Anna Lee (TV series)

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"It is rumoured that author, Liza Cody stopped writing Anna Lee mysteries because of the television movies. The rights had already been purchased for any future novels. Unsatisfied with how previous books had been adapted, she said she wouldn't supply any more and focused on the EVA WYLIE books instead."

Cast

• Anna Lee (Imogen Stubbs
  Imogen Stubbs
  
  Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn, , is a United Kingdom actress who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom. She is married to Sir Trevor Nunn and they have two children together: a son called Jesse and a daughter called Ellie....
  ): a former police officer now working as a private detective
• Commander Martin Brierly (John Rowe): her boss
• Beryl Doyle (Sonia Graham): his secretary
• Bernie Schiller (Peter Wight
  Peter Wight
  
  Peter Wight is a United Kingdom actor.His television credits include: Z Cars, Anna Lee, Doctor Who, Life on Mars , Holby City, Where the Heart Is , Early Doors, Midsomer Murders and Party Animals ....
  ): a fellow detective
• Steve Johnson (Wilbert Johnson): another fellow detective
• Selwyn Price (Brian Glover
  Brian Glover
  
  Brian Glover was a well-known England character actor, writer and wrestler. Glover was a professional wrestler, teacher and finally a film, television and stage actor....
  ): lives in Anna's apartment building, an ex-wrestler
• Ros Russell (Ceri Jackson): a former police colleague, still on the force
• Maggie Daniels (Sally Baxter)

Episodes and guests

Headcase (Pilot)

• Commander Brierly (Michael Bryant
  Michael Bryant (actor)
  
  Michael Bryant was a British actor who produced many acclaimed performances on stage and television.Bryant made his film debut in 1955. His greatest role was Mathieu in BBC2's 1970 adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Roads to Freedom trilogy....
  )
• Beryl Doyle (Barbara Leigh-Hunt
  Barbara Leigh-Hunt
  
  Barbara Leigh-Hunt , Bath, Somerset, England, is a United Kingdom actress who has appeared on Theatre, film, television and radio. Among many roles, she appeared in one of Alfred Hitchcock's later films, Frenzy , as a woman raped and murdered by a serial killer, in arguably the most graphic sequence Hitchcock ever filmed, and as Lady Cath...
  )
• Bernie Schiller (Ken Stott
  Ken Stott
  
  Kenneth Campbell Stott is a Scotland actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in television....
  )
• Mr. Hahn (Alan Howard
  Alan Howard
  
  Alan MacKenzie Howard, Order of British Empire, is an England actor known for his roles on stage, television and film.He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983, and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000....
  )
• Thea Hahn (Kate Beckinsale
  Kate Beckinsale
  
  Kathryn "Kate" Bailey Beckinsale is an England actress, known for her roles in the films Pearl Harbor , Underworld , Van Helsing , The Aviator , Underworld: Evolution and Click ....
  )
• Mrs. Westerman (Shirley Anne Field
  Shirley Anne Field
  
  Shirley Anne Field is a UK actress who has performed on stage, film and television since 1955....
  )
• Quex (Eoin McCarthy)

Dupe

• Slinger (Anthony Newley
  Anthony Newley
  
  Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
  )
• Frederick Leary (Eddie O'Connell)
• Alan Lucas (Tony Vogel)
• Alistair Draper (Walter Sparrow)

Stalker

• Peter Wainwright (Peter Firth
  Peter Firth
  
  Peter Firth is an England actor. He is well known for a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s....
  )
• Thurman/McKinnon (Michael Attwell
  Michael Attwell
  
  Michael John Attwell was an England actor.He is possibly best known for his role as Kenny Beale in the television soap opera EastEnders....
  )
• Carla Wainwright (Jacquetta May)
• Jane Marsham (Eve Bland)

Diversion

• Adrian Wesley (John Bird
  John Bird (actor)
  
  John Bird is an England satirist, actor and comedian....
  )
• Matthew Daniels (Jack Shute)
• Jane Vermont (Mary Conlon)
• Tania Jones (Jaye Griffiths
  Jaye Griffiths
  
  Jaye Griffiths is a British stage and television actress.Griffiths trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has had many TV parts over the years, appearing in 30 different programmes including Bugs , which ran for four series....
  )
• Edwin Doyle (Tenniel Evans)

The Cook's Tale

• Dominic Jones (Adrian Edmondson
  Adrian Edmondson
  
  Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondson is an England actor, comedian, film director and writer. He is probably best known for his comedic roles as the stereotypical violent punk rocker Vyvyan Basterd in The Young Ones , and Eddie Hitler in Bottom , which he also wrote together with co-star Rik Mayall, his long-time double act....
  )
• Laura Jones (Sara Stewart
  Sara Stewart
  
  Sara Stewart is a Scottish actress, perhaps most famously known for her role as Stella in Sugar Rush...
  )
• Eva Lambert (Ann Bell
  Ann Bell
  
  Ann Bell is a Cheshire-born United Kingdom actress, probably best known for playing prisoner of war Marion Jefferson in the BBC World War II drama series Tenko during the early 1980s....
  )
• David Lambert (Robert Lang
  Robert Lang (actor)
  
  Robert Lang was a versatile England actor who was spotted by Laurence Olivier and earned critical praise in an impressive variety of roles. Before Olivier invited him to join the National Theatre Company , which he was founding at the Old Vic in the early 1960s, Robert Lang was already earning high praise as an actor....
  )
• Mark Fletcher (Clive Francis
  Clive Francis
  
  Clive Francis, son of actors Raymond Francis and Margaret Towner, was born in Eastbourne on 6 June 1946. ...
  )

Requiem

• William Gilmore (Jesse Birdsall
  Jesse Birdsall
  
  Jesse Birdsall is a United Kingdom actor, known in the UK for his starring roles in several high-profile, popular television programmes, particularly in Bugs as Nick Beckett and later in The Bill as a character named Ron Gregory, a convicted paedophile....
  )
• Martin Mayhew (Greg Proops
  Greg Proops
  
  Gregory Everett Proops is an American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedy, and Television producer. He is best known for his improvisational work on the United kingdom and United States Of America versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?....
  )
• Mike Trevor (Michael Grandage
  Michael Grandage
  
  Michael Grandage is a British theatre director and producer, and current Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse, London....
  )
• Lucy (Luciana Caporaso)

Trivia

External links

• at Carnival-Films .co.uk
• at Action-TV.org.uk