Jean Heywood

AKA:
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1921-07-15

Northumberand, England, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {47}

Grandma

2000-09-28 7.596

Billy Elliot

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of th ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Music

Mary

1975-11-29 0

The Healing

John believes his faith has the power to cure. When he returns to help on his father's farm, he finds it can also kill. ...
Genre :TV Movie

Gladys

1977-05-17 0

Daft Mam Blues

As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she? ...
Genre :TV Movie

Alice

1973-10-15 0

The Medium

"Honestly, mam, it's all a load of rubbish. I mean, I read me horoscope and things like that, for a joke... but this." A group of women gather to have their fortunes told by a drunken clairvoyant. ...
Genre :TV Movie

Sakharov's Secretary

1984-06-20 7

Sakharov

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mrs. Kay

1977-12-12 7.6

Our Day Out

When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

1996-03-09 0

Trip Trap

The Armstrong Family - Ian (Whately), Kate (Gonet) and their children Tom and Molly live in a nice country house. But beneath this seemingly normal exterior, Maggie begins to suffer violent abuse at t ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Ethel Broughton

2002-09-25 5

Flesh and Blood

A man who was adopted at birth traces his real parents, and discovers that they have severe learning disabilities and do not know he exists. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Jeannie James

2005-02-24 10

Dad

Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell, Trip Trap) has written Dad, the poignant story of Larry James (Richard Briers), a cheery and independent 86-year-old who has been caring single-handedly for hi ...
Genre :Drama

Sarah

1978-12-06 0

Night People

A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an elderly couple on their way to Gretna Green to get ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mrs. Brown

1973-01-15 0

Land of Green Ginger

Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thu ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Irma Moore

1997-09-25 2.5

The Locksmith

When his estranged wife is brutally attacked by a burglar, a law-abiding locksmith unconvinced that the junkie charged for the crime is the real attacker starts his own investigation. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Sopha

1983-06-16 5

Red Monarch

British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed un ...
Genre :Comedy

Flo

2000-03-26 6

The Last Musketeer

Steve McTear, a gifted fencer, tries to distance himself from the violent criminal activities of his family. When he finds himself pursued by gangsters, he decides to take a job as a fencing coach at ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie, Drama, Romance

Doe

1994-01-01 5.5

White Goods

Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins are best friends who team up to appear on TV in a popular snooker based game show. But, when they hit their jackpot, their friendship comes under tremendous strain as th ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

Miss Comet

1998-12-18 4.5

Gunslinger's Revenge

The idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife, and half-breed son is interrupted when the boy's old gunslinger father returns. They are not happy with his return despite the old guns ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Grandma

1996-11-23 0

I Bring You Frankincense

"A rites of passage drama about a mixed race boy called Sunshine who leaves Guildford in [the] 1970's and moves to London." - BFI ...
Genre :

Edith Cross

1990-05-30 4

Missing Persons

During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace h ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Aunt Dahlia

1990-04-22 8.087

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

Mary Malone

1982-10-10 7.7

Boys from the Blackstuff

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and u ...
Genre :Drama

1984-10-16 6.7

The Bill

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1992-12-06 7.479

A Touch of Frost

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superin ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Hilda Openshaw

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

Sarah Ellis

1991-01-08 7

Spender

Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconventional methods to tackle the criminal underworld, ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mrs. Penistan

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

Dolly McGregor

1985-09-04 4

The Brothers McGregor

Liverpool-set sitcom about black and white half-brothers Wesley and Cyril who run an extremely dodgy second-hand car business. The series is a spin-off of ITV soap opera Coronation Street, featuring t ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2010-02-22 7.8

Married Single Other

Married Single Other is a British television drama created and written by Peter Souter. The series is based on the lives of group of people who are either married, single or "other", other being defin ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Edna Sturgess

1993-05-10 6.1

Peak Practice

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 ...
Genre :Drama

Enid Weston

1996-01-03 7.3

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on a ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Beryl Otley

1993-05-10 6.1

Peak Practice

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 ...
Genre :Drama

Edith Whoitmore

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

Mrs. Grady

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

Lily Harwood

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

Woman in Market

1996-01-15 7.4

Our Friends in the North

An epic tale of a changing Britain over four decades, seen through the eyes of four friends. ...
Genre :War & Politics, Drama

Amy

1995-01-06 7.3

The Glass Virgin

In 19th century England, wealthy young Annabella Lagrange lives a comfortable and secluded life on her family's country estate, where her parents own a glass works. As a child, she develops a special ...
Genre :Drama

Edith Paget

1987-01-11 7.2

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Gran

1988-01-13 0

White Peak Farm

The story of a teenage girl growing up on her family's farm in Northumberland. ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Mrs Alton

1978-01-08 7.756

All Creatures Great and Small

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Winnie Cresswell

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

Mrs. Brown

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

Mrs Kay

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

Sarah

1977-09-21 7

BBC2 Play of the Week

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Marjorie Kavanagh

1995-01-03 7

Kavanagh Q.C.

John Thaw dons the silks as barrister James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most highly respected criminal advocates in London, commanding admiration from colleagues and opponents alike. However, all this h ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lilian Hubbard

1986-05-21 8

A Very Peculiar Practice

A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Florence McGee

1978-07-13 5

Leave it to Charlie

Set in Bolton, Lancashire, Charlie Fisher, a keen young agent, gets employed by the Lancastrian Insurance Company. ...
Genre :Comedy

Aunt Lin

1988-09-25 4.5

The Franchise Affair

A schoolgirl who has been missing for weeks returns home covered in bruises. She says two women kidnapped her, held her captive in an isolated house and beat her. Taken by the police to the house she ...
Genre :Drama

Bella Seaton

1976-01-08 6.5

When the Boat Comes In

When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a First World War veteran who ...
Genre :Drama