Showing posts with label Holby City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holby City. Show all posts

Friday, 30 March 2018

Sharon Duce


Actress Sharon Duce in an episode of the long running ITV drama 'Crown Court'


Sharon Duce

An acclaimed stage actress, but best known to TV audiences for a string of roles in series through the 1980s including 'Big Deal', 'The Hard Word', 'Funny Man' and 'Coming Home' starred with Duggie Brown in both 'The Hard Word' in 1983 and Shelagh Delaney's  'The House That Jack Built'. Earlier work saw her establishing a precedent of attractive, but serious young women characters - a doubtless uphill struggle in the aftermath of the dolly-bird era. She played a WPC in 'Z Cars', and was Terry's old flame in the memorable 'Minder' episode where he thinks he has a long-lost son.     


As Lu in Shelagh Delaney's 1977 drama series 'The House That Jack Built'

As Jan Oliver in 'Big Deal' 
The 1990s and 2000s saw her appear in the most popular primetime fodder of the day: 'Peak Practice', 'Boon', 'Holby City' etc, and crime dramas such as 'Dalziel & Pascoe' and  'Wycliffe'.   


Enjoying Christmas with the 'Royle Family' in 2000. 

More recently there have been forays into the world of soaps, with featured roles in 'Coronation Street' and 'Emmerdale', and of course the ever-present 'Midsomer Murders' and the likes of 'Casualty', 'London's Burning', 'The Bill' and 'Doctors'.     



As the self-reliant Hermione Hepworth in 'In Loving Memory'

Television comedy has included 'In Loving Memory', 'Singles' and the much loved 'Royle Family At Christmas', while sporadic feature film appearances were in 'Outland' (1981), 'Funny Man' (1981), 'Rogue Trader' (1999) and Conviction' (2004).  

    
Sharon Duce - imdb

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Peter Armitage


Peter Armitage: 

† Oct 23 1939 – Nov 30 2018
Rugged northern fellow probably best-known as Bill Webster in 'Coronation Street' or as the Yellow Pages advert dad who laments 'I were right about that saddle, though'. Like many authentic salt of the earth-type character actors, he came through the Joan Greenwood/Harry H Corbett-mentored East-15 acting school and went on to appear in TV roles in 'The Sweeney', 'The Professionals', 'Strangers', 'G.B.H', and the inevitable 'Holby City'/'Casualty'/'The Royal'. Lots of "By 'eck, think on mind..." etc

Peter Armitage - imdb