In fact, her love life is nearly as convoluted as any plotline she’s ever worked on.Sally says the late director made a sleazy comment about the effect her figure might have on the audience, so she walked out.Years later, having Charlotte changed her perspective. Soon I was regularly working on telly, especially in the police series Dixon Of Dock Green, Z-Cars and Softly, Softly, and did two movies for the Children’s Film Foundation.I wore short skirts in real life but a year later, when I was in the psychological thriller Straw Dogs, the director Sam Peckinpah insisted the grey skirt I wore as Janice be lengthened so the viewers wouldn’t be distracted from the star, Susan George.I never went naked onstage or on screen. Sally Thomsett. He died in 2000, aged 59, of a heart attack.“I’ve done a few chat shows and things like that, but actual acting is what I want to do. 199 likes.
I wouldn’t condone anything, but just leave it.Starred as Larry Simmonds. Actress Sally Thomsett, 69, on the 50th anniversary of director Lionel Jeffries' 1970 film The Railway Children, also starring Call the Midwife's Jenny AgutterMy father, Maurice, was in the car repair business and my mother Dorothy (known as Sally) did bits and pieces. There weren’t any rehearsals, really, we just kept doing the scenes until they were perfect.In the early 80s I travelled the world, and after my daughter Charlotte was born in 1996 I took time out to raise her.
I felt if I’m good enough to do this, I don’t need to take my clothes off to get hired. 5:20 Now 69, married Paula has had a long career and still works.She says: “The last time I saw Richard, a few years ago, I went with Paula and Brian [Murphy, who played the landlord George Roper]. But I’d still say I was very, very lucky because I’m proud of the work I did.”She later admitted she realised she had made a mistake just six weeks after the wedding.The 1970s star has reemerged after a mysterious disappearance from our TV screens - now, she reveals why her career changed and how she has navigated tricky relationships on and off screen“The one thing massively in my favour was that I didn’t look as old as I was,” she says.A few years later, she did a panto with a well-known entertainer, who she says told her: “Come to my dressing room, I want to discuss part of the show with you.”“For the audition I put on loads of make-up, a short dress and high boots to try and look as sexy as possible, as Janice was supposed to be a bit tasty.“She’s done a lot of nice work since the 70s, but then she didn’t have children.
Their pair got a spin-off show, George and Mildred. Sally Thomsett was born on April 3, 1950 in Sussex, England. I bought a two-bedroom penthouse in central London, which I still live in, and I bought cars including a Bentley, a Rolls-Royce, a Mercedes, a Ferrari and all the Lotuses – but only one at a time. Red Carpet Roundup - Emmys 2012 Red Carpet: Celebrities Reveal Their Biggest Red Carpet Fears. Sally Thomsett, Actress: The Railway Children. Sally Thomsett is special guest at The Film Fair at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, on Saturday, 10.30am-4pm. But, despite those experiences, she can’t really see the point in the MeToo movement.Sally has visited Richard since he moved to a retirement home in London after a stroke in 2003.“When I walked in, Dustin Hoffman, who played the lead role, was there and he was mega at the time, but so nice. Sam Peckinpah [the director] told me, ‘Go to the ladies room, wash your face and take that stuffing out of the pockets in your frock’. Lorraine 17,727 views. We’re having such good fun that if I did get a good role, it’d get in the way. I’d say the chances of that happening are zilch.She claims he then offered to teach her how to kiss. I’m very happy with the work I’ve done.Photos like this bring back happy memories of the classic family film which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, when I myself turn 70 [this month].The director Lionel Jeffries is with Gary Warren (Peter), Jenny Agutter (Bobbie) and me (Phyllis) in the Edwardian London house seen at the start of the film which, if I remember rightly, was filmed at Elstree Studios.Attending Phildene Stage School in London was supposed to give me a break, as well as training, but I often got sidetracked shopping.But when Paula Wilcox and I played single women sharing a flat in the ITV sitcom Man About The House from 1973 to 1976, we were seen in bikinis.Jenny Agutter and I have met at various events over the years and maybe we will all get together for the 50th anniversary later this year, though I’m not yet aware of any plans for another reunion.’This was taken in the summer of 1970 when we were filming The Railway Children.Its famously emotional scene is the one in which Bobbie is reunited with their long-lost father on the railway platform, but it’s never brought a lump to my throat. Again, she fled. She was previously married to … Actress Sally Thomsett, 69, on the 50th anniversary of director Lionel Jeffries' 1970 film The Railway Children, also starring Call the Midwife's Jenny Agutter But we never said, ‘See you at eight outside the cinema’. At age 20, she played 11-year old Phyllis Waterbury in The Railway Children – little sister to Bobbie, played by Call The Midwife’s Jenny Agutter.But that was far from the end of her story. She is an actress, known for The Railway Children (1970), Straw Dogs (1971) and Man About the House (1973). See more ideas about Sally thomsett, English actresses, Sally. I don’t know where he is to divorce him. From the mid-60s, she appeared in everything from David Copperfield starring Ian McKellen, to classic police shows Dixon Of Dock Green, Z Cars and Softly, Softly.But she got the part.