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Bridget Turner

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Born 1939-02-22 Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK 5 credit(s) Popularity 0.6
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 playe...
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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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The Colour of Magic poster
The Colour of Magic
as Book Burner Woman
2008-03-23
Death in Holy Orders poster
Death in Holy Orders
as Mildred Fawcett
2003-08-23
Pride and Prejudice poster
Pride and Prejudice
as Mrs Reynolds
1995-09-24
Peak Practice poster
Peak Practice
as Ruth Gaunt
1993-05-10
Theatre 625 poster
Theatre 625
as Avril Hadfield
1964-05-03

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