Jane Lapotaire

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1944-12-26

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {72}

Alice Brewer

2000-08-25 6.785

There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some spe ...

Genre :Comedy

Olympias

1981-05-06 5

The Search for Alexander the Great

Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes. ...

Genre :Documentary, History, TV Movie

Mrs. Farrell (uncredited)

1970-08-03 6.7

Performance

In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Edith Piaf (segment "Piaf")

2004-10-26 8

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on opening night. This second compilation of great musi ...

Genre :Music, Documentary

Ernestine Carter

2006-01-17 2

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere figure. In reality she was a deeply unconventional pe ...

Genre :Drama

Christina Cunningham

1972-12-05 5.981

The Asphyx

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening qu ...

Genre :Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

Lillianne

1970-06-07 5

Crescendo

An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer. ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller

Madame de la Rougierre

1987-02-01 7.5

The Dark Angel

The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller, Drama, TV Movie

Lady Macbeth

1983-11-05 6.4

Macbeth

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down. ...

Genre :Drama

Helen

1990-04-11 0

Circles Of Deceit

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Irene Neumann

1984-01-20 4

To Catch a King

Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the tim ...

Genre :Thriller, TV Movie

Daisy

2004-01-01 0

Can't Stop Breathing

A daughter struggles to care for a mother stricken with dementia. ...

Genre :Drama

Miss Prescott

1975-07-09 5.7

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery, Thriller

Narrator

2011-12-13 0

Windsor Castle: After the Fire

Windsor Castle is a wonderful living example of the power and tradition of the Royal Family. For nearly 1,000 years it has stood as a symbol of the monarchy's strength, it is the largest working castl ...

Genre :Documentary

Helen McCann

1983-05-01 5.3

Eureka

After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife, a headstrong daughter, and Miami mobsters who wan ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Alice Stocker

1972-01-20 0

Stocker's Copper

In August 1913 a strike at a Cornish clay pit leads to Welsh police being sent to keep order. Having no other source of income, a striking miner is forced to take in one of the policemen as a lodger. ...

Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Charmian

1972-03-18 5.5

Antony and Cleopatra

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Ro ...

Genre :Drama, History

Queen Isobel

2015-10-16 0

RSC Live: Henry V

Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people. Laying claim to parts of Franc ...

Genre :Drama, History

Filio Williams

2021-12-23 7.962

Smyrna

Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Jean

1972-10-03 0

On Call

Roy and Jean's happy life is shattered by Jean's sudden illness and actually finding a doctor who can help her. ...

Genre :

Kim

1976-01-06 3

The Other Woman

A lesbian artist creates a love triangle when she moves in with a closeted teenage girl and the man in her pre-arranged heterosexual marriage. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, TV Movie

Louise Mackey

1989-05-09 2.8

Murder on the Moon

After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case ...

Genre :Mystery, Science Fiction, TV Movie, Action

Aline Solness

1988-05-15 0

The Master Builder

Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpassed by those younger than himself. The arrival of ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mrs. Rogers

2004-02-15 5

Bella and the Boys

13 years after Bella, Martin and Lee were there, the manager of their children's home is retiring and the home being shutdown. As they meet up together at a reunion/retirement celebration it sparks ol ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Dylan's Headmistress

1997-08-22 6.311

Shooting Fish

Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam. ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy, Romance

Princess Mary

1986-02-07 6.886

Lady Jane

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming ministe ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, History

Hilda Jacob

1996-09-01 1

Giving Tongue

Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she hunted as a teenager with friend Barb Gale. Matters ar ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Susan Maxwell-Scott

2013-12-11 6

Lucan

Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Olga Picasso

1996-09-04 5.725

Surviving Picasso

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Édith Piaf

1984-06-10 0

Piaf

Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage play with its original Broadway cast. ...

Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie

Cleopatra

1981-05-08 6.3

Antony & Cleopatra

Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvi ...

Genre :Drama, History, Romance, TV Movie

Granny

2020-10-16 6.297

Rebecca

After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Elisabeth Moulton-Barrett

1982-12-30 0

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life. ...

Genre :History, Drama

Duchess of Gloucester

2013-11-13 7.5

RSC Live: Richard II

A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil ...

Genre :Drama, History

Evangeline

1983-02-11 0

The Captain's Doll

The wife of a British army officer discovers his affair with a Polish countess in Germany circa 1918. ...

Genre :

Mary Mohan

1997-03-23 7.5

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1997-01-13 7.3

McCallum

McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions. Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by John Hannah. McCallum was a forensic pathologist who traveled ...

Genre :Drama

1971-09-15 7.6

Jason King

Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales ...

Genre :Action & Adventure

1967-07-08 7

Callan

Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Princess Alice

2016-11-04 8.189

The Crown

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famou ...

Genre :Drama

2006-01-19 6.1

Eleventh Hour

Professor Ian Hood is a former physics professor recruited by the British government as its on-call scientist/detective and Special Agent Rachel Young is the companion bodyguard hired to protect Hood ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Martha Hoyland

1992-11-19 6

The Big Battalions

The Big Battalions tells the story of three families, Christian, Muslim and Jewish, and moves between Britain, Ethiopia, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Lady Milborough

2004-04-18 7.6

He Knew He Was Right

An adaptation of the novel of the same name which follows the breakdown of a young couple's marriage, due to the husband's insecurity and jealousy. ...

Genre :Drama

Kim

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original tel ...

Genre :Drama

1972-09-13 5.8

Van der Valk

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Ba ...

Genre :Drama

Miriam Spencer

1986-03-09 0

Seal Morning

In 1930s England, an orphaned girl and her lovely aunt raise an abandoned seal pup. ...

Genre :

Emily Shaw

1971-09-20 7.4

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Con ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

1992-01-03 7.7

Love Hurts

Love Hurts is a British comedy-drama series that was broadcast from 3 January 1992 to 18 March 1994 on BBC1. It was scripted by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran and starred Adam Faith, Zoë Wanamaker an ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1987-10-21 3.5

Daytime Live

Genre :

Marie Curie

1977-08-16 7

Marie Curie

BBC mini-series with Jane Lapotaire in the title role. The programme chronicles the work of scientific pioneer Marie Curie as she conducts her research into radioactivity, makes the famous discovery o ...

Genre :Drama

Elly

1972-09-13 5.8

Van der Valk

Genre :Drama

Lady Lavinia

2021-11-04 6.7

Dalgliesh

A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Juliet Tomlin

1972-10-11 5.4

Crown Court

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in ...

Genre :Drama

Anouk Khoori

1987-08-02 6.3

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Betsey McCullough

1992-01-07 6.2

Chillers

Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature. ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Madame de la Rougierre

1989-01-04 0

The Dark Angel

Maud Ruthyn, a lovely and sensitive girl, is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas Ruthyn, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud. Wi ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Joan Hartman

2023-10-19 6.8

The Burning Girls

Follows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place for a fresh start that soon reveals its community's dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are qu ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Eileen Jarvis

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

Maureen

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

Clara Van Trapp

1997-07-28 7

Ain't Misbehavin'

Comedy drama set during World War Two following the misadventures of two very different bandsmen - one an ex-air force pilot, the other a draft dodging, scheming private detective - as they get caught ...

Genre :Comedy, War & Politics

Letizia Bonaparte

1987-11-10 6.2

Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story

Napoleon Bonaparte woos Josephine and makes her his empress. ...

Genre :War & Politics, Drama

1984-07-29 10

Playing Shakespeare

John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples. ...

Genre :Documentary

Miriam

2000-04-30 6.7

Arabian Nights

Targeted for assassination by his first wife and his evil brother, a young sultan must marry by the next full moon or he will lose his kingdom. His uncertainty over his newfound bride causes her to st ...

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

Susie Maxwell-Scott

2013-12-11 7.071

Lucan

Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is found beaten to death. Shortly thereafter, the prime suspect, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, mysterio ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Madame Belasco

2013-04-14 8.081

Endeavour

The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sarah (voice)

1996-10-16 6.4

Testament: The Bible in Animation

A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation. ...

Genre :Animation, Drama

Elspeth Cost

1993-04-18 6.4

The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries

In spring 1948, Alleyn joins a weekend party at Frantock Hall. His deductive powers are tested to the limit as he uncovers the sinister connection between the theft of a priceless chalice and a game o ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Sylvia Liberty

1995-04-04 5

Johnny and the Dead

Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). 12-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a t ...

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

Eleanor of Aquitaine

1978-04-30 7.3

The Devil's Crown

The Devil's Crown was a BBC limited series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John. It was broadcast in thirteen 55-minute ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Alice Hoatson

1972-11-21 5.667

The Edwardians

The Edwardians is an eight-part miniseries broadcast in 1972–73. An anthology, each 90-minute episode explores influential figure(s) of the Edwardian era: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce; Horatio Bottom ...

Genre :Drama

Princess Dagmar

1975-04-01 6.3

Edward the Seventh

Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama miniseries produced by ATV. Based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, the series features depictions of a vast number of historical figures i ...