Brenda Bruce

AKA:
0.1097

1918-07-07

Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {80}

Reine Anne d'Autriche

1977-07-17 6.4

The Man in the Iron Mask

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the ki ...
Genre :History, Adventure, TV Movie

Mrs. Bullock

1993-04-02 5.2

Splitting Heirs

A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an I ...
Genre :Comedy

Dora

1960-05-16 7.4

Peeping Tom

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he m ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller, Drama

Betty Bradshaw

1966-06-08 0

Way Off Beat

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

American Waitress (uncredited)

1946-07-04 6.3

I See a Dark Stranger

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary infor ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, War

Mary Lewis

1964-02-28 6.8

Nightmare

A young student is haunted by recurring dreams of her mother murdering her father, but her nightmare is just beginning as she tries to prove to her loved ones that she is not insane. ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror, Mystery

June Swift

1986-01-26 0

Time After Time

'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to a ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Winnie Foreman

1948-08-19 6.1

My Brother's Keeper

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

WAAF (uncredited)

1944-08-21 6

They Came to a City

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Mrs. Meadows

1985-05-22 5.4

Steaming

Englishwomen band together when they learn that the public bathhouse they frequent for relaxation will be closed down. ...
Genre :Drama

Lady Beatrice 'Beattie' Langley

1989-07-23 5

Back Home

During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the spunky redhead returns to her native England. From the family she hardly remembers to snobby classmat ...
Genre :Drama, Family, TV Movie

Ruby Chapman

1947-11-19 6.3

When The Bough Breaks

The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it. ...
Genre :Drama

Maisie

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

Sally Benton

1946-08-24 6.2

Piccadilly Incident

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Granny Porter

1987-02-16 0

The Secret World of Polly Flint

A young girl escapes her loneliness by retreating to The Magical World of Another Time, which can only be reached by using your imagination. ...
Genre :Fantasy

1972-01-02 0

Not Counting the Savages

Directed by Mike Newell. ...
Genre :

The White Queen

1973-12-25 6.2

Alice Through the Looking Glass

1973 BBC TV movie adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll. ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

Addie Morton

1965-04-23 6.8

The Uncle

Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his family. ...
Genre :Drama

Amy Tremayne

1993-11-28 4.5

Harnessing Peacocks

Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in a Cornish seaside town. Based on Mary Wesley’s bes ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Mary Cooper

1958-06-09 6.2

Law and Disorder

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an as ...
Genre :Comedy

Blacky

1958-06-09 6.2

Law and Disorder

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an as ...
Genre :Comedy

Auntie Kathleen

1977-02-21 0

Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes

A boy reflects on time he spent staying with his aunt and uncle. ...
Genre :

1990-12-07 7

The Fool

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly ver ...
Genre :Drama

Madame Mangeot

1988-12-04 6.7

The Tenth Man

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Elizabeth Fallon

1958-11-23 6

Behind the Mask

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect. ...
Genre :Drama

Granny Maxwell

1993-05-01 3.5

Riders

Arrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has high social position, women at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a rival - the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, whose loath ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Grandmother

1995-10-14 3

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love with another man comes to the screen in this adaptation starring Zoe Wannamaker and Colin Firth. When ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Nursing Sister

1969-10-14 6.9

The Virgin Soldiers

The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the dau ...
Genre :War, Comedy, Drama

Miss Harbottle

1975-07-27 6.6

All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous brother Tristan—already have a successful busines ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mrs Dixon

1974-06-01 7.7

Swallows and Amazons

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has b ...
Genre :Adventure, Family

Doreen

1973-05-13 6.5

That'll Be The Day

Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Brenda Delamere

1949-06-07 4.3

Marry Me

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Lily Leggett

1946-01-08 6.3

Night Boat to Dublin

British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist. ...
Genre :Thriller

Brenda

1943-06-01 5.5

Millions Like Us

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other ...
Genre :Drama, War, Romance

Therapist

1990-07-18 5.5

Antonia and Jane

Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She o ...
Genre :Drama

Hostess

1979-12-23 6

Henry V

The life of King Henry the Fifth. ...
Genre :Drama, War, TV Movie

Janet Lawson

1951-09-01 5.5

Two on the Tiles

A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife accidentally spends a night aboard a Royal Navy sh ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Madge

1973-12-13 0

Jingle Bells

Play by Arthur Hopcraft about Christmas in a Northern town, and the relationship within a family. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mrs Hackett

1978-10-31 0

A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts

Three a.m. A crash of breaking glass ... the slow creak of a door opening ... is it a burglar? Raymond Collis finds out the hard way. ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Cora

1953-04-09 6.7

The Final Test

Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings. But Reggie pref ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Girl in Guard's Van

1945-07-20 7.1

I Live in Grosvenor Square

The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty Bri ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

First Witch

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

Miss Smith

1949-07-19 7.5

Don't Ever Leave Me

Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Helen

1945-06-30 0

What's the Next Job?

Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War. ...
Genre :

Mistress Quickly

1979-12-09 7

Henry IV Part 1

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, h ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Hostess Quickly

1979-12-16 8

Henry IV Part 2

The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth. ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Mabel Crum

1947-02-01 0

While the Sun Shines

Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Martha Gilmartin

1990-05-17 6.9

December Bride

At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father. ...
Genre :Drama

Tilda

1987-10-26 6.5

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far from what its name suggests: A conflict persists among ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama, TV Movie

Sister Elizabeth

1978-04-11 0

Quiet as a Nun

A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a convent. She had recently inherited a fortune. The reporter next leans off an apparition that haunts the h ...
Genre :Drama

Pat

1965-10-14 0

Give the Clown His Supper

Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton. ...
Genre :

Aunt Dahlia

1990-04-22 8.1

Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooste ...
Genre :Comedy

Tilda

1963-11-23 7.9

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Mrs. Jaglom

1986-01-10 7.3

Lovejoy

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers f ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Miss Harbottle

1951-12-24 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of tel ...
Genre :Drama

1968-04-07 0

The First Lady

The series starred Thora Hird as crusading local councillor Sarah Danby and was set around the fictional borough of Furness in Lancashire. Capitalising on the popularity of its lead actress, The First ...
Genre :Drama

Madge

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

1964-05-17 6.6

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

1962-10-03 6

Zero One

Genre :Crime

Lucilla Teatime

1977-05-08 5.5

Murder Most English

1970s detective series based on the Flaxborough novels by Colin Watson. Starring Anton Rodgers as Detective Inspector Purbright and Christopher Timothy as Detective Sergeant Love, the series pays tri ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Gertie

1974-03-03 0

Bedtime Stories

Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Bea

1985-05-26 10

Connie

After years of exile in Greece, Connie returns to England to lay claim to the family fashion business. ...
Genre :

Carrie Springett

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

Miss Stonecroft

1983-07-16 6

The Mad Death

A French visitor to Scotland smuggles her cat into the country, sparking a terrifying outbreak of rabies which threatens to engulf an entire community. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Miss Cashcart

1956-07-08 5.8

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later b ...
Genre :

Madame Mangeot

1951-12-24 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of tel ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs Daff

1994-03-14 7

Men of the World

Men of the World is a BBC sitcom which starred David Threlfall and John Simm. ...
Genre :

Karen Markham

1981-10-18 6.7

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes cau ...
Genre :Drama

Beryl

1987-09-13 7.5

The New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. ...
Genre :Comedy

Granny Grogan

1994-04-19 5.7

The Riff Raff Element

The Riff Raff Element is a 1990's British comedy-drama series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock, who also directed Dressing for Breakfast and episodes of The Bill and Bergerac. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Nurse (voice)

1992-11-09 6.3

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's ...
Genre :Animation

Mollie

1964-09-30 4.5

The Wednesday Play

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. ...
Genre :Drama

Lily Loudon

1957-01-21 0

Theatre Night

Excerpts from Plays ...
Genre :

Janey-Baib

1971-04-09 7

Budgie

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. Th ...
Genre :

Sister Elizabeth

1978-02-21 4.2

Armchair Thriller

Armchair Thriller is a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in two series in 1978 and 1980. Owing something to some of the off-shoots of the earlier Armchair Theatre, the new series used scr ...
Genre :Drama

Gwen

1956-07-08 5.8

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later b ...
Genre :

Grandmother

1991-10-05 6

Performance

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances. ...
Genre :Drama

Lady Bountiful

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stag ...
Genre :Drama

Mary Pearl

1968-04-19 0

Late Night Horror

A short-lived horror anthology broadcast in the United Kingdom weekly in 1968 from 11 April until 16 May 1968 on the BBC. After complaints that is was not suitable for audiences, the series was pulled ...
Genre :Drama

Betsey Trotwood

1986-10-19 4.8

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships. ...
Genre :Drama