Zena Walker

Zena Walker

Born: March 7, 1934
Died: August 24, 2003
in Birmingham, England, UK

Movies for Zena Walker...

Title: Rosemary & Thyme
Character: Doris Deeping
Released: August 31, 2003
Type: TV
Brought together by professional and personal heartache, two plucky ladies plant the seeds for a brighter future. Rosemary Boxer, with a doctorate in plant pathology, and Laura Thyme, a former police constable and avid gardener, discover their shared love of green-thumbness and start a gardening business. As they restore various English gardens back to their lavish states, the inquisitive pair also find themselves uncovering an assortment of mysteries.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Mary Melchett
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Ellen Birley
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Vanda Chevenix
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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The Dresser
Title: The Dresser
Character: Her Ladyship
Released: December 6, 1983
Type: Movie
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
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Title: Number 10
Released: February 13, 1983
Type: TV
Drama series about the private lives of seven British prime ministers who lived in Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald.
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Title: Dead Ernest
Released: February 15, 1982
Type: TV
Dead Ernest was a 1982 UK TV supernatural sitcom set in heaven starring Andrew Sachs in the role of Ernest Springer. It was broadcast on ITV from 15th February 1982 and was the first sitcom made by the newly formed Central Television. Ernest wins half a million pounds on the football pools. Unfortunately he is killed by a blow to the head from a stray champagne bottle cork. He subsequently ascends to heaven. Although the authorities in heaven admit that his death was an administrative error, as his kidneys have already been donated he cannot go back down to earth. The notion of a sitcom set in the afterlife was an intriguing one, but despite the original idea, some promising comic setpieces, Sachs' undoubted comedic abilities, and support from other seasoned comic actors such as Ken Jones, it was regarded as a disappointing effort, and only lasted for one series of seven episodes.
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Random Moments in a May Garden
Title: Random Moments in a May Garden
Character: Sophie
Released: May 22, 1981
Type: Movie
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.
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C2H5OH
Title: C2H5OH
Character: Mary Purser
Released: October 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Play on the problems of alcoholism.
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That Crazy Woman
Title: That Crazy Woman
Character: Dr. Barbara Moore
Released: February 21, 1980
Type: Movie
In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Millie Hopkins
Released: May 8, 1979
Type: Movie
Millie Hopkins is not happy when she sees her neighbour erecting a large cage in his garden. She soon becomes fascinated by the new 'pet'.
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Sorry...
Title: Sorry...
Character: Vera - 'Private View'
Released: November 21, 1978
Type: Movie
Two TV Plays by Vaclav Havel, one called 'Audience', and one called 'Private View'.
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A Collier's Friday Night
Title: A Collier's Friday Night
Character: Mrs Lambert
Released: September 30, 1976
Type: Movie
A glimpse into the home life of a coal miner and his family. Frustrated with their lot in life, the family quarrel and squabble incessantly with one another in this adaptation of a DH Lawrence short story.
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The Likely Lads
Title: The Likely Lads
Character: Laura
Released: February 1, 1976
Type: Movie
With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.
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Baby Blues
Title: Baby Blues
Character: Lavinia
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she dreamed and envisaged, and she suffers from depression after the birth,beginning to have dangerous feelings of love towards her child.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Betty Drew
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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A Splinter of Ice
Title: A Splinter of Ice
Character: Bridget
Released: May 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Fay Weldon's play about adultery, middle age, and ambition.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Iris
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Cromwell
Title: Cromwell
Character: Mrs. Cromwell
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
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Title: Albert and Victoria
Released: June 13, 1970
Type: TV
Albert and Victoria is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1971. Starring Alfred Marks, it was written by Reuben Ship. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television. In Albert and Victoria, Marks plays Albert Hackett, a middle-class man in late 19th century England. He and his wife, Victoria, have nine children, and he is used to getting his own way.
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The Reckoning
Title: The Reckoning
Character: Hilda Greening
Released: January 31, 1970
Type: Movie
Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him – after 37 years – back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police
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The Last Shot You Hear
Title: The Last Shot You Hear
Character: Eileen Forbes
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Charles Nordeck is a successful marriage counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks. When his wife Anne seeks a divorce, Charles refuses to sign the papers fearing the bad publicity could ruin his career. The adulterous Anne then convinces her lover Peter to take care of the problem.
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Title: ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Character: Peg
Released: January 11, 1969
Type: TV
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Janet Portland
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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Title: Callan
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: TV
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.
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Shotgun
Title: Shotgun
Character: Harriet
Released: July 11, 1966
Type: Movie
The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
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Change Partners
Title: Change Partners
Released: July 1, 1965
Type: Movie
An adulterous couple turn to murder, only to discover that a petty crook and blackmailer has already had his eye upon them.
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Troubled Waters
Title: Troubled Waters
Character: Janet Carswell
Released: December 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Tab Hunter as a scary-eyed Aryan-blonde psychopath living in London, who emerges from prison and immediately proceeds to psychologically - and eventually physically - destroy his small family.
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Daylight Robbery
Title: Daylight Robbery
Released: December 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store the same day in order to get to the bank next door.
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Girl in the Headlines
Title: Girl in the Headlines
Character: Mildred Birkett
Released: November 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life.
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The Chocolate Tree
Title: The Chocolate Tree
Character: Rachel Strang
Released: October 27, 1963
Type: Movie
As independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into their home, in an uneasy conversation that is tinged by condescension and racism, grudges and militant anger.
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Sammy Going South
Title: Sammy Going South
Character: Aunt Jane
Released: March 18, 1963
Type: Movie
After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
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The Marked One
Title: The Marked One
Character: Kay Mason
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
William Lucas plays a lorry driver who is recently out of prison. He becomes a target when it s discovered that he knows where he can find plates for making forged banknotes.
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The Traitors
Title: The Traitors
Character: Annette Lane
Released: May 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The cat and mouse game between government agents and a spy ring that has taken secret documents from a plane crash in Germany, not far from an US military research centre.
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Emergency
Title: Emergency
Character: Joan Bell
Released: March 2, 1962
Type: Movie
When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation. One is a murderer awaiting execution, one an atomic scientist selling secrets, and one an international footballer about to get his hundreth cap.
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The Hellions
Title: The Hellions
Character: Julie Hargis
Released: November 27, 1961
Type: Movie
Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis (Richard Todd) so they take over a small Transvaal town with the attention of drawing Hargis into a showdown. Hargis tries to get back up from the townsfolk who do not want to know, so is forced to lay low. As things get out of hand one of the Billings boys takes an interest in the storekeeper's wife, Priss Dobbs (Anne Aubrey). Having had enough her husband, Ernie (Jamie Uys) takes up the gun and heads down the main street alone. An act that prompts Hargis to join him. Slowly, the townsfolk turn up to back them up.
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Title: Drama 61-67
Character: Belinda
Released: March 19, 1961
Type: TV
Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.
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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Danger Tomorrow
Title: Danger Tomorrow
Character: Ginny
Released: March 31, 1960
Type: Movie
A woman with extra-sensory perception has a vision of a murder.
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Snowball
Title: Snowball
Character: Mary Donovan
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.
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Title: Our Mutual Friend
Character: Miss Bella Wilfer
Released: November 7, 1958
Type: TV
Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in 1860s London.
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Title: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Character: Lady Angela
Released: September 15, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Nominee
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.