Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Barbara Jefford, OBE (born 26 July 1930) is a British Shakespearean actress best known for her theatrical performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic and the National Theatre, and her role as Molly Bloom in the 1967 film of James Joyce's Ulysses. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Jefford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Philomena
2013
as Sister Hildegarde
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
The Deep Blue Sea
2011
as Collyer's Mother
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Madame Bovary
2000
as Marquise
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on...
The Ninth Gate
1999
as Baroness Kessler
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates ...
A Village Affair
1995
as Lady Unwin
An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
as Mrs. Herriton
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Reunion
1989
as Frau Strauss
Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what ...
When the Whales Came
1989
as Auntie Mildred
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a ...
Claudia
1985
as Rosa
Eager to escape her high-society life among the English Elite, a woman falls in love with a young musician. Her husband, however has other plans for h...
And the Ship Sails On
1983
as Ildebranda Cuffari
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voy...
Nelly's Version
1983
as Ms. Wyckham
People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.
Walter and June
1983
as Walter's mother
Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".
Walter
1982
as Sarah - Walter's mother
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to...
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
as Naomi (voice) (uncredited)
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as Jame...
Over
1973
A woman ruminates about her ex-partner. He is involved in a new relationship. She is alone.
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as Magda Goebbels
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
1971
as Josie, of 'Jesus Saves'
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deteriorati...
Lust for a Vampire
1971
as Countess Herritzen
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. Th...
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
as Dr. Ruth Faber
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Hippolyta
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Com...
The Bofors Gun
1968
as Belinda - NAAFI Girl
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
Ulysses
1967
as Molly Bloom
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship a...
Thunderball
1965
as Patricia Fearing (voice) (uncredited)
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they wil...
A Little Temptation
1965
as Ella Cartwright
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
From Russia with Love
1963
as Tatiana Romanova (voice) (uncredited)
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa K...