Joe Holmes
Acting
Known For

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
All Creatures Great and Small

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Threads

An anthology series adapted from plays and short stories by A.E Coppard and H.E. Bates, depicting English country life and rural romance at the turn of the 20th-century. It presents unsentimental stories of human relationships and raw emotions – heartfelt passions, crippling frustrations, unspoken love and destructive jealousy.
Country Matters

Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of Hindle Wakes, all starred Laurence Olivier. Some of the plays were based on productions staged at the National Theatre during the period when Olivier was Artistic Director. In addition to distinguished English actors, the casts assembled for these productions included several Hollywood stars, such as Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton.
Laurence Olivier Presents

A village cricket team plays its last match before most of its players go off to fight in World War I, confident that "it will all be over by Christmas".
1914 All Out

A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.
Matchfit

In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a North England mill town are overthrown by a young woman with ideas far ahead of her time.
Hindle Wakes
A henpecked trade union leader tries to bully and then bribe a vulnerable housing manager into letting him jump the queue and have a new council flat.
The Waiting Game

A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
The Floater
David Masterman is an artist and a teacher who has the pleasure of teaching an art class to a group of lovely young women. Three in particular are of interest to him.
Craven Arms

Arthur takes early retirement, and with his wife Marion, moves into a bungalow by the sea, bought by their son. However, disillusionment sets in after a year when the plans he had do not work out and life is not what they expected or hoped.
Mummy and Daddy

A TV play by Graeme McCaig set amongst Blackpool's beach entertainers and starring Roy Kinnear