Pauline Melville
Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948 of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series 'The Young Ones', before turning her hand to writing in 1990. Her short stories and novels have been critically acclaimed, earning her numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature
The Long Good Friday
as DoraIn the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate...
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Mona Lisa
as George's WifeGeorge is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of...
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Shadowlands
as Committee ChairwomanC.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets...
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Sylvia WallacePressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
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Brighton Rock
as Mother SuperiorCharts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
as Mrs. TallBathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and...
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Britannia Hospital
as ClarissaBritannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a...
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Mrs ScratchitAfter a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous...
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Scrubbers
as CrowInmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
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Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Pauline SneakCarl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been...
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The House of Bernarda Alba
as PrudenciaA domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close...
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Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as SelfComedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical...
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Ulysses
as ProstituteDublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of...
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Utz
as CuratorHugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Maisie KempIreland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and...
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Home Away from Home
as NeighbourTo ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden....
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Red Dwarf
as BarmaidThe adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep...
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Blackadder
as Mrs ScratchitBlack Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders...
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The Comic Strip Presents...
as Pauline SneakThe Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are...
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The Young Ones
as Vyvyan's MumThe misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the...
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The Young Ones
as Woman on BusThe misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the...
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Spender
as JudgeJimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed...
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2Point4 Children
as BabsThey're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens....
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Girls On Top
as YvonneFour girls share a flat together in London. Having nothing in common aside from their gender,...
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Alexei Sayle's Stuff
as uncreditedAlexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3...
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Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
as uncreditedGroundbreaking alternative comedy programme bringing the new wave of humour to television for...
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