• Queenie Watts
  Watts was born '''Mary Spenton''' in [[London]] in 1923. She appeared in many British films, including the [[Joan Littlewood]] production ''[[Sparrers Can't Sing ...://www.comedy.co.uk/people/queenie_watts/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nostalgiacentr
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• Avril Angers
  Along with [[Terry-Thomas]], she was one of the original cast of British television's first ever comedy series ''[[How Do You View?]]'' in 1949.<ref [[Category:English film actresses]]
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• Patsy Smart
  [[Category:English television actresses]] [[Category:20th-century British actresses]]
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• Tessie O'Shea
  ...d his wife Nellie Theresa Carr.<ref name=onshow/> O'Shea was reared in the British [[w:music hall|music hall]] tradition and performed on stage as early as ag O'Shea starred in a short-lived British [[w:situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[As Good Cooks Go]]'', which ran from 1969
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• Diana Coupland
  ...actress, best remembered for her role in the sitcom ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]'', as Jean Abbott, the wife of [[Sid James]] ...the long-suffering wife of Sid James's character, in ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]'', which began its run in February 1971. She
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• Judith Furse
  ...+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=RA3-PA1859|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher= ...urger.org/Reviews/47_BN/BN80.html ''Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema, 1930–1971'']
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• Rosalie Williams
  ...levision]] from 1984 until 1994 alongside [[Jeremy Brett]], [[David Burke (British actor)|David Burke]], [[Edward Hardwicke]], and [[Colin Jeavons]].<ref name ...Rimmer and Mrs Sowerbutts in ''[[Coronation Street]]'', an award-winning British [[soap opera]] (March 1978 to 1991), and as Mary in 10 episodes of ''[[Flam
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• Lucy Griffiths (actress, born 1919)
  ...oks.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&dq=lucy+griffiths+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA312 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |edi * ''[[No Sex Please, We're British (film)|No Sex Please, We're British]]'' (1973) - Spinster Lady
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• Avis Bunnage
  ...ecf9a|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-08-04|title=Avis Bunnage|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/x ...&dq=avis+bunnage+marie+lloyd&pg=PA112|title=Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre: Staging the Victorians|first=Benjamin|last=Poore|date=15 November
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• Violet Carson
  {{Short description|British actress and singer (1898–1983)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
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• Sandra Dorne
  ...rne''' (born '''Joan Smith'''; 19 June 1924&nbsp;– 25 December 1992) was a British actress. ...s dried up as she grew older, but she still found work and acted mainly in British television, appearing in such series as ''[[Z-Cars|Z-Cars]]'', ''[[The Aven
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• Hy Hazell
  ...es give 1919 as her year of birth, although the [[w:British Film Institute|British Film Institute]] cites 1920 and ''[[w:The Oxford Reference|The Oxford Refer ...ggins''' (4 October 1919 – 10 May 1970), stage name '''Hy Hazell''', was a British actress of theatre, musicals and revue as well as a contralto singer and [[
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• Ursula Howells
  * ''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]'' (1995) - Miriam Wakefield [[Category:English film actresses]]
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• Betty Marsden
  {{Short description|British actor and comedian (1919–1998)}} ...s (1970 film)|Eyewitness]]'' (1970). She later played Hermione in the 1982 British film ''[[Britannia Hospital]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/ti
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• Sheila Steafel
  {{short description|South African-born British actress}} | nationality = British
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• Constance Smith
  ...> She moved back to London, studied acting and played bit parts in several British [[B film|B film]]s. She had an uncredited role as a singer in the 1948 film [[Category:Expatriate actresses in the United States]]
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• Kathy Staff
  ...2008) was an English actress known for her work on [[w:British television|British television]]. She is best known for her portrayal of [[Nora Batty]] in ''[[ ...egular role as Doris Luke in the popular ATV soap opera, ''[[w:Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]'' from 1978 to 1984 and 2001 to 2002. Her other tel
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• Ann Lancaster
  ...31 October 1970) was a well-known character actress who appeared in many [[British films]], television shows and in theatre.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi [[Category:English television actresses]]
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• Olga Lowe
  {{Short description|British actress (1919–2013)}} '''Olga Lowe''' (14 September 1919 – 2 September 2013) was a British [[film]], stage and television actress.<ref name=stage/> She made her film
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• Binnie Hale
  ...(ed.) "Raine, Patricia", ''British Film and Television Yearbook'', Vol. 4, British and American Film Press (1952)</ref> The marriage ended in divorce about 19 ..., with [[Leslie Henson]] and her brother. She was Jill in the long-running British musical ''[[Mr. Cinders]]'' (1929).<ref name=Kenrick>[[John Kenrick (theatr
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