Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 22, 1939
Died
Dec 27, 2014
Place of Birth
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Credits
23 titles
Bridget Turner
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
Book Burner Woman
Doctor Who
Alice
Death in Holy Orders
Mildred Fawcett
Remember Me?
Elderly sister
Cuts
Mrs. Raper
The Thin Blue Line
Mrs. Rabbit
Pride and Prejudice
Mrs Reynolds
Life After Life
Frances Doyle
Peak Practice
Ruth Gaunt
Heartbeat
Daphne Merryfield
Season's Greetings
Phyllis
Screen Two
Frances Doyle
Driving Ambition
Jackie
Love and Marriage
Phyllis
Runners
Teacher
Get Lost!
Judy Threadgold
Target
Esther Daniels
Love Lies Bleeding
Rowena
Under Milk Wood
Mrs Cherry Owen
Catch Me a Spy
Woman on Plane
The Walking Stick
Sarah Dainton
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Miss Turnbull
Theatre 625
Avril Hadfield