Mollie Maureen
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Mollie Maureen was an Irish-born actress who worked mainly in Britain.
Her acting career began in 1939, wherein she acted in a film entitled A Ship in the Bay.
Maureen mainly worked in television, with many minor and/or recurring roles in major shows such as Z-Cars
, Open All Hours
, Last of the Summer Wine
and The Sweeney
. She also appeared as an elderly lady in an episode of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
, which co-starred Sir Christopher Lee. More prominently, from 1981 to 1983, she had various roles on The Kenny Everett Show.
Other television appearances included playing Lady Glenmire in the 1972 version of Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford
, alongside Pat Coombs
.
She played Queen Victoria
on two separate occasions on screen, one of them in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
, the other in the mini-series The Edwardians.
Her last film appearance was the role of the violently eccentric Mr. F's Aunt in Christine Edzard
's two-part adaptation of Little Dorrit
, co-starring Joan Greenwood
, Max Wall
and Sir Alec Guinness.
She died in London, aged 82 years old.
Life and career
Maureen was born Elizabeth Mary Campfield in 1904 in Ireland.Her acting career began in 1939, wherein she acted in a film entitled A Ship in the Bay.
Maureen mainly worked in television, with many minor and/or recurring roles in major shows such as Z-Cars
Z-Cars
Z-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...
, Open All Hours
Open All Hours
Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series a first run in 1976, a second run in 1981, third in 1982 and finally with a fourth run in 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973...
, Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. From 1983 to 2010, Alan J. W. Bell produced and...
and The Sweeney
The Sweeney
The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London...
. She also appeared as an elderly lady in an episode of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios similar to the format now used by Masters of Horror in which several directors under contract to Hammer produced thirteen 69-73 min films for television. It is known in the United States as Fox...
, which co-starred Sir Christopher Lee. More prominently, from 1981 to 1983, she had various roles on The Kenny Everett Show.
Other television appearances included playing Lady Glenmire in the 1972 version of Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson , often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era...
's Cranford
Cranford (novel)
Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.-Plot:...
, alongside Pat Coombs
Pat Coombs
Pat Coombs was an English actress. Coombs was considered one of Britain's great character actresses, specialising in the portrayal of the eternal downtrodden female — comically under the thumb of stronger personalities. She was known for many roles on radio, film and television sitcoms...
.
She played Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....
on two separate occasions on screen, one of them in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder; he also shared writing credit with his longtime collaborator I. A. L. Diamond. It starred Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes and Colin Blakely as Dr. Watson...
, the other in the mini-series The Edwardians.
Her last film appearance was the role of the violently eccentric Mr. F's Aunt in Christine Edzard
Christine Edzard
Christine Edzard is a film director, writer, and costume designer. She is best known for her critically acclaimed film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, Little Dorrit , for which she was nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay...
's two-part adaptation of Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period....
, co-starring Joan Greenwood
Joan Greenwood
Joan Greenwood was an English actress. Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark...
, Max Wall
Max Wall
Max Wall , was an English comedian and actor, whose performing career covered music hall, theatre, films and television.-Early years:...
and Sir Alec Guinness.
She died in London, aged 82 years old.
Selected Filmography
- Little DorritLittle DorritLittle Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period....
as Mr. F's Aunt - 1987 - The Comic Strip Presents... (episode: Consuela, or, the New Mrs Saunders) as Mrs Tattle - 1986
- Travelling ManTravelling ManTravelling Man is a compilation album of the progressive rock group Caravan.- Track listing :- Personnel :* Kevin Ayers — Keyboards* Pye Hastings — Guitar, Vocals* Richard Sinclair — Bass, Vocals* Robert Wyatt — Drums...
(episode: Hustler) - 1985 - Hammer House of Horror and Suspense (episode: The Corvini Inheritance) as an elderly lady - 1985
- Past Caring as Susan - 1985
- AngelsAngels (TV series)Angels was originally a British television seasonal drama series dealing with the subject of student nurses and was broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1978. The show's format then switched to a twice weekly soap opera format from 1979 to 1983. The show's title derived from the name of the...
(2 episodes) as Miss Draper - 1983 - Curse of the Pink PantherCurse of the Pink PantherCurse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 comedy film, the eighth installment of the The Pink Panther series of films started by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s....
as Rich Old Lady - 1983 - The Wicked LadyThe Wicked LadyThe Wicked Lady is a 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood in the title role as a nobleman's wife who secretly becomes a highwayman for the excitement...
as Doll Skelton - 1983 - The Kenny Everett Show (Various Roles) - 1981-1983
- Open All HoursOpen All HoursOpen All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series a first run in 1976, a second run in 1981, third in 1982 and finally with a fourth run in 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973...
(episode: The Cool Cocoa Tin Lid) as Old Woman - 1982 - The Setbacks (7 episodes) as Gran - 1981
- Great ExpectationsGreat ExpectationsGreat Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times....
(3 episodes) as Sarah Pocket - 1981 - A Chance to Sit Down as Landlady - 1981
- Shoestring (episode: The Farmer had a Wife) as Mother Superior - 1980
- Oh Happy Band (episode: Let Bygones be Bygones) - 1980
- Born and BredBorn and BredBorn and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, Born and Breds cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French, who play a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictional Lancashire village...
(episode: C'est si bon) as Mildred - 1980 - ITV PlayhouseITV PlayhouseITV Playhouse was a UK comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a...
(episode: Hands) as Mrs Spinks - 1980 - All Creatures Great and Small (episode: Will to Live) as Alice Temple - 1980
- The Orchard End Murder as Old Lady at Station - 1980
- Play for TodayPlay for TodayPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted...
(episode: Chance of a Lifetime) as Old Mrs. Gallagher - 1980 - Danger UXBDanger UXBDanger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, a new direct commission officer in World War II....
(episode: Dead Man's Shoes) as Old Woman - 1979 - The Hound of the BaskervillesThe Hound of the BaskervillesThe Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an...
as Mrs Oviatt - 1978 - SpearheadSpearhead (TV series)Spearhead is a British television series. Produced by Southern Television and broadcast on the ITV network, it ran for a total of three series and 19 episodes from 1978 to 1981. It featured the daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion Royal Wessex Rangers, a fictional...
(episode: Suspect) as Old Woman - 1978 - JabberwockyJabberwocky (film)Jabberwocky is a 1977 British fantasy black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Michael Palin as a young cooper who is forced through clumsy, often slapstick misfortunes to hunt a terrible dragon after the death of his father...
as Head Nun (uncredited) - 1977 - Beryl's LotBeryl's LotBeryl's Lot was a British sitcom about a woman approaching middle-age and embarking on a programme of personal development. It was written by Kevin Laffan, produced by David Cunliffe and Peter Willes, and directed by Derek Bennett and David Reynolds for Yorkshire Television and broadcast on ITV...
as Mrs Pargeter - 1977 - Doctor on the GoDoctor on the GoDoctor on the Go is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of doctors...
(episode: I Love Paris... When I get there) as Sister Murphy - 1977 - Happy Ever After (episode: Old Folks' Party) as Mrs. Turner - 1976
- AngelsAngels (TV series)Angels was originally a British television seasonal drama series dealing with the subject of student nurses and was broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1978. The show's format then switched to a twice weekly soap opera format from 1979 to 1983. The show's title derived from the name of the...
(episode: Celebration) as Ellen - 1976 - The Return of the Pink PantherThe Return of the Pink PantherThe Return of the Pink Panther is the fourth film in the Pink Panther series, released in 1975. The film stars Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau in his third Panther appearance, after the original The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark.Herbert Lom also reprises his role as Chief...
as Little Old Lady - 1975 - Crossroads as Granny Fraser - 1975
- The SweeneyThe SweeneyThe Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London...
(episode: The Placer) as the Old Woman - 1975 - The VenturersThe VenturersThe Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975.The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series...
(episode: Gilt Edged) as Mrs. Norwood - 1975 - Z-CarsZ-CarsZ-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...
(episode: House to House) as Mrs. Best - 1974 - CallanCallan (film)Callan is a 1974 British thriller film directed by Don Sharp and starring Edward Woodward, Eric Porter and Carl Möhner. It was based on the television series Callan.-Cast:* Edward Woodward ... David Callan* Eric Porter ... Hunter...
as Old Lady in the Strand - 1974 - Last of the Summer WineLast of the Summer WineLast of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. From 1983 to 2010, Alan J. W. Bell produced and...
(episode: The New Mobile Trio) as Walter's Mother - 1973 - Crown CourtCrown Court (TV series)Crown Court was 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....
(episode: No Smoke Without Fire Part 1) as Nellie Kent - 1973 - Armchair 30 (episode: Ross Evan's Story) as Old Lady - 1973
- FollyfootFollyfootFollyfoot was a children's television series co-produced by the majority-partner British television company Yorkshire Television and the independent West German company TV Munich...
(episode: The Distant Voice) as Mrs. Padgett - 1973 - Owen, M.D. (episode: The Witch of Addington) as Mrs. Gudle - 1973
- The Fenn Street GangThe Fenn Street GangThe Fenn Street Gang is a British television sitcom which ran for three seasons between 1971 and 1973. The series was created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, it was spun-off from their Please Sir! series, and followed the lives of many of the pupils from Fenn Street School as they entered the...
(episode: Is Anybody There?) as Lady in Church - 1973 - The EdwardiansThe EdwardiansThe Edwardians is one of Vita Sackville-West's later novels and a clear critique of the Edwardian aristocratic society as well as a reflection of her own childhood experiences. It belongs to the genre of the Bildungsroman and describes the development of the main character Sebastian within his...
(episode: Daisy) as Queen Victoria - 1973 - Cranford (4 episodes) as Lady Glenmire - 1972
- SykesSykesSykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Eric Sykes, who had previously starred with Jacques in Sykes and A... and Sykes and a Big, Big Show ....
(episode: Marriage) as Muriel - 1972 - ClochemerleClochemerleClochemerle is a 1934 French satirical novel by Gabriel Chevallier. It is set in a French village in Beaujolais inspired by Vaux-en-Beaujolais and deals with the ramifications over plans to install a new urinal in the village square.-Adaptation:...
(4 episodes) as Madame Lagousse - 1972 - Spyder's WebSpyder's WebSpyder's Web was a British crime drama television series aired in 1972. It starred Anthony Ainley as Clive Hawksworth and Patricia Cutts as Charlotte "Lottie" Dean as two secret agents working for the mysterious Spyder organisation in the interests of the British government.-Cast:* Patricia Cutts –...
(episode: Romance on Wheels) as Mrs. Danvers - 1972 - Bachelor Father (episode: Gently Does it) as Great-Aunt Freda - 1971
- Public Eye (episode: Who Wants to Be Told Bad News?) as Miss Bain - 1971
- The Private Life of Sherlock HolmesThe Private Life of Sherlock HolmesThe Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder; he also shared writing credit with his longtime collaborator I. A. L. Diamond. It starred Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes and Colin Blakely as Dr. Watson...
as Queen Victoria - 1970