Margaret John

Acting

Margaret John

Born 1926-12-14 · Swansea, Wales, UK

Acting credits

Run Fatboy Run poster
6.2

Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.

Run Fatboy Run

2007

The Baker poster
6.4

Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.

The Baker

2007

Blake's 7: The Beginning poster
9.0

In the far future, freedom fighter Roj Blake, framed by the all-powerful but corrupt Galactic Federation, escapes his captors from his sentence to a harsh penal colony and, helped by a handful of fellow convicts and armed with a superbly-equipped alien spaceship, sets about restoring freedom to the galaxy.

Blake's 7: The Beginning

1985

Dreaming of Joseph Lees poster
6.4

Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees, with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry. When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

1999

International Velvet poster
7.4

Sarah Brown is sent to England after her parents die in a car crash. There, she lives with her aunt Velvet who introduces Sarah to the world of equestrian competition and gives her the last foal of her own prize horse, The Pie. Under the watchful eye of her aunt and horse trainer Capt. Johnson, Sarah develops into a talented rider who might have a shot at the Olympics.

International Velvet

1978

A Mind To Kill poster
6.0

A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer is on the loose, and as yet more horrific murders take place, the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time. A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax, this television movie introduced the charismatic, dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain (Philip Madoc), a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Also starring Hywel Bennett as Doctor Lewis, the feature-length drama won a BAFTA Cymru award and initiated the highly acclaimed, darkly authentic crime series which ran between 1997 and 2004.

A Mind To Kill

1991

No artwork available
NR

Steven is a beautiful, lovable little boy, but there is something about him that sets him apart.

Steven

1974

Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special 2008 poster
NR

As Nessa and the Wests head to Essex to spend Christmas with the Shipmans, Gavin and Stacey have a startling announcement to make.

Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special 2008

2008

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls poster
5.1

King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

1992

No artwork available
NR

Women-led piece, written by Elaine Morgan.

Glenys

1978

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady poster
5.4

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

1991

After the Solo poster
NR

"The voice will make its effect. And it will, undoubtedly, be very touching. But, tell me: after his voice has broken, can you make anything of him then?" After the solo, after the chorus, after the applause?

After the Solo

1975

Flick poster
4.0

Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s(a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.

Flick

2008

The Heart Surgeon poster
6.0

Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.

The Heart Surgeon

1997

Framed poster
4.1

The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of priceless paintings should be removed from London and stored in an abandoned slate mine inside a Welsh mountain, as they were during the Second World War. Soon after Quentin is settled in North Wales admittedly more at home in a cave among his paintings than he is with other people he unwittingly sets in motion a series of events that wake up this sleepy, charming town. After mistaking local boy Dylan Hughes for an art history genius, Quentin finds himself in the middle of mayhem.

Framed

2009

B&B poster
8.0

An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.

B&B

1992

A Bit of Tom Jones? poster
3.8

In a late night bar, Henry is approached by a mysterious woman who offers to sell him the severed "manhood" of Wales' greatest vocal entertainer. Believing he can make a fortune selling the infamous appendage on to obsessive fans, Henry stumps up the cash. To help find the right buyer, Henry teams up with his slightly dodgy best friend Teddy and together the two head off on an insane journey that leads them deep into the secret world of celebrity body part trading.

A Bit of Tom Jones?

2009

Joe's Ark poster
8.0

The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the implacable presence of death itself."

Joe's Ark

1974

No artwork available
9.0

Play about two brothers who both want their Welsh grandfather to live with them.

After the Funeral

1960

A First Class Friend poster
NR

Martin, an ex-public school boy, takes a room above a greengrocer's shop and starts working in the shop. Despite Martin's diligent and successful efforts to save and improve the business, he constantly comes into conflict with Terry, the greengrocer's son, who it turns out is longing to get away from the shop.

A First Class Friend

1974

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep poster
8.7

When the TARDIS lands in the sea off the eastern coast of England, the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria investigate a nearby beach, which seems to have an improbably large amount of sea foam as well as a major gas pipe marked “Euro Sea Gas” What is really happening at "Euro Sea Gas." Can the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria survive "The Fury from the Deep"!

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

1968

No artwork available
NR

Two elderly sisters struggle to maintain their independence and keep their childhood home. Part of the Two Lives International series of short films produced for BBC Wales

Washed Up

No artwork available
NR

British Public Information Film. A young woman thinks her day can't get any worse.

Only Stwpd Cowz Txt n Drive

2009

Elenya poster
9.0

In Wales during World War Two, a German airman crash-lands in a wood and is found by 12-year-old Elenya. She decides to keep him a secret.

Elenya

1992