Barbara Kellerman
Barbara Kellermann | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 December 1949 Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Alma mater | Rose Bruford College |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1969–2008 |
| Spouse |
Robin Scobey
(m. 1975; div. 1999) |
Barbara Rose Kellermann (often credites as Kellerman; born 30 December 1949) is an English actress, known for her film and television roles.
Early life
[edit]Kellerman was born in Manchester, Lancashire.[1] Her Jewish father, Walter Kellermann (1915–2012), had fled Nazi Germany and settled in Leeds, where he became a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Leeds. Her mother, Marcelle, was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War who became a teacher of modern foreign languages.[2]
Barbara Kellerman trained at Rose Bruford College.[3]
Career
[edit]Kellerman's film credits include: Satan's Slave, The Monster Club and The Sea Wolves.[4] Her television appearances include: Space: 1999, The Glittering Prizes, 1990, The Mad Death, Quatermass and The Chronicles of Narnia.
Kellerman has appeared in two of British television's hardest-hitting police dramas of the 1970s: Special Branch and The Professionals. In Special Branch she appeared as Michelle, a flashback character who was a member of the French Resistance in the episode episode Rendezvous (1973). Whilst in The Professionals she played Sylvie, the girlfriend of a former police officer who also has a relationship with a renegade former member of an organised crime network in the episode Runner (1979).[1][5][6]
She is also known for her appearances in the BBC adaptations of three of the Narnia books, most notably as the tyrannical White Witch in The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1988).[7] A year later she had a minor role as the Old Hag (Narnian Hag) in Prince Caspian in (1989), and finally as the evil Lady of the Green Kirtle in The Silver Chair in 1990.[1] On the radio, she portrayed Modesty Blaise in a 1978 BBC World Service adaptation of the novel Last Day in Limbo.[8]
She made a 20-minute drama for With Light Productions in 2007 for director Anita Parry entitled The Lights of Santa Cruz. It co-starred Christian Rodska and was the story of two middle-aged divorcees doing up a boat on the Somerset coast. It was filmed in Watchet, Somerset (a small shipping port on the south-west coast of England) over a four-day period, mostly on a refitted Swedish fishing boat, the Josefine.[9] The film was entered into Bristol's Brief Encounters Festival and is now on YouTube.
Personal life
[edit]Kellerman lived in Bath, Somerset during the 1980s and 1990s. She was previously married to Robin Scobey (born 1945).[10] Kellerman has two younger siblings, a brother named Clive and a sister named Judith.[11]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | The Oblong Box | Dr. Newhartt's Patient | |
| 1976 | Satan's Slave | Frances | |
| 1980 | The Sea Wolves | Mrs. Cromwell | |
| 1981 | The Monster Club | Angela | |
| 1982 | Living Apart Together | Evie | |
| 2007 | The Lights of Santa Cruz | Beth | Short |
| 2008 | Isaac | Mum | Short |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | How We Used to Live | Girl | 1 episode |
| 1971 | On the House | Maureen | 1 episode |
| 1973 | Special Branch | Michelle | 1 episode |
| 1973 | Wessex Tales | Nanny | 1 episode |
| 1974 | Marked Personal | Jane Wright | 2 episodes |
| General Hospital | Nurse Laura Hardy | Unknown episodes | |
| 1974 | John Halifax, Gentleman | Louise | |
| 1975 | Space: 1999 | Dr. Monique Boucher | episode: Dragon's Domain |
| 1976 | The Glittering Prizes | Barbara Morris | 4 episodes |
| BBC Play of the Month | Jacqueline Maingot | episode: French Without Tears | |
| Victorian Scandals | Jane Brookfield | 1 episode | |
| A Pitcher of Snakes | |||
| The Crezz | Alexandra Tuke | 1 episode | |
| 1977 | 1990 | Delly Lomas | 8 episodes |
| 1979 | The Quatermass Conclusion | Clare Kapp | |
| BBC Television Shakespeare | Anne Boleyn | Episode: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII | |
| Crown Court | Miranda Buckingham | 1 episode | |
| The Professionals | Sylvie | episode: Runner | |
| 1980 | BBC2 Playhouse | Isobel Dodgson | episode: The Enigma |
| Lady Killers | Madame Marie Fahmy | 1 episode | |
| Hammer House of Horror | Laurie Morton | episode: Growing Pains | |
| 1983 | Number 10 | Frances Stevenson | 1 episode |
| The Mad Death | Anne Maitland | ||
| Storyboard | 1 episode | ||
| 1984 | Morte d'Arthur | Queen Guinevere | |
| 1985 | My Brother Jonathan | Rachel Hammond | |
| 1986 | Lytton's Diary | Helena | 5 episodes |
| 1988–90 | The Chronicles of Narnia | The White Witch, Narnian Hag and the Lady of the Green Kirtle | |
| 1998 | The Bill | 1 episode | |
| 2000 | Monsignor Renard | Mme Dufosse | 3 episodes |
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Barbara Kellermann". 2.bfi.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020.
- ↑ "Obituaries | Secretariat | University of Leeds". Leeds.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile". Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
- ↑ "Barbara Kellerman | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
- ↑ "Barbara Kellerman". Tvguide.com.
- ↑ "Barbara Kellerman". Aveleyman.com.
- ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Chronicles of Narnia, The (1988-90)". Screenonline.org.uk.
- ↑ "Modesty Blaise - Last Day in Limbo". 3 June 1978 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "World film premiere in Taunton". Bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "Barbara Kellerman". Myheritage.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ↑ "Search Results for Britain records". Findmypast.co.uk.
External links
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