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Up the Garden Path
Season 2, Episode 9
Laura and Rosemary are called in to investigate when gardens entered for a village contest are attacked by a disease. Further sinister undercurrents are exposed when reigning champion Donald Westward is found dead and recriminations start to fly as buried rivalries come to the surface. Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris star
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16x9
Movie/Drama
Mystery
Cast & Crew
Felicity Kendal
(Actor)
.. Rosemary Boxer
Pam Ferris
(Actor)
.. Laura Thyme
Cassandra Holliday
(Actor)
.. Vilma Hockham
Lucy Fleming
(Actor)
.. Grania Monkton
Michael Elwyn
(Actor)
.. Tim Monkton
Lucy Robinson
(Actor)
.. Norah Westward
Pip Torrens
(Actor)
.. Donald Westward
Mark Stratton
(Actor)
.. DI Hammond
Max Gold
(Actor)
.. Col Judd
Andrew Grainger
(Actor)
.. Barry Skinner
Angela Simpson
(Actor)
.. Tracey Skinner
Brian Eastman
(Producer)
Simon Langton
(Director)
Peter Spence
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Felicity Kendal
(Actor)
.. Rosemary Boxer
Born:
September 25, 1946
in
Olton, Warwickshire
Best Known For:
Playing Barbara in The Good Life.
Early-life:
Felicity Ann Kendal was born on September 25, 1946, in Olton, Warwickshire. She made her stage debut at nine months. Her childhood was spent touring India acting in Shakespearean productions directed by her father Geoffrey and co-starring her mother, Laura Lidell. She attended 13 schools in quick succession. At 17 she came back to the UK to work in the West End, but returned to India to film Merchant Ivory movie Shakespeare Wallah, which was based on her family's experiences. Sister Jennifer, also an actress, died in 1984.
Career:
Kendal made her TV debut in The Mayfly and the Frog in 1966, but concentrated on the theatre before becoming a household name in sitcom The Good Life, which attracted 18 million viewers at its peak. Kendal has appeared in the movie Valentino, sitcoms Solo and The Mistress, TV drama The Camomile Lawn, and provided a voice for Steven Spielberg's animated adventure, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story. More recently she appeared in Michael Winner's comedy Parting Shots, light-hearted drama Rosemary and Thyme, and an episode of Doctor Who, though she prefers to work on stage. She gained a new set of fans by appearing on Strictly Come Dancing in 2010. In 2013, she won rave reviews for a London stage revival of Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking.
Quote:
'The fact that I might look my age doesn't bother me. I've found a balance in my life that didn't exist when I was younger.'
Trivia:
Kendal was appointed a CBE in 1995.
Pam Ferris
(Actor)
.. Laura Thyme
Born:
May 11, 1948
in
Hanover, Germany
Best Known For:
Her role as Florence ‘Ma' Larkin in The Darling Buds of May.
Early-life:
Pamela Ann Ferris was born on May 11, 1948 in Hanover, Germany, to Welsh parents Ann and Fred, who were stationed there while her father served in the Royal Air Force. Ferris spent her childhood in the Llanelli area of Wales, after her father became a police officer, with her mother working in her family's bakery business. Pam's family emigrated to New Zealand when she was 13, but she returned to the UK in her early twenties.
Career:
Ferris first made an impact in the 1985 drama series Connie. Other than The Darling Buds of May, she has also appeared in TV shows Hardwicke House, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Paradise Heights, Where the Heart Is, Rosemary & Thyme, Gavin & Stacey and Grandma's House. A 'Jill of all trades', Pam has appeared in a number of Royal Court Theatre and Royal National Theatre productions, and in films like Matilda, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Nativity!, Telstar, and Malice in Wonderland. In 2012, she began playing Sister Evangelina in Call the Midwife.
Quote:
'The business [acting] has been extraordinarily kind to me. I have no complaints.'
Trivia:
In 2014, she was a contestant on The BBC Children in Need Sewing Bee.
Cassandra Holliday
(Actor)
.. Vilma Hockham
Lucy Fleming
(Actor)
.. Grania Monkton
Michael Elwyn
(Actor)
.. Tim Monkton
Lucy Robinson
(Actor)
.. Norah Westward
Pip Torrens
(Actor)
.. Donald Westward
Born:
June 02, 1960
in
Bromley, Kent
Best Known For:
Playing Dr Hexler in The Danish Girl.
Early-life:
Philip Dean Torrens was born on June 2, 1960 in Bromley, Kent. He was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire before going on to study English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career:
Torrens has appeared in a number of Hollywood films, including Pride and Prejudice (2005), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), The Danish Girl (2015) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). He has also appeared in a number of British TV programmes, including Heartbeat, Doctor Who, The Brittas Empire, Green Wing and Silent Witness. More recently, he has had regular roles in Poldark, The Crown, Preacher and Versailles.
Trivia:
He has appeared in two biopics about the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming. These are Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005) and Fleming (2014).
Mark Stratton
(Actor)
.. DI Hammond
Max Gold
(Actor)
.. Col Judd
Andrew Grainger
(Actor)
.. Barry Skinner
Angela Simpson
(Actor)
.. Tracey Skinner
Brian Eastman
(Producer)
Simon Langton
(Director)
Peter Spence
(Writer)
