Joanna Dickens

Acting
1938-05-16
England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography25 Titles

#1Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Patron's Wife

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#2Lovejoy

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Tanya

7.4 / 10
ComedyDramaMystery

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

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#3Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes as Elsie Jackman

7.3 / 10
DramaCrime

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

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#4Willow

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Barmaid

7.0 / 10
FantasyAdventureAction

The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.

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#5Waiting for God

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as Tess

7.4 / 10
Comedy

Refusing to succumb to old age, Tom Ballard and Diana Trent are a pair of seasoned delinquents that cause many headaches. Their uneasy alliance is destined to make life difficult at the Bayview Retirement Village.

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#6Eyes Down

Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes as Miss Grimes

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Eyes Down is a comedy starring Paul O'Grady as Ray Temple, the manager of a bingo hall in Liverpool, England called The Rio, although the series was filmed in Rayners Lane in London. Although it had moderate ratings, the programme only lasted for two series until it was cancelled by the BBC in 2004. The show was written by Angela Clarke and directed by Christine Gernon.

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#7Pink Floyd: The Wall

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Dancing Teacher

7.9 / 10
MusicDrama

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

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#8The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Fat Lady

6.9 / 10
ComedyCrime

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

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#9Brass

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Mrs Marchington

6.1 / 10
Comedy

Brass is a British comedy-drama series created by John Stevenson and Julian Roach, and produced by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. Satirising the working-class period dramas of the 1970s and the American supersoaps such as Dallas and Dynasty, Brass was unusual for ITV comedies of the time, as there was no laugh track and the humour deliberately kept extremely dry, using convoluted wordplay and subtle commentary on popular culture. Set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, two feuding families—the wealthy Hardacres and the poor, working-class Fairchilds, who lived in a small terraced house rented from the Hardacre empire.

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#10Ladies in Lavender

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m as Mrs Pendered

6.4 / 10
DramaRomance

Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.

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#11Victor/Victoria

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Large Lady in Restaurant

7.3 / 10
MusicComedyRomance

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

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#12The Fourth Protocol

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Woman Shopper

6.3 / 10
ActionThriller

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.

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#13Chelmsford 123

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Blethyn

7.4 / 10
Comedy

Chelmsford, Britain in the year AD 123; there is a power struggle between Roman governor Aulus Paulinus and the British chieftain, Badvoc. Britain is a miserable place, cold and wet – just the place to exile Aulus for accidentally insulting the Emperor's horse, but also give him something useful to do. Aulus, probably a play on Aulus Platorius Nepos, the governor of Roman Britain between 122 and 125, was a rather delicate Roman, who was usually outwitted by the scheming Badvoc, who hadn't had a haircut for twenty-five years.

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#14Drowning by Numbers

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Mrs. Hardy

7.0 / 10
ComedyCrimeDrama

Cissie Colpitts drowns her cheating husband and, in the ensuing cover-up, enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett, an old friend with a longstanding weakness for her charms. But when Cissie's daughter and granddaughter—both also named Cissie Colpitts—decide to resort to the same methods for solving conflicts with their own frustrating husbands, the women and their repeated appeals for help begin to wear on Madgett's conscience.

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#15The Scarlet Pimpernel

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Aunt Lulu

6.7 / 10
RomanceTV MovieAdventure

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin

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#16Morons from Outer Space

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Lady Farmer

4.9 / 10
ComedySci-Fi

The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...

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#17Personal Services

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Gloria

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become the madam of a brothel and earn her financial freedom: she opens a house of spanking to fabulous reviews.

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#18The Rainbow Thief

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Ambrosia

5.3 / 10
FantasyDrama

A petty crook, in search of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending an heir to a huge fortune.

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#19The Cold Light of Day

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m as Old Woman

5.0 / 10
DramaThriller

A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.

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#20Just Ask for Diamond

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Large Woman

5.6 / 10
FamilyComedyCrime

Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.

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#21Ex Memoria

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m as Anja, Scared Resident

8.8 / 10
Drama

A film about memory, loss and survival; Eva Lipszyc is a survivor, but she is now locked away in the twilight world of Alzheimer's disease. We see the world from her point of view, at her eye level, and we see how a chance encounter with a caring young nurse breaks through the barrier

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#22The Missing Postman

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m as Kate Lemsford

5.0 / 10
ComedyDramaTV Movie

When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.

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#23Further Up Pompeii!

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

This one-off was shown on ITV in 1991, and by different writers, then the original Talbot Rothwell & Sid Colin. In my opinion a brilliant come-back for Howerd, with a new cast, and funny script. This could have seen a good return as a series on ITV, although Howerds own death in 1992 limited this. The cast in this one-off feature some regulars from other sitcoms from the 1970's including Roy Evans who now stars in Eastenders. The set was more like a theatre than a TV set, no reality at all which, was actually quite a good move. In summing up they successfully bought a true classic back to life with Further Up Pompeii. It's well worth watching at least 2.

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#24Lost In London

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as German Housekeeper

6.5 / 10

Facing his parent's impending divorce and emotional upheaval, a young boy runs away and joins a gang of London street urchins who live by their wits, begging, and thievery.

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#25The Guest

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Patron's Wife

8.8 / 10

Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hilary is not so sure; she isn't sure of a lot of things about Gerald just recently, but the menu at the extravagantly recommended ' La Petite Chanson' provides an unexpected solution.

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