Rachel Herbert
Biography
Rachel Herbert is a British actress whose television appearances include roles in Deadline Midnight (1960), Thursday Theatre (1964), The Villains (1964), No Hiding Place (1963–65), Danger Man (1965), The Power Game (1965–66), and Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967). She appeared in The Prisoner episode entitled "Free for All" (1967) as Number Fifty-Eight but ultimately revealed to be the new Number Two. Other roles include ITV Play of the Week (1965–67), Man in a Suitcase (1968), Spindoe (1968), The Champions (1969), Callan (1970), Special Branch (1970), ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971); episode 1 of Lord Peter Wimsey 's Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise (1973), The Pallisers (1974), The Venturers (1975), Softly, Softly: Taskforce (1974–75), Shadows (1978), The Professionals (1978), Prince Regent (1979), The Enigma Files (1980), Minder (1980), Crown Court (1973–84), Screen Two (1986), and The House of Eliott (1994). Herbert's film appearances include Robbery (1967), The Raging Moon (1971) and The Doctor and the Devils (1985).
Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles
Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Club Receptionist
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Madge Forrest
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • as Anita Sanderson
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes • as Ruth
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes • as Loretta Brading
After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities.
Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes • as Number Fifty Eight
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as Iris Wint
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Justine Bligh
The Power Game is an ITV drama spin-off from The Plane Makers (1963–65), created by Wilfred Greatorex. Broadcast for three 13-episode series, Patrick Wymark reprised his role as Sir John Wilder, who here ruthlessly pursues boardroom machinations and tangled relationships.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Barbara Masson
SAS Major Harry Maxim is assigned as a bodyguard for a nuclear strategist attending a conference.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as School teacher
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes • as Theona
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Mrs Stevens
In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of getting the job done.
Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • as Lady Mary Wimsey
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. These are the TV Mini Series that were produced following the stories in the novels.
Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes • as Renata
Spindoe is a British television series which was shown on ITV in the spring of 1968. It was named after the lead character, Alec Spindoe, a South London gangster; the plot of the series showed how Spindoe re-established his gangland empire after he had been supplanted during a term of imprisonment, but found once he had succeeded that he is no longer interested.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Moira Mallett
When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Enid Underwood
A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.