Judy Parfitt

Judy Parfitt

Born: November 7, 1935
in Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Judith Catherine Claire "Judy" Parfitt (born 7 November 1935) is a BAFTA-nominated English theatre, film and television actress who began her career on stage in 1954.

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Title: The Game
Character: Hester Waterhouse
Released: November 5, 2014
Type: TV
"The Game" is a 1970s Cold War spy thriller set in the world of espionage. It tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5 as it battles to protect the nation from the threats of the Cold War.
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Hello Carter
Title: Hello Carter
Character: Miriam
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck Carter has recently become homeless, single and unemployed. Desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend, he goes off on an adventure throughout London to find her, picking up some odd helpers along the way.
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Title: Up the Women
Character: Myrtle
Released: May 30, 2013
Type: TV
It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage movement so she decides they need to set up their own movement and The Banbury Intricate Craft Circle becomes the hilariously ineffectual Banbury Intricate Craft Circle politely request women's Suffrage. Gwen is the only member who actually enjoys the craft element of the meetings, while Helen thinks that craft is a little unnecessary, but she's not interested in women's rights: "What on earth do women need a vote for? My husband votes for who I tell him to vote for. What could be a better system than that?"
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Title: The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Character: Aunt Chastity
Released: February 20, 2012
Type: TV
A Victorian comedy adventure in the style of Charles Dickens following shop owner Jedrington Secret-Past. Jedrington teams up with a seemingly charming new business partner, Harmswell Grimstone. As the Secret-Past family's fortunes rise, it looks like they are built on crumbling foundations indeed, especially when it is revealed that Conceptiva too has a secret that turns out to be even darker than Jedrington's own.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Sister Monica Joan
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Title: Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Character: Self - Participant
Released: October 24, 2011
Type: TV
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
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The Moth Diaries
Title: The Moth Diaries
Character: Miss Rood
Released: September 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Rebecca is a young girl who, haunted by her father’s suicide, enrolls in an elite boarding school for girls. Before long, her friendship with the popular Lucy is shattered by the arrival of a dark and mysterious new student named Ernessa, whom Rebecca suspects may be responsible for the rising body count at the school.
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W.E.
Title: W.E.
Character: Queen Mary
Released: September 1, 2011
Type: Movie
In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.
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Dean Spanley
Title: Dean Spanley
Character: Mr. Brimley
Released: December 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
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Title: Little Dorrit
Character: Mrs. Clennam
Released: October 26, 2008
Type: TV
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
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Title: Funland
Released: October 23, 2005
Type: TV
Funland is a comedy thriller serial, produced by the BBC, about a detective who arrives in Blackpool to find the killer of his mother with only the flimsiest of clues to go on. It was first screened from 23 October 2005 to 7 November 2005, on the digital channel BBC Three. Created by Jeremy Dyson and Simon Ashdown, the series consists of a fifty-minute opening episode followed by ten half-hour installments.
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Asylum
Title: Asylum
Character: Brenda Raphael
Released: September 9, 2005
Type: Movie
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Cicely Beauclerk
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
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The Aryan Couple
Title: The Aryan Couple
Character: Rachel Krauzenberg
Released: December 10, 2004
Type: Movie
A German Jewish industrialist is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany.
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Title: The Long Firm
Character: Lady Thursby
Released: July 7, 2004
Type: TV
The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Title: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Character: Maria Thins
Released: December 12, 2003
Type: Movie
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
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Hearts of Gold
Title: Hearts of Gold
Character: Isobel John
Released: July 5, 2003
Type: Movie
An old-fashioned love story set in the South Wales valleys during the 1930s. Well-to-do doctor Andrew joins his father's infirmary, and in miner's daughter Bethan finds a spirit lacking in his previous girlfriends. The two fall in love, but their differing backgrounds prove a major sticking point.
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Title: Murder in Mind
Character: Margaret Collins
Released: April 22, 2001
Type: TV
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
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Falling Through
Title: Falling Through
Character: Ambassador
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A newly hired security expert on the American Embassy in Paris questions who to trust, as he investigates an elaborate passport faking scheme.
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EverAfter
Title: EverAfter
Character: Queen Marie
Released: July 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.
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The Ruby Ring
Title: The Ruby Ring
Character: Mrs. Puxley
Released: November 26, 1997
Type: Movie
A magic ruby ring transports fifteen-year-old Lucy (Emily Hamilton) one hundred years back in time to a castle, where she's a servant girl. Christian Anholt, Emma Cunniffe, Gillian Kearney, Judy Parfitt and Rutger Hauer costar in this enchanting family film.
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Wilde
Title: Wilde
Character: Lady Mount-Temple
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Title: Jonathan Creek
Character: Constance Gessler
Released: May 9, 1997
Type: TV
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Angela Wentworth
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Caroline Halsey
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Element of Doubt
Title: Element of Doubt
Character: Genevieve
Released: December 30, 1996
Type: Movie
A woman has doubts about the intentions of her husband, even to the point where she thinks he might kill her.
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Loving
Title: Loving
Character: Mrs. Tennant
Released: October 19, 1996
Type: Movie
An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, his mother, wife, dying butler, maid and other staff's life becomes a bit hectic and some love affairs start to bloom.
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Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Title: Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Character: Verena
Released: April 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets...
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Title: September
Character: Verena
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: TV
Scottish aristocrats' secrets and relationships are threatened by the return of a woman who left under suspicious circumstances 20 years earlier.
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Heavy Weather
Title: Heavy Weather
Character: Lady Constance Keeble
Released: December 24, 1995
Type: Movie
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
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Dolores Claiborne
Title: Dolores Claiborne
Character: Vera Donovan
Released: March 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
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Title: ER
Character: Isabelle Corday
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: The Lifeboat
Released: April 27, 1994
Type: TV
The lives and missions of the crew of a Welsh rescue boat.
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Title: The Return of the Borrowers
Character: Mrs. Platter
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: TV
The Borrowers leave their new home and find a model village just the right size for them. They find George but the village's owner also finds out about the Borrowers.
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Silent Cries
Title: Silent Cries
Character: Beryl Stacton
Released: March 8, 1993
Type: Movie
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civilians, particularly women and children. This is the story of a group of women who band together to face brutal treatment, harsh conditions, and ruthless captors to survive their internment.
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Title: The Blackheath Poisonings
Character: Harriet Collard
Released: February 14, 1993
Type: TV
The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in business and marriage, living under the same roof.
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Title: Eye of the Storm
Character: Martha Tabbert
Released: January 8, 1993
Type: TV
A father and daughter's search for a covered-up threat to the environment collides with a malevolent old local woman, her disturbed young boy, and the evil legacy of his seventeenth century alchemist ancestor in a fantastical eco-thriller.
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The Blackheath Poisonings
Title: The Blackheath Poisonings
Character: Harriet Collard
Released: December 7, 1992
Type: Movie
The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in business and marriage, living under the same roof.
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Midnight's Child
Title: Midnight's Child
Character: Mother Superior
Released: April 21, 1992
Type: Movie
Spooky tale of a lawyer who sees Satan in the Swiss au pair she and her artist husband have hired for their young daughter.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Lady Veronique Victor
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: The Gravy Train Goes East
Character: Hilda Spearpoint
Released: October 28, 1991
Type: TV
A fictitious Balkan state adaps to life after Communism.
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King Ralph
Title: King Ralph
Character: Queen Katherine
Released: February 15, 1991
Type: Movie
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
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Title: The Gravy Train
Character: Hilda
Released: June 27, 1990
Type: TV
A four-part comedy about bureaucratic bribery and corruption in the European Union.
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Dark Obsession
Title: Dark Obsession
Character: Lady Crewne
Released: June 8, 1990
Type: Movie
Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.
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Getting It Right
Title: Getting It Right
Character: Lady Stella Munday
Released: May 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and lives in a basement, Joan is an over-sexed millionairess, married to a Greek architect. But Gavin prefers the ugly assistant in the barbershop.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Miss Van Schuyler
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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Title: The Charmer
Released: October 18, 1987
Type: TV
The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, the smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her. It was made by London Weekend Television for ITV, and based on the 1953 novel Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton, the second work in the Gorse Trilogy. The series was repeated in February and March 1990. ITV3 also repeated the series in full at 01:45am from 5 September 2009. Narrative repeats were on Mondays from 7 September 2009 at 10:05am.
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Maurice
Title: Maurice
Character: Mrs. Durham
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
After his lover rejects him, Maurice, a young man in early 20th-century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
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Title: The Charmings
Character: Queen Lillian White
Released: March 20, 1987
Type: TV
The Charmings is an American fantasy sitcom that aired from March 1987 to February 1988 on ABC. Based on the fairy tale Snow White, it chronicles Snow White and Prince Charming after they are transported in time from the Enchanted Forest to the 20th Century Los Angeles suburbs.
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Title: Mr. Pye
Character: Miss. Dredger
Released: March 2, 1986
Type: TV
Mr Pye travels to the Channel Island of Sark to spread the love of God. But doing good deeds means something strange starts to happen to him, he starts to grow wings.
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Mr. Pye
Title: Mr. Pye
Character: Miss Dredger
Released: March 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Mr. Pye is a missionary whose mission to spread God's love on the tiny English Channel island of Sark faces supernatural setbacks in this comic fantasy from the author of Gormenghast.
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Bon Voyage
Title: Bon Voyage
Character: Lola Widmeyer
Released: December 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Roddy and Lola strike up a romance on the cruise liner SS Mara as it heads to Hong Kong from San Francisco.
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Covenant
Title: Covenant
Character: Renata Beck
Released: August 5, 1985
Type: Movie
A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
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Deceptions
Title: Deceptions
Character: Lady Chasson
Released: May 26, 1985
Type: Movie
Twin sisters trade places with unexpected results.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Peggy Brooks
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Champions
Title: Champions
Character: Dr. Merrow
Released: April 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
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Title: The Jewel in the Crown
Character: Mildred Layton
Released: January 9, 1984
Type: TV
A sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of World War II India, the story begins with an unjust arrest for rape. The consequences of this arrest echo throughout the series with questions of identity and personal responsibility being explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.
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The Chain
Title: The Chain
Character: Deidre
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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Office Romances
Title: Office Romances
Character: Pam Ivygale
Released: May 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Angela is insecure and gawky, overawed by her new job at an advertising agency. Her boss, Pam, is poised and sophisticated - the epitome of a successful career woman. Together both women share an emotional vulnerability. For while Angela falls prey to the office Romeo, Pam continues an unsatisfying affair with a married colleague. Office Romances is an engaging look at the many secrets of love and relationships that lead to tormented love. It's an honest, sensitive view of romance and human nature!
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The Unborn
Title: The Unborn
Character: Roma
Released: May 15, 1980
Type: Movie
A physicist has apocalyptic visions of his unborn baby.
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Death of a Princess
Title: Death of a Princess
Character: Elsa Gruber
Released: April 9, 1980
Type: Movie
A journalist investigates a newspaper story of the execution of an Arab princess.
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Title: Yes Minister
Released: February 25, 1980
Type: TV
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.
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Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Released: January 13, 1980
Type: TV
The arrival of a young, well-off, eligible man named Mr. Bingley sends the Bennet household--with five girls of a marrying age--into a tizzy. But it's the introduction of Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Darcy, that sets in motion the fate of Elizabeth Bennet, resolved only after a labyrinth of social and personal complexities.
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Title: Malice Aforethought
Character: Julia Bickleigh
Released: March 15, 1979
Type: TV
For ten years, Julia Bickleigh has despised and bullied her husband. For ten years Dr Bickleigh has dreamed of romance ... and escape.
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Secret Orchards
Title: Secret Orchards
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
The true story of successful and respectable Edwardian businessman Roger Ackerley, who managed to conceal the existence of a secret love and the three daughters she bore, from his society wife and remaining children. Known to the daughters only as 'Uncle Bodger', they remained unaware he was their father until after his death. The film also covers the impact on them of their improvised upbringing - their mother was frequently absent - and the social irony of his closet homosexual son, Joe struggling to unburden his truth onto his reluctant, outwardly respectable father. Joe became the eminent author J R Ackerley on whose book, My Father And Myself, the film is partially based, along with The Secret Orchard Of Roger Ackerley by Diana Petre, one of Roger's 'illegitimate' daughters.
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Title: Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Character: Aunt Meme
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.
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Title: Laurence Olivier Presents
Character: Aunt Meme
Released: December 5, 1976
Type: TV
Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of Hindle Wakes, all starred Laurence Olivier. Some of the plays were based on productions staged at the National Theatre during the period when Olivier was Artistic Director. In addition to distinguished English actors, the casts assembled for these productions included several Hollywood stars, such as Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton.
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Stones
Title: Stones
Character: Anne Reeve
Released: October 27, 1976
Type: Movie
From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
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Well Thank You, Thursday
Title: Well Thank You, Thursday
Character: Miss Shepherd
Released: January 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Miss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.
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Title: Rumpole of the Bailey
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: TV
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
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Galileo
Title: Galileo
Character: Angelica Sarti
Released: January 27, 1975
Type: Movie
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Title: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Released: December 25, 1973
Type: Movie
1973 BBC TV movie adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll.
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Edward G: Like the Filmstar
Title: Edward G: Like the Filmstar
Character: Elizabeth Hulme
Released: June 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Edward G is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience.
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Title: The Edwardians
Character: E. Nesbit
Released: November 21, 1972
Type: TV
It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'The Edwardians' explores the lives of and events in the lives of many who helped define the era, the "Belle Epoque".
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Title: The Edwardians
Released: November 21, 1972
Type: TV
It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'The Edwardians' explores the lives of and events in the lives of many who helped define the era, the "Belle Epoque".
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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: The Protectors
Character: Lena Haydon
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation. The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.
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The Mind of Mr. Soames
Title: The Mind of Mr. Soames
Character: Jenny Bannerman
Released: July 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A 30-year-old man, who has been in a coma since birth, is finally restored to consciousness by a breakthrough brain operation. Although physically an adult, the man is "reborn" in the eye of an infant; the doctors caring for him must teach him to walk, talk and prepare for life in the outside world. Tension builds as he escapes from the hospital, wanders among people who do not realize his identity, and is hunted by the police.
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Title: Shadows of Fear
Character: Emmy Erikson
Released: June 17, 1970
Type: TV
Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Gertrude
Released: December 21, 1969
Type: Movie
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
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Title: David Copperfield
Released: January 16, 1966
Type: TV
David Copperfield is a BBC television serial starring Ian McKellen in the title role of the adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel that began airing in January 1966. It also featured Tina Packer as Dora, Flora Robson as Betsey Trotwood, Gordon Gostelow as Barkis, and Christopher Guard as young David. The screenplay adaptation was written by Vincent Tilsley.
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Tomorrow, Just You Wait
Title: Tomorrow, Just You Wait
Character: Dorothy Gorbet
Released: November 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?
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Title: The Wednesday Play
Character: Dorothy Gorbet
Released: September 30, 1964
Type: TV
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Anne Liskard
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 Avengers
Character: Loris
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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Title: The Avengers
Character: Vesta
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.