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Wanda Ventham (born 5 August 1935) is an English actress with many roles on British television since beginning her career in the 1950s. She played Colonel Virginia Lake in the 1970s science-fiction television series UFO and had a recurring role as Cassandra Trotter's mother Pamela Parry in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses between 1989 and 1992.
Wanda Ventham, playing Thea, had previously appeared in The Faceless Ones, and would subsequently appear in Time and the Rani, her three appearances each being ten years apart: 1967, 1977 and 1987. Ventham had in fact auditioned for the James Bond film Goldfinger , but lost out to Shirley Eaton and therefore was excited to be painted gold in ...
Plot. The central characters are a married couple, Erik ( Ian Hendry) and Ann Shepherd ( Wanda Ventham ), who run a tavern called "Shepherd's Bar". Ann is revealed in the first episode to be a sleeper agent of British Intelligence, Erik having been a broken-down drunk whom she was made to marry as part of her cover story.
Wanda Ventham as Fiona Weston (1996–1997, 4 episodes). Steven Townsley as Billy Burke (1996, 3 episodes). Dominic Rickhards as Steve Adams (1997; 5 episodes). Carol Royle as Lady Patricia Brewster (1997–2003; 4 episodes). Charlotte Mitchell as Bessie Bellamy (1997–1999; 4 episodes). Stratford Johns as Cyril Isaiah Greengrass (1997, 1998 ...
Straker and Henderson clash frequently over the needs of SHADO and economic realities. Colonel Virginia Lake ( Wanda Ventham) first appears in the opening episode ("Identified"), as the chief designer for Westbrook Electronics, the contractor for the SHADO's Utronics faster-than-light tracking system.
United Kingdom. Language. English. Death Is a Woman is a 1966 British mystery film directed by Frederic Goode and starring Mark Burns, Shaun Curry, William Dexter, Wanda Ventham, Terence De Marney and Patsy Ann Noble. Location filming took place in Malta.
Donald Pickering and Wanda Ventham would later star as husband and wife in Time and the Rani (1987). Pickering had previously appeared as Eyesen in The Keys of Marinus (1964) and Ventham would go on to play Thea Ransom in Image of the Fendahl (1977).
Wanda Ventham and Donald Pickering previously appeared together in The Faceless Ones. Donald Pickering also appeared in The Keys of Marinus. Wanda Ventham also appeared in Image of the Fendahl. Due to Colin Baker refusing to reprise his role as the Sixth Doctor, Sylvester McCoy donned a wig for the regeneration effect.
Wanda Ventham. . . Computer attendant; Mark Burns. . . Number Two's assistant; Peter Swanwick. . . Supervisor; Charles Lloyd-Pack. . . Artist; Grace Arnold. . . Number Thirty-Six; Arthur White. . . Stallholder; Michael Bilton. . . MC councillor; Gerry Crampton . . . Kosho opponent; Fenella Fielding. . . Announcer (unseen)
The remainder of the regular cast includes Una Stubbs (who has known Cumberbatch since he was four years old, as she had worked with his mother Wanda Ventham) as Mrs Hudson and co-creator Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes.
