Doreen Mantle
Birthday: 1926-06-22
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
Biography: Doreen Mantle is a South African-born English actress who played Jean Warboys in One Foot in the Grave. She has appeared in many British television series since the 1960s, including The Duchess of Duke Street, The Wild House, Sam Saturday, Chalk, Casualty, The Bill, Doctors, Holby City and Jonathan Creek.
Movies
Scoop
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat...
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Mountains of the Moon
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the so...
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Late Bloomers
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the thr...
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Our Lady Blue
In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer...
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A Passage to India
The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month stran...
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The Turn of the Screw
A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isola...
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Yentl
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a bo...
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St. Ursula's in Danger
Play by Peter Glidewell, based on the school stories of Angela Brazil. Sequel to Schoolgirl Chums (1...
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Claws
A tale of cat lovers, the social circle they inhabit and the power struggles between them....
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All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of S...
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Antonio's Breakfast
Teenager Antonio's is looking after his disabled father. While he is desperate to escape and be with...
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Black Jack
When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and ...
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One Foot in the Algarve
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal A...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the ...
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In Love and War
After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he fal...
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Eleanor
Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?...
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Fellow Traveller
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film ido...
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The Secret Agent
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Ver...
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Charlie
Charlie Alexander is a private detective who gets caught up in sinister trade union machinations whe...
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In Hiding
A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays....
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Elizabeth Alone
"Guilty," pleads Elizabeth, "in marriage, in parenthood, in every close relationship. I have failed!...
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Frenzy
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal sla...
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Privilege
Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter, receives unwavering adulation and possesses total cont...
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Who's Listening
The Meldrews become acquainted with a reverend who thinks he has lost his faith, and Victor learns m...
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Starbound
The Meldrews find a man living in their shed; he turns out to be a drug-dealer. Victor takes a garde...
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Long Term Memory
Gerald has been separated from his wife and children for twenty-one years. Now ailing physically and...
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A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
It's the mid-nineties in London and a couple meet through a lonely hearts column. She is an middle c...
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