Christine Hargreaves

Christine Hargreaves

Born: March 22, 1939
Died: August 12, 1984
in Salford, Lancashire, England, UK

Movies for Christine Hargreaves...

Nineteen Nineteen
Title: Nineteen Nineteen
Released: November 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Character: Soup Lady
Released: November 9, 1984
Type: Movie
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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Title: Spyship
Released: November 9, 1983
Type: TV
When an ordinary British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappears off the coast of Norway, journalist Martin Taylor is determined to find out why.
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Title: The Gathering Seed
Character: Lizzie Scanlon
Released: September 7, 1983
Type: TV
The saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and tribulations of the Labour movement and World War Two
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Walter and June
Title: Walter and June
Character: Rita
Released: April 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".
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Grandad
Title: Grandad
Character: Mum
Released: August 7, 1982
Type: Movie
A comedy of an old man's attempt to get his own way.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
Title: Pink Floyd: The Wall
Character: Pink's Mother
Released: July 14, 1982
Type: Movie
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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An American Werewolf in London
Title: An American Werewolf in London
Character: Ticket Lady
Released: August 21, 1981
Type: Movie
American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body.
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Bavarian Night
Title: Bavarian Night
Character: Estelle Parsons
Released: March 31, 1981
Type: Movie
The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.
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Butterflies Don't Count
Title: Butterflies Don't Count
Character: Mrs James
Released: November 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer.
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Title: A Horseman Riding By
Released: September 24, 1978
Type: TV
Having been invalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford, a manor house and estate in Devon, with money from his late father's scrap-yard business. He soon becomes a much-respected "Squire" who is determined to treat all his tenant farmers fairly, unlike his predecessor.
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The Spongers
Title: The Spongers
Character: Pauline
Released: January 24, 1978
Type: Movie
In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Title: It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Released: November 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.
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Title: The Venturers
Released: January 7, 1975
Type: TV
The Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975. The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The Venturers took place in the high pressure world of Prince's Merchant Bank and dealt with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients. Geoffrey Keen starred as director Gerald Lang, in a virtual reprise of his role as oil executive Brian Stead in Mogul / The Troubleshooters. Other major cast members included James Kerry, David Buck, Cyril Luckham and William Squire. The Venturers lasted for a single series of ten episodes.
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The Hireling
Title: The Hireling
Character: Doreen
Released: June 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
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Better Than the Movies
Title: Better Than the Movies
Character: Joan Huntley
Released: November 13, 1972
Type: Movie
A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.
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Horace
Title: Horace
Character: Ivy Blackett
Released: March 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace is mentally disabled and works in the back of a joke shop.
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Angels Are So Few
Title: Angels Are So Few
Released: November 5, 1970
Type: Movie
This neat, intense drama, labelled “a fable for television”, stars Tom Bell as the scruffy, childlike Michael Biddle, who is invited in from the cold of a suburban street by sexually frustrated, bored housewife Cynthia, played by Christine Hargreaves. He declares that he’s an angel, and Cynthia needs an angel, but in a way Michael fears...
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The Reckoning
Title: The Reckoning
Character: Kath
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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Season of the Witch
Title: Season of the Witch
Character: Jenny Bates
Released: January 7, 1970
Type: Movie
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
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Title: In Loving Memory
Released: November 4, 1969
Type: TV
In Loving Memory is a British period sitcom set in an undertakers business that starred Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny. A pilot was transmitted in 1969 by Thames Television who rejected the idea before it was finally accepted by Yorkshire Television in 1979 where it further ran for five series between until 1986.
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Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Title: Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Character: Jane Evans
Released: August 21, 1968
Type: Movie
When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
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In Two Minds
Title: In Two Minds
Character: Mary Winter
Released: March 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?
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Strictly for the Birds
Title: Strictly for the Birds
Character: Linda Rich
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
A gambler tries to strike it rich at the racetrack but gets taken by a gorgeous blonde who also happens to be a crook.