Bridget Turner

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Doctor Who (2005) — Alice
2. Pride and Prejudice (1995) — Mrs Reynolds
3. The Colour of Magic (2008) — Book Burner Woman
4. The Thin Blue Line (1995) — Mrs. Rabbit
5. Heartbeat (1992) — Daphne Merryfield
6. Under Milk Wood (1972) — Mrs Cherry Owen
7. Catch Me a Spy (1971) — Woman on Plane
8. Peak Practice (1993) — Ruth Gaunt
9. The Walking Stick (1970) — Sarah Dainton
10. Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre (1967) — Miss Turnbull
11. Screen Two (1985) — Frances Doyle
12. Death in Holy Orders (2003) — Mildred Fawcett
13. Runners (1983) — Teacher
14. Theatre 625 (1964) — Avril Hadfield
15. Target (1977) — Esther Daniels
16. Remember Me? (1997) — Elderly sister
17. Get Lost! (1981) — Judy Threadgold
18. Season's Greetings (1986) — Phyllis
19. Life After Life (1995) — Frances Doyle
20. Love and Marriage (1984) — Phyllis
21. Driving Ambition (1984) — Jackie
22. Love Lies Bleeding (1977) — Rowena
23. Cuts (1996) — Mrs. Raper