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Bridget Turner

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Bridget Turner
1970s publicity still
Born
Bridget Joanna Turner

(1939-02-22)22 February 1939
Died27 December 2014(2014-12-27) (aged 75)

Bridget Joanna Turner (22 February 1939 – 27 December 2014) was an English actress.[1]

Turner played a radical English teacher, Judy Threadgold, opposite Alun Armstrong's woodwork teacher in Alan Plater's Get Lost! for Yorkshire Television, shown in 1981. Armstrong was unavailable for a sequel, so it was completely recast and became The Beiderbecke Affair with the parts going to Barbara Flynn and James Bolam.[2] She played Phyllis in Alan Ayckbourn's TV film Season's Greetings (play).

On 8 May 2009, John Cleese stated in an interview that Turner was the original choice in 1974 for the role of Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers. She turned it down and the part was given to Prunella Scales.[3]

Turner died on 27 December 2014 in Dorchester, Dorset, at the age of 75, and was survived by her husband, Frank Cox.[4] She was godmother to the actor Tom Burke.[5]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1964 Shylock Versus the Merchant of Venice Portia Television film
1970 The Walking Stick Sarah Dainton
1971 Catch Me a Spy Woman in Plane
1972 Under Milk Wood Mrs. Cherry Owen
1976 Time and Time Again Anna Television film
1983 Runners Teacher
1986 Season's Greetings Phyllis Television film
1996 Cuts Mrs. Raper Television film
1997 Remember Me? Elderly Sister
2002 Happy Together Ann Television film
2003 The Gathering Mrs. Groves
2008 Zip and Hollow Vera Television film
2009 Last Light Stella Short film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1961 Comedy Matinee Episode: "Thark"
1963 Lorna Doone Margery Babcock Episode: "A Long Account Settled"
1964 Teletale Ginia Episode: "The Beautiful Summer"
The Villains Sandra Episode: "Victim"
Compact Miss Bates Recurring role; 3 episodes
1965 Jury Room Lizzie Borden Episode: "The Lady and the Axe"
The Newcomers Joyce Episode: "Episode 19"
1966 Theatre 625 Avril Hadfield Episode: "Semi-Detached"
1967 The Forsyte Saga Plunket Recurring role; 6 episodes
Inheritance Lizzie Mellor Episode: "Murder"
1968 Resurrection Katerina Maslova Miniseries; 4 episodes
1970 Kate Ann Gordon Episode: "It's So Peaceful in the Country"
Graf Yoster Miss Turnbull Episode: "In London weiss der Nebel mehr als wir..."
ITV Sunday Night Theatre Bridget O'Connor Episode: "Slattery's Mounted Foot"
Tom Grattan's War Sara Schwartz Recurring role; 3 episodes
1971 Z-Cars Sheila Rhodes Episode: "It Can Get to Be a Habit"
1972 Z-Cars Mrs. French Episode: "Operation Ascalon"
1975 Sutherland's Law Jane Lauder Episode: "The Rag Doll"
1977 Playhouse Rowena Episode: "Love-Lies-Bleeding"
Target Esther Daniels Episode: "Lady Luck"
1978 Two's Company Mabel Episode: "The Take-Over Bid"
Jackanory Playhouse Queen Hermione Episode: "Princess Griselda's Birthday Gift"
1979 Jackanory Storyteller Recurring role; 5 episodes
1985Two People Jean Fletcher Series regular; 5 episodes
1981 Get Lost! Judy Threadgold Miniseries; 4 episodes
1984 Love and Marriage Phyllis Episode: "Home Is the Sailor"
Driving Ambition Jackie Episode: "Manifold Depression"
The Brief Sylvia Byrne Episode: "Keys"
1985 C.A.T.S. Eyes Mrs. Driscoll Episode: "Blue for Danger"
1989 Saracen Louise Silverdale Episode: "Infidels"
1991 Boon Gran Mulholland Episode: "Stamp Duty"
1992 The Bill Mrs. Chamberlain Episode: "Talk Out"
1993 The Bill Mrs. Brown Episode: "Sweet Charity"
1995 Screen Two Frances Doyle Episode: "Life After Life"
Pride and Prejudice Mrs. Reynolds Episode: "Episode 4"
The Bill Mrs. Vardy Episode: "Strictly Personal"
The Thin Blue Line Mrs. Rabbit Episode: "Fire and Terror"
2001 Heartbeat Daphne Merryfield Episode: "Home Sweet Home"
Peak Practice Ruth Gaunt Episode: "Together We Stand"
Armadillo Grandmother Miniseries; 3 episodes
2002 Casualty Katia Noga Episode: "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted"
Always and Everyone Eileen Barratt Episode: "Death of an Everyday Occurrence"
2003 Death in Holy Orders Mildred Fawcett Miniseries; 1 episode
2004 Doctors Maeve Episode: "One Last Request"
2005 Heartbeat Lottie Ferguson Episode: "Mastermind"
2006 Terry Pratchett's Hogfather Tooth Fairy / Bogey Man Miniseries; 2 episodes
2007 Doctor Who Alice Episode: "Gridlock"
2008 Casualty Mrs. Stirling Episode: "Have a Go, Hero"
Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic Book Burner Woman Episode: "The Light Fantastic"
2009 Doctors Hilary Benson Recurring role; 2 episodes
2010 Casualty Barbara Clark Episode: "Last Roll of the Dice"
2011 Monroe Judith Warden Episode: "Episode Three"

References

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  1. ^ "Bridget Turner profile". bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  2. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Beiderbecke Tapes, The (1987)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  3. ^ "Fawlty Towers almost didn't happen for Prunella Scales, according to John Cleese". Mirror. 8 May 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  4. ^ Coveney, Michael (3 February 2015). "Bridget Turner obituary". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Hodge, Gavanndra (22 February 2018). "Tom Burke on Strike, Alan Rickman and playing 'quite mean people'". Tatler.
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