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person_profile-Avis Bunnage

Avis Bunnage Died at age: 67

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Avis Bunnage

Date of Birth:

Apr 22, 1923

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Oct 04, 1990

Biography of

Avis Bunnage

    ​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.

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Filmography of

Avis Bunnage

Found 19 Movies in total

The Krays

Helen ( Actor )

... 1990

Mrs. Capper's Birthday

Alice Loft ( Actor )

... 1985

No Surrender

Martha Gorman ( Actor )

... 1985

Gandhi

Colin's Mother ( Actor )

... 1982

Jessie

Mrs Appleyard ( Actor )

... 1980

Everybody Say Cheese

Hylda Cheatham ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1968

The Whisperers

Mrs. Noonan ( Actor )

... 1967

The Wrong Box

Queen Victoria ( Actor )

... 1966

A Study in Terror

Landlady ( Actor )

... 1965

Rotten to the Core

Countess de Wett (Matron) ( Actor )

... 1965

Tom Jones

Landlady ( Actor )

... 1963

What a Crazy World

Mary ( Actor )

... 1963

Sparrows Can't Sing

Bridgie Gooding ( Actor )

... 1963

The L-Shaped Room

Doris ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1962

... 1960

Doctor in Love

Mrs. Jimp (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1960

Expresso Bongo

Mrs Rudge ( Actor )

... 1959