Jane Wood

Acting

Jane Wood

Born 1943-02-25 · Warwick, Warwickshire, England, UK

Jane Wood is (born 25 February 1943) is an English actress. She is married to fellow actor Dave Hill.

Acting credits

Legend poster
7.0

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

Legend

2015

Vera Drake poster
7.2

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Vera Drake

2004

Lassiter poster
5.4

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.

Lassiter

1984

Persuasion poster
7.2

In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening to their hearts.

Persuasion

1995

Lord of Misrule poster
5.7

When the daughter of the town's new priest goes missing during the harvest festival, a desperate search begins, uncovering the town's dark history and resurfacing tales of a mysterious, malevolent spirit that demands sacrifice.

Lord of Misrule

2023

To Nowhere poster
NR

Two self-destructive teenage friends embark on an alcohol-fuelled trip around a lonely corner of London. Spiralling out of control, they must confront unspoken trauma and love or lose each other forever.

To Nowhere

2023

Precious Bane poster
7.5

In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a man who may see her differently.

Precious Bane

1989

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song poster
5.2

Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life. So too do his brief but impassioned romances with the sister of a clandestine Irish rebel, and with an English suffragette for whom the vote comes before love.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

2000

Good As Gold poster
NR

Grinding, gruelling and unceasing, Dennis Barker's training sessions push his young swimmers to the limits of their endurance. Outstanding among them is 14-year-old Rachel Southern. Destined for stardom perhaps, but also destined to realise that winning doesn't always mean coming first.

Good As Gold

1986

The Raggedy Rawney poster
5.5

During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.

The Raggedy Rawney

1988

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death poster
6.7

James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death rate of his practice was investigated, it was discovered that he had given lethal doses of diamorphine to a vast number of his patients. He was put on trial where he was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

2002

No artwork available
NR

43-year-old Janet Nottage tells her husband, pompous academic Leo, that she is having a baby. This throws him into turmoil. Later, on seeing Janet next to a freezing lake, he decides on a decisive course of action.

Just in Time for Christmas

1972

First and Last poster
7.0

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

First and Last

1989

Sitting in Limbo poster
6.9

Anthony Bryan and his personal struggle to be accepted as a British Citizen during the Windrush immigration scandal.

Sitting in Limbo

2020

The Russian Soldier poster
8.0

What is it that Edgar Garrett sees, or thinks he sees, on his farm one morning in the mists of early spring? Whatever it is, one thing is certain. Life will never be the same again for him and his family.

The Russian Soldier

1986

Cold Enough for Snow poster
7.2

Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships.

Cold Enough for Snow

1997

The Witches and the Grinnygog poster
8.0

An ancient church is being dismantled and moved to a new location, stone by stone. One of the gargoyles from the stones falls into the possession of a mother who takes the stone man back to her family. Soon after, four strangers show up in the village and the Sogood & Firkettle children seem to be the only ones who question the mysterious things that begin to happen. This film was originally broadcast across six 25 minute episodes with a total runtime of 150 minutes. A few years later, the US cable network Nickelodeon edited the miniseries into a 2 hour (including commercials) movie block. This 2 hour edited version was shown throughout the 1980s on US television.

The Witches and the Grinnygog

1983

Hero of the Hour poster
6.0

A security guard foils an armed robbery and becomes a national hero, but his new-found fame cannot appease his guilty conscience.

Hero of the Hour

2000

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas poster
5.2

A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunteered for a rugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes.

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas

1984

The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice poster
8.0

In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness.

The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

1980

No artwork available
4.9

Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.

Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

1989

Sakharov poster
7.5

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

Sakharov

1984

She Stoops to Conquer poster
7.0

Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy of manners tells of the clever schemes and comic ruses that unfold one night at a country house. An ambitious step-mother, impassioned sweethearts, a pragmatic father and a pair of star-crossed suitors are sent spinning through a hilarous comedy of errors by one of the great characters of the stage, Tony Lumpkin. The National Theatre and Out Of Joint co-production of Goldsmith's comedy, recorded live on stage in Bath, after it's premiere at the Lyttelton theatre in London.

She Stoops to Conquer

2003

The Ragman's Daughter poster
4.2

Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. The film tells the story of the ill-fated love between Tony, a petty thief from a working-class family, and Doris, the daughter of an upwardly mobile scrap dealer.

The Ragman's Daughter

1972