
Birthday:
10-11-1940
Deathday:
06-05-2012 (71 years)
Birthplace:
York, England, UK
Biography
Caroline Frances John was an English actress. She played classical roles on the stage and also portrayed Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, as well as several other television roles.
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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Act like Liz Shaw
event1993 star_border 4.8
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All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special.
The Woman in Black
Act like Stella's Mother
event1989 star_border 6.8
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When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.
The Woodlanders
Act like Housekeeper
event1998 star_border 5.1
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The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, woodsman Giles. She marries handsome young doctor Fitzpiers, but soon finds out he's not the man of her dreams and she still loves Giles.
Santa Claus: The Movie
Act like Village Woman (uncredited)
event1985 star_border 6.3
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In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload, and the disgruntled Patch flees the workshop to New York City. There, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman.
Raising a Riot
Act like Child at Party
event1955 star_border 6.7
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Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighborhood.
Kiss and Tell
Act like Avril Owens
event1996 star_border 5.2
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An undercover police officer must prove that a lonely man's missing wife was murdered.
Bad Girl
Act like Mrs Carter
event1992 star_border 10
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A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
The Devil of Winterborne
Act like Dr. Elizabeth Shaw
event1995 star_border 8.3
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When P.R.O.B.E. is summoned to investigate the savage murder of a retired headmaster, Liz Shaw is disturbed to find evidence of satanic rite near the scene of the crime. She soon discovers a web of deceit and corruption that extends back in time, threatening the current occupants of nearby Winterborne School. With P.R.O.B.E. under threat from within and the death toll mounting, Liz finds herself under increasing pressure from all sides to produce results... The Devil of Winterborne is at large and only Liz can stop it!
Link
event1986 star_border 6.2
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Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.
Assassin
Act like Ann
event1973 star_border 5.2
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When the British government orders the assassination of an Air Ministry official suspected of leaking top secret intel, their top assassin assigned to the job discovers there may be more to the hit than meets the eye.
Doctor Who: Inferno
Act like Liz Shaw / Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw
event1970 star_border 7
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UNIT is providing security cover at an experimental drilling project at Eastchester, designed to penetrate the Earth's crust and release a previously untapped source of energy. Soon, however, the drill head starts to leak an oily green liquid that transforms those who touch it into vicious primeval creatures with a craving for heat. The Doctor is accidentally transported "sideways in time" by the partially repaired TARDIS control console into a parallel universe where the drilling project is at a more advanced stage. Thwarted by his friends' ruthless alter egos, he works to save both universes.
Much Ado About Nothing
Act like Hero
event1967 star_border 5.5
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Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.
The Zero Imperative
Act like Dr. Elizabeth Shaw
event1994 star_border 7
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Former UNIT luminary Liz Shaw and her assistant Bayliss are investigating a series of bizarre murders, all committed near a soon-to-be-closed psychiatric hospital. When the hospital is unexpectedly reprieved by rich Industrialist Peter Russell events seem to move out of Liz's control. Are the incumbent director of the clinic, Doctor Dove and his predecessor Doctor O'Kane harboring the killer? What is the centuries-old horror hidden in the grounds? And what exactly is the secret of room zero?
Unnatural Selection
Act like Dr. Elizabeth Shaw
event1996 star_border 6.7
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In 1975, the British Government quietly closed down a secret evolutionary project codenamed BEAGLE, ordering the destruction of all research materials. Today, the horrific discovery of several oddly mutated bodies alerts Liz Shaw and P.R.O.B.E. to the fact that something is stalking the original site of project BEAGLE – something which may challenge the very nature of humanity itself! With a crack security team at her disposal, Liz desperately attempts to track down the perverted results of the project. But who or what is hunting whom?
Ghosts of Winterborne
Act like Dr. Elizabeth Shaw
event1996 star_border 6
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The Devil of Winterborne has only recently been exorcised by PROBE. But when the body of its last victim disappears, and a book of black magic spells is stolen from a local museum, Liz Shaw begins to wonder if the ghosts of the past have really been laid to rest. Forced into an unholy alliance with the school’s disgraced headmaster, Liz must fight not only her own warring emotions, but a festering evil that threatens to corrupt the Earth again after 100 years. But how do you fight a shadow from Hell?
Nick & Caroline: Uncut!
event2021
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Continuing the series of Uncut interviews with Doctor Who stars from in front and behind the camera, with Nicholas Courtney and Caroline John.
The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years
event2017
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This is the definitive set of interviews with the team of actors who brought the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who to life!
This documentary includes the best in-depth interviews with Jon Pertwee (the Third Doctor), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Caroline John (Liz Shaw), Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier), Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) and John Levine (Sergeant Benton) ever undertaken.
Love Actually
Act like Sam's Grandmother
event2003 star_border 7.1
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Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.
The Way of the World
Act like Foible
event1975
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In order for Millamant and Mirabell to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately, she is a very bitter lady, who despises Mirabell and wants her own nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed Millamant.
The Razor's Edge
Act like Mrs. Mackenzie
event1984 star_border 6.3
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An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.
A Pattern of Roses
Act like Vicar's Wife
event1983 star_border 7
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While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
Act like Liz Shaw
event1970 star_border 8.9
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The New Doctor arrives on Earth in the middle of a freak meteor shower. Faceless killer shop window dummies are coming to life and killing anything that comes into their path while Facsimiles are replacing top Military, Political and Civil leaders. The Nestene has come to invade the Earth. The convalescent Doctor teams up with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Dr. Elizabeth Shaw of UNIT to thwart the Nestine's plans even as the invasion begins.
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Act like Liz Shaw
event1970 star_border 7.4
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Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians - prehistoric, intelligent reptiles who went into hibernation before man evolved. But now they have woken up, and they are prepared to wipe out mankind with a killer plague to get their planet back.
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Act like Liz Shaw
event1970 star_border 6.5
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Astronauts rescued from a mission to mars are kidnapped when they arrive back on earth. They seem to have been irradiated, and can now kill people merely by touching them. But the Doctor discovers the astronauts have been replaced with Alien ambassadors who are being forced to behave in a hostile manner. With The Doctor traveling to the alien mother ship, and Liz kidnapped, The Brigadier is left wondering who to trust.
The Stranger: Breach of the Peace
Act like Detective Chief Inspector Diana Sellars
event1994 star_border 5
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The Stranger (Colin Baker), still stranded on Earth, has escaped his pursuers and found a safe haven under an assumed name. But his former associates want him back and are not giving up the chase so easily, and his lost past is about to catch up with him...
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
event1995
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More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on our television screens, and the exploits of its various crews have enthralled audiences ever since. Here is the story of Britain's Number 1 Science Fiction programme told in order of the various actors who have played the Doctor.
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Act like Liz Shaw
event1983 star_border 7.8
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Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon.
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
event2008
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Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission of 'The Five Doctors', the media interest and the BBC Enterprises' event at Longleat House. Featuring actors Peter Davison, Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, Mark Strickson, Janet Fielding, Carole Ann Ford, John Leeson, Richard Franklin and Caroline John, writer Terrance Dicks, director Peter Moffatt, visual effects designer Mike Kelt, new series writers Paul Cornell and Gareth Roberts, prominent fans Andrew Beech, Ian Levine, Richard Molesworth and James Goss. Presented by Colin Baker.
Carry On: The Life of Caroline John
Act like (archival footage)
event2013
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A tribute to the actress who played the part of the Third Doctor’s assistant in his first season. With husband Geoffrey Beevers, daughter Daisy Ashford, brother Seb John, sister Priscilla John and friends Jennie Heslewood and Patricia Merrick.
The King's Breakfast
Act like The Queen's Maid
event1963
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A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.
Sherlock Holmes
Act like Mrs Carnac (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 8.1
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Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
Doctor Who
Act like Liz Shaw (25 ep.)
event1963 star_border 7.9
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The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Crown Court
Act like Sheena Smithson (3 ep.)
event1972 star_border 5.4
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Crown Court is 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.
Casualty
Act like Edith Howlett (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 6
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Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Act like Laura Lyons (4 ep.)
event1982 star_border 6.2
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When a young heir inherits a noble title that apparently has a deadly curse to it, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. A British television serial based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel.
The Choir
Act like Janet Young (5 ep.)
event1995
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Based on Joanna Trollope's novel. Explores the internal politics and scandals of a British cathedral choir school.
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Act like Edith Dallas (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 7.3
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Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
The House of Eliott
Act like Lilian Brownlow (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 6.2
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Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
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