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Hannah Gordon
Born
Hannah Campbell Grant Gordon

(1941-04-09) 9 April 1941 (age 83)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation(s)Actress and presenter
Known forMy Wife Next Door (1972)
The Morcambe & Wise Show (1972)
Upstairs Downstairs (1974-75)
Telford's Change (1979)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Joint Account (1989-90)
Watercolour Challenge (1998-2001)
One Foot in the Grave (2000)
Spouse
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(m. 1970; died 1994)​
Children1

Hannah Campbell Grant Gordon[1] (born 9 April 1941) is a Scottish actress and presenter who is notable for her television work in the United Kingdom, including My Wife Next Door (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974–75), Telford's Change (1979), Joint Account (1989–90) and an appearance in the final episode of One Foot in the Grave, broadcast in 2000. She is also known for presenting the Channel Four lifestyle show Watercolour Challenge in the late 1990s and for her appearance as Ann Treves in David Lynch's 1980 film The Elephant Man. She is sometimes credited under her married name of Hannah Warwick.

Early life

Gordon was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of Hannah (née Grant) and William Munro Gordon.[1][2] She studied drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and, after graduating, spent one year at a repertory theatre in Dundee.[2] In 1966–67, Gordon played Kirsty in the Doctor Who serial The Highlanders and made appearances on Jackanory (1969). In 1967, she appeared in the stage play Spring and Port Wine and in 1970 took the same role in the film version.[2]

Film and television career

Her first appearance was as "Zayla" in the first episode of Out of The Unknown entitled "No Place Like Earth" by John Wyndham in October 1965. In 1970 she appeared in the film adaptation of Spring and Port Wine.[3] Her next appearance was as Virginia Hamilton who later married Lord Bellamy in the fourth and fifth series of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs' In 1972 she appeared with John Alderton in 13 episodes of "My wife next door" on BBC. '. In 1979, she appeared in Telford's Change, another drama. During the 1970s, Gordon also appeared in Play for Today, The Persuaders! and the 1973 Christmas edition of The Morecambe & Wise Show. In 1989-90 she starred as a bank manager with Peter Egan and John Bird in the BBC sitcom Joint Account. She voiced the character Hyzenthlay in Watership Down (1978), her other film roles included Alfie Darling (1975)[2] and The Elephant Man (1980) as the wife of Anthony Hopkins. Her most recent film role was as Kevin McKidd's mother in Made of Honour (2008).

In 1981 she starred in Miss Morrison's Ghosts (with Wendy Hiller). She has appeared on television in Goodbye, Mr Kent (1982), Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984), My Family and Other Animals (1987), Taggart (1993) and Jonathan Creek (1998). In 2000, Gordon played Glynis, the woman who kills Victor Meldrew in "Things Aren't Simple Any More", the final episode of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave.

Since 2000, she has made guest appearances in Midsomer Murders Judgement Day (2000) as Annabel Weston/Bella Devere, Monarch of the Glen (2002) and Heartbeat (2004) in which she played Mrs Barton in episode 5 of series 14, Hunter's Moon.

From 1998 to 2001 she hosted the Channel 4 programme Watercolour Challenge.[2]

She also more recently appeared in the 2007 Christmas episodes of BBC Scotland soap River City, as hotel owner Rose who had rescued Archie Buchanan from the cliffside and taken him in because of his memory loss. In the final episode of series 7 of the BBC series Hustle (2011), she played an old flame of Albert Stroller.

In the 2015 crime drama series Unforgotten made for ITV, she played Grace Greaves, wife of Father Robert Greaves.

Stage and theatre

Hannah Gordon narrated Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf in a Christmas concert with the Corinthian Chamber Orchestra at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, London on 14 December 2007.[4]

She was the narrator of the opening concert at the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht at Usher Hall on Friday, 8 August 2008.[5] This performance brought together the RSNO, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, the ladies of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and eight soloists.[6]

From 9–20 March 2009, Gordon read Nina Bawden's novel Family Money for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

References

  1. ^ a b "Hannah Gordon Biography (1941-)", Film reference website
  2. ^ a b c d e "Gazetteer for Scotland - Hannah Gordon". Gazetteer for Scotland. 1995–2007.
  3. ^ "Spring and Port Wine (1970)". BFI. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Hannah Gordon, narrator". 14 December 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2009.[dead link]
  5. ^ "Festival frenzy as Edinburgh gears up for August". 29 July 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
  6. ^ "Sales up at Edinburgh's festival". BBC News. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
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