Bridget Turner
Age: N/A | From: Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 4
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Doctor Who
(2005) Alice
Pride and Prejudice
(1995) Mrs Reynolds
Peak Practice
(1993) Ruth Gaunt
Heartbeat
(1992) Lottie Ferguson
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
(1967) Miss Turnbull
Driving Ambition
(1984) Jackie
The Walking Stick
(1970) Sarah Dainton
Runners
(1983) TeacherActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Alice | |
| 1997 | N/A | |
| 1995 | N/A | |
| Mrs Reynolds | ||
| Frances Doyle | ||
| 1993 | Ruth Gaunt | |
| 1992 | Daphne Merryfield | |
| Lottie Ferguson | ||
| 1986 | Phyllis | |
| 1984 | Jackie | |
| 1983 | Teacher | |
| 1981 | Judy Threadgold | |
| 1972 | Mrs Cherry Owen | |
| 1971 | Woman on Plane | |
| 1970 | Sarah Dainton | |
| 1967 | Miss Turnbull | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
