Bridget Turner
Known For
Acting
Born
1939-02-22 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Died
2014-12-27
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.
Most Known For
Doctor Who
as Alice
Heartbeat
as Daphne Merryfield
Heartbeat
as Lottie Ferguson
Theatre 625
as Avril Hadfield
Peak Practice
as Ruth Gaunt
Pride and Prejudice
as Mrs Reynolds
Screen Two
as Frances Doyle
The Thin Blue Line
as Mrs. Rabbit
The Colour of Magic
as Book Burner Woman
Runners
as Teacher
Target
as Esther Daniels
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
as Miss Turnbull
Remember Me?
as Elderly sister
Death in Holy Orders
as Mildred Fawcett
The Walking Stick
as Sarah Dainton
Get Lost!
as Judy Threadgold
Under Milk Wood
as Mrs Cherry Owen
Catch Me a Spy
as Woman on Plane
Life After Life
as Frances Doyle
Love Lies Bleeding
as Rowena