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Bridget Turner
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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 t…
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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.
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2010
The Color of Magic 2in1
Movie Book Burner Woman
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2008
The Colour of Magic
TV show Book Burner Woman
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2005
Doctor Who
TV show Alice
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2003
Death in Holy Orders
TV show Mildred Fawcett
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1997
Remember Me?
Movie Elderly sister
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1996
Cuts
Movie Mrs. Raper
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1995
The Thin Blue Line
TV show Mrs. Rabbit
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1995
Pride and Prejudice
TV show Mrs Reynolds
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1995
Life After Life
Movie Frances Doyle
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1993
Peak Practice
TV show Ruth Gaunt
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1992
Heartbeat
TV show Daphne Merryfield
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1986
Season's Greetings
Movie Phyllis
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Frances Doyle
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1984
Driving Ambition
Movie Jackie
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1984
Love and Marriage
TV show Phyllis
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1983
Runners
Movie Teacher
More credits
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1981
Get Lost!
TV show Judy Threadgold
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1977
Target
TV show Esther Daniels
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1977
Love Lies Bleeding
Movie Rowena
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1972
Under Milk Wood
Movie Mrs Cherry Owen
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1971
Catch Me a Spy
Movie Woman on Plane
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1970
The Walking Stick
Movie Sarah Dainton
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1968
Tom Grattan's War
TV show Sara Schwartz
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1967
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
TV show Miss Turnbull
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1967
The Forsyte Saga
TV show Plunket
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1964
Theatre 625
TV show Avril Hadfield
