Who played Thelma in The Likely Lads
"the friendship, resumed after five years apart, of two working-class young men, Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) and Terry Collier (James Bolam). The word ""likely"" in the title referred, in the 1960s series, to those showing promise, but also to those likely to get up to well-meaning mischief. The humour was based on the tension between Terry's firmly working-class outlook and Bob's aspirations to join the middle class, through his new white-collar job, suburban home and impending marriage to prissy librarian Thelma Chambers (Brigit Forsyth). Since the ending of the original series in 1966, Bob has left factory life behind and"
"Brigit Forsyth Brigit Forsyth (born 28 July 1940 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish actress, best known for her roles as Thelma Ferris in the BBC comedy ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"" and Helen Yeldham in the ITV drama"" Boon"". After leaving St George's School for Girls in Edinburgh, Forsyth trained as a secretary before enrolling at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she won the Emile Littler Award. Forsyth toured in ""My Fat Friend"" and performed in the West End productions of ""The Norman Conquests""; and ""Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi"". Her film work includes ""The Night Digger"" (1971)"
"The Likely Lads (film) The Likely Lads is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Michael Tuchner, starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes. It is a spin-off from ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"", although it shares its title with the earlier 1960s British television series ""The Likely Lads"", of which ""Whatever"" was the sequel. The screenplay is by the scriptwriters of the television show, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; and the principal roles of Bob and Terry, as well as those of Bob's wife Thelma and Terry's sister Audrey, are played by the original television cast. An opening"
"Despite Thelma and Terry's strained friendship, she defended him on one occasion, describing him as 'honest' and 'unpretentious' when a snobbish friend of hers insulted him. Thelma's attitude to Terry seems to mellow throughout the series, and she turns to him for advice when her and Bob experience marital problems. Thelma and Bob's marriage appears to be a largely happy one, however it is often complicated and Thelma on several occasions mistakenly accused Bob of infidelity. Thelma Chambers Thelma Ingrid Ferris (née Chambers) is a character in British sitcom ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"", and is mentioned in ""The"
"Thelma & Louise Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American road film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri. It stars Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, two friends who embark on a road trip with unforeseen consequences. The supporting cast include Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, and Brad Pitt in his first major film role. The film became a critical and commercial success, receiving six Academy Award nominations and winning for Best Original Screenplay. Scott was nominated for Best Director, and both Sarandon and Davis were nominated for Best Actress. At its release, the film"
"Rebecca De Mornay Rebecca De Mornay (born Rebecca Jane Pearch; August 29, 1959) is an American actress and producer. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she starred as Lana in ""Risky Business"". She is also known for her portrayals of Sara in ""Runaway Train"" (1985), Thelma in ""The Trip to Bountiful"" (1985), Helen McCaffrey in ""Backdraft"" (1991), and Peyton Flanders in ""The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"" (1992). Her other film credits include ""The Three Musketeers"" (1993), ""Never Talk to Strangers"" (1995), ""Identity"" (2003), ""Lords of Dogtown""; ""Wedding Crashers"" (both 2005), and ""Mother's Day"" (2010). On television, she"
"Thelma Todd Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress. Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films such as Marx Brothers' ""Monkey Business"", ""Horse Feathers"", and a number of Charley Chase's short comedies and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in ""Speak Easily"". She also had roles in Wheeler and Woolsey farces and several Laurel and Hardy films, the last of which (""The Bohemian Girl"") featured her in a part that was truncated by her suspicious death at the age of"
"Geena Davis Virginia Elizabeth ""Geena"" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actress, film producer, writer, former model, and former archer. She is known for her roles in ""The Fly"" (1986), ""Beetlejuice"" (1988), ""The Accidental Tourist"" (1988), ""Thelma & Louise"" (1991), ""A League of Their Own"" (1992), ""The Long Kiss Goodnight"" (1996), and ""Stuart Little"" (1999). For her performance in ""The Accidental Tourist"", she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for ""Thelma & Louise"", she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress along with her co-star Susan Sarandon. In 2005, Davis won the Golden"
"Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6262 Hollywood Blvd. Thelma Todd Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress. Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films such as Marx Brothers' ""Monkey Business"", ""Horse Feathers"", and a number of Charley Chase's short comedies and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in ""Speak Easily"". She also had roles in Wheeler and Woolsey farces and several Laurel and Hardy films, the last of which (""The Bohemian Girl"") featured her in a part that was truncated"
"Sheila Fearn Sheila Fearn (born 3 October 1940 in Leicester) is a retired British actress best known for playing Audrey, the sister of Terry Collier in BBC situation comedies ""The Likely Lads"" and ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"", and also later on as Ann Fourmile, the next door neighbour in the popular Thames Television sitcom ""George and Mildred"". She attended Gateway Girls Grammar School on Elbow Lane in Leicester, which closed in 1960. On film she appeared in ""Billy Liar"" (1963), ""Catch Us If You Can"" (1965) and ""Time Bandits"" (1981), as well as the film versions of both"
"Sheila Fearn Sheila Fearn (born 3 October 1940 in Leicester) is a retired British actress best known for playing Audrey, the sister of Terry Collier in BBC situation comedies ""The Likely Lads"" and ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"", and also later on as Ann Fourmile, the next door neighbour in the popular Thames Television sitcom ""George and Mildred"". She attended Gateway Girls Grammar School on Elbow Lane in Leicester, which closed in 1960. On film she appeared in ""Billy Liar"" (1963), ""Catch Us If You Can"" (1965) and ""Time Bandits"" (1981), as well as the film versions of both"
"Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Jane Austen's ""Sense and Sensibility"". Her stage work includes ""Calendar Girls"" in 2008 and Alan Bennett's ""People"" in 2013. She had previously appeared in Bennett's ""Single Spies"" in which she played the part of the Queen. In 2015 she appeared in ""Now This is Not the End"" at the Arcola Theatre in London. Brigit Forsyth Brigit Forsyth (born 28 July 1940 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish actress, best known for her roles as Thelma Ferris in the BBC comedy ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"" and Helen Yeldham in the ITV drama"" Boon""."
"secondary modern school, while Thelma attended grammar school. Bob and Thelma remained in contact. Thelma and Bob married at the end of the first series of ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"". Thelma saw Terry as the largest threat to her marriage, although at some point she is known to have had courtship with him, which she describes as 'mistreatment by something coarse and vulgar'. Thelma is capable of being a snob at times and is keen to be seen to be middle class and tries to distance her husband from his working class roots, something Terry proves counter-productive in."
"Tom, Dick and Harriet Tom, Dick and Harriet is a British sitcom that was broadcast for two series from 1982 to 1983. It was created by the sitcom writing team of Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, and it starred veteran actor Lionel Jeffries in one of his few television roles, only seven months after his previous TV sitcom role in ""Father Charlie"", Ian Ogilvy (who had a few years before been cast as Simon Templar a.k.a. The Saint in ""Return of the Saint""), and Brigit Forsyth (best known for her role as Thelma Ferris in ""The Likely Lads""/""Whatever Happened to"
"Likely Lads"". Some episodes of both the original black and white series and the colour sequel were adapted for radio, with the original television cast. The original show followed the friendship of two young working class men, Terry Collier (James Bolam) and Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes), in Newcastle upon Tyne in the mid 1960s. Bob and Terry are assumed to be in their early 20s (when their ages are revealed in the later film, this puts both characters at around 20 when the series started). After growing up at school and in the Scouts together, Bob and Terry are working"
"Geordie slang, ""a likely lad"". Another possible meaning is the ambiguous Northern usage of ""likely"" to mean a small-time troublemaker. Guest stars included George Layton, Garfield Morgan, Wendy Richard, Susan Jameson (the real-life wife of James Bolam), Michael Sheard, Nerys Hughes, Geoffrey Hughes, Helen Fraser, Tony Caunter and Irene Richmond as Mrs Alice Ferris in three episodes. Only eight episodes survive (as film telerecordings) in the BBC's archives, as a result of its wiping policy of the time. However, the BBC Archive Treasure Hunt, a public campaign, continues to search for missing episodes. Additionally, an eight-minute episode of ""The Likely"
"the Likely Lads?""). It was made by Thames Television for the ITV network. Thomas Maddison (played by Jeffries) had spent 40 years living in the deepest Cornwall countryside, and hen-pecked at that, his late wife banning him from smoking, drinking, and even casually looking at other women. With him becoming a widower, Maddison, unable to wait to break free from the shackles that had bound him for so long, heads off to the bright lights of London, where his son Richard (Dick) (played by Ogilvy) lives with his wife Harriet (played by Forsyth). Suffice to say, his rather primitive manners,"
"""The Likely Lads"" (1976) and ""George and Mildred"" (1980). Fearn's other television credits include ""Adam Adamant Lives!"", ""Paul Temple"", ""Crown Court"", ""East of Ipswich"" by Michael Palin, ""Emergency – Ward 10"", ""Walter"", ""Z-Cars"" and ""The Avengers"". She also played Freddie, a girlfriend of Ronnie Corbett's character Timothy, in ""Sorry!"" She also appeared many times with the Scaffold. ""Likely Lads"" writer Ian La Frenais said of her ""she was sexy and funny and she knew John Lennon...Sheila always found time for everyone, and I now think of her and Audrey with great affection"". Fearn retired from acting in 1988 aged 48."
"Thelma Moss Thelma Moss (born Thelma Schnee, January 6, 1918 – February 1, 1997) was an American actress, and later a psychologist and parapsychologist, best known for her work on Kirlian photography and the human aura. Born Thelma Schnee, a native of Connecticut, Thelma Moss graduated from Carnegie Tech, and originally pursued a career in acting and in writing scripts for film and television. She was one of the earliest members of The Actors Studio; as a scriptwriter, her biggest success was the screenplay for the 1954 Alec Guinness film ""Father Brown"". She also wrote the script for the 1958"
"Thelma Ritter Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1902 – February 5, 1969) was an American actress, best known for her comedic roles as working-class characters and her strong New York accent. She received six Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress—more than any other actress in history—and won one Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Thelma was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1902, the first child of Charles and Lucy Ritter, both natives of the United States. According to the New York State Census of 1905, her father at that time was a bookkeeper. Thelma's acting career"
"Betty Lynn Elizabeth Ann Theresa ""Betty"" Lynn (born August 29, 1926) is a former American actress. She is best known for her role as Thelma Lou, Deputy Barney Fife's girlfriend, on ""The Andy Griffith Show"". Betty Lynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, Her mother, Elizabeth Ann Lynn, was ""an accomplished mezzo-soprano"" who taught Betty to sing and started her in the Kansas City Conservatory of Music when she was 5 years old. Lynn had little personal contact with her father, who once reportedly threatened to shoot her mother in the abdomen when she was pregnant. After Lynn's birth, her"
"Thelma Leeds Thelma Leeds (December 18, 1910 – May 27, 2006), also known as Thelma Bernstein, was an American actress. Leeds was born Thelma Goodman in New York City, to Katie and Joseph Goodman, Russian Jewish immigrants. She was the mother of actor/director Albert Brooks, Bob Einstein (TV's ""Super Dave Osborne""), and Clifford Einstein, chairman of Dailey & Associates Advertising in West Hollywood, California and chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In the early 1930s, Leeds sang light opera on the radio. She also performed in New York nightclubs as Thelma Goodman, her birth name. One night"
"trying to get rid of Terry and throughout the film she tries to persuade him to emigrate, something she is almost successful in. Audrey is an interfering character who tries to involve herself in Bob's marital problems at every opportunity and does not hesitate to pass any problems they have around her friends as gossip. Audrey Collier Audrey Collier is a character in the television series ""The Likely Lads"", ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads"" and the film adaptation of ""The Likely Lads"". She is portrayed by Sheila Fearn throughout the series. Audrey is the older sister of Terry Collier."
"White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd is a 1991 television film in the biographical film genre, based on the life of Hollywood comedic actress Thelma Todd, whose 1935 death was officially ruled accidental but has always been controversial. The film stars Loni Anderson as Todd, Maryedith Burrell, Robert Davi, Paul Dooley, Linda Kelsey, and John O'Hurley. Working titles for the film were ""The Thelma Todd Story"" and ""Hot Toddy"", Todd's nickname during her career. The film was released by itself, and as a ""double feature"" with another Loni Anderson TV"
"The Likely Lads The Likely Lads is a British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and produced by Dick Clement. Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966. However, only eight of these episodes have survived. The sitcom was set in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. This show was followed by a popular sequel series, in colour, entitled ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"", broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 24 December 1974. This was followed in 1976 by a spin-off feature film ""The"
"the actress Susan Jameson (who co-starred with him in the TV series ""When the Boat Comes In"", ""New Tricks"", ""Close and True"" and ""Grandpa in My Pocket""). They have a daughter, Lucy, and two grandchildren. Bolam has appeared in a video protesting against oil drilling near the village of Wisborough Green in West Sussex. Bolam was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours. James Bolam James Christopher Bolam, (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Terry Collier in ""The Likely Lads"" and its sequel ""Whatever"
"has second thoughts and disembarks the next morning. Bob, however, awakeshung overaboard the ship, as it sails for Bahrain. This was an ironic reversal of the ending of the original 1960s show (where Terry, missing Bobwho had joined the Armyjoined up too, only to discover that Bob had been discharged with flat feet). In 2008, The Gala Theatre in Durham staged the world premiere of ""The Likely Lads"", adapted for the stage by Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais and directed by Simon Stallworthy. The title roles of Bob and Terry were played by David Nellist and Scott Frazer respectively. In"
"Audrey Collier Audrey Collier is a character in the television series ""The Likely Lads"", ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads"" and the film adaptation of ""The Likely Lads"". She is portrayed by Sheila Fearn throughout the series. Audrey is the older sister of Terry Collier. In ""The Likely Lads"" she lives with her parents and Terry. Terry and herself are shown to bicker over trivial differences in a childish manner, much to the dismay of their mother, Edith Collier. The character of Audrey is resurrected in ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads"", where she is shown to be married with"
"Thelma Yellin High School of Arts in Givatayim. In 1993 she arrived in New York City to study acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School. The following year, discovered by an agent while working as a waitress, she was cast as the female lead in the 1994 science fiction film ""Stargate"", for which she received a Sci-fi Universe award. She has appeared in films such as Jim Jarmusch's ""Dead Man"" opposite Johnny Depp, Doug Ellin's ""Kissing a Fool"" opposite David Schwimmer, ""Polish Wedding"" opposite Claire Danes, and Robert Benton's ""The Human Stain"" opposite Anthony Hopkins. In 1999, she"
"shows. She portrayed memorable characters in shows, such as ""The Donna Reed Show"", ""Perry Mason"", ""Bonanza"", ""Have Gun - Will Travel"" and ""Gunsmoke"". In the 1959 ""Perry Mason"" episode ""The Case of the Howling Dog"", she played three-time murderer Thelma Brent. She died of cancer in San Jose, California. Notes Fintan Meyler Fintan Meyler (December 14, 1929 - July 23, 2005) was an actress on stage, on television, and in films. Meyler was born Gertrude Anne Meyler in Ireland, as one of seven children. Her early education came at a convent in Dublin, before she began studying acting at the"
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"Anna Maria Horsford Anna Maria Horsford (born March 6, 1948) is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies. Horsford is best known for her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom ""Amen"" (1986–91), and as Dee Baxter on the WB sitcom ""The Wayans Bros."" (1995–99). She had dramatic roles on the FX crime drama ""The Shield"" playing A.D.A. Beth Encardi, and CBS daytime soap opera ""The Bold and the Beautiful"" as Vivienne Avant, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2016. Horsford appeared"
"Charisma Carpenter Charisma Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cordelia Chase in the popular TV series ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"" (1997–1999) and its spin-off series ""Angel"" (1999–2004). She has also starred as Kyra on ""Charmed"" (2004), Kendall Casablancas on ""Veronica Mars"" (2005–2006), Rebecca Sewell on ""The Lying Game"" (2012–2013) and Lacy in ""The Expendables"" film series (2010–2012). Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, the daughter of Christine, a bird sanctuary worker, and Don Carpenter, a salesman. She has two older brothers, Ken and Troy, and two nieces, Chrissy"