About

Known credits:
10
Birthday:
1939-02-22
Place of birth:
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Website:
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Bridget Turner

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting

1997 Remember Me? Actor Elderly sister 58
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1995 Life After Life Actor Frances Doyle N/A
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1986 Season's Greetings Actor Phyllis N/A
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1984 Driving Ambition Actor Jackie N/A
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1983 Runners Actor Teacher 58
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1981 Get Lost! Actor Judy Threadgold 69
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1977 Love Lies Bleeding Actor Rowena N/A
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1972 Under Milk Wood Actor Mrs Cherry Owen 59
Average
1971 Catch Me a Spy Actor Woman on Plane 58
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1970 The Walking Stick Actor Sarah Dainton 58
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