Rachel Roberts

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1927-09-20 (53 years old)

Deathday

1980-11-26

Place of Birth

Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK

Rachel Roberts

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel Roberts (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Acting

1974

Murder on the Orient Express

as Hildegarde Schmidt

1975

Picnic at Hanging Rock

as Mrs. Appleyard

1979

Yanks

as Mrs. Clarrie Moreton

1973

O Lucky Man!

as Gloria Rowe / Madame Paillard / Mrs. Richards

1978

Foul Play

as Delia Darrow / Gerda Casswell

1979

1974

Great Expectations

as Mrs. Gargery

1963

This Sporting Life

as Mrs. Margaret Hammond

1976

Alpha Beta

as Nora Elliot

1953

The Limping Man

as Barmaid

1968

A Flea in Her Ear

as Suzanne de Castilian

1970

The Reckoning

as Joyce Eglington

1971

Doctors' Wives

as Della Randolph

1973

Baffled!

as Mrs. Farraday

1961

Girl on Approval

as Anne Howland

1957

The Good Companions

as Elsie and Effie Longstaff

1969

Destiny of a Spy

as Megan Thomas

1953

Valley of Song

as Bessie Lewis

1966

Blithe Spirit

as Ruth Condomine

1979

The Sorrows of Gin

as Mrs. Henlein

1980

1971

Wild Rovers

as Maybell

1973

The Belstone Fox

as Cathie Smith

1954

1960

Our Man in Havana

as Prostitute (uncredited)

1974

1982

The Wall

as Regina Kowalska

1992

Under Milk Wood

as Mrs. Dai Bread Two (voice) (archive sound)

1979

The Old Crowd

as Pauline

1974

Graceless Go I

as Dorothy

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