Patsy Byrne

Patricia 'Patsy' Byrne (13 July 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English actress, best known for her role as 'Nursie' in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm's domineering mother in the ITV comedy series Watching. Byrne was educated at Ashford County Grammar School. She studied drama at Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company playing parts such as Maria in Twelfth Night and Gruscha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Aldwych Theatre in the early 1960s. In the 1980s she also worked at Chichester Festival Theatre. Byrne starred alongside Tony Robinson in a Series 3 episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. She played ORD "Betty the Tea Lady" on the BBC children's programme Playdays. Other roles included appearances in I, Claudius (1976), Stealing Heaven (1988), Inspector Morse (1989), Les Misérables (1998), David Copperfield (1999) and Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), as well as numerous radio plays. Byrne performed in the 1990 BBC production of C.S. Lewis' "The Silver Chair" as the giant nanny in the city of the giants. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For: Acting

Born: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK, 1933-07-13

Died: 2014-06-17

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	The Cherry Orchard	Dunyasha	80
2	1963	As You Like It	Audrey	0
3	1970	The Cellar and the Almond Tree		0
4	1971	Platonov	Sasha	0
5	1972	The Ruling Class	Mrs. Treadwell	64
6	1974	The Gathering Storm	Cook	70
7	1979	The Class Of Miss MacMichael	Mrs. Green	58
8	1982	Britannia Hospital	Nurse	63
9	1983	The Return of the Soldier	Mrs. Plummer	62
10	1983	Floating Off	Lady on train	0
11	1986	Mr. Love	Mrs Lunt	52
12	1986	Hotel du Lac	Mrs. Dempster	40
13	1988	Hanna's War	Rosie	47
14	1988	Stealing Heaven		64
15	1988	Blackadder's Christmas Carol	Nursie / Bernard	78
16	1990	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair	Giant Nanny	61
17	1992	Emily's Ghost	Mrs. Crabtree	40
18	1993	The Higher Mortals	Matron	0
19	1996	The Gingerbread House	Mrs. Nesbit	0
20	1996	The Treasure Seekers	Eliza	53
21	1998	Les Misérables	Toussaint	72
22	1999	Blackadder: Back & Forth	Nursie	70
23	2000	Kevin & Perry Go Large	Old Lady	50
24	2008	Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga	Self	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Cook	86
2	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Sasha Platonov (née Triletski)	50
3	1970	Doomwatch	Mary Franklin	60
4	1976	I, Claudius		78
5	1978	All Creatures Great and Small	Mrs. Hammond	77
6	1979	My Son, My Son		50
7	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Jean	67
8	1979	The Old Curiosity Shop	Mrs. Nubbles	60
9	1980	A Little Silver Trumpet	Mrs. Cleaver	0
10	1983	Blackadder	Nursie	80
11	1987	Inspector Morse	Mrs. Maltby	78
12	1987	A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery	Mrs. Pettican	72
13	1987	Watching	Marjorie Stoneway	78
14	1988	A Taste for Death	Millicent Gentle	47
15	1988	The Chronicles of Narnia	Giant Nanny	74
16	1989	Maid Marian and Her Merry Men	Marian's Mum	58
17	1992	Heartbeat	Martha Coutts	71
18	1993	Peak Practice	Mrs. Burns	61
19	1994	Hard Times	Old Woman	0
20	1999	David Copperfield	Mrs. Gummidge	71

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