Jane Wenham

Acting

Jane Wenham

Born November 26, 1927 · Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK

Died November 15, 2018 · aged 90

Ann Jane Wenham Figgins (26 November 1927 – 15 November 2018), known professionally as Jane Wenham, was an English actress born in Southampton, Hampshire. Jane Wenham made her film debut in the adaptation of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls in 1954. From 1957 to 1961 she was married to the actor Albert Finney, with whom she had a son, Simon, who is a cameraman. She died on 15th November, 2018…

Known For

An Inspector CallsAn Inspector Calls · 1954
An Inspector Calls
7.21954
MovieCrimeDrama
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
The Lady from the SeaThe Lady from the Sea · 1953
The Lady from the Sea
1953
MovieDrama
A lighthouse-keeper’s daughter is trapped in her marriage and longs for the sea.
The Teckman MysteryThe Teckman Mystery · 1954
The Teckman Mystery
6.11954
MovieMystery
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.
Make Me an Offer!Make Me an Offer! · 1954
Make Me an Offer!
7.41954
MovieComedy
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song - meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.
Porridge: The Desperate HoursPorridge: The Desperate Hours · 1976
Porridge: The Desperate Hours
9.01976
MovieComedyCrime
Fletcher and Godber are in trouble for brewing liquor in the lead-up to Christmas, but are caught up in a hostage situation in the Governor's office.
Downton AbbeyDownton Abbey · 2010
Downton Abbey
8.12010
SeriesDrama
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
BergeracBergerac · 1981
Bergerac
7.01981
SeriesDrama
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.
Theatre 625Theatre 625 · 1964
Theatre 625
7.21964
SeriesDrama
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

Filmography

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Sergeant CorkSergeant Cork · 1963
Sergeant Cork
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SeriesDrama
Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.

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