Angela Thorne
Acting
Biography
Angela Thorne was na actress best known for the BBC sitcom To The Manor Born.
Born: January 25, 1939
Place of Birth: Karachi, British India
Known For
Ballet Shoes
Ballet Shoes is British television adaptation of Noel Streatfeild's novel Ballet Shoes first broadcast on BBC One in 1975. Adapted by John Wiles and directed by Timothy Combe, the series was aired in six parts on Sunday evenings. It was aired by PBS in the United States on 27 December 1976.
Foyle's War
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
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 assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
The Good Life
Tom and Barbara Good escape the rat race and pursue a self-sufficient lifestyle in Surbiton, much to the concern, frustration and sometimes envy of their neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. Entitled ‘Good Neighbors’ when shown in the USA.
The Royal
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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 the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Elizabeth R
This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
Wallander
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
Heartbeat
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
The Rocking Horse Winner
Nigel Rhodes plays a boy who, while riding his wooden rocking horse, can predict which horse will win at the race.
Filmography
as Mrs. Garvie
as Berta Duner
as Dr. Gull
as Kitty Blackwater
as Dorothy Bryant
as Lady Anne Messinger
as Lady Chetwood
as Self (archive footage)
as Mrs. Hawk-Monitor
as Celia Hanson
as Elizabeth II (voice)
as Margaret Devize
as Miss Howard
as Miss Howard
as Mary Dash
as Daphne Trenchard
as Hotel Manageress
as Maggie
as Margaret Thatcher
as Woman on Train
as Lady Mary Hargreaves
as Marjory Frobisher
as Mme Bertin, the Queen's Dressmaker
as Mother
as Mrs. Fairfax
as Sylvia Brown
as Lady Georgette 'George' Truscott
as Louise Wilson
as Portia
as Jenny Alexander
as Eileen Rutherford
as Lettice Knollys
as Elizabeth May 'Betty' Smith
as Virginia Otis
as Receptionist