Fenella Fielding Career
Miss Fielding's professional career began in 1952 and continued until August 2018. A complete list of her vast stage, screen, TV and radio credits is impossible, but below is a work in progress of the what can be documented.
Fenella Fielding - Theatre & Other Stage Credits include:
1952 Constant Lover Debuted as understudy (Bolton's Theatre)
1953 Intimacy At Eight revue (New Lindsey Theatre)
1953 In The Lap of the Gods (New Lindsey Theatre)
1953 Festival Revue (Edinburgh)
1953 Heaven Sent (Park Lane Theatre Club)
1954 Cockles and Champagne (Saville Theatre)
1954-55 Pay the Piper (Saville Theatre)
1956 Jubilee Girl (Victoria Palace)
1957 Love For Love as Miss Pru (Theatre Royla Windsor)
1957 Look Back In Anger (Croydon)
1958 Bagatelle (Cabaret)
1958-59 Valmouth as Lady Parvula (New Shakespeare, Liverpool; Lyric, Hammersmith & Chichester Festival)
1959-60 Pieces of Eight revue (Oxford, Liverpool, Brighton and London Apollo)
1961 To Heaven In A Golden Coach (Bromley)
1961 Five Plus One (Lyceum, Edinburgh Festival)
1961 As You Like It as Phoebe (Pembroke Theatre, Croydon)
1962 Twists AKA Five Plus One revue (Belgrade Theatre, Lyceum, Coventry and Arts Theatre, London)
1962 The Rivals as Lydia Languish (Pembroke Theatre, Croydon)
1962 Doctors of Philosophy as Annie Wood (New Arts Theatre)
1963 Luv as Ellen (New Arts Theatre)
1963 So Much to Remember - The Life Story of a Great Lady revue (Establishment/Vaudeville)
1963 Tenth Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival (with Patrick Wymark)
1966 Let's Get a Divorce as Cyprienne (Mermaid/Comedy)
1967 The Beaux' Stratagem & The Italian Straw Hat (Chichester Festival Theatre)
1967 The High Bid as Mrs Gracedew (Mermaid Theatre)
1968 Poetry Reading included 'Battle of the Sexes' Chichester
1968 Lysistrata as Lysistrata (Norman, Oklahoma USA)
1968 The Seagull as Madame Arkadina (Nottingham Playhouse)
1969 Hedda Gabler as Hedda (Phoenix, Leicester)
1970 A Doll's House as Nora (Gardner Centre, Brighton)
1970 Colette as Colette (Ellen Stewart Theatre, New York)
1971 Fish out of Water as Francine Chanal (Greenwich)
1971 Colette as Colette (Oxford Playhouse & tour)
1972 The Second Mrs Tanqueray as Paula (Marlowe, Canterbury)
1972 The Relapse as Berinthia (Traverse, Edinburgh)
1972 Helen as Helen (Phoenix, Leicester)
1972 The Old Man's Comforts as Laverta (Open Space)
1973 Oxford Playhouse at Fifty at Oxford Playhouse
1973 The Provok'd Wife as Lady Fanciful (Greenwich)
1973 Birds of Paradise as Yolande Chuasson (Richmond, York, Leeds, Birmingham, Brighton)
1974 Fallen Angels (Watford)
1974-75 Absurd Person Singular as Marion (Criterion/Vaudeville)
1975 The Tramshed Follies one woman show (Woolwich Tramshed)
1976 A Personal Choice - Fielding Convertible theatre, cabaret (Lyceum, Edinburgh Festival)
1977 A Marriage (Thorndike, Leatherhead)
1977 The Case of the Oily Levantine (Arnaud Guilford)
1978 Look After Lulu (Chichester and Haymarket)
1979 Fielding on Broadway W6 theatre, cabaret (Lyric, Hammersmith)
1981 Poetry Reading (including 'Battle of the Sexes') for S.H.A.R.E. at Queen Elizabeth Hall
1982 Valmouth revival (Chichester)
1982 Chapter 17 (Brighton, Birmingham, Oxford & Richmond)
1983 The Wizard of Oz (Bromley)
1984 Once A Catholic (national tour)
1984 The Jungle Book (Adelphi)
1984 The Ghost Train (Theatre Royal, Bath & Stoke)
1986 The Miser (Birmingham Repertory Theatre)
1987 The Guest Room as Thelma (Old Red Lion)
1987 Victoria Wood and Friends (Sadler's Wells)
1988 'A Kiss Is Just A Kiss' (Words & Music by AP Herbert) St James, Guernsey
1988 Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania (Holland Park)
1989 School for Scandal as Lady Sneerwell (Birmingham Rep)
1989 The Rivals as Mrs Malaprop (Holland Park)
1990 The Country Wife as Lady Fidget (Mermaid)
1990 Beggar's Opera as Mrs Peachum & Diana Trapes (Holland Park)
1990 Trotsky and Our Ernie as Shirley Pearson (Cockpit)
1990 Inside Stories - Venetian Gold/A Box of Chocolates as Margaret double bill (Cockpit, London)
1990 Readings for Friends of the [E.M] Forster Country Event (Springfield House, Stevenage)
1991 Inside Stories (Edinburgh Festival and King's Head, London)
1992 Benefit for Shelter
1994 Mapp & Lucia workshop performance (Theatre Museum)
1994 Monkey Business workshop performance (St Paul's Covent Gdn)
1995 The Witty One (Shakespeare's Globe)
1995 Der Schauspieldirektor as Madame Pfeil (Spitafields Market Opera)
1996 Maria as Maria Jasnorzewska one woman show (New End Theatre)
1996 Hard Times as Mrs Sparsit (Richmond & national tour)
1996 The Spanish Curate (Shakespeare's Globe)
1997 Within A White Silence Narrator (Hellenic Centre, London)
1998 The Cockroach and the Cat reading (Ledbury Poetry Festival)
1998 A Dangerous Woman as the Duchess of Windsor (New End)
1999 Lady Windermere's Fan as Lady Berwick (Windsor; Theatre Royal, London, Bath & tour)
1999 Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati (Playhouse, Salisbury)
2003 Die Fledermaus as Prince Orlofsky (English National Opera; Theatre Royal, Norwich; Alhambra, Bradford)
2006 The Vagina Monologues as reader (SFX Dublin and Irish tour)
2008 An Ideal Husband as Lady Markby (Richmond & tour)
2011-12 Dearest Nancy, Darling Evelyn as Nancy Mitford (Jermyn Street & tour)
2012-2015 Translations of Greek classics by David Stuttard Details
2012-2016 An Evening With Fenella Fielding (and other Q&As) (various, mainly London) Details
2013 Savage Beauty as Clytemnestra (St James Studio)
2015- 2018 Just A Little Murder (various London) Details
2016- 2018 Reading from Memoirs (various, mainly London) Details
Additional Theatre Appearances:
Pericles as The Bawd
Love and Marriage on a Splendid Scale (Chaucer Festival)
Fresh Dances for the late Tchaikovsky as Chanteuse - Diseuse ballet (Hackney Empire)
Age of Chivalry as Wife of Bath (Mermaid Theatre)
Murders in Rue Morgue as Honoria (Haymarket, Leicester)
Rebecca as Mrs Danvers (National tour)
1991 Filming of Shakespeare's 'First Folio' for Forge Productions Ltd at Mermaid Theatre
In Concert
1969 Peter & The Wolf (Chichester)
1970 Façade (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Pavilion, Hemel Hempstead )
1973 Facade Birmingham Alexandra Theatre (tbc)
1977 Jubilee Jeunesse (Royal Opera House)
1978 Appeared with The Nash Ensemble Wigmore Hall
1981 Appeared with Bertice Reading at KIDS (handicapped children) charity event at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket
1981 Reading of Chechov at a SHARE (homes for mentally handicapped) charity event at Queen Elizabeth Hall
2006 Royal British Legion concert at St George's Church, Hanover Square (Fenella read Alice In Wonderland)
2007 Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown (Royal Festival Hall)
Miraculous Mandarin BBC Proms TV and Radio 3 (Albert Hall)
Carnival of Animals (Birmingham)
Babar the Elephant
Damnation of Faust BBC Proms TV and Radio 3 (Royal Albert Hall)
Fenella Fielding - Film Credits include:
1959 Sapphire - Lingerie Shop Manageress (uncredited)
1959 Follow a Star - Lady Finchington
1960 Doctor in Love - Mrs Tadwich
1960 Foxhole in Cairo - Yvette
1961 Carry on Regardless - Penny Panting
1961 No Love for Johnnie - Sheilah
1962 In the Doghouse - Miss Fordyce
1962 Village of Daughters - Voice-over (uncredited)
1963 The Old Dark House - Morgana Femm
1963 Doctor in Distress - Passenger on Train
1965 How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment -Narrator
1966 Drop Dead Darling - Fenella
1966 Doctor in Clover - Tatiana Rubikov
1966 Carry on Screaming! - Valeria Watt
1966 Road to St. Tropez (short) - Narrator
1969 Lock Up Your Daughters! - Lady Eager
1970 Dougal and the Blue Cat - The Blue Queen (voice) (uncredited)
1977 Cumbernauld Hit (Promo film for Cumbernauld) - Liana
1978 Golden Gala (TV movie) - Herself
1984 The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Movie) - Molly
1986 A Winter Story (TV movie) (voice)
1999 Guest House Paradiso - Mrs Foxfur
2007 Wishbaby - Eve
2011 Over the Edge - Mrs. van Eisner
Fenella Fielding - Television Credits include:
1957 Destination Downing Street (series) (broadcast live) - Djemila [episodes]
1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (series) - 'The Magnificent Egotist' - Prostitute
1958 Saturday Playhouse (series) 'Design for Murder' - Delia Mitchell
1960 Danger Man (series) 'An Affair of State' - Hostess
1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade (series) Episode #1.3 (voice)
1960 The Four Just Men (series) 'Treviso Dam' - The Contessa
1960 International Detective (series) 'The Whitley Case' - Marcelle Clinton
1962 Saki (mini-series) - Mary Drakmanton [episodes]
1962-63 That Was The Week That Was [episodes]
1963-65 Comedy Playhouse (series) - Julie [episodes]
1964 Theatre 625 (series) 'The Ides of March' - Cleopatra
1964 Armchair Theatre 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - Gwendolen
1964 Love Story (series) 'Divorce, Divorce' - Celia
1964 The Avengers (series) 'The Charmers' - Kim Lawrence
1964 Juke Box Jury [various including 26/12]
1964-67 The Eamonn Andrews Show (TV series) - Herself [episodes]
1965 Stars and Garters (series) Episode #3.6 - Herself
1965 Drama 65 (series) 'Mrs Quilley's Murder Shoes' Mrs.Garfield [episodes]
1965 The Fabulous Fenella Fielding (20 min show inc. songs) ITV
1966 Izeena ('The Zany') [episodes]
1967 The Prisoner (series) - Loudspeaker Announcer & Telephone Operator [episodes]
1968 Call My Bluff (series) Episode 4 February - Herself
1968 A Touch of Venus (series)
1968 Ooh La La! 'Dear Lady' (series) BBC - Antoinette
1969 The Morecambe & Wise Show (series) Christmas Show - Herself
1969 The Dave King Show (series) Episode 11 December - Herself
1969 It’s Tommy Cooper - sketches
1970 The Morecambe & Wise Show (series) Episode #3.3 - Herself details
1970 A Touch of Venus (series) 'The Autograph' - Marcella
1970 Dean Martin Presents The Golddiggers (series) - Sketches
1970 The Morecambe & Wise Show (series) Episode #4.4 - Herself/Lady Bedworthy details
1970 Ed Sullivan Show (New York) (2 appearances) - Sketches
1970 Toast of the Town (series) Episode #24.7 - Comedian / Herself
1971 That's Your Funeral (series) - Mrs. Darling [episodes]
1971 The Dick Cavett Show (US) - Guest
1972 Parkinson - herself details
1972 Counterpoint (BBC 2) 'Facade Suite' with Nash Ensemble
1972 The Morecambe & Wise Show (series) Christmas Show - Herself
1973 What's My Line? (series) - Herself, Guest Celebrity
1974 Parkinson - herself
1977 The Good Old Days (series) Episode 24/02 - Herself, Performer
1977 'Your Move' Television Centre 02/02
1977 Those Wonderful TV Times (series) Episode #2.4 - Herself
1979 That's Carry On - Valeria Watt
1980 Nobody's Perfect (ATV series) 'Vivien's Problem' - Vivien
1981 Cribb (series) - Zena Prothero [episodes]
1983 Children in Need (series) Episode - Herself
1985 The Pickwick Papers (series) - Mrs. Leo Hunter [episodes]
1989 Sticky Moments with Julian Clary - Guest
1990 Uncle Jack and Operation Green (series) - The Vixen [episodes]
1990-95 The Word (Channel 4) - Announcer
1991 Uncle Jack and the Loch Noch Monster (series) - The Vixen
1992 Uncle Jack and the Dark Side of the Moon (series) - The Vixen
1993 Laugh with the Carry Ons
1993 Uncle Jack and Cleopatra's Mummy (series) - The Vixen
1994 The South Bank Show (documentary) 'Kenneth Williams' - Herself
1997 Wolfgang Borchert - The Man Outside (play) details
1998 What's a Carry On? (documentary) - Herself, at Re-Union
1998 Kenneth Williams: A Life on the Box (documentary)
1998 Reputations (documentary) 'Kenneth Williams: Seriously Outrageous' - Herself
1999 The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso' (video short) - Herself
1999 Carnival of Monsters (TV special) - Narrator (voice)
2000 Heroes of Comedy (documentary) 'Kenneth Williams' - Herself
2000 Martian Gothic: Unification (Video Game) - Mood (voice)
2001 Can We Carry On, Girls? (TV documentary) - Herself/Various Characters (also archive footage)
2001 I Love Christmas (TV documentary)
2001 Beginner's Luck - Mark's mum
2003 The 100 Greatest Scary Moments (TV documentary) - Herself
2003 Timeshift 'The Magic Roundabout Story' - Herself details
2004 Abroad Again in Britain (TV documentary) - Dearie [episodes]
2005 This Morning (TV series) - Episode 26 August - Herself
2006 The 50 Greatest Comedy Films (TV documentary) - Herself
2006 Carry on Quizzing (Video Game) - Valeria Watt (uncredited)
2007 The All Together - Mrs. Cox
2007 Don't Knock Yourself Out (documentary) - Herself
2007 British Film Forever (documentary) 'Sauce, Satire and Silliness: The Story of British Comedy' - Herself
2009 Clare Seal - Voyages of Descent (play) details
2009 The Legend of Dick and Dom (TV series) - Lotte Lawoo [episodes]
2009 Radio Mania: An Abandoned Work (short) - Mrs Langdon
2011 Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes (TV documentary) - Herself
2012 Skins (TV series) - Grandmother
2012 'Greatest Carry On Films' - Herself (Channel 5)
2013 'Carry On Loving' - Presenter (Sky Music)
2013 Kookyville - Announcer (Channel 4)
2015 'Carry On Forever' documentary appearance (ITV3)
2017 'Morecambe & Wise Forever' documentary appearance (ITV3)
Additional TV Appearances
Children of the Night / Host (Channel 4)
Radio Broadcasts Plays/Comedies/Appearances
1955 Pertwees Progress (series) (with Jon Pertwee) details
1957 Ralph Truman in 'YEGOR BULICHOV details
1959 Hancocks Half Hour (with Tony Hancock & Sid James) details
1959 Educating Archie (series) details
1960 Evelyn Laye introduces, ON STAGE. EVERYBODY! details
1960 Does The Team Think details
1960 Monday Night at Home details
1961 Auguste details
1961-1962 Something to Shout About (series) (with Joan Sims) details
1962 The Dog Next Door details
1962 The Liars details
1962 The Rivals details
1962-1963 The Double Gallant (series) (with Timothy West) details
1963 Woman's Hour details
1963 Proteus details
1963 Who Is Secombe details
1964 So Much To Remember details
1965 Man and Superman details
1965 Woman's Hour details
1966 Hedda Gabler (With Ian McKellen) details
1967 The First Night of Pygmalion details
1967 Desert Island Discs - Guest (Radio 4)
1967 Call My Bluff details
1967 Cats details
1968 Call My Bluff details
1968 Tennis Elbow Football Game details
1969 Much Ado About Nothing details
1969 Does The Team Think details
1969 The Jealous Wife play details
1969 Doctor at Large 'Dr Sparrow of Harley Street details
1970 The Hero Rises Up details
1970 Brothers in Law as Nina Zoffany details
1970 Marya details
1970 The Bull of La Plata details
1971 That's Your Funeral details
1973 The Man Outside
1973 Taming of The Shrew play details
1974 Present Laughter (with Paul Scofield & Patricia Routledge) details
1974 Outrageous Ladies details
1974 The Liars details
1974 Monkevs - A Love Story details
1975 Doting
1975 Valmouth details
1976 The Taming of the Shrew details
1983 Towards the End of the Morning details
1991 Die Fledermaus details
1996 Jericho Players
1996 'Colour Radio' BBC Radio Bristol
1997 Wolfgang Borchert - The Man Outside (play) details
1997 BBC Proms details
1999 Voyages of Descent play (Radio 4) details
1999 Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World (with Joan Sims & Martin Shaw) details
2008 Carry On Britain documentary details
2011 Woman's Hour (guest) details
2011 Dombey and Son (series)
2011-2015 Fenella Fielding & Simon McKay Radio Shows details
2013 Home Truths 'Fenella's Birthday Party' - Guest
2015 Post Punk Britain - Simon McKay's 50th Guest
2016 Pre-Punk Britain Fenella hosts Simon McKay's regular show
2017 Between The Lines play (Radio 4)
2017 Incredible Women comedy (Radio 4) episodes
Other
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