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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Aruntraveller on September 04, 2018, 09:01:45 AM

Title: JAcqueline Pearce dead
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 04, 2018, 09:01:45 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/03/jacqueline-pearce-blakes-7-and-doctor-who-actor-dies-aged-74

For those of us of a certain age this actress was one of the main reasons for watching Blake's 7.

She created a wonderful character on a very cardboard series (this is not disrespecting the programme, I use the word cardboard literally in this instance)
Title: Re: JAcqueline Pearce dead
Post by: Shaker on September 04, 2018, 09:20:13 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/03/jacqueline-pearce-blakes-7-and-doctor-who-actor-dies-aged-74

For those of us of a certain age this actress was one of the main reasons for watching Blake's 7.
I'll say  :o
Title: Re: JAcqueline Pearce dead
Post by: Anchorman on September 04, 2018, 09:25:50 AM
Yep. Sadly, I have the complete Blakes' 7 on box set. By the way, she played a brilliant villain in "The Two Doctors" with Patrick Troughton's last outing as the Doctor in Colin Baker's time in the TARDIS.
Title: Re: JAcqueline Pearce dead
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on September 04, 2018, 12:01:23 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/03/jacqueline-pearce-blakes-7-and-doctor-who-actor-dies-aged-74

For those of us of a certain age this actress was one of the main reasons for watching Blake's 7.

She created a wonderful character on a very cardboard series (this is not disrespecting the programme, I use the word cardboard literally in this instance)

Indeed. Servalan began as a villainess, but by the end of the show she was a rather more sympathetic character. It is a tribute to Jacgueline that she made such a strong character out of Servalen, since Terry Nation had difficulty writing for female characters, if you look at the other females in Blakes 7 Jenna was the blonde, Cally the brunette, and Soolin the one who changed her hairstyle every week.
Title: Re: JAcqueline Pearce dead
Post by: Steve H on September 04, 2018, 01:48:56 PM
I didn't recognise the name in the thread title, but of course I remember Servalan. Sad loss.
Title: Re: JAcqueline Pearce dead
Post by: Maeght on September 04, 2018, 07:28:03 PM
Sad. Thought she played Servalan so well.