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Sheila Grant

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1933-03-07
Croydon, Surrey, England, UK

Biography

Sheila Grant (7 March 1933 - 14 September 1990) was a British actress.

Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles

#1Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Quarks (voice)

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#2Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Jane Leeson

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#3Thirty-Minute Theatre

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Judy

4.3 / 10
Drama

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

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#4Doomwatch

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes • as Gillian Blake

6.4 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.

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#5The Witches and the Grinnygog

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Lillian Ems

7.5 / 10
FamilyMysteryKids

When a family come into possession of a statue called The Grinnygog, a trio of benevolent witches are summoned to the village where they live.

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#6The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Patient

6.2 / 10
MusicDramaHistory

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

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#7Cold Comfort Farm

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes • as Rennett Starkadder

8.0 / 10

Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel of the same name. Following the death of her parents, 20-year-old Flora Poste (Sarah Badel) finds herself alone with insubstantial means in 1930s London. Fascinated by the little she knows of her distant relatives the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, she goes to stay with her aunt Judith Starkadder (Rosalie Crutchley) and a colourful array of cousins. There she finds a variety of earthy, passionate relations, dominated by Great Aunt Ada Doom (Fay Compton) who long ago saw "something nasty in the woodshed" and now holds the rest of the household in thrall. Flora decides to put to rights the lives of all of them.

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#8Up the Junction

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as In the factory

7.1 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.

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#9Fords on Water

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Aunt May

9.0 / 10
Comedy

Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.

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#10Doctor Who: The Dominators

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Quark Voices

5.3 / 10
Sci-FiDramaAdventure

When two belligerent Dominators and their robotic servant Quarks land on the peaceful planet Dulkis planning to drop a radioactive seed into the planet's core to refuel their spaceship, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe must attempt to inspire the pacifist Dulcians to resist.

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#11Doctor Who: Colony in Space

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Jane Leeson

6.6 / 10
Sci-FiDramaAdventure

When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian colony and a powerful mining corporation.

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#12Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Mills

10.0 / 10
TV Movie

When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

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#13The Witches and the Grinnygog

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Ems

8.0 / 10
FantasyFamilyTV Movie

An ancient church is being dismantled and moved to a new location, stone by stone. One of the gargoyles from the stones falls into the possession of a mother who takes the stone man back to her family. Soon after, four strangers show up in the village and the Sogood & Firkettle children seem to be the only ones who question the mysterious things that begin to happen. This film was originally broadcast across six 25 minute episodes with a total runtime of 150 minutes. A few years later, the US cable network Nickelodeon edited the miniseries into a 2 hour (including commercials) movie block. This 2 hour edited version was shown throughout the 1980s on US television.

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#14The Hero of My Life

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Catherine Hogarth

8.8 / 10

The rise of Charles Dickens, from poverty to prosperity, traced and reflected in his writings.

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#15Shall I Be Mother?

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Irene

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years. Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.

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#16One Bummer News Day

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Monica

8.8 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?

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