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Fiona Walker is a Actor British born on 24 may 1944
Fiona Walker (born 24 May 1944) is an English actress, known for numerous theatre and television roles between the 1960s and 1990s.
Her best remembered TV part is probably the role of Agrippina in the BBC adaptation of I, Claudius (1976), directed by Herbert Wise. She was an acidic Mrs Elton in BBC2's 1972 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma and played the ill-fated Stella Mawson in Anglia's first P. D. James' adaptation, Death of an Expert Witness (1983), also directed by Wise. Other television appearances have included All Creatures Great and Small (1978), Pope John Paul II (1984), Bleak House (1985), The Woman in Black (1989), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1993), and two Doctor Who serials, 24 years apart, playing villainesses Kala in The Keys of Marinus in 1964, and Lady Peinforte in Silver Nemesis in 1988, as well as a definitive Ruth in Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests - Thames Television (1977).
Her film roles included Liddy in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), the cult horror film The Asphyx (1972), and Century (1993), starring Charles Dance and Clive Owen.
Walker married Herbert Wise in 1988. Her children, Charlie Walker-Wise and Susannah Wise, are also actors.
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Fiona Walker
Her best remembered TV part is probably the role of Agrippina in the BBC adaptation of I, Claudius (1976), directed by Herbert Wise. She was an acidic Mrs Elton in BBC2's 1972 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma and played the ill-fated Stella Mawson in Anglia's first P. D. James' adaptation, Death of an Expert Witness (1983), also directed by Wise. Other television appearances have included All Creatures Great and Small (1978), Pope John Paul II (1984), Bleak House (1985), The Woman in Black (1989), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1993), and two Doctor Who serials, 24 years apart, playing villainesses Kala in The Keys of Marinus in 1964, and Lady Peinforte in Silver Nemesis in 1988, as well as a definitive Ruth in Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests - Thames Television (1977).
Her film roles included Liddy in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), the cult horror film The Asphyx (1972), and Century (1993), starring Charles Dance and Clive Owen.
Walker married Herbert Wise in 1988. Her children, Charlie Walker-Wise and Susannah Wise, are also actors.
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Century (1993)
, 1h52Directed by Stephen Poliakoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Charles Dance, Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson, Robert Stephens, Joan Hickson, Lena Headey
Roles Mrs. Pritchard
Rating61%
A Murder of Quality (1991)
, 1h43Directed by Gavin Millar
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Denholm Elliott, Christian Bale, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw, Ronald Pickup
Roles Dorothy D'Arcy
Rating62%
George Smiley, at the request of his old wartime colleague Ailsa Brimley, investigates the murder of Stella Rode. A letter had previously come to Brimley from Rode detailing a plot supposedly by her husband, Stanley Rode, who teaches at Carne School, to kill her. Upon investigating, Smiley learns of many secrets that were kept by the victim, and one being that Terence Fielding, a house master at Carne, was being blackmailed by her due to past homosexual activities. Smiley solves the investigation when it is revealed that it was not Stanley Rode who murdered his wife, but Terence Fielding.
The Woman in Black (1989)
, 1h40Directed by Herbert Wise
Genres Horror, Historical
Actors Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker, Pauline Moran, David Ryall, Clare Holman
Roles Mrs. Toovey
Rating70%
A young solicitor, Arthur Kidd, is sent to a big city on the East Coast of England to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow, an elderly reclusive widow. On the train, Kidd meets Sam Toovey, a local land owner who is unsettled upon hearing that Kidd is dealing with the Drablow estate. Arriving at Crythin Gifford, Kidd lodges at a local inn where he finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about Mrs. Drablow's dreary home, Eel Marsh House.
Time After Time (1986)
Genres Comedy
Actors John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Helen Cherry, Ursula Howells, Brenda Bruce, Mark Lambert
Roles Tania Klein
Rating72%
A constantly bickering aristocratic family live in a crumbling great house in Ireland, when their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a German cousin.
Pope John Paul II (1985)
, 2h30Directed by Herbert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Albert Finney, Caroline Bliss, Brian Cox, John Forgeham, Alfred Burke, Derek Francis
Roles Anna Loparicz
Rating65%
This film's timeline begins with the death of Pope John Paul I on September 28, 1978, and then flashes back to Karol Wojtyła as a young man growing up decades earlier in Wadowice, Poland. The storyline then returns to pre-October 16 dates in 1978 and flashes back to Wojtyła's early life, family relationships, his political involvements fighting against Nazism during World War II and against Communism after the war, and his relationship and involvement in the Roman Catholic Church as he becomes a priest, a bishop, a cardinal, and is eventually installed as the titular new pope.
The Asphyx (1973)
, 1h39Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Alex Scott, Jane Lapotaire, Fiona Walker, Terry Scully
Roles Anna Wheatley
Rating61%
In Victorian England, philanthropic scientist Sir Hugo Cunningham is a part of a parapsychological society that studies psychic phenomena. As part of their latest investigation, the men have begun photographing individuals at the moment of death; done properly, the resultant photo depicts a strange blur hovering around the body. Though the society concludes that they have captured evidence of the soul escaping the body, Cunningham is skeptical.
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
, 2h48Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker, Prunella Ransome
Roles Liddy
Rating71%
Set in the rural West Country in Victorian England, the story features Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie), a beautiful, headstrong, independently minded woman who inherits her uncle's farm and decides to manage it herself. This engenders some disapproval from the local farming community. She employs a former neighbour, Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), to be her shepherd; rejected by her as a suitor, Gabriel lost his own flock of sheep when one of his dogs drove them over a steep cliff. Ignoring Gabriel's love, Bathsheba impulsively sends a valentine to William Boldwood (Peter Finch), a nearby gentleman farmer. When he misinterprets her capriciousness and proposes to her, Bathsheba promises to consider his offer. But she becomes enamoured of Frank Troy (Terence Stamp), a dashing cavalry sergeant.