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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Avis Bunnage, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Manchester, England, UK, 1923-04-22

Died: 1990-10-04

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	Expresso Bongo	Mrs Rudge	54
2	1960	Doctor in Love	Mrs. Jimp	52
3	1960	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Blousy Woman	70
4	1962	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	Mrs. Smith	72
5	1962	The L-Shaped Room	Doris	68
6	1963	Sparrows Can't Sing	Bridgie Gooding	53
7	1963	What a Crazy World	Mary	62
8	1963	Tom Jones	Landlady	59
9	1965	Rotten to the Core	Countess de Wett (Matron)	62
10	1965	A Study in Terror	Landlady	63
11	1966	The Wrong Box	Queen Victoria	65
12	1967	The Whisperers	Mrs. Noonan	64
13	1968	Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter	Tulip's Mother	45
14	1971	Everybody Say Cheese	Hylda Cheatham	0
15	1972	The Stumbling Block	Lorna	0
16	1978	Panic	Old Lady	75
17	1978	Scully's New Year's Eve	Florrie	80
18	1980	Jessie	Mrs Appleyard	0
19	1981	Find Me First	Isobel	0
20	1981	Virginia Fly is Drowning	Mrs Thompson	0
21	1982	Gandhi	Colin's Mother	76
22	1985	No Surrender	Martha Gorman	65
23	1985	Mrs. Capper's Birthday	Alice Loft	10
24	1990	The Krays	Helen	60

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	The Human Jungle	Mrs. Dineley	82
2	1965	Gideon's Way	Mrs. Bessie Cowan	68
3	1968	Cilla	Self	100
4	1969	In Loving Memory	Amy Jenkinson	68
5	1972	Anne of Green Gables	Rachel Lynde	0
6	1972	The Frighteners	Violet	85
7	1974	Playhouse	Mrs. Thompson	70
8	1974	Rising Damp	Veronica	75
9	1978	The Mayor of Casterbridge	Mrs. Goodenough	57

Avis Bunnage

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