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Joan Plowright Acting Filmography (62)

Nothing Like a Dame
2018·Self
Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
2018·Herself
Knife Edge
2009·Marjorie Blake
The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008·Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
Goose on the Loose
2006·Beatrice Fairfield
Curious George
2006·Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
2005·Mrs. Palfrey
George and the Dragon
2004·Mother Superior
Bringing Down the House
2003·Mrs. Virginia Arness
I Am David
2003·Sophie
Global Heresy
2002·Lady Foxley
Callas Forever
2002·Sarah Keller
Scrooge and Marley
2001·Narrator
Bailey's Mistake
2001·Aunt Angie
Dinosaur
2000·Baylene (voice)
Back to the Secret Garden
2000·Martha Sowerby
Frankie & Hazel
2000·Phoebe Harkness
Tea with Mussolini
1999·Mary Wallace
Tom's Midnight Garden
1999·Mrs Bartholomew
Dance with Me
1998·Bea Johnson
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
1998·Jeanne Vertefeuille
101 Dalmatians
1996·Nanny
Jane Eyre
1996·Mrs. Fairfax
Mr. Wrong
1996·Mrs. Crawford
Surviving Picasso
1996·Françoise's Grandmother
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995·Mrs. Linzer
Hotel Sorrento
1995·Marge Morrisey
A Pin for the Butterfly
1995·Grandma
The Scarlet Letter
1995·Harriet Hibbons
Widows' Peak
1994·Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
A Place for Annie
1994·Dorothy
The Return of the Native
1994·Frau Yeobright
On Promised Land
1994·Mrs. Appletree
Dennis the Menace
1993·Martha Wilson
Last Action Hero
1993·Teacher
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993·Mrs. Monro
Stalin
1992·Olga
Enchanted April
1991·Mrs Fisher
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991·Poncia
I Love You to Death
1990·Nadja
Avalon
1990·Eva Krichinsky
And a Nightingale Sang
1989·Mam
Drowning by Numbers
1988·Cissie Colpitts
The Dressmaker
1988·Nellie
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988·Lady Bracknell
The Birthday Party
1987·Meg Bowles
Revolution
1985·Mrs. McConnahay
Britannia Hospital
1982·Phyllis Grimshaw
Brimstone & Treacle
1982·Norma Bates
A Dedicated Man
1982·Edith
Laurence Olivier: a life
1982·Self
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980·Edith Frank-Holländer
Daphne Laureola
1978·Lady Pitts
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978·Rosa
Equus
1977·Dora Strang
The Merchant of Venice
1973·Portia
Twelfth Night
1970·Viola
Three Sisters
1970·Masha
Uncle Vanya
1963·Sonya
The Entertainer
1960·Jean Rice
Time Without Pity
1957·Agnes Cole
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
1955·A Young Actress /Pip