Dandy Nichols
Birthday: 1907-05-21
Place of Birth: Fulham, London, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia Dandy Nichols (21 May 1907 – 6 February 1986) was an English actress most noted for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. She appeared in numerous films, which included Carry On Doctor, Ladies Who Do, The Holly and the Ivy, The Vikings, the Beatles' film Help!, Georgy Girl, Doctor in Clover, The Birthday Party, The Bed Sitting Room, O Lucky Man!, Confessions of a Window Cleaner and Britannia Hospital amongst others. After finding fame in Till Death Do Us Part, Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite Alastair Sim in William Trevor's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances in Flint, The Tea Ladies and Bergerac. Onstage, she appeared in Ben Travers's comedy Plunder, as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud in David Storey's Home, in both London and on Broadway.
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Carry On Doctor
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over ma...
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Yield to the Night
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row....
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The Fallen Idol
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His percepti...
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that som...
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Till Death Us Do Part
Based on the hit sitcom of the same name; racist, anti-Socialist Tory Alf Garnett and his long-suffe...
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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this...
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The History of Mr. Polly
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry ...
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The Alf Garnett Saga
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is ...
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Don't Talk to Strange Men
An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker....
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The Trouble with Our Ivy
A feud over rose-growing escalates to manic proportions when one neighbor acquires a fast-growing cr...
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Now Barabbas
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer....
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First Love
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father....
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Here Come the Huggetts
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Ro...
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Home
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series....
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The Deep Blue Sea
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF ...
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Ladies Who Do
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a f...
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The Happy Family
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, ...
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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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Not So Dusty
Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of so...
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O Lucky Man!
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to ...
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In the Labyrinth
After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward....
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The Strange World of Planet X
Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the...
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The General's Day
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle....
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The Birthday Party
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited...
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A Time to Kill
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to ...
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The Bed Sitting Room
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing s...
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The Winslow Boy
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents...
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Street Corner
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around th...
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The Leather Boys
Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each o...
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Where There's a Will
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London ...
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Time Is My Enemy
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in ...
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The Holly and the Ivy
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes...
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time....
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Emergency Call
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood t...
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Lost
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their ...
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Georgy Girl
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employe...
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Design for Living
Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo...
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Crooks Anonymous
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as ...
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Your Witness
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the Brit...
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How I Won the War
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Eu...
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Help!
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ...
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The Stable Door
This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire...
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The Vikings
Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric...
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Doctor at Large
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a memb...
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Women of Twilight
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house ...
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Scott of the Antarctic
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be...
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Tiger in the Smoke
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used ...
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Dance Hall
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, ...
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Mad About Men
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well u...
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The Crowded Day
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store....
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Rotten to the Core
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have th...
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Woman Hater
An English lord who dislikes women meets a French movie star who dislikes men....
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Don't Ever Leave Me
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila F...
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The Early Bird
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a ...
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of societ...
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Act of Murder
A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him....
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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...
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Kate: The Good Neighbour
Kate lives fiercely alone, cut off the from present and haunted by the memories of grief from her pa...
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The Death of Glory
Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading...
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Doctor in Clover
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the ...
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Adventure in the Hopfields
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it...
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The Feminine Touch
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NH...
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Marks
Les is an aimless young man, unemployed and still living with his mother. He decides to give her a p...
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Findings on a Late Afternoon
Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon spent with his father, he starts ...
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A Cry from the Streets
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a...
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The Knack... and How to Get It
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to sco...
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The National Health
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A rioto...
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High Treason
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring....
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The Trial of Dr. Fancy
A doctor named Dr. Fancy is charged for the death of Mrs. Sprat's son. Did he or did he not cause Mr...
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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Antho...
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The Fatal Night
A young American accepts a bet to spend a night in a haunted house in Mayfair....
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