Mary Chester

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography17 Titles

#1The Wednesday Play

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Miss. Granger

5.2 / 10
Drama

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

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#2The Wednesday Play

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Barmaid

5.2 / 10
Drama

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

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#3BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Mrs McBryde

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#4ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes as Mother

7.0 / 10

Anthology series of dramatic works.

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#5Dalziel and Pascoe

Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes as Miss Langdale

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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#6Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Turold's Wife

7.2 / 10
Drama

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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#7Thirty-Minute Theatre

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Monica Piggot

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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#8All Creatures Great and Small

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Marion Bradley

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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#9New Scotland Yard

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Mrs Downs

6.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.

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#10Public Eye

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Doris Raybold

8.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investigations and cases handled by the unglamourous enquiry agent Frank Marker.

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#11Poldark

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Mrs Trelask

6.9 / 10
Drama

Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.

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#12Absolutely

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
Comedy

Absolutely is a popular UK television comedy sketch show shown on Channel 4 between 1989 and 1993. The cast and crew were mainly Scottish; the principal writers and performers were Moray Hunter, Jack Docherty, Peter Baikie, Gordon Kennedy, Morwenna Banks and John Sparkes. It was directed by Phil Chilvers, Alan Nixon, Alistair Clark, and Graham C Williams. The show's producers were Alan Nixon, and David Tyler

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#13A Horseman Riding By

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Liz Derwent

7.0 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

A Horseman Riding By is a 13-part BBC television serial produced by Ken Riddington, and adapted by Arden Winch, Alexander Baron, and John Wiles from R.F. Delderfield's 1966-68 historical novel series of the same name. Having been invalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford, a manor house and estate in Devon, with money from his late father's scrapyard business. He soon becomes a much-respected 'Squire' determined to treat all his tenant farmers fairly, unlike his predecessor.

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#14Boy Meets Girl

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Suzanne

8.8 / 10
DramaComedy

Anthology series of love stories.

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#15Charlie

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Barmaid

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.

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#16Infidelity Took Place

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Miss. Granger

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

A happily married couple divorce for tax purposes, but their lawyer, not knowing the real reason for their divorce, falls in love with the wife.

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#17A Passage to India

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Mrs MacBryde

8.0 / 10

The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, and directed by Waris Hussein.

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