Geraldine Sherman
Geraldine Sherman is a British actress and writer, now known as theatre producer Dena Hammerstein since becoming the third wife of James Hammerstein then after his death becoming President/CEO of James Hammerstein Productions Ltd.
Early life
Her parents were refugees from Czechoslovakia. Her father Kurt Wilhelm Schoenmann was born in Teplitz in Bohemia in 1915, married Edith Peller, came to Britain to escape Nazi persecution, but was interned in March 1940 because his nationality was Austrian, then transported to Australia on the infamous 1940 Dunera voyage, and held in Loveday and Tatura internment camps until 1942.Notes:
Actress
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1964 | A Hard Day's Night | Girl Outside Secondhand Shop | Uncredited |
| 1967 | Poor Cow | Trixie | |
| 1968 | Interlude | Natalie | |
| 1968 | Deadfall | Delgado's Receptionist | |
| 1968 | The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom | Dr. Krunhauser | |
| 1968 | Song of Summer | Girl next door | TV Series documentary |
| 1969 | Take a Girl Like You | Anna Le Page | |
| 1970 | There's a Girl in My Soup | Caroline | |
| 1971 | Get Carter | Girl in Café | |
| 1971 | Cry of the Penguins | Penny | |
| 1995 | Thin Ice | Dena | |
| 1997 | Bent | Prostitute |
| Date | Title | Role | Notes |
| Foreign Affairs | peasant girl | Granada Television | |
| 1 7 1964 | Catch Hand: Stop Counting at One | Marian | BBC tv |
| 25 8 1964 | Love Story: Arranged for Strings | Miss Fish | ATV |
| 18 9 1964 | The Big Noise, or Episodes in the Uneasy Life of a Top Pop Disc Jockey | Jackie | BBC tv |
| 3 11 1965 | Up the Junction | Rube | BBC tv |
| 9 3 1966 | Softly, Softly: The Key | Eileen Murphy | BBC tv |
| 4 6 1966 | Juke Box Jury | Self – panellist | BBC tv |
| 6 7 1966 – 26 10 1966 | King of the River | Susanna King | BBC tv 15 episodes: |
| 30 1 1967 | Till Death Us Do Part: A Woman's Place is in the Home | BBC tv | |
| 4 3 1967 | Juke Box Jury | Self – panellist | BBC tv |
| 22 4 1967 – 13 5 1967 | The Forsyte Saga | Victorine Bicket | BBC tv |
| 13 12 1967 | The Wednesday Play: Death of a Private | Mary | BBC tv |
| 10 4 1968 | Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sinner | the Girl | BBC tv |
| 13 4 1968 | Public Eye: Cross That Palm When We Come to It | Fay | ABC Television |
| 30 10 1968 | The Wednesday Play: A Bit of Crucifixion, Father | Sheila | BBC tv |
| 18 1 1969 | ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Bangelstein's Boys | Dick's Girl | LWT |
| 9 11 1969 | Strange Report: Report 2475: Revenge - When a Man Hates | Secretary | Arena Productions |
| 19 11 1969 | The Wednesday Play: There is also Tomorrow | Rosemary | BBC tv |
| 15 12 1969 | The Root of All Evil?: Bloxham's Concerto for Critic and Carpenter | Pippa | Yorkshire Television |
| 19 4 1970 | Play of the Month: E. M. Forster's Howards End | Jacky | BBC tv |
| 4 1 1971 | Doomwatch: The Islanders | Alice | BBC tv |
| 21 10 1971 | Play for Today: Edna, the Inebriate Woman | Trudi | BBC tv |
| 30 6 1976 – 7 7 1976 | Killers: The Stinie Morrison Case | Nellie Deitch | Thames Television 2 episodes: |
| 3 1 1982 | Little Miss Perkins | Mrs. Issacs | LWT |
| 21 11 1982 | The Professionals: You'll Be All Right | Chrissie Stone | LWT |
| 11 10 1992 | Screen One: Running Late | Mrs Zee | BBC tv |
| 10 12 1996 | Soldier Soldier: Hell and High Water | Mrs. Beryl Grey | Central Independent Television |
| Date | Title | Role | Theatre | Notes |
| 31 10 1972 – 24 2 1973 | Butley | Miss Heasman | Morosco Theatre, New York |
Writer
When It's Over, by Geraldine Sherman and Eduardo Machado:Thin Ice, 1995 film
Theatre producer
Philanthropist
Dena Hammerstein worked as a volunteer in New York City hospitals for over 15 years, and in 2003 received the United Hospital Funds New Leadership Group's Humanitarian Award. She is Founder of Only Make Believe, a non-profit organisation that creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals and care facilities, inspired by her early work as an actress in the UK touring special-needs schools.Personal life
In 1970, a choreographer friend invited her to holiday in New York where she met Jamie Hammerstein.Married theatre director James Hammerstein who directed her in Butley, and has one son Simon Hammerstein.
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