Cast & creator
Doreen Mantle
Best known for Coronation Street, Casualty, Casualty
Doreen Mantle is a South African-born English actress who played Jean Warboys in One Foot in the Grave. She has appeared in many British television series since the 1960s, including The Duchess of Duke Street, The Wild House, Sam Saturday, Chalk, Casualty, The Bill, Doctors, Holby City and Jonathan Creek.
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television credits
79
1951–2013 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (79)
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Coronation Street
Joy Fishwick
1960
Casualty
Mrs. Duffin
1986Casualty
Renee Wainwright
1986
Play for Today
Mother
1970Play for Today
Julia Branston
1970Play for Today
Mary Hunter
1970
Father Brown
Miss Tibby
2013
Crown Court
1972
Peak Practice
Mary Eastman
1993
The Bill
1984
Lewis
Joan
2007
Screen Two
Landlady
1985
BBC Play of the Month
Mrs Fletcher
1965
Playhouse
Mrs. Orpen
1974Playhouse
Margaret
1974
Hustle
Anne Foster
2004
Doc Martin
Marianne Walker
2004
ScreenPlay
Mother Monica
1986
Lovejoy
Vera
1986
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Mrs Randall
2007
Public Eye
Miss Barnwell
1965
Secret Army
Mme. Desmarts
1977
My Family
Lillian
2000
The Duchess of Duke Street
Mrs Catchpole
1976
The Gentle Touch
Beryl King
1980
Our Friends in the North
Mrs Wilson
1996
One Foot in the Grave
Mrs Warboys
1990
Lady Killers
Mrs. Wheeler
1980
Jam and Jerusalem
Queenie
2006
Love Soup
Mavis Bledsoe
2005
Pride and Prejudice
Mrs Reynolds
1980
Bill Brand
Edna James
1976
Holby Blue
2007
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mrs. Seaton
1951
Thomas & Sarah
Mrs Ryder
1979
The Queen
2009
The Mimic
Nan Hurdle
2013
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Naomi (voice)
1996
Strange Report
Mrs. Ogilvie
1969
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Marion Chingford
2005
In Love and War
Emilia
1996
Bonekickers
Mary Cunley
2008Armchair 30
Miss Fanshaw
1973
Scoop
Joe's Co-Passenger
2006
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Lady on the Train
1981
Chalk
1997
Frenzy
Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
1972The Wild House
1997
Stanley and the Women
Lady Bailey
1991
Malice Aforethought
Hilda
1979
Mountains of the Moon
Mrs. Speke
1990
Charlie
Maggie
1984
Connie
Miss Greer
1985Nice Town
Jean Thompson
1992
Yentl
Mrs. Shaemen
1983
One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve
Jean Warboys
1993
One Foot in the Grave: Starbound
Mrs Warboys
1996Sam Saturday
Rita Sterne
1992
The Turn of the Screw
1992
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
Chrissie
1992I Don't Believe It!: The One Foot in the Grave Story
Self
2000
One Foot in the Grave: Who's Listening
Mrs Warboys
1990
Fellow Traveller
Landlady
1989
All Creatures Great and Small
Mrs Seaton
1975
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
Mrs Norton
1994
Late Bloomers
Nora
2011
The Secret Agent
Mrs Waller
1992
Don't Be Silly
Mary Hunter
1979
A Passage to India
Mrs Flctcher
1965St. Ursula's in Danger
Miss Cowley
1983
Privilege
Miss Crawford
1967
Black Jack
Mrs Carter
1979
Our Lady Blue
Mother Monica
1987
Eleanor
Mother
1974
Long Term Memory
Matron
1985
Elizabeth Alone
Mrs Orpen
1981
Claws
Mrs Venables
1987In Hiding
Margaret
1980
Antonio's Breakfast
Old Woman
2005