Jan Holden

Jan Holden

Born: May 9, 1931
Died: October 11, 2005
in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
Jan Holden was an English stage, film and television actress.

Movies for Jan Holden...

Lace 2
Title: Lace 2
Character: Woman at Party
Released: September 1, 1985
Type: Movie
While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
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Title: Oh Happy Band!
Released: September 3, 1980
Type: TV
Oh Happy Band! is a situation comedy written by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. The series ran for six episodes in 1980 on BBC 1, and featured the last screen appearance of comedian Harry Worth. For musical sequences, the series featured the Aldershot Brass Ensemble. Since broadcast, the series has not been repeated or released on any home consumer media.
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Title: Agony
Character: Diana
Released: March 11, 1979
Type: TV
Agony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a successful agony aunt but whose own personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds. It was made for the ITV network by LWT. Although a comedy, Agony sometimes dealt with issues that were seen as taboo at the time such as drug use, racism, abortion, interracial relationships, and swinging, and was the first British sitcom to portray a gay couple as non-camp, witty, intelligent and happy people. It also openly mocked the government, the ruling classes, and religion, and occasionally contained dark and dramatic storylines.
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Title: My Honourable Mrs
Released: July 14, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Casanova '73
Character: Carol Newhouse
Released: September 13, 1973
Type: TV
Casanova '73 was a short-lived British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 in 1973. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and starred Leslie Phillips as Henry Newhouse.
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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: Crown Court
Character: Dr. Mary Ryden
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: Are You Being Served?
Released: September 8, 1972
Type: TV
This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's fictional "Grace Brothers" department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags, and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's class system, and many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes of the period, including the effeminate Mr. Humphries and the rich, but stingy, store owner.
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One Brief Summer
Title: One Brief Summer
Released: May 10, 1970
Type: Movie
The story deals with the situation of a mature man, his mistress, his daughter and a young girl who comes into their lives.
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The Haunted House of Horror
Title: The Haunted House of Horror
Character: Peggy
Released: July 15, 1969
Type: Movie
Teenagers gathered in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before he finishes off everybody.
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The Best House in London
Title: The Best House in London
Character: Lady Dilke
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
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Title: The Champions
Character: Miss. Davies
Released: September 25, 1968
Type: TV
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.
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Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Title: Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Character: Mrs Price
Released: September 15, 1968
Type: Movie
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
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Title: Ooh La La!
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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Title: The Saint
Character: Cynthia Quillen
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Vera
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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The Primitives
Title: The Primitives
Character: Cheta
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of night club entertainers supplement their income by being international jewel thieves
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Title: Corrigan Blake
Released: February 2, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: The Avengers
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Escort for Hire
Title: Escort for Hire
Character: Elizabeth Quinn
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An unemployed actor hires out as a bodyguard-companion for a woman and finds himself involved in murder.
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Never Let Go
Title: Never Let Go
Character: Mrs. Hurst
Released: June 2, 1960
Type: Movie
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.
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Title: International Detective
Character: Helen Madison
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: TV
The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star Arthur---later Art---Fleming, who hosted the original `Jeopardy!'
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The Stranglers of Bombay
Title: The Stranglers of Bombay
Character: Mary Lewis
Released: December 4, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Jane Grant
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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The Whole Truth
Title: The Whole Truth
Character: Party Guest
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to return to his loyal wife, Carol, the jilted actress threatens to reveal details of their affair to Carol. Later, at a party at Max's villa, investigator Carliss arrives with news that Gina has been killed and that Max is a murderer suspect.
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The Camp on Blood Island
Title: The Camp on Blood Island
Character: Nurse
Released: April 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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Assignment Redhead
Title: Assignment Redhead
Character: Sally Jennings
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
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Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Title: Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Character: Fire Maiden
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An astronaut and crew land on Jupiter's 13th moon and find a monster and women from Atlantis.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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No Smoking
Title: No Smoking
Character: Receptionist
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.
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The Hornet's Nest
Title: The Hornet's Nest
Character: Miss Wentworth
Released: May 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]