Carol Drinkwater

Carol Drinkwater

Carol Drinkwater (born 22 April 1948) is an Anglo-Irish actress, author and filmmaker. She portrayed Helen Herriot (née Alderson) in the television adaptation of the James Herriot books All Creatures Great and Small, which led to her receiving the Variety Club Television Personality of the Year award in 1985. Drinkwater is the daughter of the bandleader and agent, Peter Regan (born Peter Albert Drinkwater) and Irish nurse, Phillis McCormack. She was a member of the National Theatre Company under the leadership of Laurence Olivier and has acted in numerous television series and films including the highly successful Chocky, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Another Bouquet and Golden Pennies. Drinkwater won a Critics' Circle Best Screen Actress award for her role, Anne, in the feature film Father (1990) in which she starred opposite Max von Sydow. Amongst many other film and television series, she has appeared in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), Queen Kong (1976), The Shout (1978), Father (1990), and the film adaptation of Beryl Bainbridge's novel An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), directed by Mike Newell and starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. She has written a number of children's books, including her first, The Haunted School, which was produced as a television mini-series and film. Bought by Disney, it won the Chicago International Film Festival Gold Award for Children's Films. Her books for adults include commercial fiction and a series of best-selling memoirs about her experiences on her olive farm in Provence. In 2013 Drinkwater worked on a series of five documentary films inspired by her two Mediterranean travel books, The Olive Route and The Olive Tree. The OLIVE ROUTE films were completed in February 2013 and have since been broadcast on international networks worldwide. In 2015 Penguin Books UK announced a deal signed with Drinkwater to write two epic novels. The first, The Forgotten Summer, was published in March 2016. The second, The Lost Girl, was published in June 2017. Drinkwater revealed to The Guardian, in October 2017, that the experience of the starlet Marguerite in The Lost Girl was based on her own experience of being sexually assaulted by Elia Kazan while auditioning for the leading film role in his film The Last Tycoon (1976). In 2018 Penguin signed a second deal with Drinkwater for two more novels. The first, published in May 2019, is The House on The Edge of The Cliff. She is married to French TV producer Michel Noll.

  • Title : Carol Drinkwater
  • Popularity : 1.87
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1948-04-22
  • Place of Birth : London, England, UK
  • Homepage : http://www.caroldrinkwater.com/
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Carol Drinkwater Movies

  • 1989
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    A Master of the Marionettes

    A Master of the Marionettes

    1 1989 HD

    Teddy Rose's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban homes, one of which he and his family inhabit with...

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  • 1985
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    Chocky's Children

    Chocky's Children

    6 1985 HD

    A year has passed since Matthew said goodbye to his alien friend, and in the summer holidays he meets Albertine, a mathematical prodigy, with whom he...

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  • 1976
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    Queen Kong

    Queen Kong

    3.3 1976 HD

    A female film crew journeys to Africa where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love with the crew's male star.

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  • 1984
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    Chocky

    Chocky

    1 1984 HD

    Matthew Gore is an intelligent boy chosen by a mysterious extraterrestrial visitor to be a source of information about life on Earth. As his...

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  • 1990
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    Father

    Father

    5.6 1990 HD

    On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.

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  • 1971
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    A Clockwork Orange

    A Clockwork Orange

    8.193 1971 HD

    In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives...

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  • 1970
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    Dawnbreakers

    Dawnbreakers

    1 1970 HD

    In the dead of night, a restless young woman trawls the city streets. Accompanied by the sounds of Capital Radio's late-night talk show, she...

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  • 1995
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    An Awfully Big Adventure

    An Awfully Big Adventure

    6.641 1995 HD

    Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of...

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  • 1998
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    Coming Home

    Coming Home

    5.5 1998 HD

    Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.

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  • 1978
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    The Shout

    The Shout

    5.889 1978 HD

    A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has...

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  • 2009
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    Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal

    1 2009 HD

    For more then twenty years, tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from all around the world has been transported to a Chinese town called...

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  • 1979
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    Tales of the Unexpected

    Tales of the Unexpected

    6.7 1979 HD

    A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and...

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  • 1975
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    The Sweeney

    The Sweeney

    7.7 1975 HD

    Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

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  • 1978
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.6 1978 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

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  • 1977
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    Raffles

    Raffles

    8 1977 HD

    Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and...

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  • 1994
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    A Mind to Kill

    A Mind to Kill

    1 1994 HD

    A Mind to Kill is a police detective series set in Wales, UK. It was developed from a 1991 pilot which starred Philip Madoc as DCI Bain, and Hywel...

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  • 1982
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    The Agatha Christie Hour

    The Agatha Christie Hour

    6.7 1982 HD

    This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had...

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  • 2021
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    A Year in Provence with Carol Drinkwater

    A Year in Provence with Carol Drinkwater

    1 2021 HD

    For over 30 years, actress and author Carol Drinkwater has been living the Mediterranean life in Provence. In this series, Carol invites us into her...

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  • 1988
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    Captain James Cook

    Captain James Cook

    9 1988 HD

    Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus),...

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  • 1993
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    Peak Practice

    Peak Practice

    5.875 1993 HD

    Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the...

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  • 1984
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    Chocky

    Chocky

    6.3 1984 HD

    Chocky is a 1984 children's television drama based on the 1968 novel by John Wyndham and was broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom. Two sequels were...

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  • 1986
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    Casualty

    Casualty

    6 1986 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

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  • 1998
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    Coming Home

    Coming Home

    1 1998 HD

    Alone and without her parents, Judith Dunbar spends her school days in a boarding school. When her friend Loveday invites her to Gut Nancherrow one...

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  • 1976
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    Bill Brand

    Bill Brand

    6.3 1976 HD

    Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile...

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  • 1985
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    Golden Pennies

    Golden Pennies

    1 1985 HD

    The adventures of a struggling family and their friends in a gold rush mining area.

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  • 1980
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    Lady Killers

    Lady Killers

    5 1980 HD

    Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the...

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  • 1970
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    Lady Killers

    Lady Killers

    1 1970 HD

    This Portfolio takes us on an unforgettable journey across the Mediterranean. From the Tuscan hillsides to the plains of Andalusia, from the cobbled...

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  • 1970
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    Lady Killers

    Lady Killers

    1 1970 HD

    For over 30 years, actress and author Carol Drinkwater has been living the Mediterranean life in Provence. In this series, Carol invites us into her...

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