Biography
Adrienne Corri (born 13 November 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an actress of Italian parentage. She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs. Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River (1951) and as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965). She appeared in many horror and suspense films in the 1950s until the 1970s including Devil Girl from Mars, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Study in Terror a...
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Complete Filmography

The Demon Lover
1986
as Delia Graham
When young Kathleen makes a promise to Keith Cameron during World War One, that no matter what happens they will meet again one day, she little realis...

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
1980
as Mena
Romana fancies a proper holiday and convinces the Doctor to visit the leisure planet Argolis, where a takeover by the Argolins' historic enemy is unde...

The Human Factor
1979
as Sylvia
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.

Measure for Measure
1979
as Mistress Overdone
When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sente...

Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
as Therese Douvier
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car...

The Country Wife
1977
as Lady Fidget
Directed by Donald McWhinnie.

Rosebud
1975
as Lady Carter
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film c...

Madhouse
1974
as Faye
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution but the character seems to be committing murders independent of his...

An Afternoon at the Festival
1973
as Dana
Ahead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female star and estranged wife talks to a writer, his broth...

Vampire Circus
1972
as Gypsy Woman
After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appear...

A Clockwork Orange
1971
as Mrs. Alexander
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of...

A Distant Thunder
1970
as Elinor Barkham
Peter Barkham hero-worships his distinguished father. However, this is threatened by the intrusion of events and people from his father's wartime past...

Twelfth Night
1970
as Countess Olivia
Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John D...

Moon Zero Two
1969
as Liz
On the Moon in the year 2021, a former-astronaut-turned-salvager helps a millionaire space industrialist capture a 6000-ton sapphire asteroid, while a...

The File of the Golden Goose
1969
as Angela 'Tina' Richmond
U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a murderous gang of counterfeiters known as the Gold...

Cry WoIf
1968
as Mrs. Quinn
A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobody will come to his aid when he is involved in a d...

Journey Into Darkness
1968
as Terry Lawrence
"Journey Into Darkness" is a television movie which consists of two episodes from the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown 1968)": 'The New People (19...

Woman Times Seven
1967
as Mme. Lisiere
Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a ne...

Africa: Texas Style!
1967
as Fay Carter
Two American cowboys are hired by a British rancher to oversee his estate in Kenya. Shot on location in Africa, this film led to the TV show Cowboy in...

The Viking Queen
1967
as Beatrice
Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the inva...

Doctor Zhivago
1965
as Amelia
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship dur...

Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965
as Dorothy
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

A Study in Terror
1965
as Angela
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediate...

Sword of Lancelot
1963
as Lady Vivian
Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love wit...

Dynamite Jack
1961
as Pegeen O'Brien
Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the thumb of dangerous outlaw Dynamite Jack, only to ...

The Hellfire Club
1961
as Isobel
Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Th...

The Tell-Tale Heart
1960
as Betty Clare
Themes of voyeurism and unrequited love compliment Poe's classic of murder and insanity in this superbly suspenseful loose interpretation. Anxiety-str...

The Rough and the Smooth
1959
as Jane Buller
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.

Corridors of Blood
1958
as Rachel
Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.

The Surgeon's Knife
1957
as Laura Shelton
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.

The Big Chance
1957
as Diana Maxwell
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.

Second Fiddle
1957
as Deborah
Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as th...

Three Men in a Boat
1956
as Clara Willis
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

Behind the Headlines
1956
as Pam Barnes
Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.

The Feminine Touch
1956
as Nurse Maureen O'Brien
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospit...

The Anatomist
1956
as Mary Paterson
To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two of his inept students into graverobbers.

Make Me an Offer!
1954
as Nicky
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of othe...

Lease of Life
1954
as Susan Thorne
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

The Troubled Mind
1954
as Nurse Laurie
A dramatised documentary featuring Adrienne Corri, made to recruit women for training as nurses in ‘mental hospitals.’ It takes a deeply humane and st...

Meet Mr. Callaghan
1954
as Mayolo
A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.

Devil Girl from Mars
1954
as Doris
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soo...

The Kidnappers
1953
as Kirsty
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and canta...

Quo Vadis
1951
as Young Christian Girl (uncredited)
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadershi...

The River
1951
as Valerie
Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden...

The Romantic Age
1949
as Norah
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. ...