Frances Cox

Acting
1913-04-16
Halifax, Yorkshire, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography21 Titles

#1Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Mrs. Bannister

7.2 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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#2Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Mrs. Holdsworth

7.2 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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#3Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Mrs. Wardle

7.2 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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#4Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Faith Trueman

7.2 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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#5Peak Practice

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes as Molly

6.5 / 10
Drama

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.

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#6Dalziel and Pascoe

Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes as Mrs Sharman

6.4 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.

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#7All Creatures Great and Small

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Mrs Baxter

7.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

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#8Centre Play

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as Ada

7.0 / 10
Drama

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

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#9As Time Goes By

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Mrs. Thrupp

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.

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#10The League of Gentlemen

Drama Series - 1999, 16 episodes as Annie Raines

7.7 / 10
Comedy

The League of Gentlemen is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC Two over three series from 1999 to 2002. In the fictional Northern England town of Royston Vasey—based on Bacup, Lancashire—the lives are explored of dozens of bizarre citizens, much of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the titular comedy troupe in 1995. The programme was followed by a film in 2005, and a three-part revival miniseries in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.

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#11Open All Hours

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Mrs Parslow

7.9 / 10
Comedy

Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.

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#12Out of the Blue

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Dorothy

8.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Ambitious DS Franky Drinkall's life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with epilepsy. His refusal to accept his condition leads him into a downward spiral and ultimately to his demise. DS Rebecca Bennett gives an ever-present emotional charge as she finds herself the subject of both PC Holder's and DC Allen's affections.

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#13Morgan's Boy

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Woman in Pub

7.0 / 10

Lee, a teenager from Manchester, goes to stay with his uncle Morgan on his remote farm in Wales. Lee struggles to build a relationship with his uncle and make friends with a local boy as Morgan struggles to hold on to his farm.

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#14Pickersgill People

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Mrs Cockcroft

8.8 / 10
Comedy

Comedy series about the everyday events in a small town in Northern England.

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#15Pat and Margaret

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Busybody

7.7 / 10
DramaComedyTV Movie

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.

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#16Daft Mam Blues

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Iris

8.8 / 10
TV Movie

As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?

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#17Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m as Violet

7.1 / 10
Drama

Mickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top after conquering alcoholism has hosted the highly rated "Family Values" for over ten years. But when he hears a false rumor that his show will be axed to make way for a new one to be hosted by young upstart Greg Deane. Mickey bitterly resorts to desperate measures to cling on to his career. Little does Mickey know however is that his bosses actually have something else in store for him.

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#18The Spongers

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Supervisor at Home

10.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.

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#19Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Anna Walentynowicz

8.8 / 10
Drama

British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union

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#20Sisters

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Ada

8.8 / 10

A widow, Millie, moves in with her sister, Ada, who is also a widow. Millie finds the house is not too her liking and starts to make changes, to Ada's annoyance.

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#21First and Last

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Landlady

7.0 / 10
DramaComedyTV Movie

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

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