make ...

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A Subject of Scandal and Concern (1960)

A dramatized account of a Victorian cause célèbre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking ...

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married. ...

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Our Man in Havana (1960)

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of ...

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The Good Companions (1957)

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth. ...

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The Crowded Day (1954)

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store. ...

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The Weak and the Wicked (1954)

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is re ...

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The Limping Man (1953)

An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper. ...

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Valley of Song (1953)

A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd. Based on a stage play "Choir Practice". ...

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