Liza Goddard

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Liza Goddard
Born
Louise Elizabeth Goddard

(1950-01-20) 20 January 1950 (age 71)
Smethwick, Staffordshire[1] England
OccupationActress
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(m. 1995; died 2018)​
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Louise Elizabeth Goddard (born 20 January 1950) professionally known as Liza Goddard, is an English television and stage actress, best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s.

Early life[]

Goddard was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire.[1] She is the daughter of David Goddard (1925–1992), who produced and directed numerous TV shows and programmes. She attended Farnham Girls' Grammar School, before her father moved the family to Australia, when she was 15, upon his appointment as Head of Drama at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Career[]

Goddard made early television appearances in Australia, including episode 100 of Homicide ("The Traveller", 1966), and the ABC drama play Romanoff & Juliet (1967), and a brief (non-speaking, uncredited) appearance in the feature film They're A Weird Mob (1966). However, she is best remembered in Australia for her role as Clarissa "Clancy" Merrick in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, in which she appeared in the first two series and 48 episodes.[2][3][4]

After returning to the UK in 1969 as an adult, she was cast as Victoria Edgecombe, the character created by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham in Take Three Girls (1969),[3] later appearing in its sequel Take Three Women (1982). She also had a supporting role in the 1972 comedy film Ooh… You Are Awful, starring Dick Emery. Her career breakthrough was as April in The Brothers (1972–76), which also featured her first husband, Colin Baker. She also appeared as Jocelyn in "National Pelmet", the Series 2 opener of the highly successful ITV drama Minder.

A comedy role alongside Donal Donnelly in Yes, Honestly (1976–77), by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham followed, as did a role with Christopher Biggins in a BBC1 sitcom Watch This Space (1980), by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe. This was followed by Pig in the Middle (1980–83) also written by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham.

Goddard was one of the 'explorers' who were 'evaporated' in a (now missing) episode of the BBC science fiction quiz programme The Adventure Game (1980), played a space pirate in the Doctor Who story Terminus (1983), and appeared in Roll Over Beethoven (1985), opposite Nigel Planer. She also played a humanist in the 1988 biographical film Testimony, starring Ben Kingsley. She then appeared in Woof!, a Children's ITV programme first broadcast in 1989. Her third husband, producer and director David Cobham, created this series. She had earlier appeared in the TV adaptation of Brendon Chase, also produced and directed by Cobham.

For many years, she was also the female team leader on the long-running quiz/panel show Give Us A Clue, replacing Una Stubbs in the role.

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1984 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Ambassador's Theatre in London.[5]

Goddard appeared as Laurel Manasotti in the ITV sitcom That's Love.

She later had a recurring role as Philippa Vale in Bergerac (featuring in four series between 1984 and 1989) and alongside Dawn French and Catherine Tate in Wild West (2002). In 2007 she appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "A Picture of Innocence", reuniting her with Bergerac star John Nettles. In 2012 she had a cameo role in the all-star comedy film Run for Your Wife, and in 2013 she toured with the official Agatha Christie Theatre Company in Go Back for Murder, an adaptation of the book Five Little Pigs.

In September 2016, Goddard played the guest role of Gloria Francis in the BBC1 drama series Casualty.

Personal life[]

Goddard's first marriage was to future Doctor Who actor Colin Baker. She also dated former Doctor Who companion Frazer Hines (who later appeared with Baker in the story "The Two Doctors"). Prior to marrying Baker, she had a son, Thom, from another relationship.

In 1981 she married pop star Alvin Stardust.[6] Goddard's daughter from her marriage with Stardust, Sophie Jewry, was critically injured at the age of two months after she fell down a set of stairs and suffered a severe fracture of the skull. She later recovered from her injuries.[6]

Goddard's third marriage was to producer and director David Cobham.

She lives near Dereham,[7] Norfolk, in a home full of rescued animals, and also works with the RSPCA, amongst other charities. She suffered, and recovered from, breast cancer in 1997.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Before 1 April 1974 Smethwick was in Staffordshire
  2. ^ Newcomb, Horace (2004). Encyclopedia of television. CRC Press. p. 2108. ISBN 1-57958-411-X.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Falk, Quentin; Falk, Ben (2005). Television's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of Television. Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 78. ISBN 1-86105-874-8.
  4. ^ "Liza Goddard - Filmography by TV series". IMDb.com. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Liza Goddard". Bigredbook.info. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "Singer's baby recovers after fall down stairs". The Herald. Glasgow. 22 December 1981. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  7. ^ "Norfolk Famous People". Norfolktouristinformation.com. 17 November 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  8. ^ "Big Issue Cymru, March 22–28, 2004". Archived from the original on 19 February 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2007.

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