Rosemary Leach

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rosemary Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was a British stage, television and film actress and singer. She was born at Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her parents were teachers related to Edmund Leach. She attended grammar school and RADA. After appearing in repertory theatres and the Old Vic she became well known to UK TV viewers between 1965-69 for playing Susan Wheldon, the mistress of building tycoon John Wilder (Patrick Wymark) in the TV boardroom drama The Power Game. Subsequently she became a familiar face on British television. In 1973, she played Aldonza/Dulcinea in the BBC production of Don Quixote (retitled The Adventures of Don Quixote), starring Rex Harrison and Frank Finlay. In 1981 she played Emilia opposite Bob Hoskins's Iago in the BBC Shakespeare's production of Othello. In 1982 she played Aunt Fenny in The Jewel in the Crown. Rosemary played a leading role as smitten Joan Plumleigh-Bruce in the six part ITV 1987 production of The Charmer (TV series) which starred Nigel Havers. In 1987, she was nominated for BAFTA's Best Supporting Actress for A Room with a View (1985). In 1992, Leach starred in An Ungentlemanly Act, a BBC television film about the first days of the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982, portraying the real-life Lady Mavis Hunt, wife of the islands' then-governor, Sir Rex Hunt. Leach plays the part of Anna in BBC Radio 4's No Commitments, and Susan Harper's mother in My Family. She made a guest appearance as 'Bessie' on Waterloo Road (the TV series), in Series 3 Spring Term. Since 1994, she has made occasional appearances in The Archers as Ellen Rogers, the ex-pat aunt of Nigel Pargetter. In 2001 Leach played a leading role as a charming murderess in Destroying Angel, an episode of Midsomer Murders. Recently she has played Queen Elizabeth II three times: in the 2002 television movie Prince William; in a 2006 updated edition of The Afternoon Play, entitled Tea with Betty; and in 2009's Margaret. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rosemary Leach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England, UK, 1935-12-18

Died: 2017-10-21

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Sharp at Four	Jean Hobley	0
2	1964	Face of a Stranger		80
3	1968	Toggle	Jean Marfield	0
4	1969	Birthday		0
5	1969	Never Talk to Strangers	Olive Bunclark	0
6	1970	Chariot of Fire	Shelley Mitchell	0
7	1971	The Wild Duck	Gina Ekdal, Hedvig's mother	0
8	1971	The Mosedale Horseshoe	Helen	0
9	1971	Cider with Rosie	Mother	50
10	1972	Bermondsey	Iris	0
11	1973	Ghost in the Noonday Sun	Kate	41
12	1973	The Adventures Of Don Quixote	Dulcinea / Aldonza	0
13	1973	That'll Be The Day	Mrs. MacLaine	63
14	1974	Brief Encounter	Mrs. Gaines	49
15	1975	When Day Is Done	Rosemary Warne	0
16	1976	Tiptoe Through the Tulips	Rita	0
17	1976	Dad	Irene	0
18	1976	Hindle Wakes	Mrs. Jeffcote	70
19	1978	Disraeli	Queen Victoria	0
20	1979	A Question Of Faith	Anna Petrovna	0
21	1980	S.O.S. Titanic	Mrs. Odgen (uncredited)	59
22	1980	Hands	Pam	0
23	1981	All's Well That Ends Well	Widow of Florence	63
24	1981	Othello	Emilia	62
25	1982	The Critic	Mrs. Dangle	0
26	1982	The Plague Dogs	Vera (voice)	79
27	1984	This Office Life	Widow Rashman	0
28	1985	The 17th Bride	Esther	70
29	1985	Displaced Person	Sister Agnes	90
30	1985	Turtle Diary	Mrs. Inchcliff	65
31	1986	A Room with a View	Mrs. Honeychurch	69
32	1986	Day To Remember	Hilda	0
33	1987	Still Crazy Like a Fox	Eleanor Trundle	77
34	1987	When We Are Married	Clara Soppitt	0
35	1988	Across the Lake	Connie Robinson	58
36	1989	Bosses From Hell		0
37	1989	The Winslow Boy	Violet	60
38	1992	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends	Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit	85
39	1992	An Ungentlemanly Act	Mavis Hunt	55
40	1993	The Tale of Tom Kitten & Jemima Puddle-Duck	Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit (voice)	80
41	1993	The Mystery of Edwin Drood		57
42	1993	Tender Loving Care	Mary	0
43	1993	The Hawk	Mrs Marsh	58
44	1995	Blood and Peaches	Nan	55
45	1996	Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night	Lady Daisy Woodmouse/Old Mrs. Eyebright	0
46	1998	Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord		50
47	2000	Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?	Harold's Mother	61
48	2000	Breathtaking	Mrs. Henshaw	30
49	2001	Back Home	Mrs. Dickinson	60
50	2002	The Baroness and the Pig	Margaret	40
51	2002	Prince William	Queen Elizabeth	0
52	2004	Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection	Lady Daisy Woodmouse / Old Mrs Eyebright (Voice)	100
53	2005	The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million	Carol Samson	0
54	2009	Margaret	The Queen	58
55	2010	Mission London	Miss Cunningham	66
56	2011	The Great Ghost Rescue	The Queen	48
57	2013	May I Kill U?	Mags	46

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Mrs. Gaines	86
2	1956	Armchair Theatre	Amy	58
3	1956	Armchair Theatre	Jean Hobley	58
4	1956	Armchair Theatre	Fay Morton	58
5	1956	Armchair Theatre	Sheila	58
6	1956	Armchair Theatre		58
7	1962	Z-Cars		70
8	1963	The Plane Makers		60
9	1964	Horizon	Self - Narrator (voice)	75
10	1964	Sherlock Holmes	Kitty Winter	64
11	1964	The Wednesday Play	Shelley Mitchell	45
12	1964	The Wednesday Play	Katharine Elliott	45
13	1964	The Wednesday Play	Jean Marfield	45
14	1964	The Wednesday Play	Jess	45
15	1965	Gideon's Way	Marion Grove	68
16	1965	Londoners	Liz	0
17	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Iris Purvis	38
18	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Josie	38
19	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Gina Ekdal	50
20	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Dulcinea / Aldonza	50
21	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Mrs Dangle	50
22	1969	Judge Dee		50
23	1969	Strange Report	Mary Hanson	65
24	1970	Germinal		50
25	1970	The Roads to Freedom	Marcelle	38
26	1970	Play for Today	Rita	63
27	1971	Now Look Here...		55
28	1972	Pebble Mill at One		0
29	1974	Bedtime Stories	Ivy Burr	0
30	1974	Playhouse	Irene	70
31	1974	The Prince of Denmark	Laura	50
32	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey		71
33	1976	Laurence Olivier Presents	Mrs Jeffcote	70
34	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
35	1978	Life Begins at Forty	Katy Bunting	50
36	1978	Disraeli	Queen Victoria	73
37	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Widow of Florence	60
38	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Emilia	60
39	1984	The Jewel in the Crown	Aunt Fenny	67
40	1984	Swallows and Amazons Forever!	Mrs. Barrable	70
41	1986	Casualty	Miranda Watts	61
42	1987	The Charmer		30
43	1989	May to December	Avril	67
44	1989	Summer's Lease	Nancy Leadbetter	75
45	1990	Up the Garden Path		68
46	1991	Titmuss Regained	Dot Curdle	0
47	1992	Heartbeat	Miss Plum	71
48	1992	Heartbeat	Dorothy Plum	71
49	1992	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends	Tabitha Twitchit (voice)	61
50	1992	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends	Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit (voice)	61
51	1992	Growing Pains	Joan Craddock	60
52	1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Narrator (voice)	64
53	1995	The Buccaneers	Lady Brittlesea	61
54	1995	Chiller		62
55	1995	Chiller	Mrs. Leslie	62
56	1996	Spywatch	Amy Hobbs	0
57	1996	The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge	Lady Daisy Woodmouse / Old Mrs Eyebright (voice)	70
58	1997	Midsomer Murders	Evelyn Pope	75
59	1997	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman	Miss Markland	63
60	1998	Berkeley Square	Nanny Collins	75
61	2000	Doctors	Meg Carpenter	48
62	2000	My Family	Grace	70
63	2001	Perfect	Vera	0
64	2003	The Royal	Hester Hindmarch	76
65	2005	Afterlife		74

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