Barbara Young

Barbara Young

Acting
1931-02-09
Brighouse, England, UK

Biography

Barbara Young was an English actress best known for her role as the future Emperor Nero's mother, Agrippina, in the landmark 1976 BBC serial I, Claudius.

Known For & Full Filmography44 Titles

#1Midsomer Murders

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes as Gwen Trevelyan

7.5 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

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#2Midsomer Murders

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes as Anne Quine

7.5 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

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#3Coronation Street

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes as Mrs. Stockwell

5.4 / 10
Soap

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

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#4Coronation Street

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes as Barbara Platt

5.4 / 10
Soap

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

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#5Coronation Street

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes as Doreen Fenwick

5.4 / 10
Soap

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

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#6Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Greta

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#7Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Typing Pool Supervisor

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#8Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Maggie

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#9Crown Court

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

5.7 / 10
Drama

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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#10Crown Court

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Sheila Telfer

5.7 / 10
Drama

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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#11Crown Court

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Grace Moresby

5.7 / 10
Drama

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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#12Last of the Summer Wine

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as Stella

7.2 / 10
Comedy

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.

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#13Last of the Summer Wine

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as Florrie

7.2 / 10
Comedy

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.

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#14Dr. Kildare

Drama Series - 1961, 16 episodes as Saleslady

5.7 / 10
Drama

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

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#15Sherlock Holmes

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Susan

8.2 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

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#16ITV Playhouse

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Nancy

7.0 / 10
Drama

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

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#17ITV Playhouse

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Nora

7.0 / 10
Drama

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

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#18The Bill

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

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#19No 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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#20Cracker

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes as Helen McIIvanney

6.6 / 10
CrimeDrama

The wise-cracking Edward 'Fitz' Fitzgerald is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

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#21The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes as Susan

8.7 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

In this thrilling final series starring Jeremy Brett as the famous 'consulting detective' Sherlock Holmes, six of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories are adapted: The Three Gables, The Dying Detective, The Golden Pince-Nez, The Red Circle, The Mazarin Stone, and The Cardboard Box.

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#22Lovejoy

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Belinda Stroud

7.4 / 10
ComedyDramaMystery

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

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#23Dempsey and Makepeace

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Miriam Powell

6.8 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.

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#24I, Claudius

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Agrippinilla

7.8 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

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#25Public Eye

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Madge Reading

8.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investigations and cases handled by the unglamourous enquiry agent Frank Marker.

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#26The Main Chance

Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes as Hilda Walker

8.3 / 10
Drama

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.

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#27War & Peace

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Anna Scherer

7.1 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

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#28Hazell

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Dot Wilmington

5.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

Hazell is a British television drama based on the novel series by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams (collectively known as P.B. Yuill), and starring Nicholas Bell as James Hazell, a 'smart parody' of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. The program ran for 2 series, from January 1978 to July 1979.

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#29A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes as Mrs. Lefranc

7.2 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue.

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#30Bless Me Father

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Miss Davenport

6.3 / 10
Comedy

Bless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, Derek Francis and Sheila Keith. It was aired on ITV from 1978 until 1981 and described the adventures of an Irish Catholic priest, Father Charles Duddleswell and his young curate in the fictional parish of St. Jude's in suburban London. 21 episodes, written by Peter De Rosa, were aired. De Rosa wrote the books on which the series was based using the pseudonym of Neil Boyd which was also the name of the young curate character; Boyd also served as the narrator in the series of novels upon which the series was based. It was made for the ITV network by London Weekend Television. The series was set in 1950 and 1951 and marked a departure from the middle class 'bank manager' roles associated with Lowe such as that in Dad's Army. The other regular characters included Mrs Pring, the housekeeper, the hard-drinking Dr Daley, the non-religious neighbour Billy Buzzle, and abbess Reverend Mother Stephen.

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#31The Keeper

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m as Grandma Sarah

7.4 / 10
DramaWarHistory

The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.

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#32Sleepers

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes as Elsie

7.3 / 10
DramaComedy

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been "lost." A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counter-plots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.

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#33The Good Companions

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as Mrs Oakroyd

9.0 / 10
DramaComedy

Discontent with his home, his work and his football team, Jess Oakroyd tears up his insurance card and disappears into the night. Intent on going to Nuneaton, he instead finds himself on the ragged edges of showbusiness. We share with him the trials and tribulations of the Good Companions as they tour seaside towns, industrial cities and rural backwaters in their search for success and stardom.

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#34Armchair Theatre

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes as Sheila

6.0 / 10
Drama

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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#35Armchair Theatre

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes as Flo

6.0 / 10
Drama

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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#36Virtual Murder

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Rita

7.0 / 10
MysteryComedyDrama

Eccentric psychology professor Dr John Cornelius solves technologically-charged crimes with his partner Samantha Valentine, police contact Inspector Cadogan, and his HOD Professor Owen Griffiths.

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#37All Good Things

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes as Hetty Wilson

8.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

A marriage and home can be made complete with the arrival of a new baby, but Shirley Frame feels a need to share her good fortune by going out into the world and helping others - driving husband Phil up the wall.

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#38The Reporters

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Greta

9.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.

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#39Hidden City

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.4 / 10
ThrillerMystery

Cassies Stuart leads the uncooperative Charles Dance into a world of misplaces government secrets, capalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will the truth be out, or will the attempts of agents suppress the truth hidden within government propaganda films, classified as top secret by complete mistake, be successful. Or is it the mysterious medical records that are the true catch of the spies.

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#40Praying Mantis

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Solicitor's Secretary

6.0 / 10
RomanceDramaCrime

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.

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#41Sleepers

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m as Elsie

8.8 / 10
DramaComedyThriller

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.

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#42The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m as Mrs Frobisher

5.0 / 10
RomanceComedy

When Poppy Carew is faced with having to organize a funeral by herself, she finds new strength and learns much about love's true meaning. Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley.

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#43On Giant's Shoulders

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Teacher at hospital

9.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The true story of Terry Wiles, born with no limbs in 1962 as a result of his mother's use of the drug thalidomide. This film tells the story of his childhood and adoption by the couple Len and Hazel Wiles who live on a remote farm, and the subsequent challenges and resistance to give Terry a 'normal' life.

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#44The Out of Town Boys

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Maggie

8.8 / 10
CrimeThrillerTV Movie

A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.

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