Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Wendy Hiller
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== Television === Hiller made numerous television appearances, in both Britain and the United States. In the 1950s and 1960s, she performed in episodes of American drama series such as ''[[Westinghouse Studio One|Studio One]]'' and ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' among others. In 1965, she starred in an episode of the acclaimed dramatic series ''[[Profiles in Courage (TV series)|Profiles in Courage]]'' (1965), in which she played [[Anne Hutchinson]], a free-thinking woman charged with heresy in Colonial America. In Britain during the 1960s, Hiller gained critical acclaim for a guest appearance in a 1964 episode of the police drama ''[[Z-Cars]]'',<ref name="zcars">{{cite news |last1=Webber |first1=Jim |date=21 November 1964 |title=Brian Blessed and Wendy Hiller Can Take Top Marks|language=English |work=[[Bristol Post|Bristol Evening Post]] |location=Bristol, UK |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004769/19641121/005/0005|access-date=28 January 2023 |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |quote= All praise to Wendy Hiller for a memorable performance that would have done credit to a stage production, let alone a television 'once only' presentation. How well it demonstrated Miss Hiller's long dramatic experience, both on the stage and in the film studio. Her talent was exploited the full in this episode of Z Cars}}</ref> appeared in the drama series ''[[Play of the Month]]'', and in 1965 was the narrator for [[List of Jackanory episodes|five episodes]] of the BBC children's television programme ''[[Jackanory]]'', reading the stories of [[Alison Uttley]]. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many television films including a memorable Duchess of York in the [[BBC Television Shakespeare]] production of ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]'' (1978), the irascible Edwardian Oxford academic in ''[[Miss Morison's Ghosts]]'' (1981) and the BBC dramatisations of [[Julian Gloag]]'s ''Only Yesterday'' (1986) and the [[Vita Sackville-West]] novel ''[[All Passion Spent]]'' (1986), in which she was the quietly defiant Lady Slane. This performance earned her a BAFTA nomination as Best Actress. Her last appearance before retiring from acting was the title role in ''[[The Countess Alice]]'' (1992), a BBC/WGBH-Boston television film with [[ZoΓ« Wanamaker]].
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Wendy Hiller
(section)
Add topic