Barbara Rose Kellerman (originally spelt Kellermann; born 30 December 1949) is an English actress, known for her film and television roles.
Barbara Kellerman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 December 1949 Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Alma mater | Rose Bruford College |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1969–2008 |
| Spouse |
Robin Scobey
(m. 1975; div. 1999) |
Early life
editKellerman was born in Manchester, Lancashire.[1] Her Jewish father, Walter Kellermann (1915–2012), had fled Nazi Germany and settled in Leeds, where he became a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Leeds. Her mother, Marcelle, was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War who became a teacher of modern foreign languages.[2] She trained at Rose Bruford College.[3]
Career
editKellerman's film credits include: Satan's Slave, The Monster Club and The Sea Wolves.[4] Her television appearances include: Space: 1999, The Glittering Prizes, 1990, The Mad Death, Quatermass and The Chronicles of Narnia and the hard-hitting police drama The Professionals (1979), episode Runner, in which she played Sylvie the girlfriend of a former police officer who also has a relationship with a renegade former member of an organised crime network.[1][5][6]
She is also known for her appearances in the BBC adaptations of three of the Narnia books, most notably as the tyrannical White Witch in The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1988).[7] A year later she had a minor role as the Old Hag (Narnian Hag) in Prince Caspian in (1989), and finally as the evil Lady of the Green Kirtle in The Silver Chair in 1990.[1] On the radio, she portrayed Modesty Blaise in a 1978 BBC World Service adaptation of the novel Last Day in Limbo.[8]
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.[9] The film was entered into Bristol's Brief Encounters Festival and is now on YouTube. During the late 1980s and early 1990s in between acting work, Kellerman worked for Sainsbury's in the former Green Park railway station in Bath.
Personal life
editKellerman lived in Bath, Somerset during the 1980s and 1990s. She was previously married to Robin Scobey (born 1945).[10] Kellerman has two younger siblings, a brother named Clive and a sister named Judith.[11]
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | The Oblong Box | Dr. Newhartt's Patient | |
| 1976 | Satan's Slave | Frances | |
| 1980 | The Sea Wolves | Mrs. Cromwell | |
| 1981 | The Monster Club | Angela | |
| 1982 | Living Apart Together | Evie | |
| 2007 | The Lights of Santa Cruz | Beth | Short |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | How We Used to Live | Girl | 1 episode |
| 1971 | On the House | Maureen | 1 episode |
| 1973 | Wessex Tales | Nanny | 1 episode |
| 1974 | Marked Personal | Jane Wright | 2 episodes |
| General Hospital | Nurse Laura Hardy | Unknown episodes | |
| 1974 | John Halifax, Gentleman | Louise | |
| 1975 | Space: 1999 | Dr. Monique Boucher | episode: Dragon's Domain |
| 1976 | The Glittering Prizes | Barbara Morris | 4 episodes |
| BBC Play of the Month | Jacqueline Maingot | episode: French Without Tears | |
| Victorian Scandals | Jane Brookfield | 1 episode | |
| A Pitcher of Snakes | |||
| The Crezz | Alexandra Tuke | 1 episode | |
| 1977 | 1990 | Delly Lomas | 8 episodes |
| 1979 | The Quatermass Conclusion | Clare Kapp | |
| BBC Television Shakespeare | Anne Boleyn | Episode: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII | |
| Crown Court | Miranda Buckingham | 1 episode | |
| The Professionals | Sylvie | episode: Runner | |
| 1980 | BBC2 Playhouse | Isobel Dodgson | episode: The Enigma |
| Lady Killers | Madame Marie Fahey | 1 episode | |
| Hammer House of Horror | Laurie Morton | episode: Growing Pains | |
| 1983 | Number 10 | Frances Stevenson | 1 episode |
| The Mad Death | Anne Maitland | ||
| Storyboard | 1 episode | ||
| 1984 | Morte d'Arthur | Queen Guinevere | |
| 1985 | My Brother Jonathan | Rachel Hammond | |
| 1986 | Lytton's Diary | Helena | 5 episodes |
| 1988–90 | The Chronicles of Narnia | The White Witch, Narnian Hag and the Lady of the Green Kirtle | |
| 1998 | The Bill | 1 episode | |
| 2000 | Monsignor Renard | Mme Dufosse | 3 episodes |
References
edit- ^ a b c "Barbara Kellermann". 2.bfi.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020.
- ^ "Obituaries | Secretariat | University of Leeds". Leeds.ac.uk.
- ^ "Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile". Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
- ^ "Barbara Kellerman | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
- ^ "Barbara Kellerman". Tvguide.com.
- ^ "Barbara Kellerman". Aveleyman.com.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: Chronicles of Narnia, The (1988-90)". Screenonline.org.uk.
- ^ "Modesty Blaise - Last Day in Limbo". 3 June 1978 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "World film premiere in Taunton". Bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Barbara Kellerman". Myheritage.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ "Search Results for Britain records". Findmypast.co.uk.