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Home/People/Bridget Turner
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Born
Feb 22, 1939Died: Dec 27, 2014
Lived 75 years
Place of Birth
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

9
Movies
14
TV Shows
IMDb Profile

Bridget Turner

Acting

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.
Remember Me? poster

Remember Me?

as Elderly sister
1997
Life After Life poster

Life After Life

as Frances Doyle
1995
Season's Greetings poster

Season's Greetings

as Phyllis
1986
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Driving Ambition

as Jackie
1984
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Runners

as Teacher
1983
Love Lies Bleeding poster

Love Lies Bleeding

as Rowena
1977
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Under Milk Wood

as Mrs Cherry Owen
1972
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Catch Me a Spy

as Woman on Plane
1971
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The Walking Stick

as Sarah Dainton
1970