Joan Campion

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography17 Titles

#1A Touch of Frost

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Mrs Lampkin

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.

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#2Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Mrs. Robinson

7.2 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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#3Peak Practice

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes as Mrs. Fletcher

6.5 / 10
Drama

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.

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#4All Creatures Great and Small

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Mrs Cundall

7.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

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#5Dalziel and Pascoe

Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes as Rosemary Grainger

6.4 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.

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#6Reilly: Ace of Spies

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Sister

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

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#7As Time Goes By

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Customer - 2

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.

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#8The Paradise Club

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Madge Bailey

6.2 / 10
DramaCrime

Focuses on brothers Frank and Danny Kane. Their mother is the matriarch of a South London criminal gang, assisted by Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club following the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.

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#9Shine on Harvey Moon

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Councillor

7.7 / 10
Drama

Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.

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#10(All Quiet on the) Preston Front

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes as Pauline Disley

5.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.

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#11The 51st State

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as Hotel Maid

6.1 / 10
ThrillerActionComedy

An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.

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#12The Vanishing Man

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes as Mrs Fraser

7.0 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryComedy

The Vanishing Man is a 1998 British television programme created by Anthony Horowitz for ITV, and starring Neil Morrissey as Nick Cameron, wrongly imprisoned for smuggling plutonium, who used it for medical research – it turns him invisible when in contact with water. Having escaped from prison, his powers are then utilised by a government agency. The six-episode series is a sequel to the 1997 TV movie of the same name.

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#13The Contract

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Middle-Aged Lady

9.0 / 10
Drama

A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.

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#14Thicker Than Water

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Mother

10.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The Black Pudding Festival in Normandy, France, brings competitors from all over Europe. The British contingent is there for all the fun of the fair-and determined to win!

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#15Good As Gold

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m as Miss Forsyth

8.8 / 10

Grinding, gruelling and unceasing, Dennis Barker's training sessions push his young swimmers to the limits of their endurance. Outstanding among them is 14-year-old Rachel Southern. Destined for stardom perhaps, but also destined to realise that winning doesn't always mean coming first.

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#16The Final Frame

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Cleaner

7.0 / 10
Drama

When the notorious rock star, East, is murdered on stage at an Animal Rights benefit gig, young filmmaker Hadi captures vital evidence on videotape. He finds he has possession of the most sought-after footage in the TV industry - and the most lethal.

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#17Brick Is Beautiful

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m as Mrs. Huxley

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Steve thinks there is a fortune in reclaimed bricks. But how will his ambition affect his girlfriend, Maureen, and his mates, Brad, Dez and Snapper?

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