Karen Archer
Birthday: Born in 1948-07-26 in Lancashire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Natural World
Character: Narrator
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed...
Hustle
Character: Mrs. Greenaway
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings....
Call the Midwife
Character: Chair of Magistrates
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth....
EastEnders
Character: Ms. Martin
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough....
The Chief
Character: Asst. Chief Constable Anne Stewart
The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia....
The Gold
Character: Judge Goodwin
On 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m....
Shadows
Character: Librarian
Shadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three seasons, it featured ghost and horror dramas for children. Guest actors included John Nettleton, Gareth Thomas, Jenny Agutter, Pauline Quirke, Brian Glover, June Brown, Rachel Herbert, Jacqueline Pearce and Gwyneth Strong. The series was also notable for reviving the character of Mr. Stabs. Notable writers for the series included J. B. Priestley, Fay W...
Rockliffe's Babies
Character: Eileen Burroughs
Rockliffe's Babies is a British television police procedural devised by Richard O'Keefe, and starring Ian Hogg as maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Rockliffe, who is assigned to train seven young recruits to the CID, all fresh out of uniform. Under his irascible guidance, it is hoped that they will blossom into full-blown detectives. But Rockliffe is human – so human that he makes more mistakes than the 'Babies' he's supposed to be training. A follow-up series, Rockliffe's Folly, follows Rocklif...
Without You
Character: WPC Wootten
Ellie's beloved husband is killed in a car accident. A woman was in the car with him and killed too. Who was she? Was he having an affair? Was it an accident?...
Lip-Reading the Royals: What Are They Really Saying?
Character: Narrator (voice)
Experts reveal what the royals are saying when they think nobody is listening....
Movie Credits
The Secret Garden
Character: Mrs. Crawford
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about....
National Treasure, National Disgrace: Savill, Harris & Hall
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
For years Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall and Gary Glitter were adored by fans - but the horrifying truth of how they abused vulnerable fans and junior employees has now emerged. These men were serial abusers, getting away with it in plain sight. With contributions from those who suffered at the hands of these predatory men, this documentary reveals how this was allowed to happen. Did entertainment bosses turn a blind eye to the offences? Were the authorities slow to react? And did the Br...
On the Game
Character: Assistant
Comic look at the history of prostitution....
Sink
Character: Parkside Manager
Shot mainly in South East London, it’s about Micky Mason, a skilled manual worker who, since the Crash, can find nothing but menial zero hours jobs. He takes a course of action that is completely out of character, but it’s the only way he can see of keeping his family together. It is about surviving, but it’s not all anguish and despair - it’s also warm and tender, and funny. It's about people finding their way through. It’s about Micky Mason; a man out there, right now, doing his best....
Forever Young
Character: Mary
A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what he seems to be--it turns out that many years before, the priest had betrayed his friend, and now his friend has come back for revenge....
Billy
Character: Teacher
Billy is a rather withdrawn little boy, untalkative for even a four-year-old. Who cares what happens to Billy when his father hits him?...
Secrets of the Pyramids
Character: Narrator
This astounding documentary explores the phenomenon of the pyramids - the architectural skills required to build them and their spiritual and cultural significance recreating the former glory of the pyramids in Egypt, China, South and North America...
Afternoon of War
Character:
Adapted from the short story "The Mouse and the Woman" by Dylan Thomas, it is a story set in the secluded valleys of Wales during the 1914-18 war. The story of a man who is as handy with his fists as with his poetic fantasy. His masculinity fascinates Gilda, the wife of the owner of the mine....
Giro City
Character: Brigitte
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home....
Days
Character: Nurse
'When I was your age I wanted to go to Italy more than anything in the world ... old buildings .. , sunlight. Blue skies ... the air full of the sound of bells in the morning and at dusk.' A mother, waiting for a visit through a hospital day, looks back on her life. Dreams haunt her, fantasies seduce her, memories crowd in on her, distorting the drab reality of her day to day existence. Must her daughter follow in her footsteps? How can she find a way to guide her towards a brighter future?...
Intrigo: Samaria
Character: Opening Narrator (voice)
Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn't even have time to notice that she's not alone....
Cinema as Foreign Exchange
Character: Narrator
This documentary shows how cinema has been used very differently in three neighbouring African countries with different colonial heritages: Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Madagascar. Mozambique used cinema newsreels as a crucial propaganda tool after the Portugese colonisers left. Madagascar boycotted US movies, so its screens were dominated by French, Indian and Hong Kong films instead. But a few films managed to get made. The situation in Zimbabwe was the worst, except that alone of the three countr...