Patience Collier Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: British lead/character actress Patience Collier appeared in many productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the British National Theatre, on television and in scores of radio shows. In film she is best remembered for her deliciously wicked portrayal of Mrs. Poulteney in The French Lieutenant's Woman...Read More

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches

Actors: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Natasha Richardson, Joss Ackland, Lottie Ward

Synopsis: "The Cooper Beeches" is an episode of the television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, an excellent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, produced in Britain for Granada TV. In this episode, directed by Paul Annett, Jeremy Brett portrays the famed detective, aided by his Read More

1985
The French Lieutenant's Woman

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell

Synopsis: John Fowles' original novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was distinguished by a literary technique that involved telling a story of Victorian sexual and social oppression within the bounds of a 1970s viewpoint. How does one convey this time-frame dichotomy on film? The decision made by director Karel Reisz Read More

1981
Will Shakespeare [TV Series]

Actors: Tim Curry, Ian McShane, Meg Wynn Owen, Simon McCorkindale, Nicholas Clay

Synopsis: Written by the prolific John Mortimer, the British drama series Will Shakespeare focused on the Bard of Avon's formative years. Deftly mixing fact with fancy, the story concentrates on such elements as the marriage of young Will (played by Tim Curry, no less) to the older and more affluent Anne Read More

1978
Come Back, Little Sheba

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Laurence Olivier, Carrie Fisher, Nicholas Campbell

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster was too young to play alcoholic, disillusioned Doc Delaney in the 1952 film version of William Inge's Come Back Little Sheba. At age 70, Laurence Olivier was too old for the part, yet Olivier's performance is far more persuasive than Lancaster's in this 1977 TV-movie remkae of Read More

1977
Who Pays the Ferryman? [TV Series]

Actors: Jack Hedley, Betty Arvanitis, Takis Emmanuel, Patience Collier, Neil McCarthy

Synopsis: Created by Michael J. Bird, the British drama series Who Pays the Ferryman? was set on the Mediterranean island of Crete. Jack Hedley starred as Alan Haldane, an Englishman returning to Crete after a 30-year absence. In his "search for himself," Haldane was not altogether pleased with what he Read More

1977
David Copperfield

Actors: David Yelland, Patience Collier, Collette O'Neill

Synopsis: The 1974 BBC adaptation of David Copperfield -Charles Dickens's 1850 bildungsroman about a young Brit's coming of age in mid-nineteenth century London - sports David Yelland in the title role, alongside such luminaries as Arthur Lowe (O' Lucky Man, Sweet William) as Wilkins Macawber, Anthony Read More

1974
The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair

Actors: Neville Aurelius, George Browne

Synopsis: National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair is an antic filmization of Peter Nichols' play, originally staged by Britain's National Theatre. A scattershot satire of the red tape and inconsistencies of England's National Health program, the film is set in the men's ward of an old, crumbling hospital. Read More

1973
Countess Dracula

Actors: Nike Arrighi, Patience Collier, Maurice Denham, Lesley-Anne Down, Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Eles

Synopsis: Polish actress Ingrid Pitt became a cult figure for her portrayal of the notorious Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory in this Hammer horror film. Bathory finds that bathing in the blood of virgins restores her youthful beauty, and she enlists her servant (Nigel Green in a standout performance) Read More

1972
Endless Night

Synopsis: This mystery, adapted from an Agatha Christie story, tells the tale of an ambitious British chauffeur who marries his American employer, one of the richest women in the US and persuades her to buy a palatial country estate. She literally loves it to death and that is where all the real trouble Read More

1971
Fiddler on the Roof

Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann

Synopsis: Norman Jewison's adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is set in the Ukranian ghetto village of Anatevka (the film was actually lensed in Yugoslavia). Israeli actor Topol repeats his London stage role as Tevye the milkman, whose equilibrium is constantly being challenged by his poverty Read More

1971
Think Dirty

Actors: Marty Feldman, Shelley Berman, Judy Cornwell, Julie Ege, Patrick Cargill

Synopsis: This offbeat comedy finds Teddy (Marty Feldman) as a television advertising man given a seemingly meaningless project. Slated to make frozen porridge commercials, he comes up with the idea to find an erotic Goldilocks to sell the product. Soon a nationwide search is launched for the female Read More

1970
Perfect Friday

Actors: Ursula Andress, David Warner, Stanley Baker, Patience Collier, T.P. McKenna

Synopsis: A trio of aspiring crooks plan to steal a million dollars in this crime comedy. Lord Nicholas (David Warner) and his Swiss wife Britt (Ursula Andress) are the jet-set couple who have spent all their money and seek a loan from the bank. She asks Graham (Stanley Baker) for a loan, but the mid-level Read More

1970
Baby Love

Actors: Ann Lynn, Keith Barron, Linda Hayden, Derek Lamden, Diana Dors

Synopsis: Luci (Linda Hayden) is the illegitimate teenage sex kitten who goes to live with a doctor and his family after her sleazy, promiscuous mother (Diana Dors) dies. Robert (Keith Barron) is the doctor who may very well be Luci's father. Convinced Robert contributed to her mother's demise by rejecting Read More

1969
Decline and Fall... of a Bird Watcher

Actors: Robin Phillips, Geneviève Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier

Synopsis: In this feather-weight version of Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall, Paul Pennyfeather (Robin Phillips) is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the Read More

1968
House of Cards

Actors: George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles, Keith Michell, William Job

Synopsis: Reno Davis (George Peppard) is an American writer who has retired from the gentle art of boxing. Now wandering through France, he takes a job as a tutor for the son of a wealthy widow. Anne de Villemont (Inger Stevens) employs Reno to help in the education of her son Paul (Barnaby Shaw). Reno is Read More

1968
The Wild Affair

Synopsis: In this sexy comedy an affianced woman decides to sow one last wild oat before becoming a devoted wife. She therefore dresses up in a slinky black number and goes to her company Christmas party. The shapely lass impresses both her boss and a sales manager for the cosmetic company. The manager then Read More

1966
The Third Secret

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin

Synopsis: TV commentator Stephen Boyd doesn't believe the official verdict of suicide in the death of a famed London psychiatrist. Boyd tries to get to the truth by studying a list of the shrink's patients. While interviewing three of these worthies (Jack Hawkins, Diane Cilento and Richard Attenborough) Read More

1964
Avengers: Crescent Moon

Synopsis: Suspecting that he has been slated for murder by his avaricious wife, Caribbean dictator General Mendoza fakes his own death. To keep his daughter Carmelite (Bandana Das Gupta) out of harm's way, Mendoza arranges for her to be kidnapped. Steed and Keel are brought into the case when Carmelite is Read More

1961