Doreen Mantle
Acting
Biography
Doreen Mantle is a South African-born English actress who played Jean Warboys in One Foot in the Grave. She has appeared in many British television series since the 1960s, including The Duchess of Duke Street, The Wild House, Sam Saturday, Chalk, Casualty, The Bill, Doctors, Holby City and Jonathan Creek.
Born: June 22, 1926
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
Known For
Connie
Connie is a 1985 British television drama created and written by Ron Hutchinson as a dry commentary on 1980s Thatcherite values. Set in the East Midlands garment industry, the titular character returns to the United Kingdom from Greece after eight years in self-imposed exile. She's determined to claw back control of her chain of high-street clothes shops now controlled by her stepsister, and also get her foot back into the House of Bea, a family-owned garment factory run by her father and stepmother, which is now losing money.
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 television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Love Soup
Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.
Doc Martin
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn. Five series aired between 2004 and 2011, together with a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. Series 6 began airing on ITV on 2 September 2013.
The Secret Agent
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.
Starbound
The Meldrews find a man living in their shed; he turns out to be a drug-dealer. Victor takes a gardening job, working for Patrick's new boss and dealing with very effective herbicide.
Public Eye
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
Hustle
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Father Brown
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
Lewis
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Filmography
as Miss Tibby
as Nora
as Mary Cunley
as Mrs Randall
as Joan
as Queenie
as Joe's Co-Passenger
as Mavis Bledsoe
as Old Woman
as Marion Chingford
as Marianne Walker
as Anne Foster
as Lillian
as Mrs Warboys
as Emilia
as Naomi (voice)
as Mrs Wilson
as Mrs Norton
as Jean Warboys
as Mary Eastman
as Mrs Waller
as Mrs Warboys
as Mrs. Speke
as Mrs Warboys
as Landlady
as Mrs Venables
as Mother Monica
as Mrs. Duffin
as Renee Wainwright
as Vera
as Matron
as Miss Greer
as Landlady
as Maggie
as Mrs. Shaemen
as Lady on the Train
as Mrs Orpen
as Mrs. Wheeler
as Beryl King
as Margaret
as Mrs Reynolds
as Mrs Carter
as Mary Hunter
as Mrs. Ryder
as Mme. Desmarts
as Edna James
as Mrs Seaton
as Mother
as Mrs. Orpen
as Margaret
as Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
as Mother
as Mary Hunter
as Julia Branston
as Mrs. Ogilvie
as Miss Crawford
as Mrs Flctcher
as Mrs Fletcher
as Miss Barnwell
as Joy Fishwick
as Mrs. Seaton