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Acting

Ursula Howells

Career: Active from 1951 to 1998, busiest in 1953 and 1957 with 3 main titles each.

Leading roles: 15
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: A Rather English Marriage
66/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 27 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ursula Howells Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
2.8, average 4.8
Contemporary Realism
3.6, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.4, average 2.2
Violence
2.5, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

86

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title · average score 78

The Cazalets

78

TV show

1990s

8 titles · average score 73

The Tichborne Claimant

74

as Lady Doughty

A Rather English Marriage

66

as Mary

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Lady Isabel Aubrey

She's Out

TV show · as Mrs Lawson

A Pinch of Snuff

as Alice Andover

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as Miriam Wakefield

Jewels

65

TV show · as The Duchess

TV show · as Ticker Dawson

1980s

11 titles · average score 66

Lovejoy

50

TV show · as Olive Nettleton

Time After Time

as May Swift

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

77

TV show · as Miss Blacklock

Miss Marple

83

TV show · as Miss Blacklock

The Cold Room

39

as Headmistress

Something in Disguise

TV show · as May Browne-Lacey

The Barchester Chronicles

77

TV show · as Miss Thorne

Bergerac

69

TV show · as Laura Atherton / Elizabeth Fouchet

A Question of Guilt

TV show · as Lady Uredale (voice)

Gentle Folk

as Mrs Menant

The Enigma

as Mrs Fielding

1970s

18 titles · average score 67

Father, Dear Father

TV show · as Barbara Mossman

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV show · as Barbara Karolina

Hard Times

TV show · as Mrs Gradgrind

The Many Wives Of Patrick

TV show

Ten from the Twenties

TV show · as Mrs Isobel Asterley

Playhouse

TV show · as Mrs. Fielding / Mrs. Menant

Fall of Eagles

75

TV show · as Empress Maria Fyodorovna

Father Dear Father

52

as Barbara

Cousin Bette

59

TV show · as Adeline Hulot

Upstairs, Downstairs

81

TV show · as Duchess of Buckminster

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

62

as Mumsy

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Sarah Chandler

1960s

27 titles · average score 66

Crossplot

42

as Maggi Thwaites

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Mrs. Clissold

Father, Dear Father

65

TV show · as Barbara

The Forsyte Saga

84

TV show · as Frances Forsyte

Man in a Suitcase

74

TV show

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Ellen

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

82

as Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf")

A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter

as Liz Essendine

The Sicilians

as Mme. Perrault

The Madhouse on Castle Street

as Martha Tompkins

The Human Jungle

80

TV show · as Julia Gray

Two Letter Alibi

as Louise

1950s

21 titles · average score 62

No Hiding Place

TV show

Interpol Calling

TV show · as Miki

Account Rendered

60

as Lucille Ainsworth

Now Let Him Go

as Nurse Judith

Keep It Clean

as Pat Anstey

They Can't Hang Me

63

as Antonia Pitt

The Gilded Cage

as Brenda Lucas

Sherlock Holmes

49

TV show

The Oracle

as Peggy

Number Three

as Maureen Dartington

Flesh and Blood

as Harriet Marshall

Sunday Night Theatre

51

TV show · as Mary Winsloe / Maureen Dartington