What character did Pam Ferris play in the film based on a J.K Rowling novel?
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Pam Ferris Pam Ferris (born 11 May 1948) is a Welsh character actress. She starred on television as Ma Larkin in "The Darling Buds of May", and as Laura Thyme in "Rosemary & Thyme", and has played parts in family films based on works by British authors, such as Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda" and as Aunt Marge in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", and most recently as Sister Evangelina in "Call the Midwife".
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 British-American fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. The film, which is the third instalment in the "Harry Potter" film series, was written by Steve Kloves and produced by Chris Columbus (director of the first two instalments), David Heyman, and Mark Radcliffe. The story follows Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts as he is informed that a prisoner named Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban intending to kill him.
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Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton. The film stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, and Mia Wasikowska and features the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, and Timothy Spall. Based on Lewis Carroll's fantasy novels, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". This film tells the story of a nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsley (stated in the film to be a daughter of Charles Kingsley), who is told that she can restore the White Queen to her throne, with the help of the Mad Hatter. She is the only one who can slay the Jabberwock, a dragon-like creature that is controlled by the Red Queen and terrorizes Underland's inhabitants.
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Career of Evil Career of Evil is the third novel in the "Cormoran Strike" series, written by J. K. Rowling and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is preceded by "The Cuckoo's Calling" and "The Silkworm". The novel was released on 22 October 2015 in the United Kingdom.
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Marisa Coulter Marisa Coulter is a fictional character in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy and one of the main antagonists of "Northern Lights". She is the former lover of Lord Asriel and is usually called 'Mrs. Coulter'.
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The Godsend (film) The Godsend is a 1980 British horror film directed by Gabrielle Beaumont and written by Olaf Pooley. It is based on the 1976 novel "The Godsend" by Bernard Taylor. The film stars Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence, Patrick Barr, Wilhelmina Green and Joanne Boorman. The film was released on January 25, 1980, by The Cannon Group, Inc..
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is an action-adventure video game based on the film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", which in turn is based on J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the fourth novel in the "Harry Potter" series.
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Pandora Braithwaite Dr Pandora Louise Elizabeth Braithwaite is a fictional character in the "Adrian Mole" series of books by Sue Townsend. In the books, Pandora is the love of Adrian's life. Pandora is beautiful (Adrian especially loves her 'treacle-coloured' hair) and intelligent, and in the first books, she and Adrian Mole are happy together. In the later books, Pandora resists Adrian's advances in favour of physically and intellectually powerful men, although Adrian remains attached to her.
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Suzie Toase Suzie Toase or Suzanne Toase is a British actress who is possibly best known for her role as Alecto Carrow in the film adaptations of J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" and "Part 2".
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The Wheel of Ice The Wheel of Ice is an original novel written by Stephen Baxter and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Second Doctor and Jamie and Zoe. It was released both as a standard edition hardback and an audio book read by David Troughton (son of Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton).
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Small Sacrifices Small Sacrifices is a 1989 American made-for-TV movie written by Joyce Eliason and based on the best-selling true crime book by Ann Rule of the same name. The film is about Diane Downs and the murder and attempted murder of her three children. It stars Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Gordon Clapp, John Shea and Emily Perkins. The film premiered on ABC on 12 November 1989.
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Pippi in the South Seas (film) Pippi in the South Seas (original title: "Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven") is a 1970 Swedish movie, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren with the cast of the 1969 TV series "Pippi Longstocking". It was released in the USA in 1975.
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Aylmer Hall Aylmer Hall is the pen name of Norah Eleanor Lyle Cummins (born 24 April 1914). She is the author of adventure stories for children written in the 1950s and 1960s. Her book "The Tyrant King - A London Adventure" was published by London Transport in 1967 with illustrations by Peter Roberson. The book inspired the film of the same name, directed by Mike Hodges.
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Ringpullworld Ringpullworld is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". In it, Mark Strickson reprises his role as Turlough.
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Pimpernel and Rosemary Pimpernel and Rosemary is a novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, originally published in 1924. It is set after the First World War and features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Percy Blakeney).
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Tam Lin (novel) Tam Lin is a 1991 contemporary fantasy novel by United States author Pamela Dean, who based it on the traditional Scottish border ballad "Tam Lin".
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The Witches (1990 film) The Witches is a 1990 British/American dark fantasy horror-comedy film based on the children's novel of the same title by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Nicolas Roeg and produced by The Jim Henson Company for Lorimar Film Entertainment and Warner Bros., starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson, and Jasen Fisher. It is the last theatrical film to be produced by Lorimar before the company shut down 3 years later in 1993.
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List of Adrian Mole characters The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole is a British series of books written by Sue Townsend which focus on the life of Adrian Mole, one of life's losers, and his exploits and opinions of both the world's and social situations in the county of Leicestershire. The series begins when Mole is a thirteen-year-old delinquent and ends when he finds out he will be a grandfather, aged forty-two. A sequel was produced in 2011 to highlight the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, and Townsend had been working on another "Adrian Mole" book at the time of her death in April 2014.
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Olivia Grant (actress born 1983) Olivia Grant (born 20 September 1983) is an English actress. Her first film role was in "Stardust" (2007), in which she was cast within weeks of graduating from Oxford University. She is perhaps best known for portraying Lady Adelaide Midwinter in BBC's "Lark Rise to Candleford", Grace Darling in BBC3's "Personal Affairs", Hermione Roddice in "Women in Love", Henrietta Armistead in "Garrow's Law", Ava Knox in the HBO/Cinemax co-production "Strike Back" and Madeleine Mathers in "Indian Summers" for PBS and Channel 4.
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The Boogeyman (2010 film) The Boogeyman is a short horror film directed by Gerard Lough and starring Simon Fogarty, Michael Parle and Joanne Cullen. It is based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King and was made using the "Dollar Baby" deal he set up in the '80s. It is the first Irish film to be based on a King story and would go on to attract extensive publicity and critical acclaim. The film centers around a troubled man named Andrew Billings who goes to see psychiatrist Dr. Harper to explain his theory that a "boogeyman" is responsible for the deaths of his three children.
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Pixie Davies Pixie Davies is an English child actress who has starred in many notable films and TV series, including "Roald Dahl's Esio Trot", "The Secret of Crickley Hall," "Humans", and "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children".
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Mistress Pamela Mistress Pamela is a 1974 British sex comedy drama film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Ann Michelle, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle and Anthony Sharp. It was loosely based on the 1740 novel "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" by Samuel Richardson.