Gillian Taylforth
Acting
Biography
Gillian Taylforth is an English actress best known for her role as Kathy Beale on the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Born: August 14, 1955
Place of Birth: Islington, London, UK
Known For
EastEnders: Secrets from the Square
Some of Walford’s biggest stars join Stacey Dooley to relive classic scenes, share behind-the-scenes stories and reveal secrets that are normally kept under wraps.
Shelley
James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.
New Tricks
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
The Long Good Friday
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Hi-de-Hi!
Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst others. It aired on the BBC from 1980 to 1988. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens. The inspiration was the experience of writers Perry and Croft: after being demobilised from the army, Perry was a Redcoat at Butlin's, Pwllheli during the holiday season. The series gained large audiences and won a BAFTA as Best Comedy Series in 1984. In 2004, it came 40th in Britain's Best Sitcom and in a 2008 poll on Channel 4, 'Hi-de-Hi!" was voted the 35th most popular comedy catchphrase.
The Gentle Touch
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.
Minder
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Operation Good Guys
Operation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, it witnesses, on camera, the total breakdown, professionally and personally, of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation, The 'Good Guys' have an unfortunate habit of embroiling into their calamitous world some of the country's best-known celebrities, from actors and footballers, to TV presenters and even the odd ex-convict.
The Rag Trade
Follows the humorous struggles of workers in a London clothing factory.
Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side
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Filmography
as Herself
as Herself
as Mandy Searle
as Emma Winters
as Maxine Squire
as Self
as Jackie Pascoe
as Jackie Webb
as Self
as Carol Rudd
as Self - Guest
as Kathy Beale
as Kathy Beale (EastEnders - Archive footage) (Uncredited)
as Gloria
as Justine Walker MP
as Kathy Mitchell
as Kathy
as Kathy Beale
as Kathy Cotton
as Kiosk Typist
as Sandra
as Sherry
as Rose
as Girl in Pub
as Girl in cafe
as Self
as Sandy
as Maureen
as Mavis
as Mavis