Julia Arnall, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1931, moved to Britain in 1950 and began her career as a model before turning to acting.
During the 1950s and ’60s she appeared in several films, including Simon and Laura, House of Secrets, The Quiller Memorandum and, most notably, Lost. However, when her Rank contract was terminated in 1957, her screen appearances became infrequent.
Her television credits include Sword of Freedom, International Detective, Ghost Squad, The Saint and The Troubleshooters.
ARTHUR
Played by Derek Francis
Arthur works as a security guard in the lobby of Finisham Maternity Hospital in Matron. A miserable-looking guy whose demeanour is remarked upon by Sid Carter, who’s pretending to be an expectant father in an attempt to find out where the contraceptive pills are kept. He comments he’ll christen his baby ‘Happy’ after him.
ASKWITH, ROBIN
Role: Larry in Girls
Born in Southport, Lancashire, in 1950, Robin Askwith was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, Rickmansworth. Unable to take up a place at Bristol University, where he intended reading English and drama, he happened upon a career in acting, beginning with a margarine commercial, followed by, in 1968, the part of Keating in Lindsay Anderson’s film, If.
He’s made over thirty films but is arguably best remembered for playing the lead in the Confessions sex comedies of the 1970s. Other film credits include Scramble; Hide and Seek; Bless This House; Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers; Brittania Hospital, again with Lindsay Anderson, and, in 2000, The Asylum. His television work over the years has seen him appear in, among others, The Borderers, Boon, Sunburn and Doctors.
In 1977 he formed The Comedy Company and toured the world with various shows. Today, he lives on the island of Gozo.
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Played by Robin Ray
The assistant manager of F.H. Rowse, a department store in Constable, isn’t informed by his manager of PC Benson and PC Gorse’s undercover work attempting to catch shoplifters in the store, which explains the confusion that ensues when they become suspects themselves.
AT YOUR CONVENIENCE, CARRY ON
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ATKINS, JOHN
Played by Paul Cole
In Teacher, Atkins is a leading culprit among the kids who set out to cause havoc when a school inspector and child psychiatrist visit Maudlin Street Secondary Modern School.
ATS GIRL
Played by Barbara Rosenblat
Based at the experimental 1313 anti-aircraft battery in England, she’s one of the shirkers who suffers a severe shock to the system when the tough-speaking Captain Melly is put in charge of the unit.
ATTRACTIVE NURSE
Played by Shane Cordell
One of the nurses employed at Haven Hospital in Nurse.
AU PAIR GIRL
Played by Zena Clifton
When the pregnant film star, Jane Darling, is rushed off in the back of an ambulance, Mr Darling can’t wait to wave his wife goodbye so he can return to the house and get his hands all over his au pair. Appears in Matron.
AUBREY, DIANE
Role: Honoria in Constable
Diane Aubrey, born in Nottingham in 1939, joined LAMDA straight from school. By the time she graduated she’d already made her acting debut, appearing in a 1957 episode of the series The Vise and the film Grip of the Strangler, a year later.
Although she worked in rep, most of her career was spent on the screen. As well as appearing in series like Moonstrike and Dixon of Dock Green, she played Sally Clarkson in Z Cars for several months during 1962, and Sandra in the 1963 series, Taxi!, with Sid James. On the big screen, her credits include Village of the Damned; Watch it, Sailor!; Petticoat Pirates;The Wild Affair and her last film, The Engagement in 1970.
She retired from acting at the age of twenty-nine after her children were born. Now based in London, she’s been teaching the Alexander Technique for twenty-four years.
AUNTIE
Played by Lucy Griffiths
Named as Aunt Acid in the Regardless script, she’s standing alongside Montgomery Infield-Hopping in the bachelor exhibit at the Ideal House Exhibition. She looks disapprovingly when Delia comes flying through the wall of the exhibit next-door, much to the delight of the raffish customer.
AVERY AVENUE
The road where Bide-a-Wee Rest Home stands in Screaming!
AXWELL, NURSE GEORGIE
Played by Susan Stephen
Georgie Axwell works on the ward at Haven Hospital in Nurse.
AZURE BAY
A region in the Beatific Islands where the Moore Medical Mission – which is nothing more than a decrepit wooden hut – stands. The bay is visited by Dr Carver and Dr Nookey in Again Doctor.
BABS
Played by Barbara Windsor
Seen in Camping, Babs (real name Barbara) is one of the nubile young ladies from Chayste Place, a finishing school, camping at the Paradise Camp Site. Out to enjoy herself, the mischievous Babs flirts with Sid Boggle, much to his girlfriend’s chagrin, while under canvas, before heading off on the back of a lorry with other partygoers at an all-nite rave in the adjoining field. (Note: in an early draft of the script, a character called Rosemary was due to lose her bikini top.)
BADEN-SEMPER, NINA
Role: Girl Nosha in Up the Jungle
Born in the West Indies in 1945, Nina Baden-Semper first appeared on screen in the 1960s but is best known for playing Barbie Reynolds in five series of the controversial sitcom, Love Thy Neighbour, during the 1970s.
Other small screen credits include Rainbow City, Counterstrike, Callan, George and Mildred and Children’s Ward. She appeared most recently in the revival of Crossroads. Her occasional film credits include Kongi’s Harvest, The Love Ban and 1999’s Rage.
BAGLEY, LADY EVELYN
Played by Joan Sims
Seen in Up the Jungle on the expedition into the jungles of Africa. Soon after her baby boy, Cecil, was born, her husband whisked her off to the African jungle for a belated honeymoon. Tragedy struck when her hubby took their son for an early morning stroll along the banks of the Limpopo River and neither were seen again. When her husband’s fob watch was later discovered inside a crocodile’s stomach, and her son’s nappy abandoned on the riverbank, she feared the worst. Now she has returned to try and find the nappy pin, just something she can cling on to as a memory of her little boy.
When she unexpectedly meets Cecil, the Jungle Boy, and finds he has a big, silver safety pin holding his loincloth together, she suddenly realises her little baby – now a very big baby – is still alive. She’s desperate to find her son and is finally reunited by the time Lady Bagley and the other members of the party, who manage to escape the grip of the Lubidubies, a female tribe in the jungle, head