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Avis Bunnage
Manchester, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Avis Bunnage (22 April 1923, Manchester, England, UK – 4 October 1990, England) was a British actress of film, stage and television. Sh…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Avis Bunnage (22 April 1923, Manchester, England, UK – 4 October 1990, England) was a British actress of film, stage and television. She attended Manley Park Municipal School and Chorlton Central School in Manchester. She worked as a secretary and a nursery teacher before deciding to become an actress. She gained stage experience in rep and made her first professional appearance at Chorlton Rep Theatre in Manchester in 1947. Most notably, she appeared as Veronica, the wife of Rigsby, in Rising Damp, for one episode. Bunnage was a member of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. There she created the role of Helen, the mother in A Taste of Honey, her first West End role when the play transferred to Wynndems Theatre, and also a role in Oh, What a Lovely War! at Stratford East, which also transferred to Wyndams Theatre. When Avis was on holiday from this production for two weeks, her role was taken over by Danny La Rue. Among her other roles for Theatre Workshop were Mrs. Lovitt in Christopher Bond's play Sweeny Todd (the basis for the Sondheim musical), and the title role in a play about the music hall legend Marie Lloyd. In the early years of Coronation Street she played Lucile Hewitt's auntie. She was in the musical Billy at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, playing the mother of 'Billy Liar'. She played Golda in Fiddler on the Roof, opposite Alfie Bass, at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. Married to Derek Orchard, she died in Thorpe Bay, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, aged 67. Description above from the Wikipedia article Avis Bunnage, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1990
The Krays
Movie Helen
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1989
Close to Home
TV show Mrs Hayes
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1989
No Strings
TV show Miss Butt
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1987
Yesterday's Dreams
TV show Auntie Vi
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1985
Mrs Capper's Birthday
Movie Alice Loft
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1985
No Surrender
Movie Martha Gorman
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1982
Gandhi
Movie Colin's Mother
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1982
Fame Is the Spur
TV show Mrs Muff
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1981
Virginia Fly is Drowning
Movie Mrs Thompson
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1981
Find Me First
Movie Isobel
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1980
Jessie
Movie Mrs Appleyard
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1980
The Gentle Touch
TV show Auntie Win
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1980
The Spoils of War
TV show Helen Hayward
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1978
Leave it to Charlie
TV show Mrs. Foster
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1978
The Mayor of Casterbridge
TV show Mrs Goodenough
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1978
Scully's New Year's Eve
Movie Florrie
More credits
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1978
Panic
Movie Old Lady
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1976
The Fosters
TV show Mrs Pugh
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1974
Rising Damp
TV show Veronica
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1974
Playhouse
TV show Mrs. Thompson
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1973
Seven of One
TV show Doris Norvel
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1972
The Stumbling Block
Movie Lorna
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1972
The Disappearing Man
Movie Violet
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1972
The Frighteners
TV show Violet
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1972
Anne of Green Gables
TV show Rachel Lynde
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1971
Everybody Say Cheese
Movie Hylda Cheatham
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1969
In Loving Memory
TV show Amy Jenkinson
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1968
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Movie Tulip's Mother
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1968
Cilla
TV show Self
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1967
Baker's Half-Dozen
TV show Mrs. Smedley
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1967
The Whisperers
Movie Mrs. Noonan
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1967
Half Hour Story
TV show Maria
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1966
Out of Town Theatre
TV show The Wife
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1966
The Wrong Box
Movie Queen Victoria
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1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV show Rebecca Jarrett
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1965
A Study in Terror
Movie Landlady
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1965
Rotten to the Core
Movie Countess de Wett (Matron)
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1965
Gideon's Way
TV show Mrs. Bessie Cowan
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1964
Theatre 625
TV show Mrs Moscroft
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1963
Espionage
TV show Woman in Bar
