Fabia Drake

AKA: Ethel McGlinchy
0.5973

1904-01-20

Herne Bay, Kent, England, UK

Biography

Not Available
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {54}

Miss Catharine Alan

1985-12-13 6.9

A Room with a View

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emerson ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Miss Gibson

1970-12-01 4.9

The Ballad of Tam Lin

Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl, he is doomed to ritual sacri ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror

Miss Ruby

1981-01-01 1

Stainless Steel and the Star Spies

The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole in a strange, uncharted region of Space, and collid ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction, Family, TV Movie

Mrs. Crabb

1954-02-12 6.3

Fast and Loose

An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room. ...
Genre :Comedy

Lady Probus, wife of Sir George

1953-11-08 5.167

Isn't Life Wonderful!

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop ...
Genre :Comedy

Nanny Blott

1951-11-01 5.3

Young Wives' Tale

A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Miss Gelding

1949-04-25 6.2

All Over the Town

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in re ...
Genre :Comedy

Lady Mercy Cotton

1949-07-05 6.6

Poet's Pub

A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater. ...
Genre :Comedy, Thriller

Lady Kitty Hewitt

1958-10-01 6

Girls at Sea

When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate the engagement of Captain Robert Randall to Jill Eaton, a charming American girl; among the guests ar ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs Jan Byl

1948-11-05 7

London Belongs to Me

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Piggott

1961-02-01 6.5

Seven Keys

Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to f ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Mrs Pinner

1961-10-17 5.9

What a Whopper

A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends ma ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Frush

1957-12-22 0

Thark

As legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow arranges for her large country house, Thark, to be sold to the nouveau riche Mrs Frush. Frush reports that the house is haunted and all and sundr ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror, TV Movie

Aunt Olive

1974-12-12 5

Got It Made

Drama set in Norfolk, England. An aristocratic girl whose world falls apart three days before her wedding. She discovers the hideous truths about the people closest to her - and her upbringing and bac ...
Genre :Drama

Madame de Rosemonde

1989-11-17 6.7

Valmont

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Junior Commander Maddox ATS

1959-06-30 5.1

Operation Bullshine

During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly ...
Genre :War, Comedy

Mrs Tarvin

1957-04-22 0

The Good Companions

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Triplet's Child

1917-03-01 4.5

Masks and Faces

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife. ...
Genre :Comedy

Opulent Lady

1955-12-21 6.2

All for Mary

In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put ...
Genre :Comedy

Lady Elmbridge

1952-11-21 5.7

The Hour of 13

1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s no ...
Genre :Crime

Sister Veronica

1957-09-01 0

Man in the Shadow

The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Nun

1985-08-16 6.8

Year of the Dragon

In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Miss Farmer

1951-01-12 6.6

White Corridors

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marrin ...
Genre :

Mrs. Brough

1957-11-01 6.5

Not Wanted on Voyage

The scheming Albert Higgins and his dim witted mate Cecil Hollebone, set out on a ocean voyage under the exasperated chief steward. Along for the trip are the wealthy Mrs. Brough and her secretary Pat ...
Genre :Comedy

Miss Grimsby

1969-11-23 0

A Nice Girl Like Me

Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine m ...
Genre :Comedy

Arabella Parker

1956-11-01 0

My Wife's Family

Genre :Comedy

Welfare Worker

1967-09-29 7.7

The Prisoner

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery

1961-01-07 7.741

The Avengers

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assista ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Mrs. Jarman

1987-01-06 7.8

Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Aunt Hattie

1962-10-04 7.4

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery

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

1971-02-28 4.3

Doctor at Large

Doctor at Large is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of newly qualified doctors. The series follows directly from its pred ...
Genre :Comedy

1959-09-16 3.7

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1967-02-18 3.5

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width is a British sitcom first broadcast in 1967 as a single play in the Armchair Theatre anthology series, later becoming a series of half-hour episodes, which ran u ...
Genre :Comedy

1967-09-27 7

Man in a Suitcase

Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

1957-10-18 0

Nicholas Nickleby

Genre :

1969-12-30 0

A Present For Dickie

Genre :

1976-05-30 0

Big Boy Now!

Genre :

1974-09-26 6.6

Father Brown

Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

1968-04-06 0

Ooh La La!

Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Benthaw

1963-03-30 8.2

The Human Jungle

The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two ...
Genre :

1988-11-10 1

Thompson

Thompson is a 1988 British TV variety series hosted by actress Emma Thompson the show also starred Imelda Staunton, Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Moore. The show featured musical numbers, as well as com ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs Blake

1985-01-06 6.8

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Jamieson

1972-11-26 10

Cranford

Set in the early 1840s, this is the original BBC miniseries of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic tale of a fictional Victorian country village in which the genteel ladies of Cranford struggle to face an unc ...
Genre :Drama

Miss Henderson

1985-03-07 7.182

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mrs. Rappaport

1988-05-01 10

Troubles

In 1919, Major Brendan Archer arrives in Ireland to reunite with his fiancée, Angela Spencer. Unfortunately, the family home, The Majestic Hotel, is a decaying shadow of its former self, as is Angela. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Bookshop Owner

1987-01-18 4.25

Out on a Limb

An intense, clandestine love affair with a prominent politician sparks Shirley MacLaine's quest of self-discovery. From Stockholm to Hawaii, to the mountainous vastness of Peru, from disbelief to rad ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs Rappaport

1988-05-01 10

Troubles

In 1919, Major Brendan Archer arrives in Ireland to reunite with his fiancée, Angela Spencer. Unfortunately, the family home, The Majestic Hotel, is a decaying shadow of its former self, as is Angela. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Aunt Prudence

1962-10-04 7.4

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Miss Bandicoot

1972-09-14 6.4

Sykes

Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Goulding-Foster

1966-01-07 0

The Liars

A ‘lost’ series from Granada Television in which the four stars of the show, William Mervyn, Isla Blair, Nyree Dawn Porter and Ian Ogilvy are all liars. Outrageous liars in fact, who try to outdo each ...
Genre :Drama

Lady Caroline Benaresq

1964-04-24 8

Story Parade

Story Parade specialized in adaptations of modern novels. It was broadcast on June 5, 1964 and repeated on August 28, 1964. The teleplay was by Terry Nation (who invented "Blake's 7" and the Daleks i ...
Genre :

Aunt Agatha

1965-05-30 5.5

The World of Wooster

Based on P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, The World of Wooster, broadcast on BBC One from 1965 to 1967, followed the farcical adventures of young upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his invaluable man ...
Genre :Comedy

Mabel Layton

1984-01-09 6.4

The Jewel in the Crown

The Jewel in the Crown is a 1984 British television miniseries based on Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet novels. In India during the final years of British rule in World War II, an unjust arrest for rape ...
Genre :Drama