Daphne Neville
Biography
Daphne Neville was born in 1937 in Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Love in a Cold Climate (1980), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1976) and Summer in February (2013). She has been married to Martin Neville since 1958. They have four children.
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles
Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Joy
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Mrs Lillie
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Margery Knight
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as Headmistress
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Woman in Police Station
Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Victorian Lady
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Mother
The Phoenix and the Carpet is an eight-part British miniseries based on E. Nesbit's 1904 fantasy novel of the same name. Produced by the BBC, it aired from 29 December 1976 to 16 February 1977. Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a Phoenix bird that grants wishes and also transforms the rug into a magic carpet, which takes them on a series of adventures all over the world and at home.
Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes • as Hilary Swallow
Dr Robyn Penrose is a lecturer in English at Rummidge University. Vic Wilcox is the Managing Director of Pringle's, an engineering firm in Rummidge. They meet when Robyn is told by her Head of Department to "shadow" Vic as part of Industry Year. They are initially hostile to each other but gradually come to understand each other's point of view. Based on the novel by David Lodge.
Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Miss Frisby
An old woman's possessions are auctioned, and orchestral conductor Timothy Clare and his family move into her large, though rather gloomy and dilapidated, old house in Bristol. It soon becomes clear that this is a house full of secrets, and that Mrs. Betterton had good reason to leave with her young granddaughter, the ethereal, otherworldly Emily; after a series of frightening experiences and disturbing discoveries - including a walled-up room containing a skeleton - the Clares realise that they are not the only occupants.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Nurse Fisher
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife so he can be with his mistress, but his wife mysteriously disappears before he can carry out his plan.
Movie - 2000, 2h 15m • as Mrs Rolphe (Excited Lady at Party)
Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his country manor for a holiday. While exploring the sprawling Greville Lodge he soon discovers that it has many secrets.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Doris
A young girl escapes her loneliness by retreating to The Magical World of Another Time, which can only be reached by using your imagination.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Magistrate
At a family funeral, Trevor Orwin meets Jenny, the sister he never knew he had. The relationship that develops between them has a dramatic and violent effect.