Caroline John

Actress

October 11, 1940 (71 years)

† June 5, 2012

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.

Filmography

6.2

Casualty

Edith Howlett

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.

7.9

Doctor Who

Liz Shaw

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.

8.2

Sherlock Holmes

Mrs Carnac

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.

5.7

Crown Court

Sheena Smithson

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.

7.5

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Edith Dallas

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

6.6

The House of Eliott

Lilian Brownlow

Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.

7.1

Love Actually

Sam's Grandmother

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

6.5

In Suspicious Circumstances

Mabel Ramsay

Introduced by renowned English actor Edward Woodward, In Suspicious Circumstances is an anthology of reenactments depicting real-life murder mysteries, some famous and some obscure, exploring cases with elements of miscarriage of justice, unsolved mysteries, and unusual circumstances, often spanning different historical periods.

4.2

Vital Signs

Mrs Carter

Rhoda Bradley is a busy mum frustrated with her job as a supermarket check-out assistant. When she discovers the health service is recruiting new doctors, she decides to enrol in medical school — but the move doesn't go over too well with either her competitive sister Maddy, or her husband Tony, who fears the decision will turn their lives upside down.

8.8

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Mrs Carmac

In this thrilling final series starring Jeremy Brett as the famous 'consulting detective' Sherlock Holmes, six of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories are adapted: The Three Gables, The Dying Detective, The Golden Pince-Nez, The Red Circle, The Mazarin Stone, and The Cardboard Box.

6.3

Santa Claus: The Movie

Village Woman (uncredited)

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.

8.0

The Stranger

Detective Chief Inspector Diana Sellars

The adventures of a mysterious amnesiac traveller and his companion.

8.0

The Choir

Janet Young

Based on Joanna Trollope's novel. Explores the internal politics and scandals of a British cathedral choir school.

6.3

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Laura Lyons

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. A British television serial based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel.

6.4

The Razor's Edge

Mrs. Mackenzie

An American WWI veteran 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.

6.2

Link

Mrs. Miller

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.

7.8

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Liz Shaw

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.

6.9

The Woman in Black

Stella's Mother

A lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.

10.0

Bad Girl

Mrs Carter

A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.

6.5

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

Liz Shaw (archive footage)

Amy tries to flirt with The Doctor but he tries to ignore her advances.