Caroline Blakiston
Also Known As: Caroline G. Blakiston
Biography: Caroline Blakiston (born 13 February 1933) is an English actress. Best known for her role in the television comedy series Brass, she has also appeared as Mon Mothma in the science-fiction film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In the 1960s she appeared in three episodes of The Avengers as well a number of ITC productions such as The Saint and the 1969 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "Never Trust a Ghost". She appeared to great acclaim as Marjorie Ferrar in the BBC Television adaptation of Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga in 1967. In 1977 she appeared in Raffles as Lady Paulton, and also in Murder Most English as Helen Carobleat. In 1986 Blakiston played the villain Bess Sedgwick, opposite Joan Hickson's Miss Marple, in "At Bertram's Hotel", made by the BBC and shown on the PBS series Mystery in the U.S. She also appeared as Lionel Hardcastle's ex-wife in an episode of As Time Goes By. She and Geoffrey Palmer (Lionel) had previously played estranged spouses a decade earlier in Carla Lane's series The Last Song.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chelsea, London, England, UK
Birthday: February 13, 1933
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Gender: Female
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Return of the Jedi
Overview: Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-27
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The Fourth Protocol
Overview: Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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The Magic Christian
Overview: Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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Miss A and Miss M
Overview: Young Lizzie Cole and her newly widowed mother go to stay in the country at a small guesthouse occupied by spinsters, retired schoolmasters and young schoolmistresses. Lizzie becomes quite fond of two particular schoolmistresses who live together in a small cottage. Their lifestyle and living arrangement is a constant source of interest and challenge for Lizzie. However, what she ends up experiencing is beyond the comprehension of a young girl. The story of Miss A And Miss M is a very sensitively performed portrayal of the boundaries of love and friendship.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-11
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Overview: Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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The Trygon Factor
Overview: A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-16
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Coup!
Overview: Dramatisation of the abortive real-life attempt by Simon Mann to organise a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004. The case achieved notoriety because one of the financial backers of the project was Sir Mark Thatcher, son of British ex-PM 'Margaret Thatcher'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-30
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Mary Anning
Overview: A woman hunts for fossils and makes a big discovery. But she doesn't get credit again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Scoop
Overview: An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Yanks
Overview: During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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The Mallen Secret
Overview: Movie version of The Mallen Secret. Edited together from the episodes of The Mallens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-05
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The Idol
Overview: A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-01
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The Mallen Curse
Overview: The fourth and final instalment of the Mallen family saga. Barbara, rejected by Michael, enters into a loveless marriage with a son of the Benshams, who now own Squire Thomas' former home, High Banks. Meanwhile, Mr Bensham proposes to Anna Brigmore, Barbara's former governess, who has a burning ambition to become mistress of the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-18
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Knots
Overview: A touring company of actors arriving at a theatre, rehearsing and preparing a performance of a revue based on the book 'Knots' by R.D. Laing, devised by Edward Petherbridge
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Overview: One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Mallen Streak
Overview: The first part of the Mallen family saga. Thomas Mallen, the Squire of High Banks Hall, fathers many illegitimate sons, each of whom inherit a distinctive streak of white hair. Forced to sell the Hall, Thomas moves to humbler surroundings, taking with him his wards, Barbara and Constance, and their governess, Anna Brigmore. The young girls find romance with the Radlet brothers, one of whom, Donald, is acknowledged by Thomas as his bastard son.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-14
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For Elsie
Overview: Glenn is a disillusioned piano teacher, who once aspired to be a concert pianist. He is moving back to his parents house and is on the brink of giving up the piano for good when Kilov, a Russian gangster, offers him a unique opportunity: £10,000 if Glenn teaches his daughter Beethoven's "Fur Elise"... in a day.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-26
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Life After Death
Overview: "We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half." Meg struggles with the sudden death of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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The Lie
Overview: Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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The Mallens
Overview: Adaptation of the Mallen series of novels by Catherine Cookson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-10
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Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Overview: Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-05
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