Wendy Williams

Wendy Williams

Acting
1934-11-07
Cheam, Surrey, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography25 Titles

#1Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Vira

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#2Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Mrs. Reddington

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#3Danger Man

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes as Kathy

7.3 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

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#4No Hiding Place

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

4.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.

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#5Angels

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

4.5 / 10
Drama

Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus daytime soap, Doctors. The medical soap focuses on different departments within Heath Green Hospital and was a highly successful continuing drama.

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#6Thriller

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as Mrs. Fuller

7.0 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

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#7Centre Play

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as Mother

7.0 / 10
Drama

Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

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#8Interpol Calling

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes as Eva

7.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.

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#9Poldark

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Lady Basset

6.9 / 10
Drama

Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.

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#10The Darling Buds of May

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes as Freda O'Connor

7.9 / 10
ComedyDrama

An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.

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#11Tenko

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Vicky Armstrong

8.3 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

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#12Survivors

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Barbara

7.9 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.

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#13Beau Geste

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Lady Brandon

7.0 / 10
Action & AdventureWar & PoliticsDrama

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.

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#14Wuthering Heights

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Mrs Linton

6.3 / 10
Drama

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.

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#15Knight Errant Limited

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes as Frances Graham

8.8 / 10

Adam Knight is a young man who, having tried several jobs, decides to set up an agency, 'Knight Errant '59', to solve other people's problems - whatever they may be. There's plenty of scope and, assisted by former reporter Liz and idealistic young writer Peter, the latter-day Sir Lancelot is kept busy with a variety of curious and exciting cases. The series had two titles, Knight Errant '59 and Knight Errant Limited of which only two episodes exist out of the 75 produced.

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#16The Further Adventures of the Musketeers

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Mme. de Longueville

7.7 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers was a BBC drama series and a follow-up to the 1966–67 10-episode serial The Three Musketeers. Based on Alexander Dumas' novel Twenty Years After, this 16-episode series follows Athos, Porthos and Aramis, along with new recruit d'Artagnan, as they continue to protect the name and throne of the King.

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#17Ladies in Charge

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Helena

6.5 / 10
MysteryComedyDrama

Ladies in Charge is a 1986 British television drama, an expansion from a 1985 pilot in the Storyboard anthology programme. Produced by Thames Television for ITV, the six-episode programme stars Carol Royle, Julia Hills, and Julia Swift. After serving as World War I ambulance drivers, three women start a private agency in London to solve problems for clients, blending mystery and drama with a lighthearted tone. They take on various cases, from finding lost items to uncovering secrets, often challenging societal expectations for women of the era.

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#18The Regiment

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as The Honourable Alice Gaunt

4.5 / 10
Drama

The Regiment is a 1972 BBC One television drama series starring Christopher Cazenove and follows the story of a British Army regiment from the view of two families.

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#19Not in Front of the Children

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Pam

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Jennifer Corner is a rather scatterbrained middle-class housewife. Her husband Henry is a school art teacher, and they have three children, Henry, Robin and Trudi.

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#20The Carnforth Practice

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Lydia Rogers

10.0 / 10
Drama

A six-part BBC2 drama about the Honourable Greville Carnforth, an aristocratic solicitor based in a small village community in the Lake District.

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#21Cause Célèbre

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Edith Davenport

5.6 / 10
DramaRomanceTV Movie

When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of true-life 1935 trial that shocked all of England. Though notable evidence and strong suspicion suggests that the murder may have been of crime of passion perpetrated by the jealous lover only half her age, Alma Rattenbury (Helen Mirren) confesses to the murder of her husband and is soon brought to trial. Despite the fact that Alma is already being deemed guilty by the general public for her adulterous indiscretion alone, her lawyer, star attorney T.J. O'Connor (David Suchet), remains convinced that his client will eventually be cleared of all charges.

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#22The Black Velvet Gown

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m as Grace Gallmington

5.8 / 10
DramaRomance

In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.

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#23The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Emmeline Pankhurst

8.8 / 10
DramaHistoryTV Movie

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone

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#24Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Vira

7.6 / 10
Sci-FiDramaAdventure

In the distant future, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find a space station preserving the future of mankind. But the insect Wirrn have got there first...

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#25Gentle Folk

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Mrs Reddington

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts - including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.

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