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Hilda Barry

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1884-06-09
Edmonton, London, England, UK

Biography

Born Hilda Gentle on June 9, 1884, in Edmonton, London, England, Hilda Barry was a very active British character actress who had a very long and extensive career as well in comedies as in dramas. She appeared in over 150 roles on stage, on the big screen and on television. She died on Tuesday, May 29th, 1979 at the age of 94.

Known For & Full Filmography34 Titles

#1Gideon's Way

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Critchley

7.0 / 10
Drama

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.

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#2Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes • as Old Woman

7.2 / 10
Drama

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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#3Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes • as Mrs Beale

7.2 / 10
Drama

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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#4The Prisoner

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes • as No. 38

7.7 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.

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#5The Forsyte Saga

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes • as Cook

8.5 / 10
Drama

The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.

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#6Sergeant Cork

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Kate Oxley

7.2 / 10
Drama

Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.

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#7Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes • as Old Lady

7.7 / 10
Comedy

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was created and written, as was its predecessor, by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. There were 26 television episodes over two series; and a subsequent 45-minute Christmas special was aired on 24 December 1974. The cast were reunited in 1975 for a BBC radio adaptation of series 1, transmitted on Radio 4 from July to October that year. In 1976, a feature film spin-off was made. Around the time of its release, however, Rodney Bewes and James Bolam fell out over a misunderstanding involving the press and have not spoken since. This long-suspected situation was finally confirmed by Bewes while promoting his autobiography in 2005. Unlike Bewes, Bolam is consistently reluctant to talk about the show, and has vetoed any attempt to revive his character.

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#8Steptoe and Son

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes • as Hilda

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.

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#9Battle of Britain

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Old Lady (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
WarHistoryAction

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.

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#10The Sextet

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • as Mrs Mullins

10.0 / 10
Drama

An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast are featured in each production.

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#11Our Mutual Friend

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Betty Higden

7.0 / 10
Drama

After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

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#12Melody

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Granma Perkins

7.1 / 10
ComedyDramaRomance

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.

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#13Innocent Sinners

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Ellen

7.5 / 10
Drama

A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

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#14House of Mortal Sin

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Meldrum

6.5 / 10
Horror

A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.

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#15Armchair Theatre

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes • as Elsie

6.0 / 10
Drama

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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#16Carry On Loving

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Grandma Grubb

5.7 / 10
RomanceComedy

The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called 'The Wit to Woo'. The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches—and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble.

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#17Steptoe & Son Ride Again

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Woman with Carrot

6.8 / 10
DramaComedy

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.

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#18On the Buses

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Old Woman

6.3 / 10
Comedy

Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of

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#19Horrors of the Black Museum

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Woman in Hall

5.9 / 10
Horror

A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.

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#20Fragment of Fear

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Miss Dacey

5.9 / 10
ThrillerCrimeMystery

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate. Soon his whole life spins out of control.

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#21Frieda

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Woman Talking to Official (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
DramaWar

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.

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#22Up the Junction

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Old May

7.1 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.

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#23Red Riding Hood

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as The Grandmother

8.0 / 10

A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.

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#24The Yellow Balloon

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Newspaper Vendor (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
ThrillerCrimeDrama

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.

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#25Goodbye Gemini

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Stallholder

4.7 / 10
DramaThrillerHorror

Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.

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#26Tiger in the Smoke

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Mary Talisman

6.7 / 10
ThrillerCrime

In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.

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#27The Coming Out Party

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Grandma

8.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.

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#28Secrets

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Function

6.4 / 10
TV MovieComedy

Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production line.

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#29One Million Dollars

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Dana

6.1 / 10
Comedy

Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs as does the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro, her former boyfriend is following and plans to hi-jack the loot, leaving Jane empty handed.

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#30The Snow Queen

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Granny

8.8 / 10
FantasyAnimationTV Movie

The Devil makes a mirror -and it shatters.This is the story of what happens to little Kay when one of the pieces finds its way through his eye and into his heart. The powers of evil are unleashed ... the Summer Garden Witch - the Robbers in the Wood - but above all - the mysterious elemental figure of The Snow Queen. Only Gerda - Kay's friend - helped by birds and animals - has the power to overcome them all.

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#31Never Back Losers

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Sanders

5.0 / 10
Crime

Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.

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#32The Piano

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Ada

9.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Play about an elderly couple who don't want to be moved from the house in which they have lived all their lives, but may be forced to as they live in a designated redevelopment area. The major point as far as they're concerned is that their piano won't fit in one of the new council places they have been offered.

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#33Dal sabato al lunedì

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Lady Van Berg

8.5 / 10
Comedy

The misadventures of Enrico and Sandro: two eighteen year olds looking for their 'first time'.

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#34The Drayton Case

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Drayton

7.0 / 10
Crime

During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.

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