Wendy Craig

Acting

Wendy Craig

Born 1934-06-20 · County Durham, England, UK

Wendy Craig CBE (born 20 June 1934) is a BAFTA Award winning English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Butterflies, ...And Mother Makes Three and ...And Mother Makes Five. She currently plays the recurring role of Matron in popular TV series The Royal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendy Craig,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Mind Benders poster
6.3

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.

The Mind Benders

1963

The Servant poster
7.6

An indolent aristocrat gets more than he bargained for when he hires a competent but silently devious manservant.

The Servant

1963

Room at the Top poster
6.9

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

Room at the Top

1958

Satisfaction Guaranteed poster
NR

A human-looking robot housekeeper is the latest gadget to acquire in the ceaseless battle to keep up with the Joneses. But housewife Claire Belmont starts to question the wisdom of her husband's purchase when TN3 (Tony) arrives. Can a man-like robot do everything a man can do, but willingly, obediently, tirelessly? Is a robot less than a man, or more?

Satisfaction Guaranteed

1966

Joseph Andrews poster
5.1

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

Joseph Andrews

1977

The Nanny poster
7.0

Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.

The Nanny

1965

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NR

Candida is the sensible wife of a clergyman. Her husband tends to take her for granted, but she has a young admirer who doesn't.

Candida

1961

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5.0

A woman seeks shelter from the rain in a park conservatory but is forced into conversation with a man who wants to know what else she is sheltering from.

Shelter

1967

Run For Your Wife poster
4.4

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!

Run For Your Wife

2012

No artwork available
NR

A 1963 TV play written by Ken Taylor and broadcast as an episode of Armchair Theatre.

Into the Dark

1963

The Secret Place poster
6.6

A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.

The Secret Place

1957

No artwork available
NR

This episode looks at 1958/59.

Cinderella CND

1977

I'll Never Forget What's'isname poster
5.4

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

1967

The Funny Side of Christmas poster
NR

Skits from: "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"; "The Les Dawson Show"; "Yes Minister"; "Only Fools and Horses"; "Three of a Kind"; "Last of the Summer Wine"; "Sorry!"; "Butterflies"; "Smith and Jones"; and "Open All Hours".

The Funny Side of Christmas

1982

The Real Jane Austen poster
8.5

Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the acclaimed novels through readings and reconstructions. Location shots of her homes in Steventon and Chawton and extracts from adaptations of her work are also featured.

The Real Jane Austen

2002

Just Like a Woman poster
5.7

Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!

Just Like a Woman

1967

Heart to Heart poster
8.0

A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.

Heart to Heart

1962

Joe and Petunia: Coastguard poster
NR

The message of this coastguard film was to raise awareness that HM Coastguard had become a ‘999’ service enabling the public to raise the alarm as it does for other emergency services.

Joe and Petunia: Coastguard

1968

Joe and Petunia: Water Safety (Flags) poster
NR

Petunia lectures Joe on the importance of warnings about dangerous currents, whilst he is distracted by something at sea.

Joe and Petunia: Water Safety (Flags)

1970

Joe and Petunia: Coastguard poster
NR

The message of this coastguard film was to raise awareness that HM Coastguard had become a ‘999’ service enabling the public to raise the alarm as it does for other emergency services. It was made in 1968 and, highly unusually for an animation short, remade and re-released in 2006.

Joe and Petunia: Coastguard

2006

Joe and Petunia: Country Code poster
NR

While on a country walk, Joe and Petunia stop for a rest and discuss their walk, with Joe throwing rocks from a wall nearby: They have left tracks all through a corn field, have released some cows through a gate Joe opened, marked "Private" and their dog is now chasing sheep in the field behind them. Just then, one of the stones Joe throws shatters a bottle, much to his delight. They then see a farmer with a purple face (which they attribute to "all that country air") and think he is doing a country dance as he jumps up and down in fury. Petunia remarks that he doesn't look friendly (to which Joe says "Can't be anything we've done"), and they leave. The farmer looks out at the trail of damage they have left, and sighs "When folk go out to the country, why oh why can't they follow The Country Code?

Joe and Petunia: Country Code

1971