Joan Hooley

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1Death in Paradise

Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes as Mrs. Garcia

7.5 / 10
ComedyCrimeDrama

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

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#2No Hiding Place

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

4.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.

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#3ChuckleVision

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
FamilyComedy

ChuckleVision is a long-standing British children's series broadcast from 1987 to 2009. The Chuckle Brothers' famous comedy involves slapstick, other visual gags, wordplay, and catchphrases such as "To me, to you!" and "Oh dear, oh dear!"

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#4Bugs

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Registrar

6.9 / 10
DramaAction & Adventure

Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.

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#5Emergency: Ward 10

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
SoapDrama

Emergency: Ward 10 is a British television soap shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. Like The Grove Family, a series shown by the BBC between 1954 and 1957, Emergency: Ward 10 is considered to be one of British television's first major soap operas. Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.

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#6Grease Monkeys

Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes as Ethel

8.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

Grease Monkeys is a BBC comedy-drama created by Harwant Bains, broadcast for two 10-episode series from 2003 to 2004. Grand Trunk Garage is owned by patriarch Mo, who spends most of his time worrying about daughter Rita, an ace mechanic more obsessed with auto than fashion, makeup or finding a nice boy to settle down with. Mo's son Dave—a sexually irrepressible, irresponsible minor criminal—runs the sales side of the business... mostly into the ground. Mo also has to contend with the ghost of his dead wife and a talking dog. And this is only the family — wait til you meet the friends!

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#7Melissa

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes as Physiotherapist

6.8 / 10
DramaCrime

Acclaimed war journalist Guy Foster finds himself in the company of odd and sinister people after getting engaged to the mysterious Melissa McKensie. Soon, he'll become a suspect in a series of grisly murders and will have to solve them to clear his name.

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#8Urban Gothic

Drama Series - 2000, 16 episodes as Maman Edi

4.8 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel. Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.

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#9Sapphire

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Woman in Street

7.0 / 10
MysteryCrimeThriller

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

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#10Little Napoleons

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes as Teacher

9.0 / 10
DramaComedy

N.K. Edwards and Vijay Shah are a pair of warring solicitors whose conflict spills out of the courtroom and into chambers, their quarrel witnessed by Councillor Judith Silver.

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#11Great Moments in Aviation

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Vesuvia's Guest

4.9 / 10
DramaRomance

The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journey to England. Stewart is pursued by his nemesis Rex Goodyear (John Hurt), and the group are supported by Dr Angela Bead (Vanessa Redgrave) and Miss Gwendolyn Quim (Dorothy Tutin), retired missionaries who become lovers during the voyage.

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#12Shoot the Messenger

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m as Ivaline Pascale

5.4 / 10
Drama

Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.

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#13Off Their Rockers

Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes as Prankster

8.8 / 10

Off Their Rockers is a British hidden camera sketch series which first aired on 7 April 2013 on ITV. The programme sees senior citizens turn the tables on unsuspecting members of the public in a series of 'funny' and unexpected pranks. The first series contained six episodes.

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#14Black and White in Colour

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Self

10.0 / 10
Documentary

A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992. Interviewees include: Pearl Connor, Thomas Baptiste, Lenny Henry, Norman Beaton, Horace Ové, Carmen Munroe, and Stuart Hall.

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