Joyce Kennedy
Biography
From Wikipedia Joyce Kennedy (1898–1943) was a British stage and film actress. During the 1930s she appeared in a number of British films playing a mixture of leading and supporting roles.
Known For & Full Filmography10 Titles
Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Potter
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Watson
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Mrs Noakes
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.
Movie - 1999, 2h 15m • as Dave's Mum
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.
Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Bobby
In England, the Pakistanis Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community, she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the traditional behavior of a Muslin woman. Further, she has a non-consumed marriage with the illegal immigrant Faysal to facilitate the British stamp in his passport, and then divorce him. In her job, she changes her clothes and wears like a Westerner, is considered a standard employee and has a good Caucasian friend who likes her. After the September, 11th, the prejudice in her job and the treatment of common people makes her take side and change her life.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Neighbour
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Striker
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Mrs Grant
A village cricket team plays its last match before most of its players go off to fight in World War I, confident that "it will all be over by Christmas".
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as 2nd Woman
Based on the book "Spend, Spend, Spend" by Vivian Nicholson and Stephen Smith. Story of pools winner, Vivian Nicholson.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Audrey
A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.