Dawn Archibald
Know for: Acting
Born: 1961-10-01
Place of birth: Halifax, Yorkshire, England
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Murder by the Book (1986)
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which...
The Missionary (1982)
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new...
Scrubbers (1982)
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Mona Lisa (1986)
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high...
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and...
Caravaggio (1986)
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous...
The Garden (1990)
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a...
Remembrance (1982)
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port,...
The Company of Wolves (1984)
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which...
The Bad Sister (1983)
Jane is the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish landowner. She is disowned and expelled from his estates, but although she settles down to a new life...
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982)
After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of...
Blood Red Roses (1986)
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Mrs. Silly (1983)
Mrs. Silly, a woman who has lost her husband to another, is now about to lose her son to an expensive boarding school, compliments of her ex's money....