Some Uncredited Roles To Be Identified #2

Here are some roles in TV shows in which the actress involved in a topless scene was given a character name but went uncredited.  If anyone has additional information that might lead to an identification please let me know in the comments.


BBC Shows

Holby Blue (BBC1/2007): episode 1 [short-lived police spin-off from Holby City] Uncredited character called "Stacy" who was the one-night stand of one of the policemen.  Her left nipple accidentally strayed above the frame of the shot while they were kissing in the bedroom before he left for work and then she throws his forgotten police cap down to him.  She had some dialogue.

Love Soup (BBC1/2005) - series 1, episode 4: They Do Not Move.  A full frontal poster of a celebrity called "Pascal Peters" features as a plot point, but she doesn't actually appear for real in the episode and was not credited.  It was presumably something specially created for the show though.

Most Sincerely (BBC4/2008) - Hughie Green biopic.  The actress playing young boy Hughie's mother was topless in a sex scene and had one line of dialogue but was not credited.

Messiah (BBC1/2005) ep: The Harrowing (3-parter) - murder victim "Catherine Cardell", 20-year-old psychology student, seen topless on a mortuary slab - briefly seen alive but not credited

Silent Witness (BBC1/2006) ep: Schism.  In this episode there are two dead victims named as "Jackie Cooper" and "Lisa Finch" who feature heavily in a longish scene in which they are placed in special glass chambers and scanned with ultra violet light.  Neither of them receive a credit.

Silent Witness (BBC1/2005) ep: The Meaning of Death.  Character "Dawn Pivcevic" seen briefly topless on an autopsy table, and seen alive in flashbacks, but non-speaking and uncredited.

ITV Shows

DCI Banks (ITV/2011) ep: Friend of the Devil.  Uncredited character called "Hayley Daniels" topless as a dead body on postmortem table

Case Sensitive (ITV/2011) -  2-part drama.  Uncredited character called "Maria Hey" seen topless in a bath in a death flashback scene

Falling (ITV/2005) - Non-speaking uncredited character called "Marietta" topless in a sex scene with Michael Kitchen

Wycliffe (ITV/1994) series 1, ep: The Dead Flautist.  She was a character called "Lizzie Biddick" who has been murdered and some saucy pictures of her are found, one is full frontal - but she is never seen alive or dead on-screen and is not credited at the end.  NOTE: The on-screen view of the photo is often now edited out of repeat transmissions.

Wire In The Blood (ITV/2006) - ep: Torment.  A previous victim called "Juliette" is pulled out on a mortuary shelf for a new examination to see if her fingernails have been painted in the same way as the latest victim

Channel 5 and Sky

Life and Death In Rome (Sky1/2005): Docudrama.  Two characters named as "Lydia" and "Daria" both topless getting into a roman bath.

Urban Gothic (C5/2001) series 2, ep: Necromance.  A featured, but non-speaking role as dead body in a morgue, named "Charlotte"
Topless as a dead body on a mortuary slab as a young student called Corum (Alastair Bruce) pulls away the sheet covering her and starts kissing her when Poppy (Susan Burnett) comes in and sees him - later full frontal nudity on the slab as Corum gets off her and Poppy takes a photo - then continuing to be seen topless as Corum and Poppy stand beside the slab talking and she encourages him to carry on kissing the dead girl.  NOTE: Her name is determined when Corum reads the tag on her foot - but she is never seen alive with any dialogue and is not credited.

A Mind To Kill (C5/1997) - series 2, episode 3, Game Plan - a character called "Mandy", topless and rear nudity on a beach with a non-topless friend (who is credited), they go separate ways and Mandy comes a cropper

Unidentified Sukie Smith Short

There is an as yet unidentified short film featuring Sukie Smith in a topless bath scene. The clip comes from a collector's compilation of scenes made in 1996 and so would have been shown on TV sometime around then. The title of the short was not indexed.

In the short clip she is topless laying back in a bath with clear non-soapy water. Before getting into the bath she stands in the bathroom and touches her arm which looks bruised, and then in the bath she tenderly touches her cheek which also looks like it may be bruised.

There is nothing on her IMDB credits that seems to fit the bill and it has remained an unsolved mystery.

On her agents website her CV contains a couple of shorts not listed on IMDB:-

Wedlock
Directed by Devon Dixon
Character Name: Sonya
Dated 1992 on the BFI database, but has no cast listed, and the director's name is spelt "Dickson"

Asking For It
Directed by Madeleine Hall
Character Name: Adele
Not listed on the BFI database
Although her CV doesn't use dates, it is listed in chronological order and so this short is between other things whose dates are known that would place it in the 1990-1992 range.

So the scene in question might well be from one of those two, but no other information on them has been found to be able to make any further progress.

The fact that she appears to be bruised perhaps resonates more with the title "Asking For It" if it was about some sort of domestic abuse situation, but I'm only speculating because the clip doesn't include any footage to indicate how she got the bruises.

UPDATE - May 2014
Replaced above collage with full version.

Worthy Site Footnotes #3

Here are a some more Site Footnotes.  Although this time a couple of scenes featuring actresses who have since trumped these moments in other productions.

Alice Eve in Poirot: The Mystery of The Blue Train, from 2006, has a quite revealing-seeming moment when she jumps onto the back of a night-time intruder while wearing a dropping nightdress.  She has since appeared properly topless in the 2009 film Crossing Over.

Laura Haddock in the 2007 Comedy Showcase pilot for Plus One as she is rising from a sofa.  She has since appeared properly topless in the TV series Da Vinci's Demons.

Not The Nine O'Clock News - Baby On The Bus - further update

It's a bit of a mystery to me why, but the original Baby on the Bus post continues to be the most viewed post every week.  The behind-the-scenes Blog Statistics which tally up the number of times each post is viewed (in single-post view mode) shows that it tops the tables every week with hits coming in directly from people searching for information on the sketch via search engines.  It has had a vastly disproportionate 33% of all the hits received for all 25 posts placed so far.  But quite why that subject is of such keen interest, I don't know.  The next nearest one is 12.5% which was the one about Killing Bono.

Anyway since it seems to be of particular interest here is a further update to illustrate my negative findings (reported in the Round-Up in December 2013) which came after viewing the two Are You Being Served episodes to check if same woman who appeared in the sketch could be spotted, which would have been strongly supportive of her being Robina Gauge who is logged on the BBC Motion Gallery records as having appeared in both these AYBS episodes as well as the episode of the Not The Nine O'Clock News featuring the "Baby on the Bus" episode. 

The following collages show the people seen on screen who had non-speaking parts and were not shown in the end credits.  At the bottom of each collage is a reminder of the "Baby on the Bus" actress

Mrs Slocombe, Senior Person
(This episode had very few extras)

 

It's feasible that she could be the extra in the black jacket at the bottom right if she's wearing a wig, but it's not possible to tell with any certainty.  This was the best view of those customers who are only seen on screen for a few seconds.


The Hero
(There were more extras in this one so two collages are required)

#1

The extra on the left is only seen from the side for a fraction of a second
The extra in the middle is the lift operator about to give Captain Peacock a kiss
The extra on the right in the green top is watching the boxing match with Young Mr Grace and his (credited) nurse and secretary - she looks a bit like Penelope Wilton.




#2

There are four more extras standing on the back row behind the regular staff also watching the boxing match.











So as I say it's difficult to correlate any of the actresses as appearing in both episodes or any of them closely matching the Baby on the Bus actress.

Stephen Dwoskin Films

Stephen Dwsokin films are peculiarly unconventional works which are probably best described as experimentally avant-garde.  It’s a shame however that watching them is something of an endurance test since they are rarely about anything in particular and often seem to be randomly put together with no obvious structure or attempt to employ a narrative which is likely to engage the casual viewer.

Stephen Dwoskin was born in America but moved to Britain in the 1960s in his 20s where he spent the rest of his life.  Most of his films were made in England using a mixture of actors from Britain and Germany, where he also had connections.  As a child he contracted polio which left him unable to walk without crutches and some of his films autobiographically show him coping with this disability.  He died in 2012.

Several of the films contain female nudity and some of these actresses remain unidentified beyond them being on a shortlist of possibilities, because whilst the films have acting credits these are usually just an alphabetical list of names making it hard to tell who was playing which parts.

Here are details of two of the full-length features which contain nudity from British actresses that I can't as yet add to the database due to not being able to pinpoint their names.

Central Bazaar (1976)

141 mins

Cast:

With: Maggie Corey, Marc Chaimowicz, Eddie Doyle, Mike Flower, Iggy Evelyn Joyce, Carola Regnier, Maria Elena Rivera, Jay Sheridan, Libby Spry

Also: Carolyn Rogers, A. Harvey

The name "A. Harvey" crops up in a number of Dwoskin films and it has therefore been possible to determine he must be the black male actor who appears in all those films.  In one film "Trying To Kiss The Moon (1994)", his name is credited in full as Astley Harvey.  Jay Sheridan could be a male or female name, but seems more likely to be male, since there are six women in it and six definite female names listed.

The six actresses featured

A) She speaks and has an English accent (she tells a long "Three Little Pigs" story).  She has a couple of topless scenes and one wearing transparent panties

B) Does not speak.  She has a topless scene.  This actress does not appear as much as the others and therefore could potentially be the lesser "also" name listed as Carolyn Rogers

C) Oriental appearance, several topless and full frontal scenes

D) A slightly older woman.  She has no nudity

E) She has no nudity in this film.  This actress is Carola Regnier who is a German actress and can be identified via her appearances in other Dwoskin films Behindert (1974) and Tod und Teufel (1974) (in both of those she does have topless scenes)

F) She speaks and possibly sounds a bit American(?).  She has several topless scenes.

I have been unable to get anywhere with working out who is who other than Carola Regnier.  Actress A is the one I would most like to identify since she definitely seems to be British from the way she speaks.

SCENES IN DETAIL

Actress A: Topless with her right breast out of her open robe as she lets a man bounce it playfully with his finger • topless kneeling on the floor as she rubs cream onto F's back with help from C and one of the men • topless sitting together on the floor with C and F caressing each other and cuddling • lower nudity seen through transparent panties while wearing a short orange top as she stands around with one of the men as they play fight.

Actress B: Topless with her breasts out of the top of a basque as she rolls around on the floor smooching with one of the men who is dressed in women's lingerie - then fully topless as they continue after she has painted her face.

Actress C: Her right breast is seen out of her top while kissing a man • full frontal nudity laying on some cushions - then topless sitting on the floor with another girl • full frontal nudity standing as two other girls undress her - then sitting around with one of them as they cuddle • topless wearing a transparent orangey veil wrap • full frontal nudity on the floor as one of the men F rub cream on her • topless and rear nudity sitting together on the floor with A and F caressing each other and cuddling • topless with her breasts painted gold as she dresses up as a geisha girl helped by F • full frontal nudity standing looking seductively into the camera

Actress F: Topless fooling around play-fighting with one of the men • topless with the front of her body painted and adorned with red button shapes while sitting on the floor with C as they cuddle and caress - (then) topless sitting alone - then topless laying down as the man rubs cream onto her legs • topless sitting rubbing cream onto C • topless as she helps C dress up as a geisha girl • topless standing around watching A and one of the men have a play fight



Outside In (1981)

110 minutes

Cast

Actresses: Claudia Boulton, Olimpia Carlisi, Kathie Conn, Beatrice Cordua, Suzie Crowley, Didi Hopkins, Jane Janovic, Ilona Jeismann, Merdelle Jordine, Edith Kramer, Marie Manet, Nathalie Manet, Dorothy Mogg, Layla Newall

Actors: Jaroslav Bradac, Mitch Davies, Georges Depuis, Bobby Gill, Chris Hammond, A. Harvey, Tony Haygarth, Chris Martin, Derek O'Connor, Tony Rohr, Stephen Dwoskin

Uncertain Gender: Jackie Hackworth

A) (no nudity) Stephen's girlfriend in prologue, she does not speak, she may be called "Liz" but it's not entirety clear if the name refers to her, if it does then it is a fictional character name because that does not match any of the actresses

B) (full frontal nudity) Steve's cleaner, she speaks and has an English accent 

C) (slightly see-through dress) character name "Stephanie", speaks and has an English accent

D) (no nudity) Green glitter hair wig, young, speaks French

E) (no nudity) English accent, This is Claudia Boulton who has been identified via an appearance in a 2001 UK film called "Kannibal" in which the double moles near her mouth are also seen when she is being interviewed in that film's DVD extras (during the actual film she wears a mask)

F) (no nudity) speaks German

G) (no nudity) speaks with an American accent

H) (no nudity) English accent, black skin.  This is Merdelle Jordine because she is known to be a black actress and there was only this one black actress in the film.

I) (topless) Steve's friend arriving home, She speaks German and also English with a German accent

J) (no nudity) English accent, character name "Bobby"

K) (no nudity) speaks French

L) (no nudity) American accent

M) (topless scene) short red hair, she does not speak

N) (topless scene) she does not speak

O) (no nudity) she does not speak, she might be the same as Actress K

P) (no nudity) she does not speak, she seems to resemble Jane Janovic who still has her picture in the Spotlight directory

Actress B is the one I would most like to identify since she definitely seems to be a British actress from her speaking voice. 

SCENES IN DETAIL

Actress B: Full frontal nudity as she comes into Steve's (Stephen Dwoskin) room naked and sits on his bed to kiss him after building up a friendly ever-more-relaxed rapport with him over a period of time working as his room cleaner.

Actress C: Singing in a group wearing a dress that is very clingy and perhaps slightly see-through

Actress I: Topless with her left breast seen as she arrives at Steve's (Stephen Dwoskin) flat with her suitcase and immediately unfastens the front of her dress as she opens the front door and greets him in German - then topless as she picks up her case and walks down the hallway • topless sitting in her briefs as she puts on her handicapped friend Steve's leg callipers and then struggles to her feet using his crutches and then walks around his flat clumsily getting used to the restriction of movement - then topless as she sits down on his bed with him and lays down laughing uncontrollably at how ridiculous she feels and the effort required just to move around.

Actress M: Topless as she takes off the party frock she has been trying on on an upstairs landing - seen at a medium distance from the bottom of the stairs

Actress N: topless in a bedroom as she stands to put on a kinky black PVC dominatrix costume

Details of other Stephen Dwoskin films

• The b&w short Take Me (1968) has nude scenes from an actress identified in the credits as Clodagh Brown - she is the only person in the film
• The film Dyn Amo (1972) has topless or nude scenes featuring Jenny Runacre, Pat Ford, Catherine Kessler and Linda Marlowe
• The film Behindert (1974) has a couple of topless scenes with Carole Regnier.  Stephen Dwoskin appears as himself in this film and she is playing his girlfriend
• The film Tod und Teufel (1974) has a very brief topless glimpse of Carole Regnier
• The short Girl (1975) (filmed in 1971) has a long nude scene with Linda Marlowe (credited as Linda Marlow).  In fact her standing naked facing the camera doing nothing IS the entire film which lasts 22 minutes
• The film The Silent Cry (1977) has several nude scenes featuring Cosey Fanni Tutti (credited as Cosey P-Orridge).  The film itself gives no way to identify which one she is but she is identifiable via other things she appeared in during the 1970s.

The one major Stephen Dwoskin film I've not seen is Further and Particular (1988).  From a few clips seen I know it has some topless scenes but cannot tell who they are.  IMDB has entries for Stephen Dwoskin's films, but usually with only a fraction of the credited cast members actually listed.

  

Grease Monkeys Update

Further to an earlier post about the hypnotist scene in an early episode of BBC3's Grease Monkeys from 2003, a contributor has pointed me towards the solution.

Josephine Markham Webster has posted the clip on YouTube identifying herself as the hypnotised girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y7s4g5NXHE

I've seen her name on the IMDB listings for Grease Monkeys before but hadn't thought it could be her because her character name is shown as "Hypnotist's Assistant" which doesn't really seem to fit (unless it transpired she was his stooge), but much more pointedly her name is attached to episode 10 which is the wrong episode entirely.

However, now looking again at other sources I see that Josephine Markham is listed for episode 1 on the Kaleidoscope Guide which fits much better.  Although this in itself is somewhat puzzling because if it is listed there that must mean she was credited after all.  I had always been under the impression that hers was an uncredited role but that seemingly turns out not to be the case.  It could be that the end credits were listed without character names and no one who watched it at the time was able to match her name up.

Josephine Markham Webster is a photographic model and has her own website.  Photos of her show a fair likeness to the girl in the scene although without her self-identification I wouldn't have been able to tell for sure.

Worthy Site Footnotes #2

Here's a second batch of Site Footnotes entries.  These are both of Tamzin Malleson who is probably best remembered for being in C4's Teachers, but she was also in Bodies, Always and Everyone and Dangerfield.  She is now a regular in Midsomer Murders (although possibly a bit underused in that?).

As far as I'm aware she has never done any actual nudity but here are two things she's been in that I would say are worth a mention, both of which are oft repeated on ITV3 because of the perennially popular series they happen to be part of.

Firstly, A Touch of Frost: Deep Waters from 1996 which was her first TV role. 

And secondly, Poirot: Evil Under The Sun which was first shown on 15 Dec 2002, although the copyright date at the end is 2000.