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British actress best known for her role as Mildred Roper in the '70s sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred. Born to musical parents Hurst Needham and Jessica Rivett in 1927, Joyce was trained at RADA, toured with ENSA and came to prominence via the Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, securing roles in TV shows such as The Avengers, Man in a Suitcase, Te Saint, Jason King and Steptoe and Son, and the films The Pumpkin Eater, A Man For All Seasons, Charlie Bubbles, All the Right Noises and Burke and Hare. She was married to fellow actor Glynn Edwards from 1956 to 1968, and they remained friends all her life. An alcoholic, Joyce died from liver failure in 1980, just four days after her 53rd birthday. Her sitcom co-star Brian Murphy was by her side. In 1986 the Smiths used an image of Joyce on the sleeve of their UK single release "Ask" and the German release of "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" securing her place as a British cultural icon.
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Total trailers found: 26
01 January 1969
Graham Baird wakes up in strange clothes in a strange apartment, both he and his wife want to know where he had been the previous night.
25 February 1971
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there may be more to him than meets the eye.
21 March 1965
A young woman is terrorized by her former fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
13 December 1966
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
01 January 1972
When Eli and Nellie Pledge's father dies, the duo are left in charge of his pickle empire. The two siblings are complete opposites and Eli wants out, but since he can't leave until Nellie is married, he sets about finding a husband for his old-fashioned sister.
14 October 2023
An affectionate look at the 1970s sitcom, with interviews and a look behind the scenes.
01 July 1963
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
16 October 1970
A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly �
11 February 1968
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond.
16 July 1964
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter.
03 September 1970
Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate.
03 February 1972
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
09 February 1969
Inspector Maigret responds to a call from a young woman in the middle of the night, but he then finds himself accused of raping her.
01 July 1966
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe.
23 May 1967
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him.
14 September 1967
Seven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.
15 July 1965
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break.
03 January 1973
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
29 January 1968
An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.
19 August 1962
Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.
26 March 1963
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone.
19 September 1974
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr.
10 October 1980
Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper is determined to make husband George celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London.
01 May 1973
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood.
22 December 1974
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are.
09 December 1968
Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else.
