Rosemary Leach

Rosemary Leach

Born: December 18, 1935
Died: October 21, 2017
in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England, UK
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Rosemary Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was a British stage, television and film actress and singer.

She was born at Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her parents were teachers related to Edmund Leach. She attended grammar school and RADA. After appearing in repertory theatres and the Old Vic she became well known to UK TV viewers between 1965-69 for playing Susan Wheldon, the mistress of building tycoon John Wilder (Patrick Wymark) in the TV boardroom drama The Power Game.

Subsequently she became a familiar face on British television. In 1973, she played Aldonza/Dulcinea in the BBC production of Don Quixote (retitled The Adventures of Don Quixote), starring Rex Harrison and Frank Finlay. In 1981 she played Emilia opposite Bob Hoskins's Iago in the BBC Shakespeare's production of Othello. In 1982 she played Aunt Fenny in The Jewel in the Crown.

Rosemary played a leading role as smitten Joan Plumleigh-Bruce in the six part ITV 1987 production of The Charmer (TV series) which starred Nigel Havers.

In 1987, she was nominated for BAFTA's Best Supporting Actress for A Room with a View (1985). In 1992, Leach starred in An Ungentlemanly Act, a BBC television film about the first days of the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982, portraying the real-life Lady Mavis Hunt, wife of the islands' then-governor, Sir Rex Hunt.

Leach plays the part of Anna in BBC Radio 4's No Commitments, and Susan Harper's mother in My Family. She made a guest appearance as 'Bessie' on Waterloo Road (the TV series), in Series 3 Spring Term. Since 1994, she has made occasional appearances in The Archers as Ellen Rogers, the ex-pat aunt of Nigel Pargetter.

In 2001 Leach played a leading role as a charming murderess in Destroying Angel, an episode of Midsomer Murders.

Recently she has played Queen Elizabeth II three times: in the 2002 television movie Prince William; in a 2006 updated edition of The Afternoon Play, entitled Tea with Betty; and in 2009's Margaret.

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May I Kill U?
Title: May I Kill U?
Character: Mags
Released: January 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.
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The Great Ghost Rescue
Title: The Great Ghost Rescue
Character: The Queen
Released: October 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Young Humphrey is a ghost with a big problem. He and his family, the Craggyfords, have been ousted from their home and left without a place to haunt. As they search for new haunting grounds they soon discover that they are not alone. Ghosts from all over the world have been exorcised from their dwellings, with dark castles and ancient buildings being destroyed by the living, and turned into shopping centers. With time running out, Humphrey digs deep inside, and decides to help save his family and the rest of the haunting community by scaring his way to victory.
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Mission London
Title: Mission London
Character: Miss Cunningham
Released: April 16, 2010
Type: Movie
A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in love with a stripper and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - his simple task turns into a chaotic nightmare.
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Margaret
Title: Margaret
Character: The Queen
Released: March 26, 2009
Type: Movie
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
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Title: Afterlife
Released: September 24, 2005
Type: TV
University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Hester Hindmarch
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Prince William
Title: Prince William
Character: Queen Elizabeth
Released: September 29, 2002
Type: Movie
Prince William is the elder son of Britain's Prince Charles and if the late Diana, Princess of Wales. After his father, he is next in line to the British throne. A biography of his journey so far....
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The Baroness and the Pig
Title: The Baroness and the Pig
Character: Margaret
Released: September 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.
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Back Home
Title: Back Home
Character: Mrs. Dickinson
Released: October 22, 2001
Type: Movie
The war in Europe is over, but the one at home has only just begun. The Second World War is ending and throughout Britain, evacuees are returning home to their families - but not the families they remember. Like so many other women, Peggy’s life has been transformed by the war. Living and working with good friends, she is happier than she has been for years. Yet Peggy’s life is not the only one changed by the war. Her daughter, Rusty, has just returned from the U.S., where she has been living as an evacuee for the last five years. After so long abroad, her home in England has become unrecognizable. Just as Peggy begins to restore normal family bonds, her husband returns from the war, damaged and desperate to make everything as it was before. Adapted from the novel by Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight, Mister Tom, Back Home is the story of a family who struggle to make sense of their new lives in a world irrevocably altered by the far-reaching effects of war.
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Title: Perfect
Character: Vera
Released: April 23, 2001
Type: TV
A serial bigamist, Julie Harding (Michelle Collins) is a compulsive flirt with a wicked sense of humour. She loves a good wedding - especially her own - but Julie is a perfectionist, and the reality of married life doesn't always mirror the magic of the big day.
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Breathtaking
Title: Breathtaking
Character: Mrs. Henshaw
Released: December 16, 2000
Type: Movie
A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder.
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Title: My Family
Released: September 19, 2000
Type: TV
Ben Harper is a moderately successful family man and dentist. He is also undergoing a mid-life crisis and trying to cope with the bizarre reality of raising teenage children. His wife Susan seems quite happy, enjoys her job as a London tour guide, however at home her ability to find her way around a cookbook or pantry is less successful. Their three children Nick, Janey, and Michael are as different as chalk and cheese. Nick (19) is on his gap year, but doesn't get much further than the sofa or job centre, Janey is as sharp as a tack and 16 going on 25, while Michael is a very bright, computer-nerdish 12 year old who is just discovering girls.
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Title: Doctors
Character: Meg Carpenter
Released: March 27, 2000
Type: TV
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Title: Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Character: Harold's Mother
Released: March 10, 2000
Type: Movie
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
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Title: Berkeley Square
Character: Nanny Collins
Released: May 9, 1998
Type: TV
Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
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Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
Title: Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
Released: January 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Follows the discoveries of reporters after the disappearance of the 7th Earl of Lucan, Richard John Bingham after the murder of his children's nanny.
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Title: Spywatch
Character: Amy Hobbs
Released: January 15, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Chiller
Released: March 9, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Chiller
Character: Mrs. Leslie
Released: March 9, 1995
Type: TV
Chiller is a five-part British horror fantasy anthology television series, produced by Yorkshire Television, that first broadcast on ITV on 9 March 1995. Described by The Guardian as ITV's "answer to The X Files", the series was inspired by, but unconnected to, the 1991 Channel 4 thriller Gray Cray Dolls, which broadcast under the Chiller banner, the series featured writing contributions from renowned playwrights Stephen Gallagher, Glenn Chandler and Anthony Horowitz.
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Blood and Peaches
Title: Blood and Peaches
Character: Nan
Released: February 13, 1995
Type: Movie
Two Bradford teenagers fall in love amid a growing period of racial tension in their community.
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Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Lady Brittlesea
Released: February 5, 1995
Type: TV
Because of their "new money" background, four American girls have difficulty breaking into the upper-crust society of New York. Laura Testvalley, the governess of one of the girls, suggests a London season and thus the young women set sail for England and the unsuspecting English aristocracy. In England, all the girls soon find eligible husbands and the youngest girl, Nan, seems to land the best husband of them all: the handsome and very wealthy Julius, Duke of Trevennick. The girls soon discover that English upper-class men are not at all what they expected and hoped for.
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The Hawk
Title: The Hawk
Character: Mrs Marsh
Released: December 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
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Tender Loving Care
Title: Tender Loving Care
Character: Mary
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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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Title: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.
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Title: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 9, 1992
Type: TV
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.
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An Ungentlemanly Act
Title: An Ungentlemanly Act
Character: Mavis Hunt
Released: June 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually lead to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and make their way towards Government House, the handful of British defenders batten down the hatches and prepare to defend the Governor Rex Hunt, his family and their fellow islanders from the invaders.
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Title: Growing Pains
Character: Joan Craddock
Released: May 16, 1992
Type: TV
Family drama series about a middle aged couple (Ray Brooks and Sharon Duce) who, with their own three children in their teenage years, decide to become foster parents.
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Title: The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Character: Tabitha Twitchit (voice)
Released: May 13, 1992
Type: TV
Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.
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Title: The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Character: Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit (voice)
Released: May 13, 1992
Type: TV
Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Dorothy Plum
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: Heartbeat
Character: Miss Plum
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: Up the Garden Path
Released: May 2, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Summer's Lease
Character: Nancy Leadbetter
Released: November 1, 1989
Type: TV
Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.
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The Winslow Boy
Title: The Winslow Boy
Character: Violet
Released: April 30, 1989
Type: Movie
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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Title: May to December
Character: Avril
Released: April 2, 1989
Type: TV
Comedy about a Pinner solictor who falls for a woman half his age.
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Across the Lake
Title: Across the Lake
Character: Connie Robinson
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. This 1988 film set In 1967 when Campbell broke the 300mph water speed barrier in his beloved BlueBird k7. Unfortunately Campbell never survived the record as his boat hydroplaned out of the water and disintegrated on landing. Campbell's body was never found until 2001.
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Clara Soppitt
Released: December 26, 1987
Type: Movie
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC.
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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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Still Crazy Like a Fox
Title: Still Crazy Like a Fox
Character: Eleanor Trundle
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.
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Day To Remember
Title: Day To Remember
Character: Hilda
Released: December 21, 1986
Type: Movie
Wally is spending Christmas with his wife Hilda at the house of their daughter and son-in-law. Wally is hoping that he will miraculously regain his memory during the festive season.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Miranda Watts
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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A Room with a View
Title: A Room with a View
Character: Mrs. Honeychurch
Released: March 7, 1986
Type: Movie
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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Turtle Diary
Title: Turtle Diary
Character: Mrs. Inchcliff
Released: December 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
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Displaced Person
Title: Displaced Person
Character: Sister Agnes
Released: May 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy award winning drama based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection.
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The 17th Bride
Title: The 17th Bride
Character: Esther
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Based on Ladislav Grossman's novel "The Bride", this drama was filmed back in 1984 in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, then the crew stopped filming, because protagonist Lisa Hartman had to promote her feature film "Where The Boys Are '84" in the States and they finally finished it on location in Wasserburg, Germany!
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This Office Life
Title: This Office Life
Character: Widow Rashman
Released: December 30, 1984
Type: Movie
On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled. There was a luncheon voucher scheme, a pension fund, paid holidays - and (apparently) nothing much doing between the hours of nine to five. Then his colleagues began to take an unhealthy interest in him. They asked questions he couldn't answer, and answered questions he hadn't asked. Only the lovely Pam made life bearable, but even she was not quite what she seemed....
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Title: Swallows and Amazons Forever!
Character: Mrs. Barrable
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: The Jewel in the Crown
Character: Aunt Fenny
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 Plague Dogs
Title: The Plague Dogs
Character: Vera (voice)
Released: October 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.
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The Critic
Title: The Critic
Character: Mrs. Dangle
Released: August 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, The Spanish Armada, confident that he has written a great play.
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Othello
Title: Othello
Character: Emilia
Released: October 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs Othello to protect its commercial interests in Cyprus where the Turkish fleet is headed. Desdemona insists on going to Cyprus, too. In Cyprus, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona has betrayed him with Cassio. A lot more than political ambition seems to be motivating Iago.
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All's Well That Ends Well
Title: All's Well That Ends Well
Character: Widow of Florence
Released: January 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?
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Hands
Title: Hands
Character: Pam
Released: August 20, 1980
Type: Movie
Pam receives an unusual birthday present from her 23 year old daughter, `The Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality'.
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S.O.S. Titanic
Title: S.O.S. Titanic
Character: Mrs. Odgen (uncredited)
Released: February 29, 1980
Type: Movie
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
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A Question Of Faith
Title: A Question Of Faith
Character: Anna Petrovna
Released: December 2, 1979
Type: Movie
The last days of famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy which are paralleled with one of his last stories - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - about a man who is happy with his life until he finds out he's sick and is about to die.
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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: Disraeli
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: September 5, 1978
Type: TV
Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.
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Disraeli
Title: Disraeli
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: September 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.
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Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Katy Bunting
Released: June 13, 1978
Type: TV
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Title: An Audience with...
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.
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Hindle Wakes
Title: Hindle Wakes
Character: Mrs. Jeffcote
Released: December 19, 1976
Type: Movie
In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a North England mill town are overthrown by a young woman with ideas far ahead of her time.
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Title: Laurence Olivier Presents
Character: Mrs Jeffcote
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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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Title: Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Character: Rita
Released: March 16, 1976
Type: Movie
TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom are particularly keen.
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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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When Day Is Done
Title: When Day Is Done
Character: Rosemary Warne
Released: January 7, 1975
Type: Movie
A determined wife tries to rescue her musician husband from mounting problems caused by his complicated life style.
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Brief Encounter
Title: Brief Encounter
Character: Mrs. Gaines
Released: November 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
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Title: The Prince of Denmark
Character: Laura
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: TV
Ronnie and Laura Corbett have embarked on a new future - this time in the company of the Prince of Denmark, a public house that she has inherited. Ronnie's initially rather put out by Laura's being technically in charge; something which the brewery's delivery men are swift to pick up on! Her prior experience working behind a bar soon begins to rub off, but it's a slow learning curve for the diminutive busybody as he attempts to keep his pride in tact, his eye over everything, and his hand firmly on the tiller.
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Title: Bedtime Stories
Character: Ivy Burr
Released: March 3, 1974
Type: TV
Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist.
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That'll Be The Day
Title: That'll Be The Day
Character: Mrs. MacLaine
Released: May 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll.
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Title: The Tomorrow People
Released: April 30, 1973
Type: TV
Born to human parents, an apparently normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called 'breaking out' and develop special paranormal abilities. These abilities include psychic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. However, their psychological make-up prevents them from intentionally killing others.
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Title: The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Character: Dulcinea / Aldonza
Released: April 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Title: Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Character: Kate
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
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Title: Pebble Mill at One
Released: October 9, 1972
Type: TV
Pebble Mill at One was a popular British lunchtime magazine, broadcast live from Monday to Friday at 13:00, mainly on BBC1. It was transmitted from the Pebble Mill studios of BBC Birmingham, and uniquely, was hosted from the centre's main foyer area, rather than a conventional studio. In the beginning, visitors to the studios were seen arriving in the background as the programme was transmitted. Reasons for this were: a planned third studio was never constructed on the site, and existing facilities were fully booked for network drama production and local news. Gradually, as the show was successful, the foyer became a studio, and visitors had to use a new entrance. The show ran from 2 October 1972 to 23 May 1986, under various programme Editors including: Terry Dobson, Jim Dumighan, and Peter Hercombe.. For most of that period there were few television programmes transmitted in Britain on any channels during the day. For this reason the programme acquired a unique following from those who found themselves at home at lunchtime. Housewives, students, and those recovering from an illness remember it with fondness for its variety and the problems inherent with live television. Its best remembered theme tune was "As You Please" by the Raymond Lefevre orchestra.
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Bermondsey
Title: Bermondsey
Character: Iris
Released: June 19, 1972
Type: Movie
John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.
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Cider with Rosie
Title: Cider with Rosie
Character: Mother
Released: December 25, 1971
Type: Movie
An enchanting tale of childhood in a sleepy Cotswold village during and immediately after the First World War.
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Title: Now Look Here...
Released: November 5, 1971
Type: TV
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The Mosedale Horseshoe
Title: The Mosedale Horseshoe
Character: Helen
Released: March 23, 1971
Type: Movie
The story of four Lakeland walkers who attempt to climb a fell. The fells represent the highlight of their year. They all have dull and uninteresting jobs and their only chance of relieving the boredom is in the fells After five years of weekends together they had never managed to reach the top of the Horseshoe, but were always defeated by something trivial. By the sixth year their combined failure to get to the summit took on the proportions of a tragedy especially they all saw it matching the situation in their everyday lives. Filmed on location
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The Wild Duck
Title: The Wild Duck
Character: Gina Ekdal, Hedvig's mother
Released: March 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However, in his bid to force the Ekdals to see the truth, the skeletons he unearths destroy the family that he wanted to redeem.
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Title: Play for Today
Character: Rita
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: The Roads to Freedom
Character: Marcelle
Released: October 4, 1970
Type: TV
Taboo-busting adaptation for television of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy.
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Chariot of Fire
Title: Chariot of Fire
Character: Shelley Mitchell
Released: May 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
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Title: Germinal
Released: January 11, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: Strange Report
Character: Mary Hanson
Released: September 21, 1969
Type: TV
Strange Report is a British television Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist, solves bizarre cases – which had been marked "Open File" by various government departments – with the help of Hamlyn Gynt, Evelyn and Professor Marks. He employed the latest techniques in forensic investigation, which he undertook in his own laboratory in his flat in Warwick Crescent in the Maida Vale/Little Venice area of Paddington.
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Title: Judge Dee
Released: April 8, 1969
Type: TV
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Birthday
Title: Birthday
Released: January 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.
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Toggle
Title: Toggle
Character: Jean Marfield
Released: January 3, 1968
Type: Movie
An adopted child's world falls apart when his mother decides to walk out on her marriage.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Marion Grove
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Face of a Stranger
Title: Face of a Stranger
Released: September 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A man released from prison falls in love with the blind wife of a cellmate, whom he promised, when inside, to visit. He poses as the real husband, planning to kill him, but finds the wife is not so innocent as he thought.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Released: May 17, 1964
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.
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Title: Horizon
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: February 4, 1964
Type: TV
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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Sharp at Four
Title: Sharp at Four
Character: Jean Hobley
Released: January 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.
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Title: The Plane Makers
Released: February 4, 1963
Type: TV
The Plane Makers is a British television series created by Wilfred Greatorex and produced by Rex Firken. ATV made three series for ITV between 1963 and 1965. It was succeeded by The Power Game, which ran for an additional three series from 1965 to 1969. Firkin continued as producer for the first two series, and David Reid took over for series 3.
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Title: Z-Cars
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Mrs. Gaines
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.