Sheila Steafel (born 26 May 1935) is a South African-born actress who has lived all her adult life in the United Kingdom.
Steafel, who was born in Johannesburg, appeared in many classic television series, including: The Frost Report, Z-Cars, Sykes, The Kenny Everett Television Show, Minder, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Oh Brother! and The Laughter of a Fool.
Her film appearances include: Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966), Baby Love (1968), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), Some Will, Some Won't (1970), which co-starred her ex husband's acting partner Wilfrid Brambell, Percy (1971), and Are You Being Served? (1977).
Much of Steafel's work has been on BBC radio. For several years in 1970s and '80s she was a cast member of Radio 4's weekly satirical show 'Week Ending', providing the voices for a large number of characters and impersonating real-world figures such as Margaret Thatcher.
Steafel appeared as herself in "The Lost Hitch-Hiker's Sketch" with Simon Jones, a sketch written by Douglas Adams for her 1982 BBC Radio 4 show Steafel Plus. In 1979, she starred in the West End stage production of A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine playing several roles, including Harpo Marx.
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- Minder (TV series)
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- Percy (1971 film)
- Sheila Steafel
- Simon Jones (actor)
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- Steafel Plus
- Sykes
- Television
- The Curse of Steptoe
- The Frost Report
- The Good Old Days
- United Kingdom
- Victorian era
- Week Ending
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- Wilfrid Brambell
- Z-Cars
- Zoe Tapper
'Sheila Steafel' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
Actors: Philip Davis (actor), Jason Isaacs (actor), James Keast (costume designer), William Diver (editor), Roger Allam (actor), Penny Dyer (miscellaneous crew), Nuala Alen-Buckley (miscellaneous crew), Clare Higgins (actress), Richard Knight (miscellaneous crew), Burn Gorman (actor), Rory Kinnear (actor), John Yorke (producer), Michael Samuels (director), Judy Gayton (miscellaneous crew), Zoë Tapper (actress),
Plot: In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
Keywords: 1960s, actor, adultery, bbc, closeted-homosexual, cottaging, gay-couple, homosexual, sitcom, stage-actorGenres: Biography, Drama,
Steafel, Sheila Filmography
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2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2001, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Chillblaine
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2001, role: actress
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1998, role: actress , character name: President's Wife
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1998, role: actress , character name: Mrs Leonard
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1989, role: actress , character name: Librarian
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1988, role: actress , character name: Herself
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1984, role: actress , character name: Sheila Finch
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1981, role: actress , character name: Betty
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1981, role: actress
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1980, role: actress
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1979, role: actress , character name: Brenda
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1978, role: actress , character name: Dr. Pitt
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1977, role: actress , character name: Hat Customer
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1976, role: actress , character name: Cafe Proprietress
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1975, role: actress
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1974, role: actress , character name: Wilma Brack
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1973, role: actress , character name: Control Operator
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1971, role: actress , character name: Voluptua
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1971, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Gold
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1971, role: actress , character name: Woman in Elevator
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1971, role: actress
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1971, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Latimer
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1970, role: actress , character name: Tania
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1970, role: actress , character name: Sheila Wilcott
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1969, role: actress , character name: Young Woman
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1969, role: actress , character name: Tilly
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1968, role: actress , character name: Various
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1968, role: actress , character name: Ground stewardess
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1968, role: actress , character name: Tessa
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1968, role: actress , character name: Pet shop saleslady
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1967, role: actress , character name: Isolde
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1967, role: actress , character name: Journalist
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1966, role: actress , character name: Young Woman
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