On The Road to Stardom (via Silent Witness)

This year's Silent Witness series (shown in January) has turned out to be a bit of a springboard for actresses who did their rites of passage as topless bodies on the postmortem slab.

Firstly there was Irish actress Jane McGrath in Story 4: "Undertone" who now has a role in this year's Game of Thrones.

And just announced yesterday in the cast of the new Star Wars film is Daisy Ridley who was in Story 5: "Fraternity"

Both of them had big speaking roles in the stories before their characters died.

 

Jane McGrath

  

Daisy Ridley

For that close overhead shot of Daisy Ridley the images of her face and her body are non-continuous and are not seen together, but the make up wounds on her neck and shoulder match exactly as do the curls of her hair.

UPDATE: Here is a seamless join done by Remlap which replaces the less-than-seamless one I originally posted.

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Despite this boon, Silent Witness has been pretty much it as far as female nudity goes on any of the main terrestrial channels so far this year which is by far the scantest showing of any year in recent memory.  See the main site Archive Page for a record of all years since 2000.

Unknown Actress in A Killing on the Exchange (ITV/1987)

From another unidentified collector's clip from 1980s television, here is an actress that still needs to be identified.

The clip features actors Tim Woodward and Gavan O'Herlihy which have enabled the programme to be pinpointed as being A Killing On The Exchange which was a 6-part ITV drama serial from 1987.  There is also a snippet from another scene featured in the clip in which Tim Woodward is seen arguing with his wife whom credits show was played by Charlie Dore and pictures of her match the actress seen in the clip which further helps verify it.

The clip in question features an unknown young woman with very short dark hair topless in bed beside Dan Maitland (played by Gavan O'Herlihy) when his angry colleague John Field (played by Tim Woodward) comes in demanding a report - Dan introduces her incorrectly as "Phyllis Davenport-Rice" and she corrects him and says it is actually "Rice-Davenport" speaking with a cultured English accent.  Then Dan goes off to get the report leaving her in the room with John and she sticks her tongue out at him in a knowingly insolent manner (almost as if she knows him).

Unfortunately none of the credit sources available list anyone called "Phyllis". Although there are some names listed without character names shown. 

The other possibility is that she was knowingly giving a made-up name to Dan and John knew that but for plot-reasons but wasn't letting on - although that is just a speculative guess and such a relationship can't really be determined from what is seen in the clip.

Other actors seen in the clip

The programme's entry in the Kaleidoscope Guide has a per episode cast and the following are the female names who are not well known actresses who can be immediately ruled out (character names shown if listed).

Laura Venn ("Evey Field")  [eps 1, 2, 4, 6]
Not on IMDB and no pictures can be found.
However given that her character has the same surname as John Field (Tim Woodward), it can perhaps be surmised she is a daughter or mother and therefore unlikely to have been her.  His wife is Grace Field played by Charlie Dore.

Lorraine Brunning ("???")  [ep 2]
From a 2005-ish photo of her in Spotlight, it does not appear to be her.

Anne-Marie Marriott ("Lady Bee")  [eps 3, 4, 5]
I couldn't find any pictures of her online.  The only one that comes up is actually a misidentification of her from the Michael Palin film "The Missionary" attributing her to a topless scene that is actually Valerie Whittington.  I'll have to wait for a showing of The Missionary to try and spot her actual appearance in that.  Other things on her credits are very obscure.

Mary Clare Nash ("???")  [ep 3]
She is listed on IMDB (although "A Killing On The Exchange" is missing from her credits) - her only credits are for two very obscure TV things from 1976 and 1985 - neither of which seem particularly likely to ever be available to make a comparison.

Lesa Lockford ("Millicent Thorne")  [eps: all]
She had the same surname as the star John Duttine (Detective Superintendent Thorne) so may have been his wife.

Worthy Site Footnotes #5

Continuing with the occasional theme of site footnotes which are scenes that are of interest but do not "qualify" for a main site entry.

 

Firstly Claire Goose getting out of a pool in Gifted which was a 2003 ITV drama about a talented footballer.

And Ophelia Lovibond in the 2012 ITV drama The Poison Tree.  In the last picture of the middle row (and magnified at the start of the bottom row) it looks as though her bra was close to slipping off upwards as she is hastily undressing outdoors.  Unfortunately this was the final frame before the picture cuts away and when the camera next returns to her the bra has been properly readjusted.

Unknown Programme #7

Here is another clip from an 1980s TV production which has yet to be identified. 

In the clip a woman is seen fully naked walking around a house and then into a bedroom and getting into bed.  The sound on the clip is just the noise of a howling wind - there is no speech or narration heard.

The clip collector on the forum it was posted had kept no information on who it was or what it was from.  A subsequent responder recognised it as being from a 1980s TV documentary and identified the woman as being Erica Creer.

Erica Creer was a Page 3 glamour model from the 1970s and comparing modelling pictures of her it seems like the identification could be correct.

The clip does not have any typical hallmarks of a documentary and it would be easier to assume it was a scene from a drama.  However it could perhaps be a dramatised scene of some sort.  The clip contain no clues to what is going on.

Any further information would be appreciated that might help identify it.