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Acting
Elizabeth Dawn
Born November 8, 1939 · Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Died September 25, 2017 · aged 77
Elizabeth 'Liz' Dawn MBE was an actress most famous for her role as Vera Duckworth in long running soap Coronation Street. She played Vera for over thirty years from 1976 to 2008, before retiring from acting due to ill health. She died in September, 2017.
Known For
Sunset Across the Bay · 1975Sunset Across the Bay
★ 7.51975
MovieDramaTV Movie
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
A Little Outing · 1977A Little Outing
1977
MovieTV MovieComedy
Mam likes to make the weekly visit to Grandad into a proper little outing.
All Day on the Sands · 1979All Day on the Sands
★ 7.01979
MovieDramaTV Movie
Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to keep this a secret from the other guests. Also staying at the hotel are Keith and Jo, a young couple on their honeymoon, and an older couple, Mr and Mrs Thornton. Waking early one morning, Colin amuses himself by dangling one of his sister's sandals out of the window on a piece of string. The sandal accidentally lands on a flat roof just outside the window of the honeymooning couple, and his father's now straitened financial circumstances mean Colin has to get it back, by fair means or foul.
Leeds United! · 1974Leeds United!
★ 10.01974
MovieDramaTV Movie
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas! · 1997Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!
★ 10.01997
MovieDrama
The cast of Corrie take on Las Vegas!
Speech Day · 1973Speech Day
★ 9.01973
MovieTV MovieDrama
Speech Day is a bit of a laugh if you are not one of nature's prize-winners. But now that they've finished with school and school with them, what comes next for Ronnie, Wally and Rob?
Kisses at Fifty · 1973Kisses at Fifty
★ 5.01973
MovieDramaComedy
A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children.
Play for Today · 1970Play for Today
★ 6.61970
SeriesDrama
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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