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A Collier's Friday Night (1976)
Character: Mrs Lambert
A glimpse into the home life of a coal miner and his family. Frustrated with their lot in life, the family quarrel and squabble incessantly with one another in this adaptation of a DH Lawrence short story.
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The Beast (1979)
Character: Millie Hopkins
Millie Hopkins is not happy when she sees her neighbour erecting a large cage in his garden. She soon becomes fascinated by the new 'pet'.
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Jumbo (1976)
Character: Sally
"1975 was the year of the disaster movie, yeah? So what stops 1976 being the year of the disastrous disaster movie?"
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The Four Beauties (1973)
Character: Mrs. Davenport
Henry Batley, a bored young journalist in a small town is attracted to both Christie Davenport and her sister Sophie, whilst younger sister Tina is determined to make him hers.
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Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death (1990)
Character: Joan
The ageing William Shakespeare has retreated to Warwickshire in search of an elusive inner peace. Disillusioned by human cruelty he is further dismayed to find the greed and injustices that drove him from London to Stratford are as prevalent in his rural retreat as they were in the capital. (BBC Genome)
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Emergency (1962)
Character: Joan Bell
When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation. One is a murderer awaiting execution, one an atomic scientist selling secrets, and one an international footballer about to get his hundreth cap.
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Shotgun (1966)
Character: Harriet
The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
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The Last Shot You Hear (1969)
Character: Eileen Forbes
Charles Nordeck is a successful marriage counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks. When his wife Anne seeks a divorce, Charles refuses to sign the papers fearing the bad publicity could ruin his career. The adulterous Anne then convinces her lover Peter to take care of the problem.
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Troubled Waters (1964)
Character: Janet Carswell
Tab Hunter as a scary-eyed Aryan-blonde psychopath living in London, who emerges from prison and immediately proceeds to psychologically - and eventually physically - destroy his small family.
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Random Moments in a May Garden (1981)
Character: Sophie
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.
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The Chocolate Tree (1963)
Character: Rachel Strang
As independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into their home, in an uneasy conversation that is tinged by condescension and racism, grudges and militant anger.
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Baby Blues (1973)
Character: Lavinia
Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she dreamed and envisaged, and she suffers from depression after the birth,beginning to have dangerous feelings of love towards her child.
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C₂H₅OH (1980)
Character: Mary Purser
Play on the problems of alcoholism.
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Sorry... (1978)
Character: Vera - 'Private View'
Two TV Plays by Vaclav Havel, one called 'Audience', and one called 'Private View'.
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'That Crazy Woman' (1980)
Character: Dr. Barbara Moore
In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.
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Abide with Me (1976)
Character: Iris Allen
A young coal miner's daughter enters the servility of a deeply religious and lonely old aristocratic woman in regional England during the late 1920s, forming a temporary bond of mutual social dependency.
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When the Actors Come (1978)
Character: Eva
On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary. The Count is delighted to have an excuse for re-opening the old family theatre, closed since his childhood. But other members of his household wonder whether these unexpected guests should be made quite so welcome.
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Girl in the Headlines (1963)
Character: Mildred Birkett
Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life.
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Change Partners (1965)
Character: Anna Arkwright
An adulterous couple turn to murder, only to discover that a petty crook and blackmailer has already had his eye upon them.
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The Marked One (1963)
Character: Kay Mason
William Lucas plays a lorry driver who is recently out of prison. He becomes a target when it s discovered that he knows where he can find plates for making forged banknotes.
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The Traitors (1962)
Character: Annette Lane
The cat and mouse game between government agents and a spy ring that has taken secret documents from a plane crash in Germany, not far from an US military research centre.
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The Hellions (1961)
Character: Julie Hargis
Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis (Richard Todd) so they take over a small Transvaal town with the attention of drawing Hargis into a showdown. Hargis tries to get back up from the townsfolk who do not want to know, so is forced to lay low. As things get out of hand one of the Billings boys takes an interest in the storekeeper's wife, Priss Dobbs (Anne Aubrey). Having had enough her husband, Ernie (Jamie Uys) takes up the gun and heads down the main street alone. An act that prompts Hargis to join him. Slowly, the townsfolk turn up to back them up.
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The Dresser (1983)
Character: Her Ladyship
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
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A Dog's Ransom (1978)
Character: Gina Reynolds
A quiet, middle-aged couple living in Chelsea start to receive threatening letters through the post - and then things take a sinister turn as their beloved poodle, Tina, is kidnapped. A smart young copper from the local force decides to investigate -
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The Likely Lads (1976)
Character: Laura
With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.
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Snowball (1960)
Character: Mary Donovan
A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.
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The Reckoning (1970)
Character: Hilda Greening
Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.
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Cromwell (1970)
Character: Mrs. Cromwell
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
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Sammy Going South (1963)
Character: Aunt Jane
After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
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Daylight Robbery (1964)
Character: Trudy's mum
Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store the same day in order to get to the bank next door.
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