Janine Duvitski

Janine Duvitski

Birthday: 1952-06-28

Place of Birth: Nottinghamshire, England, UK

Biography: Janine Duvitski (born Christine Janine Drzewicki) is a British actress, known for her roles in the BBC TV sitcom series Waiting for God, One Foot in the Grave and Benidorm. Duvitski first came to national attention in the play Abigail's Party, written and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh.

Movies

Abigail's Party
Abigail's Party

Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose te...

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Angel
Angel

Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist fin...

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Swept from the Sea
Swept from the Sea

The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and ...

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Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers

An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel...

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Drowning by Numbers
Drowning by Numbers

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another whic...

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The Children's Party at the Palace
The Children's Party at the Palace

To celebrate her 80th birthday, the Queen is holding a children's party in the grounds of Buckingham...

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Agatha Raisin: Kissing Christmas Goodbye
Agatha Raisin: Kissing Christmas Goodbye

Agatha's in need of a well-earned break and with Christmas just around the corner it looks like the ...

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A Collier's Friday Night
A Collier's Friday Night

A glimpse into the home life of a coal miner and his family. Frustrated with their lot in life, the ...

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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of hi...

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Alphabetical Order
Alphabetical Order

Michael Frayn play part of TV series ITV Sunday Night Drama....

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Diane
Diane

Teenager Diane Weaver lives in a small council flat with her brooding father, the groundskeeper of a...

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George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and de...

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Dracula
Dracula

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attractio...

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East of Ipswich
East of Ipswich

Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on Engl...

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Grown-Ups
Grown-Ups

Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. ...

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Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again
Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again

A short film in which an innocent northern girl discovers her sexual identity on a trip to London, w...

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Afternoon Off
Afternoon Off

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. T...

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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentr...

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Blue Remembered Hills
Blue Remembered Hills

On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country h...

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The Bride
The Bride

Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the mal...

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The Missionary
The Missionary

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to Engl...

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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays....

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Scully's New Year's Eve
Scully's New Year's Eve

Scully invites his mates to gatecrash his mum's New Year's Eve party....

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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context fro...

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The First Great Train Robbery
The First Great Train Robbery

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a mov...

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Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky

After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventu...

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Breaking Glass
Breaking Glass

Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in th...

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The Knowledge
The Knowledge

Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers....

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Director: Alan Clarke
Director: Alan Clarke

Documentary - Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "S...

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The Black Stuff
The Black Stuff

A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are ...

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About a Boy
About a Boy

Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any k...

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All About 'Abigail's Party'
All About 'Abigail's Party'

A look at the production of Play for Today: Abigail's Party (1977)....

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Little Joe
Little Joe

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage s...

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The Madness of King George
The Madness of King George

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

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The New World
The New World

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the...

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Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday
Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday

Ahead of the start of the tenth series of the award-winning ITV sitcom, this special programme talks...

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One of These Nights I'm Gonna Get an Early Day
One of These Nights I'm Gonna Get an Early Day

When Mal Leyton's modern jazz quintet sets out to play an unlikely gig at a college concert, the mus...

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Giorgino
Giorgino

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a grou...

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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and pr...

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Who's Listening
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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The Man In The Long Black Coat
The Man In The Long Black Coat

Relations between Patrick and Victor reach a new low via an unending stream of post-it notes; during...

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The Man Who Blew Away
The Man Who Blew Away

The Meldrews get a surprise visit from Mr. Foskett, whom they know only because they stayed in the s...

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The Wisdom Of The Witch
The Wisdom Of The Witch

A witch predicts an untimely end for Victor; Patrick and Pippa prepare to move far away from the Mel...

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Starbound
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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Number 27
Number 27

Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a youn...

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London Suite
London Suite

On one day at an English Hotel, four different stories are shown. Diana is in London to promote her ...

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Who Shot Alan B'Stard?
Who Shot Alan B'Stard?

An hour long special from the British political satire The New Statesman. After surviving an attempt...

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Jay Kelly
Jay Kelly

Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and p...

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