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Red Riding Hood (1973)
Character: The Grandmother
A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.
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After the Show (1959)
Character: Mrs. Morello
Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal mistress.She's a young, bohemian type and Victor is smitten. She leads him on and he takes her out, but after meeting her friends, realises she's not for him.
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A Touch of the Victorians (1972)
Character: Elsie
An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.
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Night Duty (1972)
Character: Mrs. Mullins
A night worker at a mental institution finds his job beginning to change.
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Innocent Sinners (1958)
Character: Ellen
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
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Dal sabato al lunedì (1963)
Character: Lady Van Berg
The misadventures of Enrico and Sandro: two eighteen year olds looking for their 'first time'.
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John of the Fair (1954)
Character: Ma Miggs
Set in the fairgrounds of 18th century England, the story of a kidnapped heir who regains his rightful inheritance to title and estates with the help of his friends.
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The Piano (1971)
Character: Ada
Play about an elderly couple who don't want to be moved from the house in which they have lived all their lives, but may be forced to as they live in a designated redevelopment area. The major point as far as they're concerned is that their piano won't fit in one of the new council places they have been offered.
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The Three Sisters (1963)
Character: Antissa
Chekhov’s tale of a family distanced from their environment and living in a world of growing disillusionment is a stunning adaptation of the Russian writer’s play.
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Spring-Heeled Jack (1950)
Character: Mrs Crisp
BBC live outside broadcast from the Theatre Royal, Stratford, of Tod Slaughter’s production of his melodrama Spring-Heeled Jack.
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Secrets (1973)
Character: Mrs. Function
Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production line.
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The Snow Queen (1976)
Character: Granny
The Devil makes a mirror -and it shatters.This is the story of what happens to little Kay when one of the pieces finds its way through his eye and into his heart. The powers of evil are unleashed ... the Summer Garden Witch - the Robbers in the Wood - but above all - the mysterious elemental figure of The Snow Queen. Only Gerda - Kay's friend - helped by birds and animals - has the power to overcome them all.
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Goodbye Gemini (1970)
Character: Stallholder
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.
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Steptoe & Son Ride Again (1973)
Character: Woman with Carrot
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
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Carry On Loving (1970)
Character: Grandma Grubb
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called 'The Wit to Woo'. The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches—and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble.
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The Yellow Balloon (1953)
Character: Newspaper Vendor (uncredited)
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
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Battle of Britain (1969)
Character: Old Lady (uncredited)
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.
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On the Buses (1971)
Character: Old Woman
Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of
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Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
Character: Mrs. Mary Talisman
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
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Never Back Losers (1961)
Character: Mrs. Sanders
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.
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House of Mortal Sin (1976)
Character: Mrs. Meldrum
A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
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La congiuntura (1964)
Character: Dana
Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs as does the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro, her former boyfriend is following and plans to hi-jack the loot, leaving Jane empty handed.
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Up the Junction (1965)
Character: Old May
The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.
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Melody (1971)
Character: Granma Perkins
Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.
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Frieda (1947)
Character: Woman Talking to Official (uncredited)
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
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Fragment of Fear (1970)
Character: Miss Dacey
Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate. Soon his whole life spins out of control.
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The Drayton Case (1953)
Character: Mrs. Drayton
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
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