Patricia Hamilton
Patricia Hamilton (born 1938) is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known as "Rachel Lynde" in the television mini-series Anne of Green Gables, its sequels: Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel, Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story, and Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, and several Anne of Green Gables related films (such as Road to Avonlea).
She also provided the voice of the character for PBS' animated series Anne of Green Gables. She was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series three times, winning in 1996.
Biography
Hamilton attended Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech[1] She was also part of Tarragon Theatre's inaugural season in 1971.[1]
In November 2008, Hamilton starred in the Harold Green Jewish Theatre production of Kindertransport in Toronto.[2]
Personal life
She was first married to actor Ivor Dean, with whom she had three daughters.[3] Later she married Leslie "Les" Carlson in 1967; their son Ben, graduated from theatre school; he appears in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning as Walter Shirley.[1] Les and Patricia eventually divorced.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | No, That's Me Over Here! | Episode: "3.13" | |
| 1971 | Hine | Miss Tarrant | 3 episodes |
| 1971 | Doctor at Large | Mrs. Hunter | Episode: "Mr. Moon" |
| 1972 | Upstairs, Downstairs | Mrs. Fellows | Episode: "I Dies from Love" |
| 1972 | The House Without a Christmas Tree | Narrator (uncredited) | TV movie |
| 1972 | The Fenn Street Gang | Policewoman Mrs. Thrupp |
Episode: "From Sudbury with Love" Episode: "The Lady with the Lamp" |
| 1973 | The Fenn Street Gang | Mrs. Dobell | Episode: "An Englishman's Home" |
| 1973 | The Upper Crusts | Miss Thoroughgood | Episode: "Decline and Fall" |
| 1973 | The Thanksgiving Treasure | Narrator - Addie as an adult | TV movie |
| 1974 | The ABC Afternoon Playbreak | Rebecca Glover | Episode: "Last Bride of Salem" |
| 1974 | Doctor at Sea | Cecilia Tranmere | Episode: "Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Sea Sick" Episode: "A Wolf in Ship's Clothing" |
| 1974 | Why Rock the Boat? | Hilda | |
| 1975 | Edward the King | Mrs. Lilley | Episode: "The Boy" |
| 1975 | Village Hall | Miss Browning | Episode: "Old Scores" |
| 1976 | Goldenrod | Mrs. Gunderson | |
| 1977 | Who Has Seen the Wind | Miss MacDonald | |
| 1980 | Middle Age Crazy | Barbara Pickett | |
| 1981 | My Bloody Valentine | Mabel Osborne | |
| 1983 | Hangin' In | Mrs. Holitski | Episode: "The Hero" |
| 1984 | When We First Met | TV movie | |
| 1984 | Heartsounds | Flo | TV movie |
| 1985 | Love & Larceny | Florida G. Blythe | TV movie |
| 1985 | Night Heat | Millie | Episode: "Crossfire" |
| 1985 | The Last Polka | Mrs. Vicki Mahoney-Cohen | TV movie |
| 1985 | Anne of Green Gables | Rachel Lynde | TV movie |
| 1986 | Connection | ||
| 1986 | The Lawrenceville Stories | Mrs. Conover | TV mini-series |
| 1987 | American Playhouse | Mrs. Conover | Episode: "The Prodigious Hickey" |
| 1987 | Really Weird Tales | Assessor | TV movie |
| 1987 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mrs. Greysome | Episode: "The Impatient Patient" |
| 1987 | Fight for Life | TV movie | |
| 1987 | Air Waves | Kate | Episode: "A Second Look" |
| 1987 | Anne of Avonlea | Rachel Lynde | TV movie |
| 1987 | Echoes in the Darkness | Dorothy Hunsberger | TV movie |
| 1987 | Friday the 13th | Sadie King | Episode: "Shadow Boxer" |
| 1988 | Blades of Courage | TV movie | |
| 1988 | Chasing Rainbows | Miss Kidd | TV mini-series |
| 1988 | Check It Out! | Mrs. Kelbo | Episode: "My Hero, Mr. Bannister" |
| 1988 | The Christmas Wife | Dora | TV movie |
| 1988 | Screwball Hotel | Chastity | |
| 1990 | Street Legal | Grace Whitney | Episode: "Security Exchange" |
| 1990 | In Defense of a Married Man | Eileen Lloyd | TV movie |
| 1990–1996 | Road to Avonlea | Rachel Lynde | 30 episodes |
| 1996 | Holiday Affair | Susan Ennis | TV movie |
| 1997 | When Secrets Kill | Eliza Emery | TV movie |
| 1998 | Traders | Ambassador | Episode: "Boom" |
| 1998 | An Avonlea Christmas | Rachel Lynde | TV movie |
| 2000 | Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story | Rachel Lynde | TV movie |
| 2005 | Anne: Journey to Green Gables | Rachel Lynde (voice) | Video |
| 2008 | Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning | Rachel Lynde | TV movie |
| 2008 | A Miser Brothers' Christmas | Mother Nature (voice) | TV special |
References
- 1 2 3 Avonlea actor nurses "small fire inside" by Mira Friedlander. The Toronto Star. PEOPLE; pg. D2. February 14, 1993
- ↑ Hoile, Christopher (November 10, 2008). "Kindertansport". Eye Weekly. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ↑ John Willis' Screen World, book 26, p. 233