Ann Beach is a British actress.

She is the mother of Charlotte Coleman

Charlotte Coleman

Charlotte Ninon Coleman was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral , Jess in the television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and her childhood roles of Sue in Worzel Gummidge and the character Marmalade Atkins...

 and Lisa Coleman. She is perhaps best remembered for her supporting role as Sonia Barrett, the quirky next-door neighbour on the British comedy Fresh Fields

Fresh Fields

Fresh Fields is a British situation comedy written by John T. Chapman and produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1984 and 1986. The show is well remembered for its opening titles featuring a silhouette of a person in a rocking chair....

, starring Julia McKenzie

Julia McKenzie

Julia McKenzie is an English actress, singer, and theatre director. She is best-known for her performance in Fresh Fields, but to current television audiences, she is best known for her role as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's Marple...

 and Anton Rodgers

Anton Rodgers

Anton Rodgers was an English actor and occasional director. He performed on stage, in film and in television dramas and sitcoms.-Life and career:...

. She was married to Francis Coleman

Francis Coleman

Francis Coleman was a conductor and television producer and director.Born in Montreal, Canada, Coleman began working in an office at the age of fourteen while studying music at evening classes...

.
She won a scholarship to RADA

Rada

Rada is the term for "council" or "assembly"borrowed by Polish from the Low Franconian "Rad" and later passed into the Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages....

 at the age of 16. After leaving, she went on tour with Frankie Howerd

Frankie Howerd

Francis Alick "Frankie" Howerd OBE was an English comedian and comic actor whose career, described by fellow comedian Barry Cryer as "a series of comebacks", spanned six decades.-Early career:...

 in Hotel Paradiso., and then came to London in the title role of Emlyn Williams "Beth". Unfortunately, this was not a success, but she was soon busily engaged in television work, until she went back to the stage in the Theatre Workshop

Theatre Workshop

Theatre Workshop is a theatre group noted for their director, Joan Littlewood. Many actors of the 1950s and 1960s received their training and first exposure with the company...

 company at the Theatre Royal Stratford East

Theatre Royal Stratford East

The Theatre Royal Stratford East is a theatre in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham. Since 1953, it has been the home of the Theatre Workshop company.-History:...

.Among the parts she created there were Rosie in
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be is a play with music, rather than a musical. The play, by Frank Norman, himself a Cockney, has music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, who also grew up in London's East End.-Production background:...

, and Miss Gilchrist in The Hostage. She then created the role of Barbara in Billy Liar

Billy Liar

Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse, which was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series. The work has inspired and featured in a number of popular songs....

 at the Cambridge Theatre in September 1960.

Filmography

• Bad Night For The Blues
  Bad Night for the Blues
  Bad Night for the Blues is a 15-minute comedy film written and directed by Chris Shepherd and produced by Maria Manton. First transmitted on the BBC on the 27 February 2011 and later in France on the 2 April 2011 as a part of Mickrocine on Canal+ Cinecinema. Other countries to transmit the film...
  
   (2010) TV Drama [Actress as Madge]
• "Holby Blue: (#2.3)" (2008) TV Episode [Actress as Annie]
• The History of Mr Polly (2007) (TV) [Actress as Mrs. Rumbold]
• I Am Bob (2007) [Actress as Friendly Old Lady] (as Ann Beach)
• "Foyle's War
  Foyle's War
  Foyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during World War II, created by screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz, and was commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. It has aired on ITV since 2002...
  
  : Bleak Midwinter (#5.1)" (2007) TV Episode [Actress as Hilda Greenwood]
• Cold Blood (2005) (TV) [Actress as Lynn]
• "Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
  
  : Sauce for the Goose (#8.7)" (2005) TV Episode [Actress as Sonia Hardwick]
• Double Act
  Double act
  A double act, also known as a comedy duo, is a comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin and profession, but drastically different personalities or behavior...
  
   (2002) (TV) [Actress as Gran]
• "Peak Practice
  Peak Practice
  Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...
  
  : Flesh and Blood (#11.2)" (2001) TV Episode [Actress as Eunice Gould]
• "People Like Us
  People Like Us
  People Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer...
  
  : The Photographer (#1.5)" (1999) TV Episode [Actress]
• Notting Hill (film)
  Notting Hill (film)
  Notting Hill is a 1999 British romantic comedy film set in Notting Hill, London, released on 21 May 1999. The screenplay was by Richard Curtis, who had written Four Weddings and a Funeral. It was produced by Duncan Kenworthy and directed by Roger Michell...
  
   (1999) [Actress as William's Mother]
• "Home Farm Twins
  Home Farm Twins
  Home Farm Twins is a series of children's books written by Jenny Oldfield. The books were later successfully adapted into a television series for the BBC, with Polly Duniam and Sophie Duniam cast as the twins...
  
  " (1999) TV series [Actress as Dotty Miller]
• "Wycliffe
  Wycliffe (TV series)
  Wycliffe is a British TV 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...
  
  : Land's End (#5.6)" (1998) TV Episode [Actress as Mrs. Wimble]
• Two Golden Balls (1994) (TV) [Actress as Mrs. Leveller]
• "The Lifeboat: Three Men in a Boat (#1.8)" (1994) TV Episode [Actress as Phyllis Shore]
• "The Lifeboat: Homecomings (#1.7)" (1994) TV Episode [Actress as Phyllis Shore]
• "The Lifeboat: The Pirates of Penrhys (#1.6)" (1994) TV Episode [Actress as Phyllis Shore]
• "The Lifeboat: Troubled Waters (#1.1)" (1994) TV Episode [Actress as Phyllis Shore]
• Selected Exits (1993) TV Special [Actress as Mrs. E T]
• A Question of Attribution
  A Question of Attribution
  A Question of Attribution is a 1988 one-act stage play, written by Alan Bennett. It was premièred at the National Theatre, London in December 1988, along with An Englishman Abroad. The two plays are collectively called Single Spies....
  
   (1992) (TV) [Actress as Mrs. Chubb]
• "Land of Hope and Gloria: Running Before Walking (#1.4)" (1992) TV Episode [Actress as Freda]
• "French Fields
  French Fields
  French Fields is a British situation comedy. It ran for 19 episodes from 1989-1991. It was written by John T. Chapman and Ian Davidson and was produced by Thames Television for ITV....
  
  : Hail and Farewell (#3.6)" (1991) TV Episode [Actress as Sonia]
• King Ralph
  King Ralph
  King Ralph is a 1991 American comedy film starring John Goodman in the title role of Ralph Jones. The movie also stars Peter O'Toole as the King's private secretary, Sir Cedric Willingham, Camille Coduri as Ralph's girlfriend Miranda Greene, and John Hurt as the British peer Percival Graves, who...
  
   (1991) [Actress as Miranda's Mother]
• "Home to Roost
  Home to Roost
  Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his 18-year-old son Matthew....
  
  : Return to Clagthorpe (#4.5)" (1990) TV Episode [Actress as Rita Higgs]
• "Fresh Fields
  Fresh Fields
  Fresh Fields is a British situation comedy written by John T. Chapman and produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1984 and 1986. The show is well remembered for its opening titles featuring a silhouette of a person in a rocking chair....
  
  : (1984–1986) 27 Episodes [Actress as Sonia Barrett]
• "Nanny
  Nanny
  A nanny, childminder or child care provider, is an individual who provides care for one or more children in a family as a service...
  
  : The Prodigy (#3.3)" (1983) TV Episode [Actress as Miss Alice Casson]
• Oliver Twist
  Oliver Twist
  Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to...
  
   (1982/I) (TV) [Actress as Mrs. Sowerberry]
• "Only When I Laugh
  Only When I Laugh (TV series)
  Only When I Laugh is a British television sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV between 29 October 1979 and 16 December 1982. It was set in the ward of an NHS hospital. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?"...
  
  : Postman's Knock (#3.4)" (1981) TV Episode [Actress as Helen Roper-Jones]
• "Holding the Fort
  Holding the Fort
  Holding the Fort was an ITV situation comedy starring Peter Davison, Patricia Hodge and Matthew Kelly. It was an early product of the writing team of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Three series were recorded, a total of twenty episodes, first aired between 1980 and 1982, concurrent with Davison...
  
  : Famous First Words (#2.2)" (1981) TV Episode [Actress as Muriel]
• "Tales of the Unexpected
  Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)
  Tales of the Unexpected is a British television series originally aired between 1979 and 1988, made by Anglia Television for ITV. Filming began in 1978.The series was an anthology of different tales...
  
  : Georgy Porgy (#2.9)" (1980) TV Episode [Actress as Miss Unwin]
• "Play for Today
  Play for Today
  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 Vanishing Army (#10.24)" (1980) TV Episode [Actress]
• "The History of Mr. Polly
  The History of Mr. Polly
  The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells.-Plot summary:Alfred Polly is a quiet, timid and direction-less young man living in Edwardian England, in an imaginary town of Fishbourne in Kent...
  
  : (#1.3)" (1980) TV Episode [Actress as Mrs. Johnson]
• "The History of Mr. Polly: (#1.2)" (1980) TV Episode [Actress as Mrs. Johnson]
• "The History of Mr. Polly" (1980) TV mini-series [Actress as Mrs. Johnson]
• Brecht and Co (1979) (TV) [Actress as Member of Brecht's company/Widow Begbick/Polly Peacham]
• "Rising Damp
  Rising Damp
  Rising Damp is a television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, first broadcast from 1974 to 1978. It was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his well-received 1971 stage play, The Banana Box The series was the highest-ranking ITV sitcom on the 100 Best Sitcoms poll run in...
  
  : That's My Boy (#3.1)" (1977) TV Episode [Actress as Mrs. Brent]
• "Play of the Month
  Play of the Month
  Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles...
  
  : The Country Wife (#12.5)" (1977) TV Episode [Actress as Mrs. Dainty Fidget]
• "Play of the Month: The Winslow Boy (#12.4)" (1977) TV Episode [Actress as Violet]
• "Bouquet of Barbed Wire
  Bouquet of Barbed Wire
  Bouquet of Barbed Wire is a British television series based on a 1969 novel by Andrea Newman. The series – whose title comes from an incident that occurred to Newman and her mother while on a walk – was made by London Weekend Television for ITV in 1976...
  
  : Introductions (#1.2)" (1976) TV Episode [Actress as Monica]
• "Bouquet of Barbed Wire: Home-coming (#1.1)" (1976) TV Episode [Actress as Monica]
• The Battle of Billy's Pond (1976) [Actress as Mrs. Bateson]
• "Fred Basset
  Fred Basset
  Fred Basset is a comic strip about a male basset hound. The cartoon was created by Scottish cartoonist Alex Graham and published first in the Daily Mail on July 8, 1963. It has since been syndicated around the world....
  
  " (1976) TV series [Actress] (voice)
• "Shades of Greene
  Shades of Greene
  Shades of Greene is a British television series based on short stories written by the author Graham Greene. The series began in 1975, with each hour-long episode featuring a dramatisation of one of Greene's stories, many of which dealt with issues such as guilt and the Catholic faith, as well as...
  
  : Special Duties (#1.4)" (1975) TV Episode [Actress as Miss Sanderson]
• "Dawson's Weekly: The Clerical Error (#1.6)" (1975) TV Episode [Actress as Mrs. Ffoulkes]
• "Armchair Theatre
  Armchair Theatre
  Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television after 1968....
  
  : A Bit of a Lift (#15.3)" (1973) TV Episode [Actress as Penelope]
• "Seven of One
  Seven of One
  Seven of One was a British comedy series that aired on BBC2 in 1973. Starring Ronnie Barker, 7 of One is a series of seven separate comedies that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms. Originally it was to be called Six of One, which Barker planned to follow up with another series called Half...
  
  : My Old Man (#1.3)" (1973) TV Episode [Actress as Doris]
• "Play for Today
  Play for Today
  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...
  
  : Song at Twilight (#3.15)" (1973) TV Episode [Actress as Shirley Ritchie]
• A Bit of a Lift (1973) (TV) [Actress as Penelope]
• "The Man Outside: A Persistent Coffin (#1.4)" (1972) TV Episode [Actress as Maudlin]
• "Play for Today
  Play for Today
  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 Villa Maroc (#2.16)" (1972) TV Episode [Actress as Valerie]
• Under Milk Wood
  Under Milk Wood (film)
  Under Milk Wood is a 1972 British film directed by Andrew Sinclair and based on the radio play Under Milk Wood by the Welsh writer Dylan Thomas. It starred Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole. Like the book it portrays the inhabitants of a small Welsh village Llareggub....
  
   (1972) [Actress as Polly Garter]
• "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Woman in the Big Hat (#1.9)" (1971) TV Episode [Actress as Mary Grandard]
• "Play of the Month
  Play of the Month
  Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles...
  
  : Rasputin (#7.2)" (1971) TV Episode [Actress as Anna Vyroubova]
• "Armchair Theatre
  Armchair Theatre
  Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television after 1968....
  
  : The Bargain Hunters (#13.2)" (1971) TV Episode [Actress as Mrs. Drayton]
• "For the Love of Ada
  For The Love Of Ada
  For the Love of Ada is an ITV sitcom that ran between 1970 - 1971.-Outline:This gentle sitcom starred Irene Handl as Ada Cresswell a Cockney pensioner widow who lives with her daughter Ruth Pollitt and son-in-law Leslie Pollitt .Ada starts a relationship with Walter Bingley , the gravedigger who...
  
  : The Journey (#3.2)" (1971) TV Episode [Actress as Alice Bingley]
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer is a British 1970 cult satire film written by and starring Peter Cook, John Cleese and Graham Chapman, and directed by Kevin Billington .-Synopsis:...
  
   (1970) [Actress as Receptionist]
• "Steptoe and Son
  Steptoe and Son
  Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about two rag and bone men living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old...
  
  : Steptoe and Son – and Son! (#5.4)" (1970) TV Episode [Actress as Daphne]
• Mad Jack
  The Wednesday Play
  The Wednesday Play was an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. Every week's play was usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured...
  
   (1970) (TV) [Actress as Music hall artist]
• "Jackanory
  Jackanory
  Jackanory is a long-running BBC children's television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, the first story being the fairy-tale Cap o' Rushes read by Lee Montague. Jackanory continued to be broadcast until 24 March 1996,...
  
  : Green Smoke: The Pool of Excalibur (#6.20)" (1969) TV Episode [Actress as Storyteller]
• "Jackanory: Green Smoke: The Mermaid (#6.19)" (1969) TV Episode [Actress as Storyteller]
• "Jackanory: Green Smoke: I'm for Tintagel Castle (#6.18)" (1969) TV Episode [Actress as Storyteller]
• "Jackanory: Green Smoke: The Story of the Flaming Dragon (#6.17)" (1969) TV Episode [Actress as Storyteller]
• "Jackanory: Green Smoke: The Puff of Green Smoke (#6.16)" (1969) TV Episode [Actress as Storyteller]
• Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage (1969) (TV) [Actress as Blodwen Wilderness]
• "The Wednesday Play
  The Wednesday Play
  The Wednesday Play was an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. Every week's play was usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured...
  
  : Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage (#1.145)" (1969) TV Episode [Actress]
• Sebastian
  Sebastian (1968 film)
  Sebastian is a 1968 British film directed by David Greene, produced by Michael Powell, Herbert Brodkin and Gerry Fisher, and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
   (1968) [Actress as Pamela]
• "Half Hour Story: The 45th Unmarried Mother (#1.13)" (1967) TV Episode [Actress as Jennifer]
• "Armchair Theatre
  Armchair Theatre
  Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television after 1968....
  
  : Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (#7.4)" (1967) TV Episode [Actress as Bridie]
• "Play of the Month
  Play of the Month
  Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles...
  
  : Make Me an Offer (#1.7)" (1966) TV Episode [Actress as Gwen]
• Hotel Paradiso
  Hotel Paradiso (film)
  Hotel Paradiso is a 1966 film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Peter Glenville and based on the play Hotel du Libre Echange by Maurice Desvallières and Georges Feydeau.-Synopsis:...
  
   (1966) [Actress as Victoire, the Boniface's maid]
• "The Sunday-Night Play: Worm's Eye View" (1962) TV Episode [Actress as Thelma]
• The Fast Lady
  The Fast Lady
  The Fast Lady is a 1962 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin. The screenplay was written by Henry Blyth and Jack Davies, based on a story by Keble Howard.It marked the film debut of Julie Christie.-Plot:...
  
   (1962) [Actress as Miss Timpkins]
• "The Rag Trade
  The Rag Trade
  The Rag Trade was a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, a period variation of The Rag Trade....
  
  : (#1.1)" (1961) TV Episode [Actress]
• On the Fiddle
  On the Fiddle
  On the Fiddle is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier....
  
   (1961) [Actress as Iris]
• The City of the Dead (1960) [Actress as Lottie]
• "Armchair Theatre: Night Panic (#3.74)" (1960) TV Episode [Actress]
• "Armchair Theatre: The Terrorist (#3.7)" (1958) TV Episode [Actress]

External links

• http://movie-tv-episode-database.com/cast-or-crew/Ann-Beach-38115/
• NYTimes.com
• http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity/ann-beach/
• http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1808925970
• http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ann-beach/credits/208582