Eileen Essell
Born: 1922-10-08 in London, England, UK
Died: 2015-02-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
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).
Filmography
2009
- Law & Order: UK
- Land Girls as Miss Gwen Ganderton
- Demons
2007
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl as Aunt Blossom
2006
- Torchwood as Christina
- Feel the Force
2005
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Grandma Josephine
- Ideal as Mrs Coneybear
- The Producers as Hold Me-Touch Me
2004
- Hustle as Mary
- Finding Neverland as Mrs. Snow
2003
- Canterbury Tales as Mrs Jean Smallwood
- Duplex as Mrs. Connelly
- Strange as Miss Otterman
2002
- Ali G Indahouse as Mrs. Hugh
1992
- Heartbeat as Mrs Elsie Gray