Anna Cropper

Acting

Anna Cropper

Born 1938-05-13 · Brierfield, Lancashire, England, UK

Anna Cropper was an English television actress.

Acting credits

Praying Mantis poster
6.0

A 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

Cromwell poster
6.6

Disgusted 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

The Exorcism poster
10.0

Four 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

No artwork available
NR

Unable to marry the divorced Wallis Simpson, King Edward VIII has to choose between the crown and love.

Crown Matrimonial

1974

No artwork available
NR

A bookmaker moves in with two sisters. He gets more than he bargained for.

Crippled Bloom

1972

The Childeater poster
7.7

Eight-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

Van Gogh poster
1.0

Linus 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

Schmoedipus poster
9.0

Glen, 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

Nanou poster
4.0

A 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

The Affair poster
4.0

A 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

Memento Mori poster
6.3

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Memento Mori

1992

Preview poster
NR

Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.

Preview

1982

Footsteps poster
7.0

Gemma 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

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story poster
5.9

A 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

Robin Redbreast poster
6.6

After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country.

Robin Redbreast

1970

All Neat in Black Stockings poster
4.0

A 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

The Lost Boys poster
8.0

The 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

Very Like a Whale poster
5.0

Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to pieces.

Very Like a Whale

1981

Midnight Movie poster
3.7

American 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

No artwork available
NR

Welfare worker Carol is attacked in a swimming pool by the attendant George Lease.

Son of the City

1967

No artwork available
NR

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

The Old Devils poster
NR

An 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

No artwork available
3.7

An adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, concerning the Salem witch trials.

The Crucible

1981

No artwork available
NR

A woman's new house hides a sinister secret. Part of ITV Playhouse-S13E02

The Perfect House

1981