Gemma Jones

Gemma Jones

Born: December 4, 1942
in Marylebone, London, England, UK
Jennifer Gemma Jones (born 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen. Her film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), the Harry Potter series (2002–11), and Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010). For her role in the BBC television film Marvellous (2014), she won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Movies for Gemma Jones...

Blue
Title: Blue
Character: Anna
Released: March 12, 2024
Type: Movie
After her daughter has passed away, a mother senses an ethereal poltergeist-like energy around her and wants to know if her child has come home.
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Wicked Little Letters
Title: Wicked Little Letters
Character: Victoria Swan
Released: February 23, 2024
Type: Movie
When deeply conservative English local Edith Swan and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, her rowdy, foul-mouthed, Irish migrant neighbor Rose Gooding is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women—led by Police Officer Gladys Moss—begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect something is amiss and Rose may not be the culprit after all.
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Title: The Reckoning
Character: Agnes Savile
Released: October 9, 2023
Type: TV
The life of Jimmy Savile, a man who, for decades, became one of the UK’s most influential celebrities, but in death has become one of the most reviled figures of modern history following revelations of extensive and horrific abuse.
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Emily
Title: Emily
Character: Aunt Branwell
Released: October 14, 2022
Type: Movie
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
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Benediction
Title: Benediction
Character: Hester Gatty (Older)
Released: December 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
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Title: Finding Alice
Character: Minnie
Released: January 17, 2021
Type: TV
Alice's partner of 20 years, Harry, falls down the stairs and dies soon after the couple move into the dream home he designed. Alice discovers that some men, including her late ex, hide stuff that they don't want to deal with.
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Ammonite
Title: Ammonite
Character: Molly Anning
Released: November 13, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
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Rocketman
Title: Rocketman
Character: Ivy
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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Title: Gentleman Jack
Character: Aunt Anne Lister
Released: April 22, 2019
Type: TV
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
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Patrick
Title: Patrick
Character: Celia
Released: June 29, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
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You, Me and Him
Title: You, Me and Him
Character: Sue Miller
Released: February 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbour John befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.
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Diana and I
Title: Diana and I
Character: Mrs McDonald
Released: September 4, 2017
Type: Movie
In the week that follows Princess Diana's tragic death on 31 August 1997, four separate stories unfold as four ordinary lives are all affected in different ways in this commemorative drama from writer Jeremy Brock and director Peter Cattaneo.
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God's Own Country
Title: God's Own Country
Character: Deidre Saxby
Released: August 31, 2017
Type: Movie
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
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Gypsy's Kiss
Title: Gypsy's Kiss
Character: Judith
Released: May 8, 2017
Type: Movie
An elderly widow reasserts her own sense of independence with an unconventional yearly pilgrimage to her late husband's grave.
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Title: Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Character: Davina
Released: March 19, 2017
Type: Movie
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Penelope Carter
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Bridget Jones's Baby
Title: Bridget Jones's Baby
Character: Mrs. Pamela Jones
Released: September 14, 2016
Type: Movie
After breaking up with Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones's 'happily ever after' hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong? Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack, the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby's father.
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Title: Capital
Character: Petunia
Released: November 24, 2015
Type: TV
Set on a single street in South London, Capital is a portrait of a road transformed by soaring property prices: what was once the home of modest lower-middle class families, Pepys Road has been continuously gentrified into a street of multimillion pound houses. On one day, the people of this South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community.
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Title: Unforgotten
Character: Claire Slater
Released: October 8, 2015
Type: TV
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.
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Title: Teacup Travels
Character: Great Aunt Lizzie
Released: February 9, 2015
Type: TV
Whenever Charlotte, Lokesh or Elliot visits their Great Aunt Lizzie, there's always going to be a story and a cup of tea. "But first we need..." "The Teacup!" Lizzie has the most extraordinary collection; every cup unique, each with a picture of an ancient artefact; a reminder of an adventure way back in the mists of time. She is so good at telling those tales, with descriptions so vivid, that Charlotte and Elliot can't help but imagine themselves long ago and far away, in Great Aunt Lizzie's old battered boots. Every object is inspired by a genuine museum artefact.
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Radiator
Title: Radiator
Character: Maria
Released: October 15, 2014
Type: Movie
A moving, blackly comic drama about the strains in coping with ageing parents.
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Marvellous
Title: Marvellous
Character: Mary
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Dramatisation of the true story of the life of Neil "Nello" Baldwin. Born with a mild learning disability but without the burden of social embarrassment & how his inexhaustible ability to see the good in any situation overcame any stigma society tried to label him with.
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Title: Lucan
Character: Dowager Countess of Lucan
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: TV
Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is found beaten to death. Shortly thereafter, the prime suspect, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, mysteriously disappears. When the manhunt begins, the subsequent scandal shakes the foundations of the British ruling class like never before.
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Lucan
Title: Lucan
Character: Dowager Countess
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny.
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Title: Atlantis
Character: Campe
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: TV
A fantasy drama set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures. Far from home and desperate for answers, Jason washes up on the shores of an ancient land. A mysterious place; a world of bull leaping, of snake haired goddesses and of palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants - this is the city of Atlantis. Aided by his two new friends, Pythagoras and Hercules, Jason embarks on a voyage of discovery, and salvation, which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa, come face to face with the Minotaur and even do battle with the dead.
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The Lady Vanishes
Title: The Lady Vanishes
Character: Rose Floodporter
Released: March 17, 2013
Type: Movie
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
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Title: Thirteen Steps Down
Character: Olive
Released: August 13, 2012
Type: TV
Mix Cellini is obsessed. And not just with the supermodel he's been stalking. He's also endlessly fascinated by the life of Reggie Christie, the infamous serial killer hanged fifty years ago.
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13 Steps Down
Title: 13 Steps Down
Character: Olive
Released: August 13, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Sister Anne
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Character: Poppy Pomfrey
Released: July 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
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Hysteria
Title: Hysteria
Character: Lady St. John-Smythe
Released: June 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.
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Forget Me Not
Title: Forget Me Not
Character: Lizzie Fisher
Released: May 6, 2011
Type: Movie
The film follows Will Fletcher, a musician, and Eve Fisher, who works in a pub where he is performing, during one night in London. After Will has saved Eve from a drunken customer at closing time, they stay up all night together, meandering through the streets of London and forging a relationship. Next morning, Eve takes him to see her Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother. The film is often compared to Richard Linklater's films "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset", as the style is very similar.
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Whistle and I'll Come to You
Title: Whistle and I'll Come to You
Character: Alice Parkin
Released: December 24, 2010
Type: Movie
After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. But at night he seemingly becomes the victim of a ghostly revenge - but who is the avenger?
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Title: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Character: Helena Shepridge
Released: September 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Title: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Character: Aunt Lister
Released: March 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with a married woman.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Character: Poppy Pomfrey
Released: July 15, 2009
Type: Movie
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
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Good
Title: Good
Character: Mother
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by powerful political figures in the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social standing instantly advance. But after learning of the Reich's horrific plans for the future and the devastating effects they will have on people close to him, John must decide whether or not to take a stand and risk losing everything.
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Title: Merlin
Character: The Cailleach
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: TV
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
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Ballet Shoes
Title: Ballet Shoes
Character: Dr. Jakes
Released: August 26, 2008
Type: Movie
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
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The Contractor
Title: The Contractor
Character: Mrs. Day
Released: July 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
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Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?
Title: Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?
Character: Mrs De Ropp
Released: May 2, 2007
Type: Movie
On a train journey, Saki meets Mrs De Ropp, an oppressive aunt and guardian to an unruly brood. Inspired by the meeting, he imagines a tale of repressed children who find solace in their childish wonder, and are saved by their imagination.
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Fragile
Title: Fragile
Character: Mrs. Folder
Released: October 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that prowls the floors and will not allow anyone to leave. Amy tries to protect them and convince the other staffers of the evil that lurks there.
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Title: All About George
Character: Kay
Released: September 29, 2005
Type: TV
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Title: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Character: Bridget's Mum
Released: November 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
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Kiss of Life
Title: Kiss of Life
Character: Sonia
Released: December 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Helen lives in London with her father and her kids. John, her husband, is an aid-worker in Eastern Europe. He has been gone many months. Helen is desperately anxious that he should come home. Taking the kids to school one morning, she is killed in a car accident. She remains caught in limbo, trapped between life and death. Many miles away, in war-torn Eastern Europe, John is unaware that his wife has died. As Helen herself is unaware that she is dead. Thus begins, a four-day Odyssey: Grandpa and the kids must come to terms with Helen's death; John must travel across a war-torn land as he tries to reach home; and Helen must stand helplessly observing her own existence as it comes back to haunt her - until at last she is reconciled with John, and thus released.
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Shanghai Knights
Title: Shanghai Knights
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: February 6, 2003
Type: Movie
The dynamic duo of Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon return for another crazy adventure. This time, they're in London to avenge the murder of Chon's father, but end up on an even bigger case. Chon's sister is there to do the same, but instead unearths a plot to kill the royal family. No one believes her, though, and it's up to Chon and Roy (who has romance on his mind) to prove her right.
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Title: Bootleg
Character: Mrs. Bubby
Released: December 8, 2002
Type: TV
Based on the book of the same name by Alex Shearer; a new political party called the "Good for You" (abbreviated as GFY) which comes into power and bans chocolate. Two kids named Smudger Moore and Huntley Hunter want to get their chocolate back. They begin by selling bootleg chocolate, and go on to join an underground resistance organization.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Character: Poppy Pomfrey
Released: November 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Connie James
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Don't Tempt Me
Title: Don't Tempt Me
Character: Nancy
Released: November 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
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Title: Judge John Deed
Released: November 26, 2001
Type: TV
Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove as the barrister Jo Mills, frequently the object of Deed's desire. A pilot episode was broadcast on 9 January 2001, followed by the first full series on 26 November 2001. The sixth and last series concluded on 18 January 2007. The programme then went on an indefinite break after Shaw became involved in another television programme, and he and Seagrove expressed a wish for the format of the series to change before they filmed new episodes. By 2009, the series had officially been cancelled. The six series produced make it the longest-running BBC legal drama. The factual accuracy of the series is often criticised by legal professionals and journalists; many of the decisions taken by Deed are unlikely to happen in a real court. The romanticised vision of the court system created by Newman caused a judge to issue a warning to a jury not to let the series influence their view of trials—referring to an episode where Deed flouts rules when called up for jury duty. Another episode led to complaints about biased and incorrect information about the MMR vaccine, leading the BBC to ban repeats of it in its original form. All six series have been released on DVD in the UK.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Title: Bridget Jones's Diary
Character: Bridget's Mum
Released: April 13, 2001
Type: Movie
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
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Longitude
Title: Longitude
Character: Elizabeth Harrison
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: Movie
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
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Title: Longitude
Character: Elizabeth Harrison
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: TV
The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
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Cotton Mary
Title: Cotton Mary
Character: Mrs Freda Davids
Released: December 17, 1999
Type: Movie
A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.
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Captain Jack
Title: Captain Jack
Character: Eunice Pickles
Released: May 28, 1999
Type: Movie
A sea captain with a vessel not deemed sea worthy by the ship inspectors assembles a motley crew to sail along the path of Captain Scoresby, a sea captain who sailed from Whitby in northern England to the Arctic in 1791. His crew includes bickering sisters, an Australian hitchhiker who is hiding from his girl friends, and the seaman's confidante who runs a local trailer park. Putting the ship to sea, the group is pursued by the authorities.
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The Winslow Boy
Title: The Winslow Boy
Character: Grace Winslow
Released: March 18, 1999
Type: Movie
Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies it, Arthur risks fortune, health, domestic peace, and Catherine's prospects to pursue justice.
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The Theory of Flight
Title: The Theory of Flight
Character: Anne
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
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All Revved Up
Title: All Revved Up
Character: Mrs. Wiggins
Released: April 19, 1998
Type: Movie
A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in ripping off his customers. Soon, she has two eager young men, her lizard-loving neighbour and his friend, on her side to help her exact revenge on the sleazy mechanic, who is the leader of a stolen car ring.
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Title: Trial & Retribution
Character: Dr. Jean Mullins
Released: October 19, 1997
Type: TV
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.
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Wilde
Title: Wilde
Character: Lady Queensberry
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: Midsomer Murders
Character: Maisie Gooch
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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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Mrs. Fairfax
Released: March 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.
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Valley Girls
Title: Valley Girls
Character: Beryl
Released: November 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Two Welsh women win a trip to Hollywood.
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Title: Wilderness
Character: Jane Garth
Released: September 30, 1996
Type: TV
Alice White has a painfully sinister secret: once a month, when the moon is full, she locks herself away and transforms into a she-wolf.
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Wilderness
Title: Wilderness
Character: Jane Garth
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In the light of the moon, seduction and pleasure are never what they seem. And neither is Alice White (Amanda Ooms), a beautiful and obsessed woman with a painfully sinister secret: once a month when the moon is full, she locks herself away and transforms into a she-wolf. When a passionate triangle ensues between a psychiatrist who can hardly believe her erotically charged tales and a man who may be her one shot at love, Alice flees to the wilderness where she is free to satiate her most personal and sometimes shocking desires. Originally a three part British TV Mini-series, later released as a single episode on DVD.
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Sense and Sensibility
Title: Sense and Sensibility
Character: Mrs. Dashwood
Released: December 13, 1995
Type: Movie
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
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Feast of July
Title: Feast of July
Character: Mrs. Wainwright
Released: October 12, 1995
Type: Movie
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
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Title: Faith
Character: Jane Moreton
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: TV
Michael Gambon stars in this high-tension thriller of political corruption and international intrigue. Peter Moreton, a high-ranking government official, scrambles to keep his secret lifestyle hidden from the world when his daughter purposely leaks his affair to a reporter she is dating. Nick Simon is the reporter caught between his love for Moreton’s daughter Polly and his desperation to keep his job and land the biggest story of his career.
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Title: The Return of the Borrowers
Character: Miss Menzies
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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Tender Loving Care
Title: Tender Loving Care
Character: Nicky Dobbs
Released: October 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosphere in her ward and is extremely attentive to her patients. However, rather too many of them are dying.Inspired by the real-life case of four nurses in Austria who were tried for the murder of 42 patients in their care, this chilling drama stars comedian Dawn French in her first serious role, as an apparently irreproachable carer.
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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: Joan Scott-Fowler
Released: December 5, 1992
Type: Movie
David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that she's in love with David and wants to change his life for ever. Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play.
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Title: Devices and Desires
Character: Alice Mair
Released: January 4, 1991
Type: TV
A particularly vicious serial killer is stalking the Norfolk coast in the vicinity of the Larksoken nuclear power station. The press have branded him 'The Whistler' because witnesses have heard a hymn being whistled in the vicinity of the murders. His trademark is the letter 'L' carved on the forehead of his victims. L for Larksoken? At first, his victims seem to be chosen entirely at random - women in the wrong place at the wrong time - but then two women employed at the nuclear power station are murdered in quick succession...
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Miss Williams
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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On the Black Hill
Title: On the Black Hill
Character: Mary Jones
Released: September 12, 1988
Type: Movie
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
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Paperhouse
Title: Paperhouse
Character: Dr. Sarah Nicols
Released: September 10, 1988
Type: Movie
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
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Title: The Storyteller
Released: May 15, 1988
Type: TV
The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.
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Title: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: Mrs. Peveril
Released: August 2, 1987
Type: TV
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Anne Staveley
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Character: Miss Prism
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary brother, Earnest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull home in the country and frolic in town. Algernon uses a similar technique, only in reverse: His imaginary friend, Bunbury, provides a convenient and frequent method of taking adventures in the country. However, their deceptions eventually cross paths, resulting in a series of crises that threaten to spoil their romantic pursuits; Jack of his love Gwendolen Fairfax, and Algernon of his belle Cecily Cardew.
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Very Like a Whale
Title: Very Like a Whale
Character: Lady Mellor
Released: January 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to bits.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Character: Portia
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Title: The Duchess of Duke Street
Character: Louisa Trotter
Released: September 4, 1976
Type: TV
Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess", who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St. James's.
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Dial a Deadly Number
Title: Dial a Deadly Number
Released: November 18, 1975
Type: Movie
A young woman tormented by murderous dreams decides to call a psychiatrist for help but accidentally dials a desperate out -of-work actor.
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The Way of the World
Title: The Way of the World
Character: Millamant
Released: March 5, 1975
Type: Movie
In order for Millamant and Mirabell to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately, she is a very bitter lady, who despises Mirabell and wants her own nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed Millamant.
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Footsteps
Title: Footsteps
Character: Mollie
Released: October 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Gemma Jones stars as a woman suffering from hyperacusis, which affects the muscles of the ears. As a result she has become highly sensitive to noise, a condition that is only exacerbated by living in a crowded boarding house.
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Title: Fall of Eagles
Character: Princess Vicky
Released: March 15, 1974
Type: TV
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Character: Gwendolen Fairfax
Released: February 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Helen Curry
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Title: A Ghost Story for Christmas
Character: Alice Parkin
Released: December 24, 1971
Type: TV
A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and later revived in 2005 on BBC Four. With one exception, the original instalments are directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and the films are all shot on 16 mm colour film. The remit behind the series was to provide a television adaptation of a classic ghost story referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas.
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The Cherry Orchard
Title: The Cherry Orchard
Character: Varya
Released: December 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
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The Devils
Title: The Devils
Character: Madeleine de Brou
Released: July 16, 1971
Type: Movie
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.
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The Man in the Sidecar
Title: The Man in the Sidecar
Character: Edith
Released: May 27, 1971
Type: Movie
Examines the relationship between Edith, a famous and successful novelist, and her writer husband, and how her own domestic situation is paralleled in her latest book about a woman enjoying the self-destruction of her husband.
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Character: Anna Firth
Released: October 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
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Title: Play for Today
Character: Anna Firth
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Title: Shadows of Fear
Character: Judith
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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Title: The Spoils of Poynton
Character: Fleda Vetch
Released: April 26, 1970
Type: TV
Adele Gereth has taken young Fleda Vetch under her wing. Adele is intensely houseproud, and sees a potential future mistress of the house in Fleda, and an inheritor of her life's work.
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Title: Rainbow City
Character: Mary Steele
Released: July 5, 1967
Type: TV
The story of John Steele, a black solicitor, and his personal and professional problems living and working in the multi-ethnic community of Birmingham.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Mrs. Taylor
Released: January 10, 1965
Type: Movie
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.
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The Life and Death of Lovely Karen Gilhooley
Title: The Life and Death of Lovely Karen Gilhooley
Character: Grusha
Released: November 17, 1964
Type: Movie
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Pamela Phillips
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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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.