Jo Kendall

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.2175

Gender

Female

Birthday

17-Feb-1940

Age

(86 years old)

Place of Birth

Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Also Known As
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Jo Kendall

Biography

Josephine Mary Robinson, better known by her stage name Jo Kendall (17 February 1940 – 29 January 2022) was a British actress and writer. She was known for her work on the BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which debuted in 1964, and for her role as Peggy Skilbeck on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (then Emmerdale Farm) from 1972 to 1973, in which she also spoke the programme's first line of dialogue in the inaugural episode. Kendall was born Josephine Mary Robinson in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, on 17 February 1940. After leaving Leicester she trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and gained her Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM).


Credits

Horizontal Hold Horizontal Hold (1968) Character: Jane Hills
A woman writes a book about sex and marriage and it becomes a best seller.
The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False? The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False? (1979) Character: Mrs. Brown
Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.
Treasure Island Treasure Island (1977) Character: Sarah Hawkins
Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and embarks on a journey to find the treasure, but pirates led by Long John Silver have plans to take the treasure for themselves by way of mutiny.
Building Sites Bite Building Sites Bite (1978) Character: Mum
This film tells the story of Ronald, an intelligent boy who wants to become an architect or surveyor. His cousins Paul and Jane cannot believe that Ronald has any awareness of building sites. In Paul's imagination, he and his sister set Ronald in a number of typical sites, to see if he can survive the hazards that kill and maim many children each year. Ronald eventually learns the hard way that he did not know as much about building sites as he thought.
Star Quality Star Quality (1985) Character: Linda Copeland
Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.
The Unvarnished Truth The Unvarnished Truth (1983) Character: Mrs. Stuart-Dubonnet
A couple's row leaves a woman dead, a hectic evening ensues when no woman can enter the cottage without rapidly becoming deceased.
A Sudden Wrench A Sudden Wrench (1982) Character: Frank's wife
Christine takes up an unusual line of work and proves she is not just another bored housewife.
Mrs. Silly Mrs. Silly (1983) Character: Mrs. Lyng
Mrs. Silly, a woman who has lost her husband to another, is now about to lose her son to an expensive boarding school, compliments of her ex's money. Confronted with these losses, Mrs. Silly realizes she must regain her identity. Desperately trying to keep up appearances, to be cheerful, busy, and dignified, she only succeeds in living up to the derisive nickname she invented for herself.
James and the Giant Peach James and the Giant Peach (1976) Character: Glow-Worm / American Woman
A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
Scum Scum (1979) Character: Matron
Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.
Howards End Howards End (1992) Character: Annie
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Bridge of Dragons Bridge of Dragons (1999) Character: Lily
The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang is planning to take over the country by marrying Princess Halo. But Halo discovers that Ruechang killed her father to gain more power than he had working for the King, so she decides to run away. Warchild is the one who has to bring her back to Ruechang, but the one thing no one counted on happens... Warchild and Halo falls in love, and together they take on the forces of Ruechang... Written by Zorteper -
The Remains of the Day The Remains of the Day (1993) Character: Publican's wife
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.



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