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Eileen Essell
Actor
Born October 8, 1922Died February 15, 2015 (92 years)
Eileen Essell (October, 8 1922 – February 15, 2015) was an English actress noted in part for the age at which she began her screen acting career.
Although she acted on the stage for 13 years in the 1940s and 50s, her first screen performance was in her late 70s, in an episode of Doctors, and has since appeared in many other TV programmes, including The Bill, Doc Martin, Holby City, Hustle, Casualty, Ideal and Sensitive Skin.
On film she appeared in Finding Neverland (2004), Ali G Indahouse (2002), The Producers (2005), and as Grandma Josephine in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
Although she acted on the stage for 13 years in the 1940s and 50s, her first screen performance was in her late 70s, in an episode of Doctors, and has since appeared in many other TV programmes, including The Bill, Doc Martin, Holby City, Hustle, Casualty, Ideal and Sensitive Skin.
On film she appeared in Finding Neverland (2004), Ali G Indahouse (2002), The Producers (2005), and as Grandma Josephine in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
Filmography
| 2009 | Land Girls (TV Series) · as Miss Gwen Ganderton |
| 2009 | Law & Order: UK (TV Series) |
| 2009 | Life of Riley (TV Series) · as Mary |
| 2009 | Demons (TV Series) |
| 2008 | Clone (TV Series) · as Old Woman |
| 2007 | Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series) · as Aunt Blossom |
| 2007 | City Lights (TV Series) · as Little Old Lady |
| 2006 | Fear Stress And Anger (TV Series) · as Gran (2007) |
| 2006 | Torchwood (TV Series) · as Christina |
| 2006 | Feel the Force (TV Series) · as Mrs. Hill |
| 2005 | The Producers · as Hold Me-Touch Me |
| 2005 | Sensitive Skin (TV Series) · as Mother |
| 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory · as Grandma Josephine |
| 2005 | Ideal (TV Series) · as Mrs Coneybear |
| 2004 | Finding Neverland · as Mrs. Snow |
| 2004 | Hustle (TV Series) · as Mary |
| 2004 | Doc Martin (TV Series) · as Mrs Averill |
| 2003 | Duplex · as Mrs. Connelly |
| 2003 | Canterbury Tales (TV Series) · as Mrs Jean Smallwood |
| 2002 | Ali G Indahouse · as Mrs. Hugh |
| 2002 | Strange (TV Series) |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Annie |
| 1999 | Holby City (TV Series) · as Anne Ludlow |
| 1992 | |
| 1988 | London's Burning (TV Series) · as Judith Schuster |
| 1987 | French & Saunders (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1986 | Casualty (TV Series) · as Florence Chapman |
| 1984 | The Bill (TV Series) · as Doreen Tyler |