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Acting
Joan Harsant
Born April 2, 1926 · Hackney, London, England, UK
Died February 1, 2013 · aged 86
No biography available.
Known For
Peer Gynt · 1972Peer Gynt
★ 9.01972
MovieDramaFantasy
The 1972 BBC adaptation of Ibsen’s epic dramatic fantasy about a man in search of his soul.
Young Soul Rebels · 1991Young Soul Rebels
★ 5.51991
MovieDramaMystery
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
Quiet Afternoon · 1972Quiet Afternoon
1972
Movie
Trish is a lonely young wife in a tense marriage, living at the top of a high rise block of flats. She looks to the police and her husband for help when she finds her baby has been stolen from its pram.
The Duchess of Duke Street · 1976The Duchess of Duke Street
★ 8.01976
SeriesDrama
In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.
Never the Twain · 1981Never the Twain
★ 7.01981
SeriesComedy
Never the Twain is a British sitcom that ran for eleven series from 7 September 1981 to 9 October 1991. It was created by Johnnie Mortimer, and was the only sitcom he ever created without his usual writing partner, Brian Cooke. Mortimer wrote the entirety of the first two series and four episodes out of six of the eighth, with the rest being mainly written by Vince Powell and John Kane.
It starred Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as rival antique dealers, and also starred Derek Deadman, Zara Nutley, Robin Kermode, Tacy Kneale, Julia Watson, Honor Blackman, Teddy Turner and Maria Charles.
The title is taken from the Rudyard Kipling poem; The Ballad of East and West.