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Jan Miller is a former British actress, known mainly for film and television work in the late 1950s and early 1960s, [1] in particular her role as WPC Alex Johns in Dixon of Dock Green , from 1962 to 1964. [2]
One of her earliest films was Raising a Riot in 1955, which also featured Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, and Miller's sister Mandy Miller. [3]
She is the sister of child actress Mandy Miller. She was married to actor Howard Pays (later divorced), whom she met on the set of the daily ITV soap opera Sixpenny Corner . [4] [5] [6] They had at least two children: the actress Amanda Pays, [7] and Debra. [4]
Amanda Pays is an English interior designer, actress, and television presenter.
Dixon of Dock Green is a BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. It ran from 1955 to 1976. The central character, George Dixon, first appeared in the film The Blue Lamp (1950). Dixon is a mature and sympathetic police constable, who was played by Jack Warner in all of the 432 episodes.
Billie Honor Whitelaw was an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs. Baylock, the demonic nanny in the 1976 horror film The Omen.
Sylvia May Laura Syms was an English stage and screen actress. Her best-known film roles include My Teenage Daughter (1956), Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award, Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), and The Tamarind Seed (1974).
Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis was an English playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party. He created several television series, including the long-running police drama Dixon of Dock Green.
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Veronica Patricia Hurst was a British film, stage and television actress. Hurst was born in Malta and brought up in Tooting, London.
Peter William Welch was a British actor who appeared in television programmes including Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Spy Trap, Softly, Softly, Doctor Who and Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan. He spent several years touring in the theatre with a repertory company he founded, and began playing character parts in films from the mid 1950s.
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This is a list of British television related events from 1962.
This is a list of British television related events from 1955.
Mandy Miller is an English former child actress who made a number of films in the 1950s. She is also remembered for her recording of the 1956 song "Nellie the Elephant".
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Hilda Lilian Fenemore was an English actress with a prolific career in film and television from the 1940s to the 1990s. Fenemore played mainly supporting roles which were characterised in her obituary in The Stage as "friends, neighbours, mothers and passers-by"; however, her many credits meant that she fell into the category of actresses who a majority of film and TV viewers would have been unable to name, yet whose face was instantly recognisable. Her longest-running role was recurring character Jennie Wren in TV series Dixon of Dock Green, who she played for six series between 1960 and 1965.