Valerie Lush

Acting
1918-12-24
Hampstead, London, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography21 Titles

#1A Touch of Frost

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Mrs Haynes

7.5 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#2Upstairs, Downstairs

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Matron

7.8 / 10
Drama

Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#3Rumpole of the Bailey

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Evelyn Skinner

7.1 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#4Lovejoy

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Elsie Barratt

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.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#5Strangers

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Ma Cameron

7.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his novel series and subsequent 1977–78 television adaptation The XYY Man. Don Henderson and Dennis Blanch reprise their roles, respectively, of Detective Sergeant (DS) George Bulman and Detective Constable (DC) Derek Willis. A group of police officers are brought together from across the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they're not well-known gives them the advantage to infiltrate where a more familiar local detective could not. Despite being based around a comparatively small team of detectives, a regular feature in its early years is that few episodes feature the entire team, with most using just two or three regulars in any major role.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#6Bulman

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Annie Richards

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Bulman is a 1985–87 police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith. Produced by Granada Television for ITV, it is the second and final spin-off from The XYY Man (1976–78), and following Strangers (1978–82). Don Henderson reprises his iconic role as former DCI George Bulman, ostensibly retired from and repairing old clocks but active as a private investigator, with Lucy McGinty as his assistant. The duo are frequently drawn into the clandestine world of the secret service through the machinations of security chief Bill Dugdale or Bulman's former superior Jack Lambie.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#7Brush Strokes

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Mother Superior

5.9 / 10
Comedy

Jacko is a painter and decorator with an eye for the ladies. He works with Eric, who's married to his sister Jean. The painting and decorating firm they work for is owned by Lionel Bainbridge.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#8The Agatha Christie Hour

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Mrs Hobbs

6.8 / 10
Action & AdventureMysteryCrime

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#9Touching Evil

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes as Mrs Weller

7.6 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC). Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan is the newest member of the unit, an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#10French Fields

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Madame Remoleux

6.9 / 10
Comedy

French Fields is a British situation comedy. It ran for 19 episodes from 5 September 1989 to 8 October 1991. It was written by John T. Chapman and Ian Davidson and was produced by Thames Television for ITV. The series starred Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie as husband and wife William and Hester Fields and followed the series Fresh Fields, which ran from 7 March 1984 to 23 October 1986. At the end of the last series of Fresh Fields, William accepted a position with a French company. French Fields follows Hester and William after they make the move to Calais. Other regular cast included their French real estate agent Chantal, who was also the Fields' neighbour to the left. On the right, were the horrible and snobbish English couple the Trendles. Hester and William also coped with Madame Remoleux, an unintelligible and ancient French woman who lived in and cared for the estate — called Les Hirondelles — where they all lived. Also, popping in on a regular basis, were local farmer and mayor Monsieur Dax and his daughter Marie-Christine, to whom Hester did her best to teach English. Nicholas Courtney also appeared frequently as the Marquis.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#11Theatre Night

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes as Agata Troi

8.8 / 10
Drama

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#12The Frighteners

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Mrs Blakely

8.5 / 10
MysteryDrama

A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#13The Ghosts of Motley Hall

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Emily Tiffin

7.5 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyComedyFamily

Five ghosts occupy the titular Motley Hall. Each hails from a different era and all—save for newly deceased Matt—are unable to leave the confines of the building.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#14Affairs of the Heart

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Joyce

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Affairs of the Heart is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1983 to 1985. Starring Derek Fowlds, it was written by Paul Daneman. It was made for the ITV network by Granada Television. The series followed Peter Bonamy, who, upon being discharged from the hospital following a heart attack, attempts to adopt a brand-new outlook on life. He is determined to prove there is vibrant life after a cardiac event, which leads to comedic struggles as he tries to convince his skeptical family, friends, doctor, and wife of his new philosophy.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#15The Georgian House

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Lady Cecilia

7.5 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyFamily

Two children travel back in time and attempt to help a Black slave boy who possesses strange powers.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#16Anna Karenina

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Annushka

5.6 / 10
DramaRomanceTV Movie

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#17Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Lychorida

7.5 / 10
DramaTV Movie

When Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, discovers the dreaded answer to King Antiochus's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck. He loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#18That'll Be The Day

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as 1st Lady on Beach

6.5 / 10
MusicDrama

Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#19Deathday

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Dorothy Hudson

8.8 / 10
TV MovieHorror

Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife Lydia is having an affair and she coolly tells him she has no intention of either giving up her lover or divorcing Adam. The top crime story of the moment is a serial murderer nicknamed "The Kitchen Killer". Adam sets out to murder his wife and blame it on this shadowy psycho

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#20Friend or Foe

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Miss Roberts

7.5 / 10
WarFamily

Two evacuated children in wartime rural England find two German airmen hiding out in the woods. An adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's 1977 novel from writer/director John Krish .

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#21Stanley

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

7.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination he needed two wives.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details