Frances de la Tour is an English television, stage and film actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom “Rising Damp” from 1974 until 1978; Madame Olympe Maxime in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (2005) and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” (2010) and Mrs. Lintott in Alan Bennett’s “The History Boys”. She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.
Frances de la Tour Biography / Wiki
| Name | Frances de la Tour |
| Also Know | Frances J. de Lautour |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1944-07-30 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 78 |
| Deathday |
Frances de la Tour Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| National Theatre Live: People | Dorothy Stacpoole | 2013-03-21 | People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a … |
| Right To Work March | Elizabeth I | 1972-10-19 | Young Socialists from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea march to London and discuss their economic struggles en route. Supporting them are Ken Loach, Cor… |
| Housewives’ Choice | Marcia | 1976-10-19 | Marcia is looking for someone to look after her baby and Joyce seems ideal, looking like a perfect, kindly, respectable lady…. |
| Rising Damp | Miss Jones | 1980-05-03 | Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must … |
| Wombling Free | Julia Frogmorton | 1977-12-31 | The adventures of The Wombles, strange creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and pick up the litter left by the humans. There’s always time for a nic… |
| National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art | Kay | 2010-04-22 | National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and Frances de la … |
| The Lady in the Van | Ursula Vaughan Williams | 2015-10-30 | The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her … |
| The Nutcracker: The Untold Story | The Rat Queen / Frau Eva | 2010-11-24 | Set in 1920s Vienna, this is the tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve…. |
| Private Peaceful | Grandma Wolf | 2012-10-12 | Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feud… |
| All Good Men | 1974-01-31 | On the eve of an in-depth television interview, Edward Waite, former Labour cabinet minister, calls his family together for a birthday celebration tha… | |
| Trap for Cinderella | Aunt Elinor | 2013-07-12 | A young girl, suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend’s life, begins a tormented road to recovery…. |
| Our Miss Fred | Miss Lockhart | 1972-12-14 | Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France… |
| The Highway Rat | The Rabbit (voice) | 2018-10-10 | The tale of a ravenous rat who craves buns, biscuits and all sweet things. Tearing along the highway, he searches for sugary treats to steal, until hi… |
| Mr. Holmes | Madame Schirmer | 2015-06-19 | The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds … |
| Suspension of Disbelief | Nesta | 2012-11-01 | Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happe… |
| Genghis Cohn | Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist | 1994-03-02 | In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is co… |
| The Book of Eli | Martha | 2010-01-11 | A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankin… |
| National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Kay | 2013-11-02 | To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best Brit… |
| Enola Holmes | The Dowager | 2020-09-23 | While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord…. |
| Murder with Mirrors | Miss Bellaver | 1985-02-20 | When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there’s time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy,… |
| Survivor | Sally | 2015-05-21 | A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for cri… |
| Strike It Rich | Mrs de Vere | 1990-01-26 | A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever…. |
| The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Aunt Weston | 1997-11-09 | 1997 BBC adaptation of the classic Henry Fielding novel…. |
| Miss You Already | Jill the Wigmaker | 2015-09-12 | The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill…. |
| Hugo | Madame Emilie | 2011-11-22 | Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo’s job is to oil and maintain the statio… |
| Bejewelled | 1991-01-20 | An American’s family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recov… | |
| The History Boys | Mrs. Lintott | 2006-10-02 | The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambrid… |
| Genghis Cohn | Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger | 1994-03-02 | In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is co… |
| The Cherry Orchard | Charlotte Ivanovna | 1999-01-01 | Madame Ranevskaya (Rampling) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard… |
| Death on the Nile 2004 | Salome Otterbourne | 2004-04-12 | David Suchet (His Dark Materials) is beloved detective Hercule Poirot in this star-studded, feature-length adaptation of the mystery by Agatha Christi… |
| Into the Woods | Giant | 2014-12-24 | In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch…. |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Olympe Maxime | 2005-11-16 | When Harry Potter’s name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the T… |
| To the Devil a Daughter | Salvation Army Major | 1976-03-04 | An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her… |
| Alice in Wonderland | Aunt Imogene | 2010-03-03 | Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny…. |
| Every Home Should Have One | Maud Crape | 1970-03-05 | Teddy, working at an advertising agency, has to come up with a campaign for frozen porridge…. |
| Dolittle | Dragon (voice) | 2020-01-01 | After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himse… |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Olympe Maxime | 2010-10-17 | Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort’s bid for … |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | Aunt Imogene (uncredited) | 2016-05-25 | Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter…. |
| Love Actually | Lesbian Lover (uncredited) | 2003-09-07 | ‘Love Actually’ follows the lives of eight very different couples dealing with their love lives, in various loosely and interrelated tales, all set du… |
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