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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 22, 1923
Died
October 4, 1990
Place of Birth
Manchester, England, UK
Also Known As
- Эвис Баннедж
Avis Bunnage
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.1
Helen
The Krays
1990
🎬
5.5
Mrs Hayes
Close to Home
1989
6.0
Miss Butt
No Strings
1989
🎬
0.0
Auntie Vi
Yesterday's Dreams
1987
1.0
Alice Loft
Mrs Capper's Birthday
1985
6.5
Martha Gorman
No Surrender
1985
7.6
Colin's Mother
Gandhi
1982
0.0
Mrs Thompson
Virginia Fly is Drowning
1981
0.0
Isobel
Find Me First
1981
0.0
Mrs Appleyard
Jessie
1980
Credits
The Krays
as Helen
1990
6.1
🎬
Close to Home
as Mrs Hayes
1989
5.5
No Strings
as Miss Butt
1989
6.0
🎬
Yesterday's Dreams
as Auntie Vi
1987
0.0
Mrs Capper's Birthday
as Alice Loft
1985
1.0
No Surrender
as Martha Gorman
1985
6.5
Gandhi
as Colin's Mother
1982
7.6
Virginia Fly is Drowning
as Mrs Thompson
1981
0.0
Find Me First
as Isobel
1981
0.0
Jessie
as Mrs Appleyard
1980
0.0
The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Mrs Goodenough
1978
5.7
Scully's New Year's Eve
as Florrie
1978
8.0
Panic
as Old Lady
1978
7.5
Rising Damp
as Veronica
1974
7.5
Playhouse
as Mrs. Thompson
1974
7.0
🎬
The Stumbling Block
as Lorna
1972
0.0
The Disappearing Man
as Violet
1972
0.0
The Frighteners
as Violet
1972
8.5
Anne of Green Gables
as Rachel Lynde
1972
0.0
Everybody Say Cheese
as Hylda Cheatham
1971
0.0
In Loving Memory
as Amy Jenkinson
1969
6.8
Cilla
as Self
1968
10.0
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
as Tulip's Mother
1968
4.5
🎬
Baker's Half-Dozen
as Mrs. Smedley
1967
0.0
The Whisperers
as Mrs. Noonan
1967
6.4
The Wrong Box
as Queen Victoria
1966
6.5
A Study in Terror
as Landlady
1965
6.2
Rotten to the Core
as Countess de Wett (Matron)
1965
6.2
Gideon's Way
as Mrs. Bessie Cowan
1965
6.8
Theatre 625
as Mrs Moscroft
1964
7.2
Tom Jones
as Landlady
1963
5.9
What a Crazy World
as Mary
1963
6.2
The Human Jungle
as Mrs. Dineley
1963
8.2
Sparrows Can't Sing
as Bridgie Gooding
1963
5.1
The L-Shaped Room
as Doris
1962
6.8
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
as Mrs. Smith
1962
7.2
🎬
Drama 61-67
as Betty Knowles
1961
0.0
🎬
Drama 61-67
as Mrs. Trouncer
1961
0.0
No Love for Johnnie
as Constituent (uncredited)
1961
6.2
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
as Blousy Woman
1960
7.0
Doctor in Love
as Mrs. Mimp (uncredited)
1960
5.2
Expresso Bongo
as Mrs Rudge
1959
5.1