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Season 1, Episode 1
First episode of the Second World War drama set in a Japanese PoW camp holding only female inmates, with the pampered British inhabitants of Singapore blissfully unaware of the looming onslaught of the Japanese. Stephanie Beacham and Ann Bell star
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Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Ann Bell
(Actor)
.. Marion Jefferson
Stephanie Beacham
(Actor)
.. Rose Millar
Stephanie Cole
(Actor)
.. Beatrice Mason
Wendy Williams
(Actor)
.. Vicky Armstrong
Pauline Peters
(Actor)
.. Minah
Jonathan Newth
(Actor)
.. Clifford Jefferson
Claire Oberman
(Actor)
.. Kate Norris
Daniel Hill
(Actor)
.. Tom Redburn
Emily Bolton
(Actor)
.. Christina Campbell
Pennant Roberts
(Director)
Lavinia Warner
(Writer)
Paul Wheeler
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Ann Bell
(Actor)
.. Marion Jefferson
Stephanie Beacham
(Actor)
.. Rose Millar
Born:
February 28, 1947
in
Casablanca, Morocco
Best Known For:
Playing Sable in The Colbys and Dynasty.
Early-life:
Born on February 28, 1947, in Barnet, Hertfordshire. Her mother was a housewife, her father was an insurance executive. She is completely deaf in one ear and has only 75 per cent hearing in the other. Beacham was educated in London at St Michael's Convent, Finchley, and Queen Elizabeth Girls' School in Barnet, after which she became an au pair in Paris to pay for her training at the famous Etienne de Creux Mime School in 1964. On returning to the UK she spent three years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada).
Career:
After a number of appearances in various TV shows such as The Saint, Armchair Theatre, and Callan, Beacham's first major film role was opposite Marlon Brando in 1971's The Nightcomers. She was subsequently cast alongside Peter Cushing in Dracula AD 1972. It was acclaimed series Tenko in the 1980s that made her name and introduced her to American audiences. In 1985, she starred in the glossy soap operas Dynasty and The Colbys. She also gained a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a TV series for Sister Kate. Other notable projects include Connie, SeaQuest DSV, To Be the Best, Secrets, Relative Values, Bad Girls, Trollied and Mount Pleasant. She took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2007, featured in Coronation Street for five months in 2009, and appeared in Celebrity Big Brother in 2010.
Quote:
On her hearing difficulties: 'I sometimes cut people off dead, not knowing that they have spoken to me. I have been accused of rudeness.'
Stephanie Cole
(Actor)
.. Beatrice Mason
Born:
October 05, 1941
in
Solihull
Best Known For:
Tenko, Waiting for God and Doc Martin.
Early-life:
Patricia Stephanie Cole was born in Solihull on October 5, 1941. She landed a place at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school when she was 15 and made her stage debut at the age of 17, playing a 90-year-old woman in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit (at the age of 63, she played the same role when the play was revived at the Savoy Theatre in 2004).
Career:
Cole made her TV debut in an episode of Z Cars in 1968. She went on to make guest appearances in several TV shows but her big break didn't come until she was cast as Dr Beatrice Mason in Tenko in 1981. She played the kindly doctor for three series and a one-off special. Other notable roles include Mrs Featherstone in Open All Hours, Betty Sillitoe in A Bit of a Do, Diana Trent in Waiting for God and Joan Norton in Doc Martin. More recently, she played Sylvia Goodwin in Coronation Street and revived the role of Mrs Featherstone in Still Open All Hours.
Quote:
'I laugh like a drain at most jokes, but then instantly forget them.'
Trivia:
In 2012, Cole won a British Soap Award for Best Comedy Performance for her role in Coronation Street. She was awarded an OBE in 2005.
Wendy Williams
(Actor)
.. Vicky Armstrong
Pauline Peters
(Actor)
.. Minah
Jonathan Newth
(Actor)
.. Clifford Jefferson
Claire Oberman
(Actor)
.. Kate Norris
Daniel Hill
(Actor)
.. Tom Redburn
Emily Bolton
(Actor)
.. Christina Campbell
Pennant Roberts
(Director)
Lavinia Warner
(Writer)
Paul Wheeler
(Writer)
