---
name: "Linda Polan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/linda-polan"
fi1m_id: "linda-polan"
imdb_id: "nm0688829"
tmdb_id: 27328
wikidata_id: "Q131925579"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 October 1939"
died: "13 July 2009"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T10:43:41.510450+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Linda Polan

## Identity

Linda Polan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/linda-polan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** linda-polan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0688829
- **TMDB ID:** 27328
- **Wikidata ID:** Q131925579
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131925579, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688829/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27328

Actor. Born 11 October 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. Died 13 July 2009.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 October 1939, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 13 July 2009
- **Active:** 1982–1983
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131925579, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688829/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27328

## Biography

Linda Polan was an English actress. She was born on 11 October 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and died on 13 July 2009 in Rochester, Kent.

Her screen credits include the role of Miss Rushden in the film *Walter* (1982), Mrs Ploppy in the BBC series *Blackadder* (1983), Ines Ruffo Saltini in Federico Fellini's *And the Ship Sails On* (1983), and the midwife in the television film *Jacob* (1994). She also appeared in *K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend* (1981) and *Theatre Night* (1985).

Polan had a stage career that included work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

*Sources: imdb.com, thetvdb.com, coronationstreet.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Blackadder* (1983), Fi1m 84, as Mrs. Ploppy — [page](https://film.one/tv/blackadder.md)
- *Walter* (1982), Fi1m 78, as Miss Rushden — [page](https://film.one/film/walter.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Funny Blokes of British Comedy* (2005), as Mrs. Ploppy (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Jacob* (1994), as Hebamme
- *Little Napoleons* (1994), series, as Gertie Silver
- *The Boot Street Band* (1993), series, as Mrs. Springit
- *A Different Hand* (1992), as The Teacher
- *In Suspicious Circumstances* (1991), series, as Mother Dowe
- *Cariani and the Courtesans* (1987), as Baroness
- *Up Line* (1987), as Sophie Kleinmann
- *Seal Morning* (1986), series, as Honoria Singleton
- *Artists and Models* (1986), series, as Madame Ingres
- *Naughty Boys* (1984), as Daisy
- *The Fainthearted Feminist* (1984), series, as Bess
- *And the Ship Sails On* (1983), as Ines Ruffo Saltini
- *Blackadder* (1983), series, as Mrs. Ploppy — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/blackadder.md)
- *Walter* (1982), as Miss Rushden — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/walter.md)
- *Gulliver in Lilliput* (1982), series, as Queen
- *K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend* (1981), as Juno Baker
- *Lady Killers* (1980), series, as Priscilla Loveridge
- *Hussy* (1980), as Marlene - Hostess
- *The White Elephant* (1977), as Norma Curtis
- *Jubilee 1977* (1977), series, as Norma Curtis
- *A Private Enterprise* (1975), Actor
- *Sir Arthur Conan Doyle* (1967), series, as Principessa Claudia Arrighi
- *Theatre 625* (1964), series, as Prostitute
- *Z-Cars* (1962), series, as Waitress

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