Hard Labour (film) where the Leighs had lived in Cavendish Road." "The polarity between the worlds of Mrs Stone and the lady who cleans her house (the central figure, Mrs Thornley, the Catholic house-cleaner) is icily delineated. In the middle is the new housing estate, where Mrs Thornley's son, Edward, (played by Bernard Hill in his professional début), a car mechanic, lives with his wife Veronica (Alison Steadman)." Hard Labour (film) Hard Labour is a 1973 television film, directed by Mike Leigh and produced by Tony Garnett which aired as part of the BBC anthology series "Play for Today". The film stars Liz
Alison Gates After her fourth week at "SNL", Gates was noted for her sketch "Teacher Fell Down", which Alison Herman of "The Ringer" called "a gloriously weird bit from the Jonah Hill episode centering on McKinnon's drama queen of a driver's ed instructor". Alison Gates Alison Gates (born 1988 or 1989) is an American comedy writer and actress who is currently a staff writer for "Saturday Night Live". She previously lived in Chicago and worked with the Second City's touring company and an all-female iO Theater troupe. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Gates said she started doing improvisational theatre in high school,