Anne Raitt
Acting
Biography
Anne Raitt has appeared in film and television, most famously starring in Mike Leigh’s first feature film ‘Bleak Moments’, and Jack Gold’s television ‘God Bless Thee’. She has appeared in many television films and series for the BBC, STV and Granada.
Born: January 1, 1941
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Known For
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
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.
Playhouse
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
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.
Roughnecks
Roughnecks is a BBC comedy-drama series that ran over two series between 1994 and 1995 on BBC One. The show centred on the working and personal lives of those who worked on the fictional oil rig "The Osprey Explorer" in the North Sea.
Bill Brand
Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.
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 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
Bleak Moments
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
Cricket
1997: A village cricket team (complete with computerised Wisden Almanac with the voice of Brian Johnson) is suspected of moonlighting as a private guerilla arm, fighting the Forestry Commission.
Filmography
as Izzy
as Mary Crick
as Dorothy Savage
as Self (archive footage)
as Morna Ridley
as Feminist speaker
as Elsie
as Sarah
as Eileen
as Mrs. Pilling
as Eileen
as Sally
as Mrs. Pilling
as Sarah
as Sylvia