Joan Sanderson

Joan Sanderson

Born: November 24, 1912
Died: May 24, 1992
in Bristol, England, UK

Movies for Joan Sanderson...

Title: Land Of Hope And Gloria
Released: June 24, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: Thompson
Released: November 10, 1988
Type: TV
Thompson is a 1988 British TV variety series hosted by actress Emma Thompson the show also starred Imelda Staunton, Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Moore. The show featured musical numbers, as well as comedy skits and…
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Title: After Henry
Released: January 4, 1988
Type: TV
After Henry is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1988 to 1992. Starring Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson, it had started on BBC Radio 4 in 1985, finishing in 1989. It was written by Simon Brett. After Henry was made for the ITV network by Thames Television. The BBC was reluctant to produce After Henry for television, so in 1988 after the third radio series Thames Television did so. The show was surprisingly popular, attracting over 14 million viewers. A second television series was shown during the same months as the fourth radio series with, in many cases, both radio and television episodes being broadcast on the same nights. The fourth television series was broadcast from July 1992, after the death of Joan Sanderson, who had died on 24 May.
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Prick Up Your Ears
Title: Prick Up Your Ears
Character: Anthea's Mother
Released: April 17, 1987
Type: Movie
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
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East of Ipswich
Title: East of Ipswich
Character: Miss Wilbraham
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guesthouse, catches Richard's eye, but her Dutch friend Anna is intent on causing trouble.
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Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Queen of Hearts
Released: March 26, 1985
Type: TV
Anglia Television's 5 episode adaption of Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland was inspired and based upon an early production put on by the famous Da Silva Puppets group at the Norwich Puppet Theatre.
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Title: Me and My Girl
Released: August 31, 1984
Type: TV
A British television situation comedy broadcast on ITV between 1984 and 1988 starring Richard O'Sullivan, which centred on the challenges faced by a widower raising his adolescent daughter.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Released: October 9, 1983
Type: TV
Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.
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Down at the Hydro
Title: Down at the Hydro
Character: Mrs Davidson
Released: September 4, 1983
Type: Movie
Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.
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Title: Anyone for Denis?
Released: December 28, 1982
Type: TV
Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, was written by satirist John Wells. It is based on Private Eye's 'Dear Bill' letters, purportedly written by Denis Thatcher, the husband of Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister at the time. Set in Chequers, the play parodies the couple's relationship. The title is a punning reference to the more familiar question "Anyone for tennis?" The television production, for Thames Television was directed by Dick Clement and stars John Wells, Angela Thorne, John Cater and Nicky Henson.
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Anyone for Denis
Title: Anyone for Denis
Character: Rear Admiral
Released: December 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, was written by satirist John Wells.
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Intensive Care
Title: Intensive Care
Character: Miss Tunstall
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: Movie
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse.
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The Great Muppet Caper
Title: The Great Muppet Caper
Character: Dorcas
Released: June 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.
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Title: Mixed Blessings
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: TV
Mixed Blessings is a British sitcom produced by LWT for broadcast on the ITV network between 1978 and 1980, It was created by comedy-writer Sid Green and starred Christopher Blake and Muriel Odunton.
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Title: The Les Dawson Show
Released: January 21, 1978
Type: TV
A variety show featuring sketch and stand-up comedy as well as guest appearances, dance numbers and musical performances.
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Title: The Ghosts of Motley Hall
Released: April 28, 1976
Type: TV
The Ghosts of Motley Hall is a British children's television series written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for Granada Television, and broadcast between 1976 and 1978 on the ITV network. The series relates the adventures of 5 ghosts who haunt Motley Hall. Each ghost is from a different era and all with the exception of Matt are unable to leave the confines of the building and Matt himself is unable to travel outside the grounds of the Hall. The only regular character who is not a ghost is Mr Gudgin the caretaker of Motley Hall. Carpenter wrote a companion novel for the series for Puffin Books in 1977. A 3 DVD set containing the complete series was released by Network in 2005.
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Title: Ripping Yarns
Character: Lady Bartlesham
Released: January 7, 1976
Type: TV
A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.
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Title: Fawlty Towers
Character: Mrs. Alice Richards
Released: September 19, 1975
Type: TV
Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding guests.
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Title: Rising Damp
Character: Mother
Released: September 2, 1974
Type: TV
Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.
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Title: Crown Court
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Upstairs, Downstairs
Character: Mrs. Waddilove
Released: October 10, 1971
Type: TV
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
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Please Sir!
Title: Please Sir!
Character: Doris Ewell
Released: May 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Mr. Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistc teacher of the rebellious Class 5C, lobbies to have them allowed on the school camping trip despite much precedent to the contrary. Once on the camping trip Mr. Hedges pursues the local barmaid and the class indulge in their usual activities. A small feud with some stereotypical upper class children in red blazers is resolved with a false rape allegation. A case of some stolen money is resolved through Mr. Hedges trusting the class. At the final dance Mr. Hedges is ensnared in the romantic clutches of Miss Cutforth, contrary to his wishes.
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Title: Please Sir!
Character: Doris Ewell
Released: November 8, 1968
Type: TV
Please Sir! is a London Weekend Television produced situation comedy, created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies. The series ran for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972.
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Title: Wild, Wild Women
Released: May 24, 1968
Type: TV
Wild, Wild Women was a British sitcom that aired on BBC from 1968 to 1969. Made in black-and-white, it starred Barbara Windsor and was written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney.
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Title: Ooh La La!
Character: Mme. Trujadin
Released: April 6, 1968
Type: TV
Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing.
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Who Killed the Cat?
Title: Who Killed the Cat?
Character: Mrs. Sandford
Released: October 7, 1966
Type: Movie
A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
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Title: All Gas and Gaiters
Released: May 17, 1966
Type: TV
All Gas and Gaiters is a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. It was written by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps, a husband-and-wife team who used the pseudonym of "John Wraith" when writing the pilot. All Gas and Gaiters was also broadcast on BBC Radio from 1971 to 1972.
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She Knows Y'Know
Title: She Knows Y'Know
Character: Euphemia Smallhope
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde.
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In the Doghouse
Title: In the Doghouse
Character: PA
Released: May 17, 1962
Type: Movie
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.