Isabel Dean
Birthday: Born in 1918-05-29 in Aldridge, Staffordshire, England, UK
Deathday: 1997-07-27
TV Credits
Shadows of Fear
Character: Gwen
Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people....
Campion
Character: Donna Beatrice
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself...
Inspector Morse
Character: Isobel Radford
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses....
The Quatermass Experiment
Character: Judith Carroon
The story of the first manned flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group. When the spaceship that carried the first successful crew returns to Earth, two of the three astronauts are missing, and the third is behaving strangely. It becomes apparent that an alien presence entered the ship during its flight, and Quatermass and his associates must prevent the alien from destroying the world....
Sense and Sensibility
Character: Mrs. Dashwood
The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances....
Play for Today
Character: Mrs. Richardson
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....
Movie Credits
The Last Page
Character: May Harman
A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk....
The Parachute
Character: Mother
As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places....
Light in the Piazza
Character: Miss Hawtree
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds ...
The Passionate Friends
Character: Pat Stratton
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband....
Ransom
Character: Mrs Palmer
Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at ev...
Five Days One Summer
Character: Kate's Mother
A 1930s Scottish doctor (Sean Connery) goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece (Betsy Brantley) he passes off as his wife....
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Character: Miss Johnson
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself....
The Old Crowd
Character: Betty
George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, after ten days none of their furniture has arrived, having been sent to Carlisle by mistake, three of the four toilets don't work and cracks are starting to appear in the ceiling. However, nothing can dent their determination to have a good time....
Out of the Clouds
Character: Mrs Malcolm
A day following workers at an airport...
The Hotel in Amsterdam
Character:
Three couples planning their secret weekend away are exposed....
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
Character: Mrs. Gilbert
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim....
Virgin Island
Character: Mrs. Lomax
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island....
Rough Cut
Character: Mrs. Willis
Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels....
The Woman's Angle
Character: Isobel Mansell
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light....
Mutinies
Character: Fay Casaubon
Gerald works in publisling. He was a pilot in World War 2 and enjoys talking about his aerial battles. His employees dislike him, apart from his loyal secretary. One evening, his wife tells him about her depression. Gerald has a solution: gin and tonic. He complains to her about the state of modern society, but his own problems are about to worsen......
Twice Upon a Time
Character: Miss Burke
A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while there they start to hatch a plot to get back together....
Murder at Moorstones Manor
Character: Lady Chiddingford
Sir Clive Chiddingfield invites his family to his birthday party at lonely Moorstones Manor but in the course of the evening half of those present are murdered one by one and the remaining survivors except for Lady Chiddingfield each admit to being the killer,eventually shooting each other....
Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: Sir John French's Lady
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare....
Catch Me a Spy
Character: Celia
While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate....
Inadmissible Evidence
Character: Mrs. Gamsey
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him....
The Weather in the Streets
Character: Mrs. Curtis
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love....
Jack Point
Character: Mrs. Richardson
Rivalry at a local Gilbert and Sullivan Society over who will play Jack Point in the Silver Jubilee production. Rowland Matthews has always been the main star, but he is getting on, and the young Clive Bates is a strong rival....
A High Wind in Jamaica
Character: Alice Thornton
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids....
The Italian Table
Character: Mrs. Hammond
A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture....
Davy
Character: Miss Carstairs
The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios....
The Bad Sister
Character: Mrs Marten
Jane is the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish landowner. She is disowned and expelled from his estates, but although she settles down to a new life in London, she is still haunted by the memory of her childhood and her mother's mysterious death. In a trance, she sets out on dreamlike journeys in search of freedom and revenge....