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Avis Bunnage
Acting

Avis Bunnage
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1923-04-22,Manchester, England, UK
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

A Study in Terror

6.3

A Study in Terror
1965-10-01

6.047

The Krays
1990-04-27

5.928

Tom Jones
1963-08-24

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

7.217

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962-09-20

6.4

The Whisperers
1967-07-18

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

4.5

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968-01-22

The L-Shaped Room

6.8

The L-Shaped Room
1962-11-20

Sparrows Can't Sing

5.326

Sparrows Can't Sing
1963-03-26

7.5

Panic
1978-01-01

7.554

Gandhi
1982-12-01

The Stumbling Block

0

The Stumbling Block
1972-12-11

0

Find Me First
1981-05-06

5.2

Doctor in Love
1960-07-12

6.5

The Wrong Box
1966-06-19

Scully's New Year's Eve

8

Scully's New Year's Eve
1978-01-03

Mrs. Capper's Birthday

1

Mrs. Capper's Birthday
1985-11-17

6.5

No Surrender
1985-09-11

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

7

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960-10-27

Everybody Say Cheese

0

Everybody Say Cheese
1971-06-03

5.4

Expresso Bongo
1959-12-01

Rotten to the Core

6.2

Rotten to the Core
1965-07-14

What a Crazy World

6.2

What a Crazy World
1963-07-02

0

Jessie
1980-12-23

Virginia Fly is Drowning

0

Virginia Fly is Drowning
1981-12-04

In Loving Memory

6.8

In Loving Memory
1969-11-04

The Mayor of Casterbridge

5.7

The Mayor of Casterbridge
1978-01-22

Anne of Green Gables

0

Anne of Green Gables
1972-02-20

10

Cilla
1968-01-30

The Human Jungle

8.2

The Human Jungle
1963-03-30

6.8

Gideon's Way
1965-03-18

7.466

Rising Damp
1974-09-02

The Frighteners

8.5

The Frighteners
1972-07-07

7

Playhouse
1974-03-13

Baker's Half-Dozen

0

Baker's Half-Dozen
1967-09-22