Acting

Diana Davies

Born 1936-07-20 · Manchester, England, UK

Acting credits

The Lump poster
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The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.

The Lump

1967

Beloved poster
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When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion, called the Abode of Love.

Beloved

1976

Our Flesh and Blood poster
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Comedy about a couple expecting their first baby.

Our Flesh and Blood

1977

Twelve Off the Belt poster
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Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour. Ties decided on a raw cabbage '. The Bedworth Hog faces tough competition.

Twelve Off the Belt

1977

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6.0

Life as a farmboy whose father had died. An adaptation of Fred Kitchen's 1940 book.

Brother to the Ox

1981

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10.0

A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

1976

The Unforgettable Pat Phoenix poster
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Profile of the actress who found fame in Coronation Street and whose life offscreen was as colourful as that of Elsie Tanner, the character she played for 21 years. Close friends and co-stars including Julie Goodyear, Helen Worth, Tony Booth, and Tony Warren, the creator of Coronation Street, share their touching and hilarious memories of this larger-than-life, spirited woman.

The Unforgettable Pat Phoenix

2000

The Grudge Fight poster
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As they go by lorry to start their apprenticeship as Royal Naval Artificers, Pike and Brooks take a tacit dislike to one another. It's going to end in a fight.

The Grudge Fight

1981

Willie's Last Stand poster
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Every man needs just one night out, off the leash. Willie's attempt to prove himself provides a painfully funny and painfully sad comment on the battle of the sexes.

Willie's Last Stand

1982

The Boy with the Transistor Radio poster
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Terry is leaving school with few prospects in his native Liverpool. His father finds him a job in a local warehouse but Terry has other ideas. Living in a dream world promulgated by a radio DJ to whom he listens constantly. Terry is convinced there is something better and he makes an angry escape bid.

The Boy with the Transistor Radio

1980

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7.0

Two long distance truck drivers talk about their sexual escapades to each other using CB Radio.

Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy

1982

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Play based on a story by Chekhov. For Gromov, behind the bars of a mental ward, the railway is the one hope of escape. For the doctor in charge, Andrei, it is the link with civilisation which alone could rose him from the lethargy of life in provincial Russia.

If Only the Trains Came

1968