Anna Dawson

Nascimento : 1937-07-27, Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom

História

Born in Bolton, Lancashire, Dawson spent part of her childhood in Tanganyika, where her father worked. She attended the Elmhurst Ballet School and after training at the Central School of Speech and Drama she learned her craft by playing in repertory theatre companies. Dawson went on to star in several West End musicals. She featured in episodes of Dixon of Dock Green during the 1960s, The Benny Hill Show during the 1980s, and played Hyacinth Bucket's sister Violet ("the one with the Mercedes, sauna and room for a pony") in the final series of the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, though her character was only featured on screen briefly in four episodes. Dawson is married to former Black and White Minstrel Show soloist John Boulter.

Filmes

Kenny Everett - The Complete Naughty Bits
Carla
A compilation of sketches taken from the television series. Characters include Sid Snot, Angry Of Mayfair, Marcel Wave and Brother Lee Love. Guests include: Terry Wogan, Michael Aspel, Cliff Richard, David Essex and Bernard Manning.
Benny Hill - Unseen. Part 2
Various/Archive footage
Part 2 of a one-off special Benny taped in 1990, with outdoor scenes made in New York. Highlights of this part include Hill playing Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Roseanne Barr and an audience member in a parody of "Ask Dr. Ruth," Chow Mein showing up for an audition, and Benny getting into a tangle with gangsters.
Benny Hill - Unseen. Part 1
Various/Archive footage
Part 1 of a one-off special Benny taped in 1990, with outdoor scenes made in New York. Highlights of this part include Hill as head of a common cold research center musical choir, a visual guide to "How to Meet Beautiful Women," and "A Streetcar Named Desirée" (with Benny as both the Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh characters).
Bloodbath at the House of Death
Nurse
Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where 18 guests were killed in one night. It turns out that the house is the place of a satanic cult lead by a sinister monk who plans to kill the scientists who are inhabiting this house of Satan.
Gabrielle and the Doodleman
Wicked Witch
A wheelchair bound little girl gets involved with characters from her computer game that help her though a difficult time.
Down at the Hydro
Wife
Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Glam
Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.
The Girl from Starship Venus
Store Manageress
Uma jovem garota venusiana pousa na Terra para explorar o planeta. Ela aterrissa no Soho, em Londres, Reino Unido, onde tem amplas oportunidades para pesquisar sobre sexo na Terra.
O Lucky Man!
Becky
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.