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The Old Devils (1992)
Character: Gwen Cellan-Davies
An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.
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Amy, Wonderful Amy (1974)
Character: Joanna
Barbara lives in a fantasy world of trying to become a great woman pilot like her heroine, the late Amy Johnson.
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Mary's Wife (1980)
Character: Marge
A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.
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Where Is Betty Buchus? (1982)
Character: Betty Buchus
A man returns home from a business trip to find his wife is gone. He assumes she's left him after years of rowing and affairs but everyone else seems to be convinced that he's killed her.
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Crippled Bloom (1972)
Character: Nan
A bookmaker moves in with two sisters. He gets more than he bargained for.
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Old Times (1975)
Character: Kate
Kate and Deeley are married and live in the country. They are joined by Kate's friend, Anna, and talk of the past. Although it is a past they have shared, their memories of it are not always the same.
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The Perfect House (1981)
Character: Marjorie Manson
A woman's new house hides a sinister secret. Part of ITV Playhouse-S13E02
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Son of the City (1967)
Character: Carol
Welfare worker Carol is attacked in a swimming pool by the attendant George Lease.
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Preview (1982)
Character: Babs
Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.
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Van Gogh (1990)
Character: Mother
Linus Roache stars as troubled painter Vincent van Gogh in this drama from the BBC’s Omnibus series. Struggling to make ends meet first as an art dealer, then as a missionary in a coal mine, van Gogh was tormented by elusive love and madness. After notoriously cutting off his ear and spending a year in an asylum, we see the artists struggles and passions throughout his life.
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Midnight Movie (1994)
Character: Mrs. Mofrey
American producer James Boyce and his airhead wife Amber rent an English country mansion where the British horror flick "Smoke Rings" was filmed twenty years previous. Amber's mother was model-actress Mandy Mason, who died mysteriously after her appearance in "Smoke Rings." The property rental to Boyce was arranged by middle-aged lawyer Henry Harris, who continues to live with his lovesick memories of the late actress. Boyce invites Harris to dinner, and "Smoke Rings" airs on TV that same evening. During the following days, Harris observes Amber's behaviour paralleling events experienced both by her mother and in the movie.
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The Crucible (1981)
Character: Ann Putnam
An adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, concerning the Salem witch trials.
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1986)
Character: N/A
Jim Corbett, an experienced tracker and hunter in the wilds of India, learns that only a few of the dwindling numbers of Indian tigers pose a danger to man. He resolves to do something to prevent the tiger being driven to extinction by hunters, and to convince the Indian government of the necessity of conserving these magnificent beasts.
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Crown Matrimonial (1974)
Character: Princess Mary
Unable to marry the divorced Wallis Simpson, King Edward VIII has to choose between the crown and love.
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The Affair (1995)
Character: Mrs. Leyland
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989)
Character: Karl's Mother
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)
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The Exorcism (1972)
Character: Rachel
Four friends gather for Christmas dinner at an old cottage. Suddenly, there's a power failure and the phone goes dead. Then their wine turns to blood and the turkey makes them violently ill. Then things really get strange!
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Praying Mantis (1982)
Character: Gertrude
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
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Memento Mori (1992)
Character: Mrs Mortimer
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
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The Childeater (1989)
Character: Mrs. Jones
Eight-year old Betty is sent to stay with family on a remote Welsh farm, but her father has warned her that her uncle eats children who don't behave.
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In Two Minds (1967)
Character: Kate Winter
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?
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Robin Redbreast (1970)
Character: Norah Palmer
After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country.
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Schmoedipus (1974)
Character: Elizabeth Carter
Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth.
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Cromwell (1970)
Character: Ruth Carter
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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Nanou (1987)
Character: Mother deNanou
A young British photography student travelling in France meets up with a free thinking, working-class French man, a dramatic change of pace from her staid British boyfriend. (TCM)
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All Neat in Black Stockings (1969)
Character: Cicely 'Sis'
A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
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Footsteps (1974)
Character: Iris
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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The Lost Boys (1978)
Character: Mary Hodgson
The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.
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