Janet Dale
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
Janet Dale was born in 1942 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Vanity Fair (1998), Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and The Vet (1995). She died in 2023.
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As Time Goes By
Character: Doris
Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding....
The Last Train
Character: Jean Wilson
The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by Matthew Graham and produced for ITV by Granada Television. In the United States, the Fox Network purchased the rights to produce a new version of the series soon after its original UK transmission. Retitled The Ark, the idea did not progress beyond th...
The Bill
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The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters....
The Buddha of Suburbia
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Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours. Karim wants to explore his cultural roots, in the hope that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation....
Kangaroo Palace
Character: Mrs. Macaleese
The story of four young Australians trying their luck in 1960's London....
The Wolvis Family
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Five years ago, the Wolvises appeared as a happy and communicative family on the popular quiz show Ask the Family. Now their teenage son Stuart, once so chirpy and outgoing, has stopped speaking altogether. Family therapist Dr Graham Wilcockson has decided to conduct their therapy in front of TV cameras. The family has agreed, but will they co-operate totally?...
Waking the Dead
Character: Joanne Riley
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases....
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Character: Mrs. Wilson
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker. The serial stars Tara FitzGerald as Helen Graham, Rupert Graves as her abusive husband Arthur Huntington and Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham....
Peak Practice
Character: Jean Thurston
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based...
Father Brown
Character: Freda Knight
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries....
Peak Practice
Character: Mary Willett
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based...
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
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Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the students. Meanwhile, Kate is subjected to the unwanted attentions of Sir Mulberry Hawk, aided by her uncle. Nicholas and his new friend, Smike, begin their adventures and eventually set out to rescue Kate, with the usual Dickensian twists, turns and asides....
Vanity Fair
Character: Miss Briggs
Becky Sharp is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost....
Heartbeat
Character: Vera Hartley
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines....
Soldier Soldier
Character: Mrs. Penn
The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers....
Midsomer Murders
Character: Betty Pringle
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Nice Work
Character: Marjorie Wilcox
Dr Robyn Penrose is a lecturer in English at Rummidge University. Vic Wilcox is the Managing Director of Pringle's, an engineering firm in Rummidge. They meet when Robyn is told by her Head of Department to "shadow" Vic as part of Industry Year. They are initially hostile to each other but gradually come to understand each other's point of view. Based on the novel by David Lodge....
Taking the Floor
Character: Mrs. Wheeler
Ballroom dancers Brian and Karen are a glory on the floor, but neither they nor their respective parents, get on when the music stops....
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Character: Miss Twinkleton
Choirmaster John Jasper is obsessed with his nephew's fiancé. Will he take his opportunity to get rid of Edwin Drood?...
Shine on Harvey Moon
Character: Mrs. Pelham
Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rit...
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Prick Up Your Ears
Character: Mrs Sugden
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage....
Breakout
Character: Gwenda Irwing
A pair of scientists investigate a mysterious death....
Kangaroo Palace
Character: Mrs Macaleese
The story of four young Australians trying their luck in 1960s London....
The Moth
Character: Alice Bradley
This 1940s drama presents a story of class conflict and its influence on romance. Robert Bradley leaves the shipyards to work in his uncle's furniture business but soon finds himself at odds with the old man. So he becomes a servant for the destructive Thormans, and falls for the lady of the house, Sarah. But in 1913 this upstairs/downstairs romance can only lead to disaster....
Lies
Character: Mrs Stubbs
Written by Willy Russell, Lies tells the story of a young lad, blessed with enterprise and a dream of living in Cornwall, trying to make something of himself. But, finding himself constantly let down by adults, can he realise that dream?...
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
Character: Mrs Cook
During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly....
84 Charing Cross Road
Character: Joan Todd (Mrs) Secretary
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road....
Travellers
Character: Agnes/Mary/Sales Rep's Wife
As Old William stands in an autumnal Yorkshire graveyard at his wife's funeral, a young man's face strikes an uncanny chord and brings back memories of his past...