Anita Dobson

AKA:

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1949-04-29

Stepney, London, England, UK

Biography

Anita Dobson (born 29 April 1949 in Stepney London) is an English Actress and singer. She is best known for playing Angie Watts in the BBC soap, Eastenders.

Crew Roles

Music

Musician

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {67}

Self

2016-05-12 8

Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in t ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2022-04-20 6.741

Freddie Mercury: The Final Act

The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s life and how, after his death from AIDS, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at W ...

Genre :Documentary, Music

Charlie's Mum

2004-02-06 3.778

Charlie

Set in Post World War II Britain, chronicles the rise and fall of real life British crime lord Charlie Richardson. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

Bella

2023-12-16 5.7

Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery

It's Christmas and Gemma has hired a lovely cottage in a quaint village. Terry spots that the village has a Santa competition, but things take a dark turn as competitors start being killed off in a ho ...

Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Horror

Narrator

2023-12-15 0

When 80s TV Goes Horribly Wrong

Anita Dobson narrates a look at some '80s TV moments that many celebrities would rather forget, from a stunt that went wrong for Paul Daniels to Des O'Connor's dog bite on the nose. ...

Genre :

Bertha

2022-12-04 0

Dodger Special: Christmas

A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Comedy, Drama, Family, History

June

2015-06-12 5.461

London Road

London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had stru ...

Genre :Music, Thriller

Judith

1994-04-22 4.6

Beyond Bedlam

An experiment gone awry places a neurologist and a homicide detective in a psychopath's nightmarish world. ...

Genre :Horror

Molly

2023-11-06 6.4

Christmas at the Holly Day Inn

An overachieving executive quits her job just before Christmas and goes to her father's country inn to try to find some balance again. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mrs. Mentis

2024-06-03 6.085

This Time Next Year

Minnie and Quinn were both born in London on New Year’s Day, in the same hospital, one minute apart. Thirty years later — and very different people — they find themselves thrown together again in the ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Mrs Flood

2024-06-21 6.1

Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death

The Doctor and Ruby Sunday have faced the Bogeyman, fought against Maestro, and survived the battlefield of Kastarion 3. In the epic two-part season finale, The Doctor and Ruby arrive at UNIT headquar ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure

Nurse Mary

2016-01-01 4.2

Solitary

When party-girl Nora is forced to move back home with her aging father, it seems life can't get any worse. But inside her childhood home the ghosts of her past begin to haunt her, until the secret she ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs Flood

2024-12-24 7.2

Doctor Who at the Proms

Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially shot feature for the Fifteenth Doctor and a host of s ...

Genre :Music

Sam Greene

2000-11-13 0

The Stretch

When Terry (Grantham) is sentenced to a twenty-year stretch for a murder he did not commit, his wife Sam (Dobson) discovers that his apparently respectable business life has in fact been a cover for a ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Daphne Teal

1998-06-09 5.571

The Revengers' Comedies

After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin the life of the woman who married Karen's boyfrien ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

Gene Dunn

2019-03-15 5.7

The Fight

Tina lives in a quiet seaside town but her life is anything but quiet - her mother is threatening to leave her father, her daughter is being bullied and she and her husband Mick are juggling full time ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Fanny Loder

1999-11-12 8

The Tichborne Claimant

Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet ...

Genre :Drama

Miss Perry

2018-12-25 6.7

Torvill & Dean

Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Roxanne

1990-01-01 0

The World of Eddie Weary

Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV show. Except Conway is actually a complete idiot in ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Mrs. Hayter

1999-08-27 3.8

Darkness Falls

A tragic accident leaves behind a desperate husband looking for answers - and revenge. Mark and Sally Driscoll appear to have it all but appearances can be deceiving. Mark is about to close the deal t ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance

Mrs Lawson

1999-01-15 0

Junk

Bafta-winning drama. Following difficulties with her parents, teenager Gemma Brogan leaves home. She falls under the spell of a young woman who introduce her to the world of alternative youth culture ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Crime

2022-09-09 0

Tomorrow Morning

The musical follows the relationships of what at first seems like two different couples separated by a span of time; one couple is getting married and the other is getting divorced. It turns out they ...

Genre :Music, Drama, Romance

Ruth Leyman

2004-02-13 6

Christine

Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Herself

2025-02-17 0

EastEnders: 40 Years on the Square

Ross Kemp returns to EastEnders for its 40th anniversary, meeting iconic cast members and exploring the groundbreaking issues that defined the beloved British soap. ...

Genre :Documentary

Herself

1997-11-24 0

The Untransmittable Lily Savage Show

A specially created compilation of unused material from her incredibly successful 1998 BBC series ...

Genre :Comedy

Mrs Flood

2025-05-31 5.313

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still unable to get her home to Earth, Belinda must fig ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama

Mum

1994-01-10 0

The Fireboy

A troubled boy is reluctantly fostered by a hard-working woman (Dobson). Her fears seem well founded when the boy starts a fire. BUt her daughter, who initially resents the intruder, discovers that he ...

Genre :

Cynthia

2025-10-23 0

Never Too Late

An irreverent take on ageing, following a rebellious woman forced to start over in a deceptively peaceful retirement village. This darkly comic drama follows sharp-tonged, fiercely independent Cynthia ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Comedy

Caroline

2025-09-24 0

3 Wishes for Christmas

While spending Christmas with her best friend’s family, Tessa falls for her friend’s brother and faces potential heartache when his ex arrives. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Family

1985-02-19 4.1

EastEnders

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough. ...

Genre :Soap, Drama, Crime

2004-11-17 0

Today with Des and Mel

Today with Des and Mel was a British television series hosted by Des O'Connor and Melanie Sykes. The show featured celebrity guests, phone-in competitions and chat between the hosts. It was produced b ...

Genre :

Captain Tau

1988-02-15 8.048

Red Dwarf

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf. ...

Genre :Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Elaine Wanless

2004-01-01 7.4

New Tricks

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pul ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Self

2007-09-03 3.7

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus ...

Genre :Talk

1983-11-30 5.3

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle was an ITV sitcom which aired from 1983 to 1985, starring comedian Jim Davidson, who played the role of Jim London. The show spawned a sequel, Home James, which wa ...

Genre :Comedy

1983-10-09 6.3

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving. ...

Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Drama

Mrs Osborne

1997-11-02 6

Get Well Soon

Comedy set in an English Tuberculosis sanatorium in 1947. ...

Genre :Comedy

2003-02-07 7.7

The Last Detective

"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Self

2009-09-14 3.7

Live from Studio Five

Live from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channel 5. It was presented by Kate Walsh and a line-up of other co-presenters during its run. ...

Genre :Talk

Joyce Potts

1999-01-16 3.5

Sunburn

Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Frances

2014-02-05 8

Inside No. 9

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Suzi Rudkin

1995-01-21 6

Ghosts

British anthology series of ghost stories. ...

Genre :

Kate Marr

2009-05-18 7.1

Moving On

Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on. ...

Genre :Drama

Queen Elizabeth I

2015-05-24 0

Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the stor ...

Genre :Documentary, History

Angie Watts

1985-02-19 4.1

EastEnders

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough. ...

Genre :Soap, Drama, Crime

Fenella

2000-05-17 4.4

Urban Gothic

Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it none ...

Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Elaine Carrington

1986-09-06 6.1

Casualty

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. ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

Cora

1986-09-06 6.1

Casualty

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. ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

Rachel Lan

1986-09-06 6.1

Casualty

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. ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

Cath

1989-06-07 4

Split Ends

Split Ends is a British Sitcom which ran for one series on ITV in 1989. It was written by Len Richmond and directed by Alan J. W. Bell. Cath is a beautiful woman in her thirties, who runs a hairdress ...

Genre :

Janine

2024-10-13 5.3

Generation Z

Flesh-eating baby-boomers get a taste for teenagers in Ben Wheatley's darkly comic, outlandishly gory, zombie-horror satire. ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

Nan

2010-12-19 6.8

Little Crackers

Little Crackers is a series of Christmas short films featuring stars of British and Irish comedy. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Mrs Flood

2024-05-11 6.4

Doctor Who

The Doctor and his companion travel across time and space encountering incredible friends and foes. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

2015-03-01 4.2

Pompidou

In an old caravan parked in front of his crumbling estate lives Pompidou - a tubby, pompous, penniless, eccentric, yet lovable aristocrat. He is an elderly oddball who has fallen on hard times. ...

Genre :Comedy

Self - Guest Judge

2006-04-10 6.5

Great British Menu

Britain's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure. ...

Genre :Reality

Self

1987-09-26 6

Going Live!

Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene. Other presenters included Trevor and Simon, Peter Si ...

Genre :

Molly Kingsley

1992-10-03 7.362

Highlander: The Series

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm. ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure

Janet

2024-10-10 4.7

Curfew

Set in a society where all men live under 'The Women’s Safety Act', meaning they are bound by a strict curfew from 7PM to 7AM every night, with their movements tracked by an ankle tag 24 hours a day. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Grace Stephenson

2021-10-25 6.222

The Long Call

Detective Matthew Venn returns to the small North Devon community he grew up in with his husband and begins investigating a murder whilst coming to terms with his own traumatic past, having been excom ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Mrs Flood (archive footage)

2024-05-11 6.6

Doctor Who: Unleashed

Following the same format of Doctor Who: Confidential, Steffan Powell takes audiences behind the scenes of each episode of BBC's Doctor Who. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1999-09-06 3.2

Loose Women

A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip. ...

Genre :Talk

Margaret

2016-07-20 7.2

The Rebel

Simon Callow stars as a cantankerous senior in this sitcom inspired by Andrew Birch's long-running cartoon strip in Oldie Magazine. ...

Genre :Comedy

Eunice Lytton

2013-01-14 7.636

Father Brown

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Self

2024-05-11 6.6

Doctor Who: Unleashed

Following the same format of Doctor Who: Confidential, Steffan Powell takes audiences behind the scenes of each episode of BBC's Doctor Who. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2006-08-14 4.4

The One Show

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One. ...

Genre :Talk

Self

1993-01-11 3.5

The Good Sex Guide

Margi Clarke presented the show which was broadcast on late nights on ITV. The show ran for three series. The Good Sex Guide which gained unheard-of audience figures of 13 million for a show that air ...

Genre :Documentary

Gertie

1994-01-02 0

Smokescreen

It's the summer of 1907, and cinema is in its infancy. In a northern industrial town two very different movie moguls are battling for the hearts, minds and purses of the local population. Frank Sherin ...