Sheila Allen
Birthday: Born in 1932-10-22 in Chard, Somerset, England, UK
Deathday: 2011-10-13
TV Credits
The Prisoner
Character: Number Fourteen
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape....
Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Character: Cassie Manson
Family life is turned upside down when it's revealed that the daughter's pregnant by her teacher....
Another Bouquet
Character:
Another Bouquet, Andrea Newman's controversial series explores the tangled sexual and emotional relationships of a middle-class family as it is torn apart by its own tangled sexual relationships....
Casualty
Character: Marcia Parrish
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Gideon's Way
Character: Mary Calloway
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam...
Public Eye
Character: Barbara Lewson-Jones
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 ...
Dalgliesh
Character: Mary Taylor
Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man....
Shoulder to Shoulder
Character: Mrs Pethick-Lawrence
The lives of the Pankhurst women and their role in the Suffragette Movement....
Play for Today
Character: Veronica
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration....
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Character: Ministry Witch
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named....
Children of the Damned
Character: Diana Looran
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other....
The Alphabet Murders
Character: Lady Diane
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials....
Hedgehog Wedding
Character: Virginia
Mr and Mrs Desmond Howard Jones invite you to the wedding of their daughter Mariella to Dominic Frazer....
Pascali's Island
Character: Mrs. Merchant
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems....
Venom
Character: Ellen
A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom....
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Character: Beth
Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs....
Triple Exposure
Character: Veronica
Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each of the three perspectives....
Mothertime
Character: Eileen
Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage daughter runs the house and tries to engineer a reunion between her parents. But the parents have been keeping secrets from their children, and nothing is as it seems....
Love Actually
Character: Jamie's Mum
Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be....
The Other Side of the Underneath
Character: Meg the Peg
A therapist looks into the mind of a woman diagnosed as schizophrenic and finds, not madness, but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of society....
Shining Through
Character: Olga Leiner, Margrete's Mother
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin....
Antonia and Jane
Character: Tutor
Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?...
The Bankrupt
Character: Angela
Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his situation....
The Old Devils
Character: Rhiannon Weaver
An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism....