Odette

About this Broadcast

The French widow of an English soldier offers her services to British Intelligence, and is sent undercover as a spy in Nazi-occupied France. However, her work alongside the resistance leads to her falling into the clutches of the Gestapo. Fact-based Second World War drama, with Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov and Marius Goring

1950 HD subtitles 16x9

Espionage Factual Movie/Drama War

Cast & Crew

Anna Neagle (Actor) .. Odette/Marie/Lise

Trevor Howard (Actor) .. Capt Peter Churchill/Raoul

Peter Ustinov (Actor) .. Lt Alex Rabinovich/Arnauld

Marius Goring (Actor) .. Colonel Henri

Bernard Lee (Actor) .. Jack

Maurice Buckmaster (Actor) .. Himself

Alfred Schieshe-Gilles (Actor) .. Commandant

Gilles Queant (Actor) .. Jacques

Herbert Wilcox (Director)

More Information

Did You Know..

Anna Neagle (Actor) .. Odette/Marie/Lise

Trevor Howard (Actor) .. Capt Peter Churchill/Raoul

Born: September 29, 1913 in Kent

Best Known For: Brief Encounter.

Early-life: Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was born in Kent on September 29, 1913. He was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He played a number of roles on the West End stage before being called up into the Army Signal Corps in 1940. He was discharged from service in 1943 for mental instability.

Career: Howard had small roles in the films The Way Ahead (1944) and The Way to the Stars (1945) before his big break in 1945, playing the stoic Dr Alec Harvey in David Lean's Brief Encounter. He went on to have an acclaimed film career, starring in The Third Man (1949), Outcast of the Islands (1951), The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), The Key (1958), Sons and Lovers (1960), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Rawlinson End (1980). He died on January 7, 1988 at the age of 74.

Quote: 'We don't have the Method School of acting in England. We simply read the script, let it seep in, then go put on whiskers - and do it.'

Trivia: He was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Received an Academy Award nomination for Sons and Lovers. He won a Primetime Emmy for The Invincible Mr Disraeli.