Rachel Gurney
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Compact
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Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who together went on to devise Crossroads. In contrast to the kitchen sink realism of Coronation Street, Compact was a distinctly middle-class serial, set in the more "sophisticated" arena of magazine publishing. An early "avarice" soap, it took the viewer into the business workplace, and aligned the professional lives of the characters with more personal stor...
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Marquise de Manton
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League....
Fall of Eagles
Character: 'Sisi', Empress Elizabeth of Austria
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs)....
Mystery and Imagination
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Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television....
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Martha
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural....
Father Brown
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Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries....
The Saint
Character: Delphine Chambers
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....
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
Character: Grand Duchess Victoria
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna is a 1986 TV movie, starring Amy Irving, Rex Harrison, Olivia de Havilland, Omar Sharif, and Jan Niklas. The film was loosely based on the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the book The Riddle of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth. It was Christian Bale's first film and Rex Harrison's last film. It was originally broadcast in two parts....
Upstairs, Downstairs
Character: Lady Marjorie Bellamy
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War....
Movie Credits
The Four Feathers
Character: Mrs. Eustace
The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain his honor after being given four white feathers, symbols of cowardice....
Room in the House
Character: Mary
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons....
Port Afrique
Character: Diane Blackton
An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He's determined to find the killer, even if it means uncovering family secrets he never knew about....
The Open Door
Character: Mrs. Mortimer
Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not?...
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Character: Lady Cynthia Marchmont
Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?...
A Touch of Larceny
Character: Clara Holland
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton....
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Character: Mrs. Arthur
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race....
Funeral in Berlin
Character: Mrs. Ross
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany....
I Want What I Want
Character: Mrs. Parkhurst
Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error, she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman....
Game for Three Losers
Character: Adele
A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother....
The Blakes Slept Here
Character: Betty
The story of a family house through four generations...