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Acting

Wendy Hiller

Career: Active from 1937 to 1993, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 23
top three billing

Average score: 67/100

Highest rated: The Elephant Man
85/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 29 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Wendy Hiller Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.0, average 5.4
Adrenaline
2.7, average 4.8
Violence
2.4, average 4.1
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Period Piece 5
Character Study 5
Character-Driven 4
Class Conflict 3
Social Commentary 3
Historical Drama 3
Strong Female Lead 2
Thought-Provoking 2
Psychological Drama 2
Political Intrigue 2
Victorian Era 2
Literary Adaptation 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

60

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

2 titles

The Countess Alice

as Countess Alice von Holzendorf

The Best of Friends

as Laurentia McLachlan

1980s

20 titles · average score 72

as Adela

A Taste for Death

65

TV show · as Lady Ursula Berowne

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

85

as Aunt D'Arcy

All Passion Spent

79

TV show · as Lady Slane

All Passion Spent

79

as Lady Slane

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

74

TV show · as Princess Victoria

Witness for the Prosecution

64

as Janet Mackenzie

Making Love

60

as Winnie Bates

Country

as Daisy - Lady Carlion

Miss Morison's Ghosts

as Miss Elizabeth Morison

The Elephant Man

85

as Mothershead

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

47

as Princess Vilma

1970s

12 titles · average score 66

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Louisa

The Cat and the Canary

48

as Alison Crosby

Richard II

80

as Duchess of York

The BBC Television Shakespeare

TV show · as Duchess of York

as Mrs. Abercrombie

Voyage of the Damned

51

as Rebecca Lara Weiler

Murder on the Orient Express

74

as Prinzessin Dragomiroff

Peer Gynt

as Aase

Clochemerle

TV show · as Justine Putet

Great Performances

70

TV show · as Lady Bracknell

TV show · as Aase

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Daisy - Lady Carlion

1960s

11 titles · average score 60

David Copperfield

48

as Mrs. Micawber

TV show · as Mary Fox

From Chekhov with Love

as Mme. Avilova

The Growing Summer

TV show · as Great Aunt Dymphna/Great-Aunt Dymphna

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Mrs. Abercrombie

A Man for All Seasons

79

as Alice More

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Harriet / Lily Moffat

Knock on Any Door

TV show · as Bee Burton

Profiles in Courage

TV show · as Anne Hutchinson

Toys in the Attic

50

as Anna Berniers

Sons and Lovers

64

as Gertrude Morel

1950s

10 titles · average score 68

Separate Tables

61

as Pat Cooper

How to Murder a Rich Uncle

69

as Edith Clitterbern

Something of Value

53

as Elizabeth Newton

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Laura Siddons

Matinee Theater

TV show

Lilli Palmer Theatre

TV show

Sailor of the King

64

as Lucinda Bentley

Outcast of the Islands

59

as Mrs. Almayer

To Be a Woman

as Narrator (voice)

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Janet Mackenzie

1940s

3 titles · average score 71

Studio One

65

TV show · as Margaret Rose

I Know Where I'm Going!

83

as Joan Webster

Major Barbara

65

as Major Barbara Undershaft

1930s

2 titles · average score 73

Pygmalion

73

as Eliza Doolittle

Lancashire Luck

as Betty Lovejoy