Bridget Turner

Born: 1939-02-22 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Died: 2014-12-27

Known For: Acting

Biography

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.

Filmography

2008

The Colour of Magic as Book Burner Woman

2005

Doctor Who as Alice

2003

Death in Holy Orders as Mildred Fawcett

1997

Remember Me? as Elderly sister

1995

Pride and Prejudice as Mrs Reynolds
The Thin Blue Line as Mrs. Rabbit
Life After Life as Frances Doyle

1993

Peak Practice as Ruth Gaunt

1992

Heartbeat as Daphne Merryfield

1986

Season's Greetings as Phyllis

1985

Screen Two as Frances Doyle

1984

Driving Ambition as Jackie

1983

Runners as Teacher

1981

Get Lost! as Judy Threadgold

1977

Target as Esther Daniels
Love Lies Bleeding as Rowena

1972

Under Milk Wood as Mrs Cherry Owen

1971

Catch Me a Spy as Woman on Plane

1970

The Walking Stick as Sarah Dainton

1967

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre as Miss Turnbull

1964

Theatre 625 as Avril Hadfield