Heather Chasen
Heather Chasen | |
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British Singapore | |
Died | 22 May 2020 Marylebone, London, England | (aged 92)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1945–2014 |
Notable work | See below |
Television | |
Children | 1 |
Parent | (father) |
Heather Jean Chasen (20 July 1927 – 22 May 2020) was an English actress, known for her roles in soap operas; playing Valerie Pollard in the
Early life
Chasen was born on 20 July 1927, in
Before the
Career
Crossroads and EastEnders
I did an episode where I played this journalist which they must have quite liked because they got back to me about a month later. [They asked me] 'Would you come back and join the cast and change the colour of your hair?' Well, I said okay and so I changed my [hair] colour from red to blonde and I looked exactly the same! I didn't look any different at all. And so then I came back as this naughty lady, Valerie Pollard. The most fun I had was when I was helping out behind the bar which is a very good place to be if you're in a soap because you're in every scene. I was very happy, it was a fun time, I enjoyed it. At the beginning, not at the very end. When I first joined it, for the first few months I was in, it was great fun but after Jack (the producer) went it became less good and less fun and I didn't enjoy it so much".
— Chasen describing her time on Crossroads, from 1982 to 1986[1]
In 2011, Chasen was cast as
Other work
Chasen appeared in other television programmes such as
Personal life and death
Chasen was friends with, and previously had a relationship with, Amanda Barrie.[25] In Call Me Jacky, she played an alcoholic lesbian, and later claimed to have based her characterisation partly on the novelist and playwright Patricia Highsmith, whom she knew well.[26]
In 1949, Chasen married John Webster, and they had one son, Rupert, who played in Lindsay Anderson's if.... He also appears with Chasen in a 2013 short documentary, A Stage of Development.[27]
Chasen died on 22 May 2020, aged 92.[28]
Awards and nominations
Chasen was nominated for the
Filmography
- Film
Year | Title | Role |
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1949 | Meet the Duke | Carol |
1971 | Naughty! | Victorian Madame |
Suburban Wives | Kathy Lambert | |
1972 | Commuter Husbands | Wife |
On the Game | Madame | |
1976 | The Deadly Females | Frances |
1989 | The Plot to Kill Hitler | The Baroness |
2000 | The Kiss of Tosca | Tosca |
2003 | The Toybox | Gran |
2009 | Season of Mists | Jane |
2010 | The Social Network | Matt's wife |
2011 | Cat Run | Bingham's Mom |
2012 | Les Misérables | Madame Magloire |
- Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1960 | No Hiding Place | Brenda | 1 episode |
The Cheaters | Mary Calder | ||
The World of Tim Frazer | Helen Baker | 6 episodes | |
Danger Man | Helen Hamilton | 1 episode | |
1961 | Lorain Zameda | ||
Walk a Crooked Mile | Angela Charles | ||
Inspector Maigret | Guest | ||
Dixon of Dock Green | Laura Beckley | ||
1962 | Saki | Agnes Huddle | |
Dixon of Dock Green | Stella Judd | ||
1963 | Jezebel ex UK | Rita Lorraine | |
Suspense | Clarice Morrison | ||
1965 | The Newcomers | Caroline Kerr | |
1967 | Z-Cars | Pamela Raven | 2 episodes |
1969 | Call My Bluff | Herself | 1 episode |
1973–1974 | Marked Personal | Isabel Neal | 84 episodes |
1977 | Play of the Month: Waste | Lady Julia Farrant | 1 episode |
1978 | A Traveller in Time | Mary, Queen of Scots | 3 episodes |
1981 | Ladykillers | Mrs. Martinetti | 1 episode |
1982 | Crossroads | Reporter | |
Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House | Aunt Rachel | 5 episodes | |
1982–1986 | Crossroads | Valerie Pollard | Unknown |
1983 | Shades of Darkness | Minor Role | 1 episode |
1989 | Heat of the Day | Mrs Kelway | |
1990 | Who Bombed Birmingham | Margaret Thatcher | |
1992 | The Eligible Bachelor |
The Hon Amelia | |
Surgical Spirit |
Sabatini's Mother | ||
2003, 2010 | Holby City | Sylvie Leigh | 2 episodes |
2003 | The Bill | Mrs. Belstram | 1 episode |
The All New Harry Hill Show | Betty | ||
2003, 2006, 2012, 2014 |
Doctors | Norma Ida Price Grace Barberry |
4 episodes |
2005 | Casualty | Bessie Symes | 1 episode |
Family Affairs | Madge Bennett |
5 episodes | |
2011 | EastEnders | Lydia Simmonds | 11 episodes |
2013 | Dancing on the Edge | Lady Altringham | 1 episode |
- Radio
Year | Title | Role |
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1959–1977 | The Navy Lark | WRN Chasen Mrs Ramona Povey Rita Murray Morpeth Goldstein Natasha Snogitoff Lady Quirk Miss Simpkins Lady Todhunter-Brown Lucy Doll Queen Jaratova Wren Simkins Second Officer Maclootie Lady Hamilton Myrtle Pertwee Mrs Sedgwick Fatima Sumpbolt Nurse at the RN College, Dartmouth Renee, daughter of the landlord of the Popple's Head pub and barmaid at the pub Judith "Judikins" Povey Exotic & Sultry Tanya (Agent no.5) Agent No.2 (working for The Mistress) Mrs Granthimum Norwegian waitress Dolores "the Danglers" Fifi Miss Esmeralda Crimp Leading Wren Felicity Pertwee The Mayoress of Whittlesea Bay 1st Officer Anastasia Pertwee Grotty Gertie Miss Queeg Letitia Phillips Astrid Feltbody |
1966 | The Embassy Lark | HE Fatima Soriaya Fazalik, Turkish Ambassador to Tratvia |
1967 | Sexton Blake adventures | Paula Dane |
- Stage/Theatre
Year | Title | Role |
---|---|---|
1945 | Donna Clarines | Marcella |
1954 | Blood Wedding |
Leonardo's wife |
1958 | Little Eyolf | Rita Allmers |
Templeton | Anna Dasousa | |
The Mousetrap | Mollie Ralston | |
1960 | The Lizard of the Rock | Main Role |
1962 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Helena |
Policy for Murder | Lee Miller | |
1963 | The Maids | Solange |
1963, 1964, 1965 | A Severed Head | Antonia Lynch Gibbon |
1966 | Love from Liz | Nancy Morrow |
Jorrocks | Mrs Barnington | |
Thriller of the Year | Gillian Howard | |
1967 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha |
1967–1968 | Call me Jacky | Countess Ardele Gina Ekdal The Wild Duck Jacqueline du Bois |
1969 | Forty Years On | Matron |
Lady S | Lady Susan | |
1970 | Lady Frederick | Marchioness of Mereston |
1970–1972 | The Pleasure of his Company | Katherine Daugherty |
1971 | Hello and Goodbye | Hester |
The Amorous Prawn | Mrs. Fitzadam | |
The Magistrate | Queen Margaret Richard III Agatha | |
1972 | Children of the Wolf | Helena |
1973 | Baby Love | Mrs. Taylor |
1975 | Hay Fever | Judith Bliss |
Butterflies Are Free | Mrs. Baker | |
Madame de Sade | Alison Diaries Comtesse de Saint Fond | |
1977 | Rebecca | Beatrice Lacy |
1978 | Murder in a Bad Light | Olivia Waynward |
1979 | The Eagle Has Two Heads | Edith de Berg |
The Man Who Came To Dinner |
Miss Preen | |
1994 | A Murder is Announced |
Miss Marple |
1996 | Black Chiffon | Nanny |
1997 | School Girls in Uniform | The Headmistress |
1999 | Sweet Bramleys | June |
Laying the Ghost | Freda | |
2000 | Getting On | Minor Role |
2001 | Mountain Language | Elderly Lady |
2002 | My Three Angles | Madame Parole |
2006 | The Rat Trap | Burrage the Maid |
2008 | Pardon Ma Prime Minister | Lead Role |
References
- ^ a b c Watkins, Mike (21 April 2011). "Heather Chasen from Kings Oak to Walford". Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ^ a b "Cast". The Navy Lark Collection (Booklet). The Navy Lark. BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
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- ^ Director: Jamie Annett; Executive Producer: Bryan Kirkwood; Writer: Pete Lawson (9 April 2011). "Episode dated 07/04/2011". EastEnders. BBC. BBC One. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ Director: Karl Neilson; Executive Producer: Bryan Kirkwood; Writer: Simon Ashdown (14 April 2011). "Episode dated 14/04/2011". EastEnders. BBC. BBC One. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ Director: John Greening; Executive Producer: Bryan Kirkwood; Writer: Christopher Reason (21 April 2011). "Episode dated 21/04/2011". EastEnders. BBC. BBC One. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ "Heather Chasen takes on EastEnders' role". BBC. BBC Online. 13 April 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
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- IPC Media. 13 April 2011. Archived from the originalon 2 September 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ^ a b c "Time out:Looking back". Daily Post. Liverpool: MGN Ltd. 30 April 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- . Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- . Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ a b "A wink at a taxing problem". Birmingham Mail. (Free Library). 3 May 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Balavage, Catherine (20 April 2011). "Seasons Of Mist; UK Premiere Held At Odeon Covent Garden". Frost Magazine. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ "Heather Chasen". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ISBN 978-1-4299-6101-1.
- ^ "A Stage of Development". Youtube. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ Actress Heather Chasen dies aged 92
External links
- Heather Chasen at IMDb
- Crossroads 1982 – Valerie Pollard Makes Her First Appearance on YouTube