Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 22, 1923
Died
Oct 04, 1990
Place of Birth
Manchester, England, UK
Credits
51 titles
Avis Bunnage
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Krays
Helen
Close to Home
Mrs Hayes
No Strings
Miss Butt
Yesterday's Dreams
Auntie Vi
Mrs Capper's Birthday
Alice Loft
No Surrender
Martha Gorman
Gandhi
Colin's Mother
Fame Is the Spur
Mrs Muff
Virginia Fly is Drowning
Mrs Thompson
Find Me First
Isobel
Jessie
Mrs Appleyard
The Gentle Touch
Auntie Win
The Spoils of War
Helen Hayward
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Mrs Goodenough
Scully's New Year's Eve
Florrie
Panic
Old Lady
The Fosters
Mrs Pugh
Rising Damp
Veronica
Playhouse
Mrs. Thompson
Seven of One
Doris Norvel
The Stumbling Block
Lorna
The Disappearing Man
Violet
The Frighteners
Violet
Anne of Green Gables
Rachel Lynde
Everybody Say Cheese
Hylda Cheatham
In Loving Memory
Amy Jenkinson
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Tulip's Mother
Cilla
Self
Baker's Half-Dozen
Mrs. Smedley
The Whisperers
Mrs. Noonan
Half Hour Story
Maria
Out of Town Theatre
The Wife
The Wrong Box
Queen Victoria
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Rebecca Jarrett
A Study in Terror
Landlady
Rotten to the Core
Countess de Wett (Matron)
Gideon's Way
Mrs. Bessie Cowan
Theatre 625
Mrs Moscroft
Espionage
Woman in Bar
Tom Jones
Landlady
What a Crazy World
Mary
The Human Jungle
Mrs. Dineley
Sparrows Can't Sing
Bridgie Gooding
The L-Shaped Room
Doris
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Mrs. Smith
Drama 61-67
Betty Knowles
No Love for Johnnie
Constituent (uncredited)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Blousy Woman
Doctor in Love
Mrs. Mimp (uncredited)
Expresso Bongo
Mrs Rudge