Bridget Turner
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 22, 1939
- Died
- December 27, 2014 (aged 75)
- Birthplace
- Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Colour of Magic
TV · as Book Burner Woman · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Alice · 1 ep
Death in Holy Orders
TV · as Mildred Fawcett · 1 ep
Remember Me?
Movie · as Elderly sister
Cuts
Movie · as Mrs. Raper
Life After Life
Movie · as Frances Doyle
The Thin Blue Line
TV · as Mrs. Rabbit · 1 ep
Pride and Prejudice
TV · as Mrs Reynolds · 1 ep
Peak Practice
TV · as Ruth Gaunt · 1 ep
Heartbeat
TV · as Daphne Merryfield, Lottie Ferguson · 1 ep
Season's Greetings
Movie · as Phyllis
Screen Two
TV · as Frances Doyle · 1 ep
Driving Ambition
Movie · as Jackie
Love and Marriage
TV · as Phyllis · 1 ep
Runners
Movie · as Teacher
Get Lost!
TV · as Judy Threadgold · 4 eps
Love Lies Bleeding
Movie · as Rowena
Target
TV · as Esther Daniels · 1 ep
Under Milk Wood
Movie · as Mrs Cherry Owen
Catch Me a Spy
Movie · as Woman on Plane
The Walking Stick
Movie · as Sarah Dainton
Tom Grattan's War
TV · as Sara Schwartz · 3 eps
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
TV · as Miss Turnbull · 1 ep
The Forsyte Saga
TV · as Plunket · 5 eps
Theatre 625
TV · as Avril Hadfield · 1 ep