Bridget Turner
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(9 total)
Under Milk Wood
as Mrs Cherry Owen
Catch Me a Spy
as Woman on Plane
The Walking Stick
as Sarah Dainton
Runners
as Teacher
Remember Me?
as Elderly sister
Season's Greetings
as Phyllis
Driving Ambition
as Jackie
Life After Life
as Frances Doyle
TV Shows
(13 total)
Doctor Who
as Alice
Pride and Prejudice
as Mrs Reynolds
The Colour of Magic
as Book Burner Woman
The Thin Blue Line
as Mrs. Rabbit
Heartbeat
as Daphne Merryfield
Heartbeat
as Lottie Ferguson
Peak Practice
as Ruth Gaunt
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
as Miss Turnbull
Screen Two
as Frances Doyle
Death in Holy Orders
as Mildred Fawcett
Theatre 625
as Avril Hadfield
Target
as Esther Daniels
Get Lost!
as Judy Threadgold