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Elizabeth Bradley
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Elizabeth Bradley (20 May 1922 – 30 October 2000) was an English actress. She played Maud Grimes in the British soap opera Coronation Street. Bradley was born Joan Abraham in Mac…
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Elizabeth Bradley (20 May 1922 – 30 October 2000) was an English actress. She played Maud Grimes in the British soap opera Coronation Street. Bradley was born Joan Abraham in Macclesfield, Cheshire, the daughter of a senior civil servant, and took her father's middle name as her stage surname. She started acting professionally at the age of 23. Bradley's played wheelchair-using pensioner Maud Grimes in Coronation Street from 1993 to 1999. The character was described as a battle-axe and was once called "the mother-in-law from hell". She filmed 476 episodes during this time. Bradley had previously played character Councillor Adams in the soap in 1978, but was credited then as Margaret Bradley. She has also made TV appearances in London's Burning, The Bill, Casualty, Bad Girls and The Sweeney. Her film roles included Four Dimensions of Greta and The Flesh and Blood Show (both 1972) with director Pete Walker, and as the old woman who encounters a naked David Naughton at London Zoo in An American Werewolf in London (1981). She was also a successful theatre actress, obtaining an Olivier Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role in a National Theatre production of Billy Liar.
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1999
Bad Girls
TV show Mrs. Foster
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1992
Memento Mori
Movie Mrs Anthony
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1992
Resnick: Lonely Hearts
Movie Vera Barnett
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1990
The Piglet Files
TV show Mrs Russell
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1986
Casualty
TV show Mrs. Daniels
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1984
The Bill
TV show
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1984
Leaving
TV show Mrs. Ford
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1982
Brimstone & Treacle
Movie Woman Passer By
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1982
God Speed Co-operation
Movie Mrs. Burrows
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1982
Shine on Harvey Moon
TV show Lady in Gallery
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1981
London Is Drowning
Movie Mum
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1981
An American Werewolf in London
Movie Woman in Zoo
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1979
Tales of the Unexpected
TV show Mrs Bradley
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1979
Waterloo Sunset
Movie Nelly
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1978
A Traveller In Time
TV show Aunt Tissie / Dame Cicely
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1976
No Hard Feelings
Movie Mrs Etheridge
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1975
In This House of Brede
Movie Dame Margaret
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1975
The Sweeney
TV show Mrs. Hibberd
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1972
Van der Valk
TV show Hannah
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1972
The Four Dimensions of Greta
Movie Mrs. Schickler
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1965
Davey Jones' Locker
Movie Mrs Haddock
