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Denise Coffey is a Actor British born on 12 december 1936 at Aldershot (United-kingdom)
Denise Coffey (born 12 December 1936, Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English actress, director and playwright.
After training at the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art, Coffey began a career in repertory at the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh, then moved to the Palladium Theatre there. She later worked for the BBC as a radio interviewer, before appearing in London's West End. In the 1970s she was a member of director Frank Dunlop's repertory company in London's Young Vic Theatre, appearing in several productions and beginning her career as a playwright with some children's shows.
Coffey has had a few supporting film roles. These have included Sidonia in Waltz of the Toreadors (1962), Peg in Georgy Girl (1966), Soberness in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and Mrs. E in Vivian Stanshall's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980). Her television appearances include Do Not Adjust Your Set, the Stanley Baxter series (1968, 1971), Girls About Town (1970–71), Hold the Front Page (1974; which she also created), and End of Part One (1979).
She always refused to appear in commercials declaring that it was reprehensible to try to persuade people to buy things they didn't need.
On radio, Coffey featured in The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, in the first series of The Burkiss Way and in The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately and has made guest appearances on several programmes, including I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute. She starred with Miriam Margolyes in two series of Alison and Maud.(2002-4).
She has also enjoyed success as a theatre director, including several notable productions at the Shaw Festival in Canada,
such as Noël Coward's Private Lives and Shaw's Androcles and the Lion and Pygmalion.
She lives in Devon where she has a successful career as an artist.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 12 december 1936 at Aldershot (United-kingdom)
Death 24 march 2022 (at 85 years)
Birth 12 december 1936 at Aldershot (United-kingdom)
Death 24 march 2022 (at 85 years)
Denise Coffey (born 12 December 1936, Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English actress, director and playwright.
After training at the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art, Coffey began a career in repertory at the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh, then moved to the Palladium Theatre there. She later worked for the BBC as a radio interviewer, before appearing in London's West End. In the 1970s she was a member of director Frank Dunlop's repertory company in London's Young Vic Theatre, appearing in several productions and beginning her career as a playwright with some children's shows.
Coffey has had a few supporting film roles. These have included Sidonia in Waltz of the Toreadors (1962), Peg in Georgy Girl (1966), Soberness in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and Mrs. E in Vivian Stanshall's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980). Her television appearances include Do Not Adjust Your Set, the Stanley Baxter series (1968, 1971), Girls About Town (1970–71), Hold the Front Page (1974; which she also created), and End of Part One (1979).
She always refused to appear in commercials declaring that it was reprehensible to try to persuade people to buy things they didn't need.
On radio, Coffey featured in The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, in the first series of The Burkiss Way and in The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately and has made guest appearances on several programmes, including I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute. She starred with Miriam Margolyes in two series of Alison and Maud.(2002-4).
She has also enjoyed success as a theatre director, including several notable productions at the Shaw Festival in Canada,
such as Noël Coward's Private Lives and Shaw's Androcles and the Lion and Pygmalion.
She lives in Devon where she has a successful career as an artist.
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Saving Grace (2000)
, 1h33Directed by Nigel Cole
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Tchéky Karyo, Martin Clunes, Valerie Edmond, Jamie Foreman
Roles Mrs. Hopkins
Rating68%
After being unexpectedly widowed, respectable and reserved housewife Grace Trevethyn (Brenda Blethyn) discovers that her late husband ran up significant debts and left her facing foreclosure and numerous repossessions. Well liked around Port Isaac, the coastal fishing town she lives in, Grace is given emotional support by the town's inhabitants, particularly her loyal, pot-smoking gardener Matthew Stewart (Craig Ferguson), his girlfriend and the town's fisherwoman Nicky (Valerie Edmond), and their friend Dr Martin Bamford (Martin Clunes). Despite wanting to help Grace, none of the residents are able to find a way to get her out of her dire situation.
Another Time, Another Place (1983)
Directed by Michael Radford
Genres Drama, War
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Phyllis Logan, Denise Coffey, Tom Watson, Gregor Fisher, Paul Young, Yvonne Gilan
Roles Meg
Rating64%
In Scotland in 1943 during World War II, Janie (Phyllis Logan) is a young Scottish housewife married to Dougal (Paul Young), who is 15 years older. Participating in a war rehabilation program, the couple take in three Italian prisoners of war to work on their farm. Janie soon falls in love with one of the three, Luigi (Giovanni Mauriello). She begins a secret relationship with Luigi that is doomed from the start.
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)
, 1h11Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Trevor Howard, Patrick Magee, Talfryn Thomas, Denise Coffey, J.G. Devlin, Daniel Gerroll
Roles Mrs E
Rating63%
The plot of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End revolves around attempts to exorcise the ghost of Humbert, the brother of drunken aristocrat Sir Henry (Trevor Howard). Humbert was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident whilst escaping trouserless from an illicit tryst. It transpires that Humbert's ghost will not rest until it is supplied with replacement trousers. Until then the ghost walks the corridors of Rawlinson End, often accompanied by that of Humbert's dog Gums which has repossessed its own body, now stuffed and mounted on a trolley.
Percy (1971)
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer, Britt Ekland, Cyd Hayman, Janet Key
Roles Operator
Rating45%
, 1h31Directed by Bud Yorkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Orson Welles
Roles Anne Duval
Rating63%
Two sets of identical twins, played by Wilder and Sutherland, are accidentally switched at birth. One set, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, is aristocratic and haughty, while the other set, Charles and Claude Coupé, is poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigues.
Georgy Girl (1966)
, 1h39Directed by Silvio Narizzano
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, Bill Owen, Rachel Kempson
Roles Peg
Rating68%
Georgina Parkin (Lynn Redgrave) is a 22-year-old Londoner who has considerable musical talent, is well educated, and has an engaging if shameless manner. On the other hand, she believes herself to be plain, slightly overweight, dresses haphazardly, and is incredibly naïve on the subjects of love and flirtation; she has never had a boyfriend. She has an inventive imagination and loves children.
Doctor in Distress (1963)
, 1h42Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, Samantha Eggar, Barbara Murray, Mylène Demongeot, Leo McKern
Roles Food Seller at Railway Station (uncredited)
Rating56%
Simon Sparrow, now a senior doctor at Hampden Cross Hospital, falls in love with Delia, a model and aspiring actress. They eventually move in together, but then she goes to Italy to try out for a film.
What a Crazy World (1963)
, 1h28Directed by Michael Carreras
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Joe Brown, Harry H. Corbett, Michael Ripper, Monte Landis, Denise Coffey, Billy Murray
Roles Horror
Rating57%
Farewell Performance (1963)
, 1h13Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Delphi Lawrence, Frederick Jaeger, Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Denise Coffey, Donald Tandy
Rating61%
After a pop singer is murdered, the police have to figure out which of his many enemies is responsible.
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
, 1h44Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, John Fraser, Cyril Cusack, Prunella Scales
Roles Sidonia Fitzjohn
Rating58%
This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now a shrewish and hypochondriac woman, all the more bitter as she still loves him. The General has two plain-looking daughters he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years. When Ghislaine resurfaces, determined to complete her love with him and to get rid of Emily, Leo is at a loss what to do...
The Wild and the Willing (1962)
, 1h50Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Virginia Maskell, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Harry Locke, Jeremy Brett, Samantha Eggar
Rating59%
A group of young men at university go through the students' life – dancing, drinking, meeting girls. Harry (Ian McShane) is a rather rebellious young man, going out with Josie (Samantha Eggar). His room mate is Phil (John Hurt), a quiet outsider. Harry feels very protective of Phil for some reason. Phil loves Sarah (Katherine Woodville), who jilted him for another more suitable boyfriend.