A portrait of the actress Judy Jarvis at the Cinema Museum, Kennington.
Judy Matheson is a British actress. After drama school, Matheson began her career in 1967 with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company with whom she toured the United States, which included a season on Broadway,followed by Europe and Israel, in three of Shakespeare's plays, the highlight of which was Sir Tyrone Guthrie's production of Measure for Measure. Her early television work was in several Granada TV productions,including the television series City 68 opposite Kenneth Cranham, directed by Michael Apted, and Spindoe, directed by Mike Newall. In 1971 she starred opposite Freddie Jones in Charles Wood's experimental drama The Emergence of Anthony Purdy esq, directed by Patrick Dromgoole for Harlech Television. It was chosen that year as ITV's entry in the Monte Carlo TV Festival, though it was not widely networked. Nancy Banks-Smith, the Guardian's TV critic, said it was 'largely incomprehensible to anyone east of Somerset.' Her first film was The Chairman [The Most Dangerous Man in the World],with Gregory was chosen to star in the Spanish film The Exquisite Cadaver ('Las Crueles) with Capucine, directed by Vicente Aranda, in 1969, which was showcased as the Spanish entry at the San Sebastian Film Festival . In the 1970s, she appeared in the Hammer Horror films Lust for a Vampire and Twins of other films include The Flesh and Blood Show, The House that Vanished (Scream and Die), Crucible of Terror, Confessions of a Window Cleaner and Percy's Progress. On television she appeared in Coronation Street, Blake's 7, Z-Cars (lead female role, twice), The Professionals, The Adventurer, The Sweeney, Harriet's Back in Town, Citizen Smith, Dead of Night and for several months she starred in the soap opera Crossroads playing Sandy's girlfriend and Hugh Mortimer's secretary, Vicky Lambert. She played opposite Robert Powell in Shelley, directed by Alan Bridges, for the BBC. Her theatre work included starring in a British tour of the comedy Boeing Boeing.
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Location: The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, Kennington, London, SE11 4TH,
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