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Bridget Turner

Actor · 1939 – 2014 · Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK

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.

Series15

  • TV7.6

    Doctor Who

    2005 · 3.5K votes

  • TV7.1

    Heartbeat

    1992 · 34 votes

  • TV7.1

    Screen Two

    1985 · 7 votes

  • TV6.5

    Peak Practice

    1993 · 10 votes

  • TV7.2

    Theatre 625

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV8.2

    Pride and Prejudice

    1995 · 573 votes

  • TV6.9
  • TV7.0

    Target

    1977 · 4 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Thin Blue Line

    1995 · 121 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Colour of Magic

    2008 · 197 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Forsyte Saga

    1967 · 8 votes

  • TV9.0

    Love and Marriage

    1984 · 1 votes

  • TV6.9

    Death in Holy Orders

    2003 · 6 votes

  • TV
  • TV7.0

    Get Lost!

    1981 · 2 votes

Movies10

  • Movie6.5

    Remember Me?

    1997 · 2 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.0

    Catch Me a Spy

    1971 · 17 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Runners

    1983 · 5 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Walking Stick

    1970 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Under Milk Wood

    1972 · 23 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Life After Life

    1995 · 1 votes

  • Movie

    Cuts

    1996

  • Movie
  • Movie9.0

    Season's Greetings

    1986 · 1 votes