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Patsy Byrne
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK
Patricia 'Patsy' Byrne (13 July 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English actress, best known for her role as 'Nursie' in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm's domineering mother in the IT…
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Patricia 'Patsy' Byrne (13 July 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English actress, best known for her role as 'Nursie' in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm's domineering mother in the ITV comedy series Watching. Byrne was educated at Ashford County Grammar School. She studied drama at Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company playing parts such as Maria in Twelfth Night and Gruscha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Aldwych Theatre in the early 1960s. In the 1980s she also worked at Chichester Festival Theatre. Byrne starred alongside Tony Robinson in a Series 3 episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. She played ORD "Betty the Tea Lady" on the BBC children's programme Playdays. Other roles included appearances in I, Claudius (1976), Stealing Heaven (1988), Inspector Morse (1989), Les Misérables (1998), David Copperfield (1999) and Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), as well as numerous radio plays. Byrne performed in the 1990 BBC production of C.S. Lewis' "The Silver Chair" as the giant nanny in the city of the giants. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
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2008
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
Movie Self
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2000
Kevin & Perry Go Large
Movie Old Lady
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1999
David Copperfield
TV show Mrs. Gummidge
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1999
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Movie Nursie
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1998
Les Misérables
Movie Toussaint
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1996
The Treasure Seekers
Movie Eliza
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1996
The Gingerbread House
Movie Mrs. Nesbit
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1994
Hard Times
TV show Old Woman
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1993
The Higher Mortals
Movie Matron
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1993
Peak Practice
TV show Mrs. Burns
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1992
Heartbeat
TV show Martha Coutts
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1992
Emily's Ghost
Movie Mrs. Crabtree
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1990
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Movie Giant Nanny
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1989
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
TV show Marian's Mum
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1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Movie Nursie / Bernard
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1988
The Chronicles of Narnia
TV show Giant Nanny
More credits
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1988
A Taste for Death
TV show Millicent Gentle
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1988
Stealing Heaven
Movie
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1988
Hanna's War
Movie Rosie
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1987
Watching
TV show Marjorie Stoneway
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1987
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
TV show Mrs. Pettican
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1987
Inspector Morse
TV show Mrs. Maltby
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1986
Worlds Beyond
TV show Mrs Simmons
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1986
Hotel du Lac
Movie Mrs. Dempster
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1986
Mr. Love
Movie Mrs Lunt
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1985
In Sickness and in Health
TV show Mrs. Jones
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Mrs. Dempster
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1984
Miracles Take Longer
TV show Betty Hackforth
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1983
Floating Off
Movie Lady on train
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1983
Blackadder
TV show Nursie
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1983
The Return of the Soldier
Movie Mrs. Plummer
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1982
Britannia Hospital
Movie Nurse
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1980
A Little Silver Trumpet
TV show Mrs. Cleaver
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1979
The Old Curiosity Shop
TV show Mrs Nubbles
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1979
Tales of the Unexpected
TV show Jean
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1979
My Son, My Son
TV show
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1978
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Movie Mrs. Green
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1978
Hazell
TV show Mrs Dobson
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1978
All Creatures Great and Small
TV show Mrs. Hammond
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1976
I, Claudius
TV show Martina
