
Acting
Anna Cropper
Born 1938-05-13 · Brierfield, Lancashire, England, UK
Anna Cropper was an English television actress.
Acting credits
6.0A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
Praying Mantis
1982
6.6Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Cromwell
1970
10.0Four friends gather for Christmas dinner at an old cottage. Suddenly, there's a power failure and the phone goes dead. Then their wine turns to blood and the turkey makes them violently ill. Then things really get strange!
The Exorcism
1972
Unable to marry the divorced Wallis Simpson, King Edward VIII has to choose between the crown and love.
Crown Matrimonial
1974
A bookmaker moves in with two sisters. He gets more than he bargained for.
Crippled Bloom
1972
7.7Eight-year old Betty is sent to stay with family on a remote Welsh farm, but her father has warned her that her uncle eats children who don't behave.
The Childeater
1989
1.0Linus Roache stars as troubled painter Vincent van Gogh in this drama from the BBC’s Omnibus series. Struggling to make ends meet first as an art dealer, then as a missionary in a coal mine, van Gogh was tormented by elusive love and madness. After notoriously cutting off his ear and spending a year in an asylum, we see the artists struggles and passions throughout his life.
Van Gogh
1990
9.0Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth.
Schmoedipus
1974
4.0A young British photography student travelling in France meets up with a free thinking, working-class French man, a dramatic change of pace from her staid British boyfriend. (TCM)
Nanou
1987
4.0A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
The Affair
1995
6.3Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
Memento Mori
1992
NRFour television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.
Preview
1982
7.0Gemma Jones stars as a woman suffering from hyperacusis, which affects the muscles of the ears. As a result she has become highly sensitive to noise, a condition that is only exacerbated by living in a crowded boarding house.
Footsteps
1974
5.9A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
6.6After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country.
Robin Redbreast
1970
4.0A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
All Neat in Black Stockings
1969
8.0The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.
The Lost Boys
1978
5.0Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to pieces.
Very Like a Whale
1981
3.7American producer James Boyce and his airhead wife Amber rent an English country mansion where the British horror flick "Smoke Rings" was filmed twenty years previous. Amber's mother was model-actress Mandy Mason, who died mysteriously after her appearance in "Smoke Rings." The property rental to Boyce was arranged by middle-aged lawyer Henry Harris, who continues to live with his lovesick memories of the late actress. Boyce invites Harris to dinner, and "Smoke Rings" airs on TV that same evening. During the following days, Harris observes Amber's behaviour paralleling events experienced both by her mother and in the movie.
Midnight Movie
1994
Welfare worker Carol is attacked in a swimming pool by the attendant George Lease.
Son of the City
1967
Barbara lives in a fantasy world of trying to become a great woman pilot like her heroine, the late Amy Johnson.
Amy, Wonderful Amy
1974
NRAn adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.
The Old Devils
1992
An adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, concerning the Salem witch trials.
The Crucible
1981
A woman's new house hides a sinister secret. Part of ITV Playhouse-S13E02
The Perfect House
1981