Rosemary Nicols Movies
Rosemary Nicols enjoyed short-lived stardom on British television as a cast member of the series Department S. Born Rosemary Claxton in West Yorkshire in the early '40s, she began her career as a child actress with an uncredited appearance in the 1949 thriller The Blue Lamp, in which she played a Cockney street urchin. After studying at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Nicols worked in repertory theater and, occasionally, film and television, including an uncredited role in The Guns of Navarone and guest spots in such TV series as Man in a Suitcase. In 1966, she had a supporting role in the dramatic film The Pleasure Girls; that same year, she also appeared in the British series Undermind. Nicols' big break on-stage came when she was cast in the West End production of Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol. In 1968, she was selected to play Annabelle Hurst, the highly analytical computer expert in the ITC espionage series Department S, which ran for 28 hour-long episodes from 1969-1970 and was shown on several continents, including a run in the U.S., where her glamorous good looks compared favorably to such rivals as Linda Thorson on The Avengers. After the end of the series, she was cast in the role of Anna Sergeyevna in Fathers and Sons, based on the book by Ivan Turgenev, in 1971. Nicols later moved to Malta after marrying, giving up her acting career for a time to become an author. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
- 1969
Monty Berman's 'cult' detective series Department S ran from March 1969 until April 1970. The show was a great departure, and very much an 'update', to the rather staid looking ITC mystery-adventure programmes The Saint and Man In A Suitcase that had gone before. The department in question was that of Interpol, a specialist group managed by the first of many black TV cops (here African, Dennis Alaba Peters. Indeed, it is no short call to claim that Department 'S' was the precursor to the popular X-Files series, as more often than not the characters would come up against variations of 'paradox' mysteries that the X-Files phenomenon has so often specialised in. However, alien abduction and UFOs are one such problem that the folks at Interpol never encountered. The cases they were up against were usually caused by a natural occurrence, a calamity, disaster or a spontaneous crime that were far beyond the deduction skills of the police. The agents: Jason King (Peter Wyngarde) was a best-selling crime novelist, who possessed wonderful reasoning akin to Sherlock Holmes; Joel Fabiani played the young American action-hero Stuart Sullivan and Anabelle King's (Rosemary Nicols) computer skills kept the research abreast with James Bond-ian gadgetry. King proved that a man could still be a man and care as much about clothes as the ladies, and his peacock attitude -- along with the decent scripts -- made the show essential viewing for 1969's tuned-in audiences. Fashion and action in one package! ~ Jon Mills, Rovi
- Starring:
- Peter Wyngarde, Rosemary Nicols, (more)
- 1968
In this youthful musical adventure, three lonesome, lovestruck teens decide to kidnap the men they idolize. One is the Minister of Pop Culture, another is a handsome singer, the third is a disc jockey. Naturally the three victims are unhappy with their circumstance, but the girls are nice and attractive so things aren't too bad. It does not stop one fellow from causing further problems by escaping and alerting the police. Trouble follows, but fortunately, everything works out in the end. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1966
In this drama, the difficulties of being a young woman during the 1960s are examined. The story centers upon a country girl who comes to London to pursue a modeling career and ends up living with three girls and a young man--who is one of the others' brother. While waiting for her big break, the lass encounters a handsome photographer and finds a mutual attraction. Meanwhile, the other roommates have romantic entanglements of their own. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ian McShane, Francesca Annis, (more)
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