Personal Info
Birth date
1941-04-13 (84 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Birmingham, England, UK
Also known as
-Marjorie Yates
Biography
Marjorie Yates is a British actress best known for her role as Carol Fisher in the Channel 4 drama Shameless.
Filmography
Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Vera
7.4
Overview:
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.BBC Play of the Month
5
Overview:
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.Crown Court
5.4
Overview:
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.The Professionals
7.43
Overview:
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
7.2
Overview:
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.Heartbeat
7.125
Overview:
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.The Sweeney
7.739
Overview:
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.Wycliffe
6
Overview:
Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a production office in Truro. Music for the series was composed by Nigel Hess and was awarded the Royal Television Society award for the best television theme. Wycliffe is played by Jack Shepherd, assisted by DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane. Each episode deals with a murder investigation. In the early series, the stories are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons, the tone becomes more naturalistic and there is more emphasis on internal politics within the police.Ransom
6.5
Overview:
Eric Beaumont's crisis negotiator team is brought in to save lives and resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases when no one else can.Shameless
7.518
Overview:
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.A Very British Coup
7.875
Overview:
A Very British Coup is a British political thriller series based on the novel by Chris Mullin. It stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy.Morgan's Boy
NYR
Overview:
Lee, a teenager from Manchester, goes to stay with his uncle Morgan on his remote farm in Wales. Lee struggles to build a relationship with his uncle and make friends with a local boy as Morgan struggles to hold on to his farm.Village Hall
NYR
Overview:
Village Hall is a drama anthology series made by Granada between 1974 and 1975. It is entirely set in a village hall, with each episode highlighting a different use to which the space is put by local people. Writers include Jack Rosenthal and the actor Kenneth Cope.Wetherby
6
Overview:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.Dead Man's Folly
6.266
Overview:
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.The Black Panther
5.8
Overview:
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.Allelujah
5.2
Overview:
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning of a concert in honor of the hospital's most celebrated nurse. But there might be something more threatening to the hospital itself, more deadly than the politicians ready to shut down the place at a moment's notice.The Long Day Closes
7.2
Overview:
Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.Priest of Love
5
Overview:
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."Walter
5.25
Overview:
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel to this film, titled "Walter and June", was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title "Loving Walter".Legend of the Werewolf
5.3
Overview:
A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined police surgeon.Gangsta Granny Strikes Again
5.1
Overview:
We join Ben a year on as he is getting used to life without his beloved Gran. With the memory of their daring Crown Jewel heist still fresh in his mind, he is stunned to learn another spate of thefts are beginning to occur - with all the clues pointing to The Black Cat, better known to Ben as Granny!All Day on the Sands
NYR
Overview:
Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to keep this a secret from the other guests. Also staying at the hotel are Keith and Jo, a young couple on their honeymoon, and an older couple, Mr and Mrs Thornton. Waking early one morning, Colin amuses himself by dangling one of his sister's sandals out of the window on a piece of string. The sandal accidentally lands on a flat roof just outside the window of the honeymooning couple, and his father's now straitened financial circumstances mean Colin has to get it back, by fair means or foul.Pasmore
NYR
Overview:
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.The Optimists of Nine Elms
6.636
Overview:
A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless lifeActing
2023Allelujah as Hazel
2022Gangsta Granny Strikes Again as Fiona
2018Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators (1 Episode) as Edie Grimes
2017Ransom (1 Episode) as Frances
2011Vera (1 Episode) as Val Wilcox
2010Edge as Wendy
2004Shameless (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1994Wycliffe (1 Episode) as Martha Collins
1992The Long Day Closes as Mother
1992Heartbeat (1, 1 Episode) as Brenda, Molly Openshaw
1990June as June
1988A Very British Coup (3 Episodes) as Cook
1986Dead Man's Folly as Mrs Tucker
1985Wetherby as Verity Braithwaite
1984Morgan's Boy (8 Episodes) as Val Turner
1984C.Q. as June
1982Marks as Marjory
1982Objects of Affection (1 Episode) as Marjory
1982Walter as Social Worker
1981Priest of Love as Ada Lawrence
1980Life for Christine as Nurse Ryder
1980Pasmore as Eileen
1979The Other Side: Connie as Connie
1979All Day on the Sands as Unknown
1977The Professionals (1 Episode) as Kay Costa
1977The Black Panther as Neilson's Wife
1977Daft Mam Blues as Lily as a Young Woman
1977The Glitterball as Mrs. Fielding
1975Couples (5 Episodes) as Jane Selby
1975It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow as Maureen Bell
1975Legend of the Werewolf as Madame Tellier
1975Murrain as Mrs. Leach
1975The Sweeney (1 Episode) as May Holmes
1974Village Hall (1 Episode) as Mrs. Ellis
1973The Optimists of Nine Elms as Chrissie Ellis
1973Kisses at Fifty as Audrey
1972The Bouncing Boy as Harriet
1972Better Than the Movies as Sally Rowe
1972Crown Court (3 Episodes) as Martha Ainsworth
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Audrey
1965BBC Play of the Month (1 Episode) as Agasha