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Bridget Turner
Actor
Born February 22, 1939Died December 27, 2014 (75 years)
Bridget Joanna Turner (22 February 1939 – 27 December 2014) was an English actress.
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. 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.
Turner died on 27 December 2014 in Dorchester, Dorset, at the age of 75, and was survived by her husband, Frank Cox. She was godmother to the actor Tom Burke.
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. 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.
Turner died on 27 December 2014 in Dorchester, Dorset, at the age of 75, and was survived by her husband, Frank Cox. She was godmother to the actor Tom Burke.
Filmography
| 2011 | |
| 2008 | Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (TV Series) · as Book Burner Woman |
| 2006 | Hogfather · as Tooth Fairy |
| 2005 | Doctor Who (2005) (TV Series) · as Alice |
| 2003 | Death in Holy Orders (TV Series) · as Mildred Fawcett |
| 2003 | The Gathering · as Mrs. Groves |
| 2001 | Armadillo (TV Series) · as Grandmother |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Hilary Benson |
| 1999 | Always And Everyone (TV Series) · as Eileen Barratt |
| 1997 | |
| 1996 | Cuts · as Mrs. Raper |
| 1995 | The Thin Blue Line (TV Series) · as Mrs. Rabbit |
| 1995 | Pride and Prejudice (TV Series) · as Mrs Reynolds |
| 1993 | Peak Practice (TV Series) · as Ruth Gaunt |
| 1992 | |
| 1989 | Saracen (TV Series) · as Louise Silverdale |
| 1986 | Season's Greetings · as Phyllis |
| 1986 | Casualty (TV Series) · as Barbara Clark |
| 1986 | |
| 1985 | C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV Series) · as Mrs. Driscoll |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as Frances Doyle |
| 1984 | The Bill (TV Series) · as Mrs. Brown |
| 1983 | Runners · as Teacher |
| 1981 | Get Lost! (TV Series) · as Judy Threadgold |
| 1979 | Two People (TV Series) · as Jean Fletcher |
| 1977 | Target (TV Series) · as Esther Daniels |
| 1975 | Two's Company (TV Series) · as Mabel |
| 1973 | Sutherland's Law (TV Series) · as Jane Lauder |
| 1971 | Under Milk Wood · as Mrs Cherry Owen |
| 1971 | Catch Me a Spy · as Woman On Plane |
| 1970 | The Walking Stick · as Sarah Dainton |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Bridget O'connor |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse (TV Series) · as Rowena |
| 1967 | Count Yoster does the honors (TV Series) · as Miss Turnbull |
| 1967 | The Forsyte Saga (TV Series) · as Plunket |
| 1965 | Jackanory (TV Series) · as Storyteller |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 (TV Series) · as Avril Hadfield |
| 1963 | Teletales (TV Series) · as Ginia |
| 1962 | Z Cars (TV Series) · as Sheila Rhodes |