Andria Lawrence

Acting

Andria Lawrence

Born 1936-06-20 · London, England, UK

Andria Lawrence (born Maureen Smith; 20 June 1936 – 17 November 2025) was an English actress and writer, best known for her roles in On the Buses, and in Coronation Street as Janet Stockwell.

Acting credits

Countess Dracula poster
5.8

Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.

Countess Dracula

1971

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell poster
6.1

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

1974

No artwork available
NR

A lonely, elderly lady strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.

Love Affair

1974

On the Buses poster
6.3

Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of

On the Buses

1971

An Arabian Night poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

An Arabian Night

1960

Man About the House poster
4.9

An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are.

Man About the House

1974

In the Nick poster
9.0

A gang of small-time criminals is sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished. The gang leader wields his manipulative charm to take control.

In the Nick

1960

I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight poster
3.6

Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon, manages to secure a job in a sex research institute where the patients run about the corridors naked, nude aerobics are encouraged and no man is safe from the crotch-grabbing tea lady. In his attempts to seduce pretty office secretary Cheryl, Pigeon invents a machine called Agnes that emits a 'sonic aphrodisiac' guaranteed to turn any man or woman into an slathering sex maniac. Although his attempts to zap Cheryl are singularly unsuccessful, Pigeon gets some interesting results when he accidentally turns the 'sex ray' on his bullying boss Nutbrown and the prudish Mary Watchtower.

I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight

1976

Love Thy Neighbour poster
6.3

Two men who are nextdoor neighbors constantly battle it out over seemingly trivial offenses. Their wives, on the other hand, are best of friends. The two couples attempt to win a 'love-thy-neighbor' competition by lying...

Love Thy Neighbour

1973

The Coming Out Party poster
8.0

When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.

The Coming Out Party

1965

For the Love of Ada poster
7.3

Walter and Ada Bingley celebrate their first wedding anniversary, unaware that that friends and family are planning a surprise party. Based on the 1970-71 sitcom of the same name.

For the Love of Ada

1972

The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising poster
8.0

A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.

The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising

1962