Diana Fairfax

Diana Fairfax

Born: December 19, 1927
Died: January 28, 2019
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Diana Fairfax was an actress, known for Love in a Cold Climate (1980), Just William (1976) and Sense and Sensibility (1981). She was married to Derek Godfrey.

Movies for Diana Fairfax...

Title: The Politician's Wife
Character: Rosalind Clegg
Released: May 16, 1995
Type: TV
The Politician's Wife is a British television political drama written by Paula Milne, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995 and starring Trevor Eve and Juliet Stevenson. The story centres around high-flying politician Duncan Matlock, Families Minister for the UK Government, who becomes embroiled in tabloid scandal as it is discovered that he has been having an affair with a former escort turned parliamentary researcher. Duncan's wife Flora becomes the focus of media attention as her reactions to the revelations are played out. Initially she plays out the part of the loyal wife, but as an aide of her husband feeds her details about the affair and various other political scandals that could be made to happen. She begins to sabotage her husband's integrity and reputation through a campaign of leaks and misinformation to the press and British Conservative Party stalwarts. After a series of increasingly sensational and damaging stories in the press, her husband is forced to resign in humiliation. The last episode closes with the results of the by-election being announced on TV. Flora Matlock wins with the support of her party whilst her husband is exiled to a minor post in Belgium.
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Title: Hard Times
Character: Mrs. Gradgrind
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: TV
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life.
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Hard Times
Title: Hard Times
Character: Mrs. Gradgrind
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
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Title: Pie in the Sky
Character: Mrs Trapnel
Released: March 13, 1994
Type: TV
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
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Title: The House of Eliott
Character: Eleanor
Released: August 31, 1991
Type: TV
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
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Title: Portrait of a Marriage
Character: Lady Sackville
Released: September 19, 1990
Type: TV
The remarkable true story of Edwardian writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson.
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Mary Rose
Title: Mary Rose
Character: Mrs Morland
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…
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Title: Casualty
Character: Connie Sanders
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Title: Lady Windermere's Fan
Character: Lady Jedburgh
Released: September 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
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Title: Sense and Sensibility
Character: Mrs. Dashwood
Released: February 1, 1981
Type: TV
A story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and very conscious of the manners of the day, represents sense. Outspoken, impetuous, emotional Marianne represents sensibility.
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Title: Love in a Cold Climate
Character: Emily Warbeck
Released: October 29, 1980
Type: TV
The unconventional lives and loves of the family of Lord Alconleigh, dominated by the eccentric, irascible Uncle Matthew. The story encompasses the economic and political crises of the Thirties and the upheavals of the Second World War.
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Title: The Gentle Touch
Character: Lady Morell
Released: April 11, 1980
Type: TV
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Annie Irvine
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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The Winslow Boy
Title: The Winslow Boy
Released: January 16, 1977
Type: Movie
The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why, therefore, has cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why, moreover, is he hiding in the garden in the rain?
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Double Echo
Title: Double Echo
Character: Mrs Fisher
Released: October 5, 1976
Type: Movie
A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.
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Jumping Bean Bag
Title: Jumping Bean Bag
Character: Brenda
Released: February 17, 1976
Type: Movie
At an end-of-term school play, Ozzie and his band join in with a hard rock contribution. However, this leads to the unexpected fame of the schoolboy rock group, and they find that there is a darker down-side to fame and being successful music stars.
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Hennessy
Title: Hennessy
Character: Maureen Hennessy
Released: December 31, 1975
Type: Movie
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
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Hennessy
Title: Hennessy
Character: Margaret Hennessy
Released: December 31, 1975
Type: Movie
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
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Choice
Title: Choice
Character: Janet Franklin
Released: June 30, 1974
Type: Movie
When a married woman decides to leave her husband for a much younger man she incurs the wrath of her family. But is this her only chance of happiness?
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Traitor
Title: Traitor
Character: Lady Emma
Released: October 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse
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The Big Deal
Title: The Big Deal
Character: Helen
Released: March 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.
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Title: Emma
Character: Emma Woodhouse
Released: February 26, 1960
Type: TV
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Title: Bleak House
Character: Esther Summerson
Released: October 16, 1959
Type: TV
Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959. It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson and Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone. The complete series still exists.
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Title: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Character: Lady Margaret
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: Armchair Theatre
Character: Mrs. Holm
Released: July 8, 1956
Type: TV
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
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The Ghost Train
Title: The Ghost Train
Character: Elsie Winthrop
Released: February 20, 1948
Type: Movie
British television horror mystery movie from 1948.