Random TV/dvd cap

[Bounci]

Originally Posted by britco2019

Shower scene with Julie Walters & Alison Spyro...She'll be wearing Pink pyjamas from 1985 best copy i can find

It has to be said that Emmerdale's Sarah Sugden (Alyson Spiro) has a great body on her in this film - not something you'd think after watching her as a drudge in Emmerdale Farm! And love some of the other videos you picked, britco2019, especially the Lysette Anthony clip which I'd never seen before. Another Brit with a beautiful body.

My own video comes from the 1997 TV drama The Beggar Bride, which featured Keeley Hawes as a young woman who hooks up with a rich older man to pay off her debts. However, she isn't the one getting her clothes off in this, it's an actress called Charlotte Williams, who made her debut in the Inspector Alleyn mystery "Death in a White Tie! in 1993. She then played one of a trio of sisters who ended up trying to seduce Michael Maloney in Love on a Branch Line (1994) (along with Cathryn Harrison and Abigail Cruttenden) in what was a great start to her career. Both the aforementioned sisters had done nudity in her career (in Abigail's case, in the said drama) and just so Charlotte didn't get out of it she ends up appearing topless in The Beggar Bride in two scenes, one a sex scene and the other she looks set to give her romeo oral, only for him to push her away. By this time surprisingly her career had dipped and this was a notable role for her. However, despite baring her breasts for the drama and for her career, this turned out to be the last thing she did, as she hasn't appeared in anything else since. What a shame.

[burger1701]

Thanks for adding that clip, Bounci, it's one I'd never heard of.
This thread would have disappeared without a trace without yours and britco2019s excellent additions.

[Bounci]

This comes from 1997 and a period serial called A Dance To The Music of Time (not to be confused with the Dervla Kirwan drama A Time To Dance, I may add). There are two notable actresses that strip off for this series, and one of them is Claire Skinner (now best known as the mum in sitcom Outnumbered). This was her first ever nude role and it spares none of her blushes as she appears fully nude answering the door to her lover (James Purefoy) before then listening to him talk in bed. Finally, in another scene she ends up dancing naked with Purefoy as he removes her dress.

As for the fair Claire, she made her screen debut on TV in 1988 in South of the Border before gaining notice in Mike Leigh films Life Is Sweet (1990) and Naked (1993). This appearance helped boost her career no end (as surely a nude scene deserves to) and to show her gratitude she has later stripped off in the film The Escort (1999) and Tv series Second Sight (2000) and Perfect Strangers (2001). The 2nd actress to strip off follows this post...

[Bounci]

The 2nd notable actress to bare all in A Dance To The Music of Time (1997) is Katy Cavanagh, who was only just starting out in her career as a struggling actress. Here she plays a maid who becomes so affected by stories of the old house she works in being haunted it begins to affect her mind. So much so that she eventually ends up entering a room full of guests completely stark naked to tell them she no longer thinks she can work there! Apparently Katy was mortified to learn she would have to do this in what was her first ever nude scene and describes it as one of the most embarrassing moments she had to do in her career. Indeed, she declared that she loathed doing nude scenes, but it didn't stop her from baring all in TV shows The Cops (1999), Walter: The Secret Life of a Victorian Pornographer (2000), Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (2001) and The Street (episode "Twin") (2007) as she quickly built on her success. Indeed, you would of thought the middle two shows would of been a bit of a giveaway with "Pornographer" and "Completely Nude" in the titles, wouldn't you?

[simonp782000]

Here is a clip from the TV series Claire from 1982 featuring Caroline Embling in the title role.

[Bounci]

This is one of two videos from the obscure and rather dark thriller Dead Head from 1986, where Denis Lawson goes on the run after finding a sack with a human head in it. In this video Lawson gets drunk at a party where he meets Tacy Kneale, and later she comes into his room in the attic to make love to him before getting out and leaving him. It's not the first time that Tacy has bared all for her art, as she previously stripped off in The Captain's Doll (1983) and later appeared topless in the film Scandal in 1989. However, the most remarkable fact about her is that her mother is Judith Kerr, who wrote children's novel The Tiger Who Came To Tea!

[Bounci]

The 2nd of my videos from Dead Head (1986), this features a lady who has appeared on her before about a month ago, Leonie Mellinger, who previously got her clothes off in her first ever nude scene in Sons & Lovers in 1981. Well, obviously the experience did n't have her running for the hills afterwards, because she went on to bare all for her art in other things as well, including this dark thriller, as she proceeds in seducing and sleeping with Denis Lawson on a bus of all things! But could he trust her? I couldn't possibly say, but her credentials on show here look all right to me! Enjoy.

[crispus]

From an Icelandic series:

[Bounci]

This video doesn't really feature nudity, but I've included it as the actress in the clip, Dee Sadler, apparently has never done nudity in her career. However, in Travelling Man (1985) (S2, Ep 1), she has 2 scenes where she is scantily clad. One is when she opportunes a man in a pub with postcards (Grange Hill fans will spot the man as Bullet Baxter himself, Michael Cronin, minus his beard) and one of them turns out to be what looks like her in underwear and suspenders. The 2nd scene is when Lomax (Leigh Lawson) returns to his narrowboat to find Dee has overdosed and proceeds to walk her about the boat and feed her coffee while she wears very skimpy knickers that when he hoists her up slide so far down she is at risk of showing a lot more than she intended. When he then walks her about outside you can actually see part of her bum, before he then throws her in the water to wake her up. As for Dee Sadler, her biggest claim to fame is the fact she is Derek Thompson (aka Charlie Fairhead from Casualty)'s wife!

[Bounci]

There are some actresses who surprise you just how old they actually are. One such person is Patricia Brake, who always seemed a youngster when appearing as Ingrid in Porridge (1974-77), but was actually in her 30's when she did the sitcom. Indeed, Patricia had been acting since she was 18 with her screen debut in 1960 in Emergency Ward 10, but how many knew that she had also bared all in her career? But she did, in a hard to get hold off film called My Lover, My Son (1970) (which may be apparent by the video being in a foreign language).

In it, Dennis Waterman (who doesn't sing the theme tune, I may add) tries to escape his rather too attentive mother (Romy Schneider). In this scene, he gets to grips with girlfriend Patricia Brake in the bedroom, as she strips naked and lies on the bed before pulling him on top of her to make love to her. This was her only ever nude scene and to be honest she doesn't look entirely chuffed to be baring all - just watch her expression when she takes off her bra. Could it be like Sally Geeson, who discovered that the "European Version" of What's Good For The Goose meant agreeing to nude scenes for the continental market only after she signed up? Whatever the reason, she still bares all like a trooper and it seemed to work for her, as she went on to find fame working with Ronnie Barker in Porridge and Going Straight in the 1970's. She always seemed to remain forever young, but sadly on May 28th 2022 she died of breast cancer at the unbelievable age of 79. But she will always remain fondly in the memory for those who remember her in all those classics from her golden period.