Gillian Raine
Biography
Gillian Mary Lorraine, known professionally as Gillian Raine, was a British actress and singer. She was married to actor Leonard Rossiter from 1972 until his death in 1984; they had one daughter, Camilla (b. 1972).
Known For & Full Filmography37 Titles
Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes • as Miss Foxhill
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Vane
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Katherine
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Miss Crighton
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes • as Marjorie Mottram
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Isobel
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as Miss Foxhill
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes • as Violet Ward
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.
Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes • as Denise Clegg
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Castor
London itself takes the starring role in this series of plays from the BBC – a role which varies between hero and villain, enchantress and harpy. The series features extensive location filming, ranging from Soho to the Law Courts, Wembley to the docks. Of the twelve episodes, eleven are believed to be lost.
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Mrs Kramer
A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.
Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.
Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Mrs Sedley
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes • as Marie Ferrier
A secret organisation called The Outfit recruits and trains civilians, sending them undercover to aid in the war effort, or placing them in administrative tasks to aid the group. Each person arrives at The Outfit by a different route: Mathilde ('Matty') escaped to London from France and wants desperately to contribute to the war effort; Liz, whose husband is serving overseas and whose brother has just died in the war, stumbles into the group almost by accident. Former actor Colin Beale also trains for undercover work. Vivien's husband was executed when his work with The Outfit was uncovered. But they all come together against the common enemy.
Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Woman With Sweet
Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as we trace the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Drip
The very different lives of Jan Leigh, a poor but studious young country lad, and Diana Gayelorde-Sutton, the equally single minded daughter of a rich landowner, from the 1920s through to post-war Britain.
Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Agnes Courtney
Zodiac was a six-part series transmitted by ITV in 1974. Starring Anton Rogers and Anouska Hempel as cynical detective David Gradley and his astrologer associate Esther Jones, the unusual astrological premise set this show apart from the humdrum detective dramas of the time. Little seen since its original broadcast, the series has garnered something of a cult status.
Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Joyce
A series of seven individual sitcom pilots from writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as Miss Tidy
Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. It was broadcast in 1994 airing on the BBC in four 50 minute episodes.
Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, the smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her. It was made by London Weekend Television for ITV, and based on the 1953 novel Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton, the second work in the Gorse Trilogy. The series was repeated in February and March 1990. ITV3 also repeated the series in full at 01:45am from 5 September 2009. Narrative repeats were on Mondays from 7 September 2009 at 10:05am.
Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Mrs Allgood
Marmalade Atkins is the naughtiest girl in the world. In fact, she's so wicked that her parents and social worker decide that the only thing to do with her is to blast her into space. But, knowing Marmalade, it's not going to be that easy!
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as Sebastian's Housekeeper
Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from a novel by Booker Prize-winning author Bernice Rubens. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour as an oddball in a suit. And his crusade is more of a "who ami" than a "whodunit".
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Miss Bennett
A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.
Movie - 2000, 2h 15m • as Self
Tribute to the much-loved character actor.
Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Isobel
A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Matron
In 1956, the ultra-respectable seaside resort of Eastbourne was shocked when a local doctor, John Bodkin Adams, was arrested for murdering one of his elderly patients.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Miss Foxhill
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Rebecca Jarrett
Reconstruction of the 19th century trial involving child prostitution. Eliza Armstrong age 13 is sold by her mother Elizabeth for £5 to a brothel.
Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Hilda Pybus
The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Mrs Bligh
Paul quarrels with his girlfriend Jane about when to start a family and Dr Eva Frankenstein comes to his aid by helping him to become the world's first pregnant man
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Vane
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Mims
Is Joe really having an affair - or is Rosie imagining it all? A story of sexual jealousy, betrayal and vengeance - an emotional journey which keeps you guessing to the bitter end.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Katherine
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Miss Crighton
A keen ballroom dancer begins to drink heavily when she discovers she's infertile
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Wart-hog
Shows John Cleese learning how to deal with "difficult customers" in a professional yet friendly manner and turn them into clients.