Color me surprised when I realized Magenta from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (one of my very favorite movies ever) showed up in several frock flicks I was reviewing! That sent me to IMDB where I discovered Patricia Quinn’s long and varied career onscreen. Let’s look!
Wife in Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
Christabel Pankhurst in Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)
Lizzie Siddal in The Love School (1975)
Livilla in I, Claudius (1976)
Susan in Beauty and the Beast (1976)
The Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol (1977)
Annette Vallon in “William and Dorothy,” Clouds of Glory (1978)
Rose in Good Behaviour (1983)
Sylvia Daisy Pouncer in The Box of Delights (1984)
Doris Tingley in Lost Empires (1986)
Mona Castlebar in Fortunes of War (1987)
Bella Cohen in “James Joyce’s Ulysses,” Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988)
Elizabeth Purcell in England, My England (1995)
George Sand in The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka: The Mystery of Chopin (1999)
Have you noticed Patricia Quinn in frock flicks before?
Linville, all day, every day!
Autocorrect strikes again! Livilla, of course.
Fascinating how an actress can somehow fly under the radar whilst parading right in front of your eyes for many years – such is the power of a Character Actress!
That is exactly what I wanted to say!
Fist time I realized that Christabel Pankhurst and Livillia were the same actress! The golden age of BBC shows!
I refuse to pay for streaming services, which leaves me with DVDs (such as “I, Claudius”) and Kanopy; the latter is full of very good BBC series, many of which never made it over here.
fun roundup. the detail about her playing christabel pankhurst in shoulder to shoulder was a highlight — suffragette-era costumes are always worth a closer look. and the ghost of christmas past showing up in a disco outfit in the 1977 a christmas carol sounds wonderfully seventies. thanks for putting this together.
The Box of Delights is my Christmas tradition – we watch it every year while we’re decorating! It’s on the Internet Archive, if you haven’t seen it. I got to meet Patricia (Lady Stephens, to use her proper title) last year and she was just as wonderful as you’d hope.
Yes – she’s the widow of Sir Robert Stephens and stepmother of Toby Stephens.
Livilla! With Patrick Stewart in a bad wig! I, Claudius was so much fun to watch. (Also am I the only one who thinks that “Sylvia Daisy Pouncer” would make a great cat name?)
No one else could give a dirty look like Patricia Quinn. Her eyes just hurl hostility.