Christine Hargreaves

Acting

Christine Hargreaves

Born 1939-03-22 · Salford, Lancashire, England, UK

Christine Hargreaves (March 22, 1939 – August 12, 1984) was an English actress.

Acting credits

An American Werewolf in London poster
7.4

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.

An American Werewolf in London

1981

Nineteen Eighty-Four poster
6.8

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984

Pink Floyd: The Wall poster
7.9

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Pink Floyd: The Wall

1982

The Reckoning poster
7.5

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.

The Reckoning

1970

Horace poster
5.7

In Yorkshire, intellectually disabled diabetic Horace works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.

Horace

1972

No artwork available
NR

The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.

Bavarian Night

1981

No artwork available
NR

A comedy of an old man's attempt to get his own way.

Grandad

1982

Walter and June poster
6.7

Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".

Walter and June

1983

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? poster
10.0

Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby, with an attention to detail closer to obsession. The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife. Is there more going on in the greenhouse than could safely be exhibited at the next Battersea Flower Show?

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?

1965

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet poster
8.0

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

1976

The Spongers poster
10.0

In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.

The Spongers

1978

Nineteen Nineteen poster
4.5

Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.

Nineteen Nineteen

1985

The Chester Mystery Plays poster
NR

Medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.

The Chester Mystery Plays

1976

The Hireling poster
5.8

Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.

The Hireling

1973

Angels Are So Few poster
8.0

This neat, intense drama, labelled “a fable for television”, stars Tom Bell as the scruffy, childlike Michael Biddle, who is invited in from the cold of a suburban street by sexually frustrated, bored housewife Cynthia, played by Christine Hargreaves. He declares that he’s an angel, and Cynthia needs an angel, but in a way Michael fears...

Angels Are So Few

1970

Hobson's Choice poster
NR

Maggie Hobson (Patricia Routledge) decides to marry Willie Mossop (Michael Caine), the gifted but underpaid bootmaker in her father's shop. Despite Willie's objections, they marry and set up for themselves and, within just one year, take almost all of Henry Hobson's trade. Hobson (John Barrie), a heavy drinker, is told by his doctor that one of his daughters must return home to look after him but they all refuse apart from Maggie who, seeing her chance, agrees to help but on one condition: Willie is to take over the business, with Hobson relegated to the position of a sleeping partner with no say in the running of the shop.

Hobson's Choice

1962

In Two Minds poster
7.0

Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?

In Two Minds

1967

Jake's End poster
NR

'Motors can stall, shooters can jam. But Jake's end of it'll be all right.' Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain-and a bank to rob.

Jake's End

1982

Strictly for the Birds poster
5.8

A gambler tries to strike it rich at the racetrack but gets taken by a gorgeous blonde who also happens to be a crook.

Strictly for the Birds

1964

Better Than the Movies poster
NR

A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.

Better Than the Movies

1972

Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It poster
10.0

When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

1968

Butterflies Don't Count poster
10.0

A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer.

Butterflies Don't Count

1978

Season of the Witch poster
9.0

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

Season of the Witch

1970