Patricia Dainton

Known for Acting

4/12/1930

Hamilton, Scotland, UK

Biography

Patricia Dainton was a Scottish actress. She made her screen debut in 1947 but retired from acting in 1961 to focus on family life with her husband of 58 years, the Welsh-born producer and actor Norman Williams.

Known For (17 credits)

6.5

Movie

The Third Alibi

1961

A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.

5.2

Movie

Ticket to Paradise

1961

Travel agent Emrys Jones and tourist Patricia Dainton fall in love in sunny Italy. Jones has led Dainton to believe that he's fabulously wealthy, and she has likewise deceived him. When the truth inevitably outs, it hardly matters, since hero and heroine now love each other for themselves rather than their bank accounts.

5.5

Movie

The House in Marsh Road

1960

When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair.

6.9

Movie

Witness in the Dark

1959

A killer breaks into an apartment to steal a valuable brooch. He kills an old woman, but in fleeing he encounters a young woman on the stairs who will become his target.

Movie

At the Stroke of Nine

1957

A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.

5.5

Movie

The Passionate Stranger

1957

Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!

5.3

Movie

No Road Back

1957

A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.

5.8

Movie

Operation Diplomat

1953

A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.

5.0

Movie

Tread Softly

1952

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.

5.7

Movie

Paul Temple Returns

1952

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.

6.2

Movie

Castle in the Air

1952

The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He decides to use the ghost as a tourist attraction for his castle

6.0

Movie

Hammer the Toff

1952

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.