Hannah Gordon

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Hannah Gordon
Born
Hannah Campbell Grant Gordon

(1941-04-09) 9 April 1941 (age 83)
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Occupation(s)Actress and presenter
Known forMy Wife Next Door (1972)
The Morecambe & Wise Show (1972)
Upstairs Downstairs (1974–75)
Telford's Change (1979)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Joint Account (1989–90)
Watercolour Challenge (1998–2001)
One Foot in the Grave (2000)
Spouses
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(m. 1970; died 1994)​
Rob Leighton
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(died 2004)​
Children1

Hannah Campbell Grant Gordon[1] (born 9 April 1941) is a Scottish actress and presenter who is known for her television work in the United Kingdom, including My Wife Next Door (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974–75), Telford's Change (1979), Joint Account (1989–90) and an appearance in the final episode of One Foot in the Grave, broadcast in 2000. She has presented the Channel 4 lifestyle show Watercolour Challenge from 1998 to 2001 and played Ann Treves in David Lynch's 1980 film The Elephant Man. She is sometimes credited under her first married name of Hannah Warwick.[citation needed]

Early life

Gordon was born in

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and, after graduating, spent one year at a repertory theatre in Dundee.[2] In 1966–67, Gordon played Kirsty in the Doctor Who serial The Highlanders and made appearances on Jackanory (1969). In 1967, she appeared in the stage play Spring and Port Wine and in 1970 took the same role in the film version.[2]

Film and television career

Her first appearance was as "Zaylo" in the first episode of

Made of Honour
(2008). In 1981, she starred in
Miss Morrison's Ghosts (with Wendy Hiller). She has appeared on television in Goodbye, Mr Kent (1982), Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984), My Family and Other Animals (1987), Taggart (1993) and Jonathan Creek (1998). In 2000, Gordon played Glynis, the woman who kills Victor Meldrew in "Things Aren't Simple Any More", the final episode of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave
.

Since 2000, she has made guest appearances in Midsomer Murders Judgement Day (2000) as Annabel Weston/Bella Devere, Monarch of the Glen (2002) as Merilyn McNaughton and Heartbeat (2004) in which she played Mrs Barton in episode 5 of series 14, Hunter's Moon.[citation needed]

From 1998 to 2001, she hosted the Channel 4 programme Watercolour Challenge.[2]

She also appeared in the 2007 Christmas episodes of BBC Scotland soap River City, as hotel owner Rose who had rescued Archie Buchanan from the cliffside and taken him in because of his memory loss.[citation needed] In the final episode of series 7 of the BBC series Hustle (2011), she played an old flame of Albert Stroller.[6]

In the 2015 crime drama series Unforgotten (made for ITV), she played Grace Greaves, wife of Father Robert Greaves.

Stage and theatre

Gordon narrated

St. James's Church, Piccadilly, London on 14 December 2007.[7]

She was the narrator of the opening concert at the 2008

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and eight soloists.[9]

From 9–20 March 2009, Gordon read Nina Bawden's novel Family Money for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

References

  1. ^ a b "Hannah Gordon Biography (1941–)", Film reference website
  2. ^ a b c d e "Gazetteer for Scotland – Hannah Gordon". Gazetteer for Scotland. 1995–2007.
  3. ^ "Out of the Unknown: No Place Like Earth". BBC Genome. Radio Times. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Spring and Port Wine (1970)". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  5. ^ "The Morecambe and Wise Show". BBC Genome. Radio Times. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  6. ^ says, REN VASSILLIOU. "Hannah Gordon and Robert Vaughn, four decades on in Hustle « Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog". Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Hannah Gordon, narrator". 14 December 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2009.[dead link]
  8. ^ "Festival frenzy as Edinburgh gears up for August". 29 July 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
  9. ^ "Sales up at Edinburgh's festival". BBC News. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2009.

External links

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