Jacki Piper

Last updated

Jacki Piper
JackipiperbirminghamNECmarch2009.jpg
Jacki Piper at the NEC in Birmingham, March 2009
Born
Jacqueline Crump

(1946-08-03) 3 August 1946 (age 77)
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
OccupationActor
Years active1967–2012

Jacqueline Crump (born 3 August 1946), [1] known professionally by her stage name Jacki Piper, is an English actress, best known for her appearances as the female juvenile lead in the British film comedies Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Carry On Loving (1970), Carry On at Your Convenience (1971), and Carry On Matron (1972).

Contents

Career

Born in Birmingham, she trained at the Birmingham Theatre School. [2] Her career began on stage in the mid-1960s, playing in repertory theatre in Rhyl, Wales, where she was billed as Jackie Crump. Her film career began with an appearance with Roger Moore in the film The Man Who Haunted Himself in 1970. Her other film roles not already mentioned include Doctor in Trouble (1970) and The Love Ban (1973). For her film roles she decided to use a stage name, becoming Jacki Piper.

Additionally she has had roles in several television series, including Z-Cars , the situation comedy The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (in which she played the recurring role of market researcher Esther Pigeon), and Dangerfield .

Her other UK television roles include Thriller , playing the Bride in the episode Night Is the Time for Killing (18 January 1975); Return of the Saint , playing Sally in the episode Tower Bridge Is Falling Down (10 December 1978); Backup , playing Jury Foreman in the episode Touched (11 June 1997); Barbara , playing Angela Croft in the episode Neighbours (2 March 2003); and Wire in the Blood , playing Mrs Davis in the episode Still She Cries (19 January 2004).

In theatre she has starred in many West End productions and UK and international tours.

Piper still acts in TV, film and theatre, and regularly attends Carry On events. She currently lives with her husband in Richmond, Surrey; they have two sons.

Television credits

Filmography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joan Sims</span> English actress (1930–2001)

Irene Joan Marion Sims was an English actress, best remembered for her roles in the Carry On franchise, appearing in 24 of the films.

Anne Gwendolyn "Wendy" Craig is an English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Not in Front of the Children, ...And Mother Makes Three, ...And Mother Makes Five and Butterflies. She played the role of Matron in the TV series The Royal (2003–2011).

<i>Carry On at Your Convenience</i> 1971 British comedy film by Gerald Thomas

Carry On at Your Convenience is a 1971 British comedy film, the 22nd release in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992), and was the first box office failure of the series. This failure has been attributed to the film's attempt at exploring the political themes of the trade union movement, crucially portraying the union activists as idle, pedantic buffoons which, apparently, alienated the traditional working-class audience of the series. The film, known as Carry On Round the Bend outside the United Kingdom, did not return full production costs until 1976 after several international and television sales. The film features regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques and Bernard Bresslaw. It features Kenneth Cope in the first of his two Carry On appearances. The film was followed by Carry On Matron in 1972.

Madeline Smith is an English actress. After working as a model in the late 1960s, she went on to appear in many television series and stage productions, plus comedy and horror films, in the 1970s and 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patsy Rowlands</span> British actress (1931–2005)

Patricia Amy Rowlands was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films series, as Betty Lewis in the ITV Thames sitcom Bless This House, and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Hallelujah!.

Elizabeth Joan Winch, known professionally as Liz Fraser, was a British film actress, best known for being cast in provocative comedy roles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vicki Michelle</span> British actress

Vicki Michelle is an English actress, radio presenter, businesswoman, film producer and former model. She is best known for her role as Yvette Carte-Blanche in the BBC television comedy series 'Allo 'Allo! and as recurring character Patricia Foster in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. In 2014, she appeared on the fourteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sheree North</span> American actress, dancer, and singer (1932–2005)

Sheree North was an American actress, dancer, and singer, known for being one of 20th Century-Fox's intended successors to Marilyn Monroe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sally Geeson</span> English actress (born 1950)

Sarah Louise Clouston Geeson, known professionally as Sally Geeson, is an English actress with a career mostly on television in the 1970s. She is best known for playing Sid James's daughter, Sally, in Bless This House and for her roles in Carry On Abroad (1972) and Carry On Girls (1973). She also starred alongside Norman Wisdom in the film What's Good for the Goose (1969), and appeared with Vincent Price in two horror films, The Oblong Box (1969) and Cry of the Banshee (1970).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mona Washbourne</span> English stage, film and television actress

Mona Lee Washbourne was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.

Carol Hawkins is an English actress, best known for her various comic roles in numerous television sitcoms and films in the 1970s and 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Douglas (actor)</span> English actor (1927–2008)

John Douglas Roberton, known professionally as Jack Douglas or Jack D. Douglas, was an English actor best known for his portrayals in the Carry On films.

Caroline Dowdeswell is a former English television actress.

Pauline Lettice Yates was an English actress, best known for playing Elizabeth Perrin in the BBC television sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. She also starred in Bachelor Father and Keep It in the Family.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amelia Bayntun</span> English actress (1919–1988)

Amelia Bayntun was an English stage and television actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marianne Stone</span> English actress (1922–2009)

Marianne Stone was an English character actress. She performed in films from the early 1940s to the late 1980s, typically playing working class parts such as barmaids, secretaries and landladies. Stone appeared in nine of the Carry On films, and took part in an episode of the Carry On Laughing television series. She also had supporting roles with comedian Norman Wisdom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brenda Cowling</span> English actress (1925–2010)

Brenda Rose Cowling was an English actress from London. Cowling wanted to be a film actress from the time she was a child; however, upon leaving school, she trained instead as a shorthand typist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jacki Weaver</span> Australian actress

Jacqueline Ruth Weaver is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. Weaver emerged in the 1970s Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork (1971), Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974). She later starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Caddie (1976), Squizzy Taylor (1982), and a number of television films, miniseries, and Australian productions of plays such as Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pamela Manson</span>

Pamela Manson was a British actress who in her 30–year career on film, television and stage is best known for playing comedy roles. She was also a political activist who was a member of Equity, and the International Committee for Artists' Freedom, and a committee member of the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts.

References

  1. Ross, Andrew (2011). Carry On Actors, Apex Publishing. ISBN   1-906358-95-8.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Lewisohn, Mark (2003). Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy. BBC. p. 378. ISBN   0563487550.
  4. 1 2 3 "Jacki Piper". Bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2018.