Sheila Ruskin

Acting

Sheila Ruskin

Born 1946-03-28 · England, UK

Sheila Ruskin (born 28 March 1946) is an English actress. She played Vipsania in the BBC adaptation of I, Claudius (1976), Kassia in the Doctor Who serial The Keeper of Traken (1981) and Alta One in the Blake's 7 episode "Redemption" (1979). Her other TV credits include: MacKenzie, Special Branch, The Pallisers, How Green Was My Valley, The Sweeney, Tales of the Unexpected, The Professionals, Minder, Bergerac, Boon, Taggart, Miss Marple, Parnell and the English woman, Casualty, Rumpole of the Bailey, Strangers and Brothers, The Bill, Dalziel and Pascoe, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, The Intruder, and The Lost Boys.

Acting credits

The Dogs of War poster
5.8

Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.

The Dogs of War

1980

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery poster
6.6

While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

1989

The Truth About Love poster
4.6

As part of a drunken bet with her sister Felicity, happily married Alice sends an anonymous Valentine's card to her husband Sam to see if he hides it. When he does, what was a prank leads to a series of events and revelations that may put her marriage at risk, and leaves her looking for answers.

The Truth About Love

2005

The Higgler poster
NR

Harvey Whitlow has been back from World War I for a year, and he's been having a hard time making a go of it. Keith Drinkell, as the peddler of farm products (called a "higgler" in England), is married to Jane Carr in a one-hour drama, "The Higgler," on the Masterpiece Theater.

The Higgler

1973

Rasputin poster
6.6

Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history.

Rasputin

1996

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? poster
6.1

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978

No artwork available
NR

Biopic of Malcolm Campbell, detailing his tumultuous life and extreme drive as he attempts to break the world speed records on land and water.

Speed King

1979

Blake's 7: Orac poster
NR

A spaceship crashes approaching the planet Cephlon and when the crew of the Liberator answer the distress call they find their own lives endangered. Blake is caught in a desperate race against time to save the lives of the crew and also find the mysterious ORAC. Once in Blake's possession, ORAC predicts the future of Blake and his crew by showing them an image of the Liberator blown to atoms in space. Blake is powerless to alter their inevitable destruction, and when the Liberator is seized by a hostile force, a series of terrifying events sets the prophecy in motion.

Blake's 7: Orac

1986

The Swiss Conspiracy poster
5.0

A Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president contacts David Christopher, a former agent with the U.S. Treasury, to help discover who the blackmailer is and to foil his plot. As Christopher delves into the mystery, he uncovers a complicated web of intrigue, car chases, and shoot-outs that takes all of his wits to unravel.

The Swiss Conspiracy

1976

Gentle Folk poster
NR

An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts - including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.

Gentle Folk

1980

We'll Support You Evermore poster
7.8

A father is intent on finding the truth as to how his soldier son met his death while serving in Northern Ireland.

We'll Support You Evermore

1985

The Great Riviera Bank Robbery poster
6.0

A group of fervent right wing French nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery.

The Great Riviera Bank Robbery

1980

She'll Follow You Anywhere poster
3.2

By chance the perfume creators Mike and Al produce a scent that makes women go wild for sex. While they desperately try to find the recipe for their product of chance, they use it on random women they meet in the train and fuck their brains out in a hut in the forest. A central problem is to explain their absence from work to wives and colleagues.

She'll Follow You Anywhere

1971

The Cater Street Hangman poster
4.8

With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.

The Cater Street Hangman

1998

The Captain's Doll poster
7.0

The wife of a British army officer discovers his affair with a Polish countess in Germany circa 1918.

The Captain's Doll

1983

The Trial of Lord Lucan poster
6.0

An imagined trial of a man who, in 1974 London, is thought to have killed a woman he mistook for his wife in order to regain custody of his children. He disappeared the day after the killing and was never found.

The Trial of Lord Lucan

1994

Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken poster
7.4

The Doctor and Adric learn from the wizened Keeper of Traken that a great evil has come to his planet in the form of a Melkur - a calcified statue. The Keeper of Traken is nearing the end of his reign and seeks the Doctor's help in preventing the evil from taking control of the bioelectronic source that is the keystone of the Traken Union's civilisation.

Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken

1981

A Promise of Bed poster
2.8

Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer. A depressed middle aged loner whose suicide attempt is interrupted by the arrival of a hippy girl.An avid sex film fan and taxi driver, crashes his cab after being distracted by the leggy charms of his latest passenger.

A Promise of Bed

1969

No artwork available
NR

A visit by the Moscow Arts Theatre company to Chekhov's country villa at Yalta in 1900. Based on the stage play by John Driver and Jeffrey Haddow.

Chekhov in Yalta

1988

A Man of Morality poster
10.0

A moral philosopher at a university finds his own morals under scrutiny.

A Man of Morality

1976

Born Kicking poster
9.0

Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her up. However it's not so easy being the only female professional soccer star in the country.

Born Kicking

1992

Playing Away poster
6.0

To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.

Playing Away

1987

Random Moments in a May Garden poster
NR

A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.

Random Moments in a May Garden

1981

Crossfire poster
NR

A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.

Crossfire

1988