Reply With QuoteA very attractive lady, I have recently been watching her in the series Outside Edge on DVD.
I saw her in a stage play about 3 years ago and she came into the bar afterwards. Still looking good.
She was also in Going Out on BBC1 last year.
Does anyone remember actress Deborah Grant? She is probably best known for playing Frank Finlay's horny secretary in Bouquet Of Barbed Wire. She also went on to appear in the second series, entitled Another Bouquet.
Her other TV credits include:
Danger UXB : Dead Letters.
UFO : The Psychobombs.
Minder : You Gotta Have Friends.
Bergerac : (semi-regular as Jim Bergerac's ex-wife.)
Public Eye : A Fixed Address.
Diamong Geezer : Old School Lies.
Peak Practice : (Carol, the receptionist 2000 - 01.)
Casualty : These Things Happen / Hitting Home. (2 parts.)
Westbeach : (Full season 1993).
(and many more.) Her most recent appearances have been on Doctors and Holby City.
She has also appeared in films such as The Magic Christian and she played Valerie Hobson in the Film Scandal about the Profumo affair.
She is my personal favourite actress of all-time. Anybody else like her?
Wellendcanons.
A very attractive lady, I have recently been watching her in the series Outside Edge on DVD.
I saw her in a stage play about 3 years ago and she came into the bar afterwards. Still looking good.
She was also in Going Out on BBC1 last year.
Yes. I saw her in the play Absurd Person Singular at Sheffield last September and she still looks fantastic. It's increduble.
Wellendcanons.
Nothing obscure about this actress who has an extensive CV to view at IMDB.
I will always associate her as Bergerac's estranged wife in the famous, long running Jersey cop series. I saw her last year in a play at Richmond Theatre near London and she looked great.
Originally Posted by wellendcanons
How strange, I don't have that memory of the part Deborah Grant played! I remember the secretary as being rather hesitant in having an affair with the FF character and being quite sensitive as to his strange relationship with his daughter.
Perhaps the word horny wasn't quite the right description I should have used. However, my recollections of both Bouquet Of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet were that as far as getting let's say more friendly, Deborah Grant's character was up for it just as much as Frank Finlay's was.
Certainly I would agree she was uncomfortable with the relationship he had with his daughter. Well, who wouldn't be?
What a smashing series that was.
Wellendcanons.
As Sarah Francis in the episode Introductions:
I've long thought this actress strongly resembles American film star Eleanor Parker. What do others think?
"Don't look at me like that", her father says to him - with good reason!
OH YES!!! A classically bitchy look from Deborah towards the appallingly snobby Ann Beach. Great scene!
Original ITV transmission: 16th January 1976, when Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was #1 in the charts
While scanning this episode, I was amazed to see the increasingly ubiquitous Michael Beint playing her father,
his only appearance in the series. I didn't know him at all the last time I watched Bouquet of Barbed Wire,
seven years ago. Michael was memorable as a policeman in Special Branch, tragically killed by a parcel bomb.
I'm glad that Deborah is still going strong, though this will always be my favourite performance of hers. I liked
her in Public Eye as well but it's quite an unnerving experience watching that, as I've done twice now. The episode, from the 1969 series, was originally broadcast in black and white but made in colour as a test for Thames TV's forthcoming transition into that 'medium' (is that the right word?). It's such a shock to see Mrs. Mortimer's boarding house looking so colourful, even more haunting that Deborah is now 40 years older.
I might just have something from that when I return!
Fantastic! Cheers Cornershop, those Deborah Grant pics are super. I feel that Bouquet Of Barbed Wire was her best work too. She's such a good actress.
Is Michael Beint still acting I wonder? I'm sure he was up until a few years ago.
EDIT - Just noticed ... I did, of course, mean to write "her father says to HER", when captioning that middle picture earlier. Overworked or what?
My pleasure, and thanks for your support at Hilary Tindall's thread as well. Another actress Deborah reminds me of is Carol Royle.
Michael Beint's last credit was as recently as 2006, in Doctors. Like Harry Towb, he's been around for decades without receiving much attention. It's really interesting discovering these actors - they are strangers at first then suddenly KEEP ON appearing, either on DVD or in old issues of the TVTimes! That's certainly the case with Michael.
As I enjoyed Deborah' scenes with Michael Beint, Ann Beach and of course Frank Finlay in Bouquet of Barbed Wire, I'd love to find out how she remembers them. Unusually for me, all four of these actors are still alive.
EDIT - Just noticed ... I did, of course, mean to write "her father says to HER", when captioning that middle picture earlier. Overworked or what?
My pleasure, and thanks for your support at Hilary Tindall's thread as well. Another actress Deborah reminds me of is Carol Royle.
As I enjoyed Deborah' scenes with Michael Beint, Ann Beach and of course Frank Finlay in Bouquet of Barbed Wire, I'd love to find out how she remembers them. Unusually for me, all four of these actors are still alive.
You're welcome. I love the photos you have put on the threads I have visited and you certainly have been a major contribution in keeping the Hilary Tindall thread so alive. I loved your photos of Prunella Ransome too. Another good actress gone.
It might sound incredible but I think Deborah and Hilary are a bit alike, even though Deborah's blonde and Hilary's brunette. I have been fortunate to meet Deborah after seeing her in several plays and she is a really lovely person.
It's funny you should mention that it's unusual that all the Bouquet actors are still alive. In just about any series I can bring to mind of that age there is usually someone who is now no longer with us. That thought had occured to me as well.
Thanks again. Deborah and Hilary are/were certainly both classy ladies. I'll try and work on some screencaps of our subject's appearance in Public Eye later today.
I can't think of many shows from my Seventies childhood where the main cast are all alive. It's not so long ago that, apart from Arthurs English and Brough (Mr. Grainger), the stars of Are You Being Served? were still here. Now we've lost three in the last couple of years. All of The Champions are with us, 40 years later, but their boss, Anthony Nicholls, died quite some time ago, sadly (another 'Voice').
I know how you feel cornershop when watching Upstarirs downstairs and On the Buses, where just a handful of regulars are still with us, though I believe the cast of early 'Within these walls' are still around, such as Googie Withers and Mona Bruce and the Wing Managers, Miss Harker, etc;
Back to Deborah, I recall her in a sketch on Victoria Wood and she was having a Quiz with some 'arty' types, the answer to one question was 'The Beatles' but she pronouced Beatles as 'Bee at lls'..........they'd never heard of them before!
Deborah Grant has recently been in an episode of Holby City. She played Patsy Kensit's mother in the wedding episode. I believe she is going to appear in a few more as Patsy's marriage hits the rocks,
Deborah is currently touring the country for a second time in Alan Ayckbourn's play, Absurd Person Singular. I saw it in September last year and it was very funny. Deborah was just brilliant, of course.
I agree with you Cornershop, that Deborah and Hilary are/were certainly both classy ladies. It's nice to have those two lovely actresses linked together.
It will be brilliant if you are able to post some screencaps of Deborah from Public Eye. I will look forward to that.
I was forgetting about The Champions. Another magnificent series. Stuart Damon and William Gaunt were very much childhood heroes of mine. Then there was Alexandra Bastedo. . . . Well, on the subject of classy ladies, there's one who instantly springs to mind.
I know how you feel cornershop when watching Upstarirs downstairs and On the Buses, where just a handful of regulars are still with us, though I believe the cast of early 'Within these walls' are still around, such as Googie Withers and Mona Bruce and the Wing Managers, Miss Harker, etc;
Back to Deborah, I recall her in a sketch on Victoria Wood and she was having a Quiz with some 'arty' types, the answer to one question was 'The Beatles' but she pronouced Beatles as 'Bee at lls'..........they'd never heard of them before!
Sadly, Mark, the IMDB says that Mona died last October. She was married to a fine character actor called Robert James, who passed way in 2004.
Robert James - thanks to Wearysloth as always
I think the late Katharine Blake took over as governor after Googie left.
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Yes, I was going to point that out as well. I found out after seeing her in Public Eye a few months ago.
I think it was Sarah Lawson (was she the one in the wheelchair?) who succeeded Googie Withers!
P.S. Forgot to acknowledge Mark's reply earlier. Yes, On The Buses is another sitcom which has lost a couple of other stars in recent years.
Well, I never saw the later series of Within These Walls and don't remember Sarah Lawson in it. I think KB followed GW!
Anyway, see here!
Within These Walls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Well, I never saw the later series of Within These Walls and don't remember Sarah Lawson in it. I think KB followed GW!
Anyway, see here!
Within These Walls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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According to her CV at IMDB Sarah Lawson was in 13 episodes of Within These Walls in 1978.
That's right - I didn't see the later episodes of this series, and only remember the time when Googie and Katharine were in it.
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Just got the box set of the Diamond Geezer series with David Jason. There are only four episodes and Deborah Grant appears in the final one entitled, "Old School Lies."
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