 For the latter series she portrayed four different characters starting in 1986 with Mrs. York and most recently, in 2006, as the hard-of-hearing, Rose Belker.Her theatre roles include Serita in "Waiting in the Wings", Mrs Grey in "The Secretary Bird" (1969) and Mrs. Bedwin in "Oliver" (1961–62, 1966–67).Melville also acted in several feature films including "Alvin Purple Rides Again" (1974), "Dimboola" (1979), "I Can Jump Puddles" (1981) (TV), "Squizzy Taylor" (1982), "Annie's Coming Out" (1984), "Niel Lynne" (1985), "The Four Minute Mile" (1988) (TV), "Mull" (1989), "Spotswood" (1992), "Say a Little Prayer" (1993), "The Heartbreak Kid" (1993), "Dead End" (1999), "Siam Sunset" (1999), "A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow" (2000), "Dalkeith" (2001), "Crackerjack" (2002), "Forbidden" (2003), "Romulus, My Father" (2007).