Acting

Christopher Hancock

Born June 5, 1928 · Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England, UK

Died September 29, 2004 · aged 76

Christopher Anthony Arthur Hancock (5 June 1928 – 29 September 2004) was a British television and theatre actor. He was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. His brother was actor Stephen Hancock. He and his brother trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He was married to Ann Walford; the couple had two daughters before divorcing. Hancock began acting in the theatre in the 1960…

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Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side · 1992

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

MovieCrimeDrama

A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus · 1986

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.

Frankie and Johnnie

Frankie and Johnnie · 1986

Frankie and Johnnie

MovieDramaTV Movie

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.

Flying Into the Wind

Flying Into the Wind · 1983

Flying Into the Wind

MovieTV MovieDrama

The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.

Shall I Be Mother?

Shall I Be Mother? · 1983

Shall I Be Mother?

MovieDramaTV Movie

Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years. Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.

EastEnders

EastEnders · 1985

SeriesSoapDrama

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

Casualty

Casualty · 1986

SeriesDramaSoap

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Crown Court

Crown Court · 1972

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side · 1992

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

MovieCrimeDrama

A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.

Arthur Badcock

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus · 1986

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.

Chorus

Frankie and Johnnie

Frankie and Johnnie · 1986

Frankie and Johnnie

MovieDramaTV Movie

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.

'Chronicle' Editor

Flying Into the Wind

Flying Into the Wind · 1983

Flying Into the Wind

MovieTV MovieDrama

The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.

Doctor

Shall I Be Mother?

Shall I Be Mother? · 1983

Shall I Be Mother?

MovieDramaTV Movie

Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years. Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.

Stephen

EastEnders

EastEnders · 1985

SeriesSoapDrama

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

Charlie Cotton

Casualty

Casualty · 1986

SeriesDramaSoap

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Ted Springett

Crown Court

Crown Court · 1972

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

Leonard Saxton

The Upper Hand

The Upper Hand · 1990

The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.

Mr. Tanner

Justice

Justice · 1971

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.

Merton

Pickersgill People

Pickersgill People · 1978

Pickersgill People

Comedy series about the everyday events in a small town in Northern England.

Edwin Clegg, JP

Elizabeth R

Elizabeth R · 1971

This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.

Juan de Idiaquez

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

The Six Wives of Henry VIII · 1970

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

A six-episode dramatisation of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode, with a different writer, is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.

Sir Henry Norreys

The Moonstone

The Moonstone · 1972

SeriesDramaMystery

A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. The jewel goes missing and suspicion falls over the household, threatening to destroy someone close to Rachel's heart.

Ezra Jennings

Cribb

SeriesMysteryCrime

Victorian England, the late 1800s: Detective Sergeant Daniel Cribb of the newly formed Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is determined to remove crime from the streets of London using the latest detection methods.

Mr Strathmore

Dead of Night

Dead of Night · 1972

SeriesDramaMystery

Dead of Night is a British television anthology of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—'The Exorcism', 'Return Flight', and 'A Woman Sobbing'—are known to survive in the Archives. Another programme made by the same production team under Innes Lloyd, 'The Stone Tape', intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the Archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner.

Features Editor