Avis Bunnage
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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.
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Fotos
Películas (26)
The Krays
1990 · Helen
Mrs Capper's Birthday
1985 · Alice Loft
No Surrender
1985 · Martha Gorman
Gandhi
1982 · Colin's Mother
Virginia Fly is Drowning
1981 · Mrs Thompson
Find Me First
1981 · Isobel
Jessie
1980 · Mrs Appleyard
Scully's New Year's Eve
1978 · Florrie
Panic
1978 · Old Lady
The Stumbling Block
1972 · Lorna
The Disappearing Man
1972 · Violet
Everybody Say Cheese
1971 · Hylda Cheatham
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968 · Tulip's Mother
The Whisperers
1967 · Mrs. Noonan
The Wrong Box
1966 · Queen Victoria
A Study in Terror
1965 · Landlady
Rotten to the Core
1965 · Countess de Wett (Matron)
Tom Jones
1963 · Landlady
What a Crazy World
1963 · Mary
Sparrows Can't Sing
1963 · Bridgie Gooding
The L-Shaped Room
1962 · Doris
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962 · Mrs. Smith
No Love for Johnnie
1961 · Constituent (uncredited)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960 · Blousy Woman
Doctor in Love
1960 · Mrs. Mimp (uncredited)
Expresso Bongo
1959 · Mrs Rudge
Series (27)
Close to Home
1989 · Mrs Hayes
No Strings
1989 · Miss Butt
Yesterday's Dreams
1987 · Auntie Vi
Fame Is the Spur
1982 · Mrs Muff
The Gentle Touch
1980 · Auntie Win
The Spoils of War
1980 · Helen Hayward
Leave it to Charlie
1978 · Mrs. Foster
The Mayor of Casterbridge
1978 · Mrs Goodenough
The Fosters
1976 · Mrs Pugh
Rising Damp
1974 · Veronica
Playhouse
1974 · Mrs. Thompson
Oranges and Lemons
1973 · Mrs Minter
Seven of One
1973 · Doris Norvel
The Frighteners
1972 · Violet
Anne of Green Gables
1972 · Rachel Lynde
In Loving Memory
1969 · Amy Jenkinson
Cilla
1968 · Self
Baker's Half-Dozen
1967 · Mrs. Smedley
Half Hour Story
1967 · Maria
Out of Town Theatre
1966 · The Wife
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Rebecca Jarrett
Gideon's Way
1965 · Mrs. Bessie Cowan
Theatre 625
1964 · Mrs Moscroft
Espionage
1963 · Woman in Bar
The Human Jungle
1963 · Mrs. Dineley
Drama 61-67
1961 · Betty Knowles, Mrs. Trouncer
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Martha, Lorna