Barbara Kellerman
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Barbara R. Kellerman is an English
actress, noted for her film
and television
roles. She trained at Rose Bruford College
. Kellerman's Jewish parents had fled Nazi Germany
and settled in Leeds
, briefly living in Manchester before returning to Leeds by 1952. Her father was an academic physicist and her mother was a senior teacher of modern foreign languages.
Kellerman has a younger brother Clive and a younger sister Judith.
, The Monster Club
and The Sea Wolves
.
Her television appearances include: Space: 1999
, The Glittering Prizes
, 1990
, The Professionals
, The Mad Death
, Quatermass
and The Chronicles of Narnia.
She is also notable for her appearances in the BBC
adaptations of three of the Narnia books. She played the White Witch
in The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe
(1988), The Old Hag (Narnian Hag) in Prince Caspian
in (1989), and continued on to be Lady of the Green Kirtle
in The Silver Chair in 1990.
On the radio, she portrayed Modesty Blaise
in a 1978 BBC World Service
adaptation of the novel Last Day in Limbo
.
She made a 20-minute drama for With Light Productions in 2007 for director Anita Parry entitled The Lights of Santa Cruz. It co-starred Christian Rodska
and was the story of two middle-aged divorcees doing up a boat on the Somerset
coast. It was filmed in Watchet, Somerset
(a small shipping port on the south west coast of England) over a four-day period, mostly on a refitted Swedish fishing boat, the Josefine. The film was entered into Bristol's Brief Encounters festival and is currently looking for distribution.
. She also played an old hag in rince Caspian/The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989 TV Serial)|Prince Caspian}} and finally playing the Green Lady
in The Silver Chair.
, opposite Roger Moore
.
Barbara Kellerman also appeared on the morning edition of BBC News
on 11 November 1988 with actress Sophie Wilcox
, just before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe went on air. This clip is shown on the BBC Chronicles of Narnia DVD
boxed set on bonus disc.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actress, noted for her film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
roles. She trained at Rose Bruford College
Rose Bruford College
Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance is a British drama school, offering university-level and professional vocational training for theatre and performance and the BA and MA degrees, based in Sidcup, Southeast London.-History:Founded in 1950, Rose Bruford "pioneered the first acting degree...
. Kellerman's Jewish parents had fled Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
and settled in Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
, briefly living in Manchester before returning to Leeds by 1952. Her father was an academic physicist and her mother was a senior teacher of modern foreign languages.
Kellerman has a younger brother Clive and a younger sister Judith.
Career
Kellerman's film credits include: Satan's SlaveSatan's Slave
Satan's Slave is a horror film directed by Norman J. Warren and starring Michael Gough.-Plot:A young girl, Catherine Yorke , shares a ride with her parents to visit her uncle Alexander , that no one had met before...
, The Monster Club
The Monster Club
The Monster Club is a 1980 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Vincent Price and John Carradine. An anthology film, it is based on the works of the British horror author R. Chetwynd-Hayes...
and The Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film is based on the book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in World War II...
.
Her television appearances include: Space: 1999
Space: 1999
Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television series that ran for two seasons and originally aired from 1975 to 1977. In the opening episode, nuclear waste from Earth stored on the Moon's far side explodes in a catastrophic accident on 13 September 1999, knocking the Moon out of orbit and...
, The Glittering Prizes
The Glittering Prizes
The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1953 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1976.-Cast:...
, 1990
1990 (TV series)
1990 is a British then-futuristic political drama television series produced by the BBC and shown in 1977 and 1978.- Plot :The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control , a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding...
, The Professionals
The Professionals (TV series)
The Professionals was a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mk1 Productions and London Weekend Television that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983. In all, 57 episodes were produced, filmed between 1977 and 1981. It starred Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins and Gordon...
, The Mad Death
The Mad Death
The Mad Death is a television serial made by BBC Scotland. It was filmed in 1981 and transmitted 2 years later in 1983. The programme has only ever been repeated twice; once on BBC in 1985 and again in 1993 on UK Gold...
, Quatermass
Quatermass (TV serial)
Quatermass is a British television science fiction serial produced by Euston Films for Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network in October and November 1979. Like its three predecessors, Quatermass was written by Nigel Kneale...
and The Chronicles of Narnia.
She is also notable for her appearances in the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
adaptations of three of the Narnia books. She played the White Witch
White Witch
Jadis is the main antagonist of The Magician's Nephew and of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in C.S. Lewis' series, The Chronicles of Narnia...
in The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (1988)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a British children's television drama first broadcast by the BBC in 1988. It was the first series of the Narnia trilogy adaptation that ran from 1988 to 1990.-Episode 1:...
(1988), The Old Hag (Narnian Hag) in Prince Caspian
Prince Caspian/The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989 TV Serial)
Prince Caspian/The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was shown on BBC television in 1989. Originally aired as two separate series, it has been edited into one series for VHS and DVD home video release. It was the second series of the Narnia trilogy adaptation that ran from 1988 to 1990.-Cast:*Warwick...
in (1989), and continued on to be Lady of the Green Kirtle
Lady of the Green Kirtle
The Lady of the Green Kirtle, also called Queen of Underland and Queen of the Deep Realm, is the main villain in The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis. She is sometimes called briefly the Green Lady , and she is known also as the Emerald Witch; neither name, however, appears in Lewis's text...
in The Silver Chair in 1990.
On the radio, she portrayed Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by Peter O'Donnell and Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin...
in a 1978 BBC World Service
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
adaptation of the novel Last Day in Limbo
Last Day in Limbo
Last Day in Limbo is the title of the eighth novel chronicling the adventures of crime lord-turned-secret agent Modesty Blaise. The novel was first published in 1976 and was written by Peter O'Donnell, who had created the character for a comic strip in the early 1960s...
.
She made a 20-minute drama for With Light Productions in 2007 for director Anita Parry entitled The Lights of Santa Cruz. It co-starred Christian Rodska
Christian Rodska
Christian Rodska is an English actor who has appeared in many television and radio series and narrated a number of audiobooks...
and was the story of two middle-aged divorcees doing up a boat on the Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
coast. It was filmed in Watchet, Somerset
Watchet
Watchet is a harbour town and civil parish in the English county of Somerset, with an approximate population of 4,400. It is situated west of Bridgwater, north-west of Taunton, and east of Minehead. The parish includes the hamlet of Beggearn Huish...
(a small shipping port on the south west coast of England) over a four-day period, mostly on a refitted Swedish fishing boat, the Josefine. The film was entered into Bristol's Brief Encounters festival and is currently looking for distribution.
The Chronicles of Narnia
Kellerman is best known for her work in the 1988 BBC adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as the White WitchWhite Witch
Jadis is the main antagonist of The Magician's Nephew and of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in C.S. Lewis' series, The Chronicles of Narnia...
. She also played an old hag in rince Caspian/The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989 TV Serial)|Prince Caspian}} and finally playing the Green Lady
Green Lady
Green Lady may refer to:*Chinese Girl, a painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff*Lady of the Green Kirtle, the main villain in C.S. Lewis's book The Silver Chair*Green Lady of Fyvie, a ghost that supposedly wanders the corridors of Fyvie Castle...
in The Silver Chair.
The Sea Wolves
Before appearing in The Chronicles of Narnia, Kellerman played a German spy in The Sea WolvesThe Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film is based on the book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in World War II...
, opposite Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...
.
Filmography
- The Lights of Santa Cruz (2007, short film) as Beth
- Monsignor RenardMonsignor RenardMonsignor Renard was a four part ITV television drama set in occupied France during World War II. It starred John Thaw as Monsignor Augustine Renard, a French priest who is drawn into the Resistance movement. The series was later shown in the U.S...
(3 episodes, 2000) as Mme Dufosse - The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
(1 episode, 1998) - The Chronicles of Narnia (1988–90) as The White WitchWhite WitchJadis is the main antagonist of The Magician's Nephew and of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in C.S. Lewis' series, The Chronicles of Narnia...
, Narnian Hag and the Lady of the Green KirtleLady of the Green KirtleThe Lady of the Green Kirtle, also called Queen of Underland and Queen of the Deep Realm, is the main villain in The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis. She is sometimes called briefly the Green Lady , and she is known also as the Emerald Witch; neither name, however, appears in Lewis's text... - Lytton's Diary (5 episodes, 1986) as Helena
- My Brother JonathanMy Brother JonathanMy Brother Jonathan is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold French. It starred Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, and James Robertson Justice....
(1985) (TV) as Rachel Hammond - Morte d'Arthur (1984) (TV) as Queen Guinevere
- Storyboard (1 episode, 1983)
- The Mad DeathThe Mad DeathThe Mad Death is a television serial made by BBC Scotland. It was filmed in 1981 and transmitted 2 years later in 1983. The programme has only ever been repeated twice; once on BBC in 1985 and again in 1993 on UK Gold...
(1983) as Anne Maitland - Number 10 (1 episode, 1983) as Frances Stevenson
- Living Apart TogetherLiving apart togetherLiving Apart Together is a term to describe couples who have an intimate relationship but live at separate addresses. LAT couples account for around 10% of adults in Britain, a figure which equates to over a quarter of all those not married or cohabiting...
(1982) as Amy - Hammer House of HorrorHammer House of HorrorIn 1980, Hammer Films created a series for British television, the Hammer House of Horror, which ran for 13 episodes with 51 minutes per episode...
(1 episode, 1980) as Laurie Morton - The Sea WolvesThe Sea WolvesThe Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film is based on the book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in World War II...
(1980) as Mrs. Cromwell - Lady Killers (1 episode, 1980) as Madame Marie Fahmy
- BBC2 Playhouse (1 episode, 1980)
- The Monster ClubThe Monster ClubThe Monster Club is a 1980 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Vincent Price and John Carradine. An anthology film, it is based on the works of the British horror author R. Chetwynd-Hayes...
(1980) as Angela - The ProfessionalsThe Professionals (TV series)The Professionals was a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mk1 Productions and London Weekend Television that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983. In all, 57 episodes were produced, filmed between 1977 and 1981. It starred Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins and Gordon...
(1 episode, 1979) as Sylvie - QuatermassQuatermassQuatermass may best be known as the surname of the title character of a British science fiction franchise of several television serials and films, and a radio production...
(2 episodes, 1979) as Clare Kapp - S.O.S. TitanicS.O.S. TitanicS.O.S. Titanic is a 1979 television movie that depicts the doomed 1912 voyage from the perspective of three distinct groups of passengers in First, Second, and Third Class, and respectively in a historically accurate fashion...
(1979) (TV) as Passenger - Crown CourtCrown Court (TV series)Crown Court was 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....
(1 episode, 1979) as Miranda Buckingham - BBC Television ShakespeareBBC Television ShakespeareThe BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.-Origins:...
- The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight (1979) (TV) as Anne BoleynAnne BoleynAnne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the... - The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) as Clare Kapp
- 19901990 (TV series)1990 is a British then-futuristic political drama television series produced by the BBC and shown in 1977 and 1978.- Plot :The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control , a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding...
(8 episodes, 1977) as Delly Lomas - Satan's SlaveSatan's SlaveSatan's Slave is a horror film directed by Norman J. Warren and starring Michael Gough.-Plot:A young girl, Catherine Yorke , shares a ride with her parents to visit her uncle Alexander , that no one had met before...
(1976) as Frances - The Crezz (1 episode, 1976) as Alexandra Tuke
- Victorian Scandals (1 episode, 1976) as Jane Brookfield
- BBC Play of the Month (1 episode, 1976) as Jacqueline Maingot
- The Glittering PrizesThe Glittering PrizesThe Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1953 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1976.-Cast:...
(4 episodes, 1976) as Barbara Morris - A Pitcher of Snakes (1976) (TV)
- Space: 1999Space: 1999Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television series that ran for two seasons and originally aired from 1975 to 1977. In the opening episode, nuclear waste from Earth stored on the Moon's far side explodes in a catastrophic accident on 13 September 1999, knocking the Moon out of orbit and...
(1 episode, 1975) as Dr. Monique Bouchere - General HospitalGeneral Hospital (UK TV series)General Hospital is a British daytime soap opera produced by ATV which ran on ITV from 1972 to 1979. It was modelled after the American drama of the same name....
(unknown episodes, 1974) as Nurse Laura Hardy - Marked PersonalMarked PersonalMarked Personal was a British daytime television drama created by Charles Dennis and starring Stephanie Beacham and Heather Chasen. The series was made by Thames Television and consisted of 90 episodes, shown twice weekly on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons during 1973-74...
(2 episodes, 1974) as Jane Wright - John Halifax, GentlemanJohn Halifax, GentlemanJohn Halifax, Gentleman is a novel by Dinah Craik, first published in 1856. The novel was adapted for television by the BBC in 1974.-Plot summary:...
(1974) as Louise - Wessex TalesWessex TalesWessex Tales is an 1888 collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840.Through them, Thomas Hardy talks about nineteenth century marriage, grammar, class status, how men and women were viewed, medical diseases and more.-Contents:In 1888, Wessex Tales...
(1 episode, 1973) as Nanny - On the House (1 episode, 1971) as Maureen
- How We Used to LiveHow We Used To LiveHow We Used to Live is a British educational historical television drama written by Freda Kelsall and sometimes narrated by Redvers Kyle and John Crosse, both employed as continuity announcers at Yorkshire Television at the time of production. Production began in 1968 at the YTV studios in Leeds...
(1 episode, 1969) as Girl
Barbara Kellerman also appeared on the morning edition of BBC News
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
on 11 November 1988 with actress Sophie Wilcox
Sophie Wilcox
Sophie Elizabeth Wilcox is a British actress who is most notable for appearing in the BBC miniseries adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia as Lucy Pevensie when she was 13 years old....
, just before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe went on air. This clip is shown on the BBC Chronicles of Narnia DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
boxed set on bonus disc.