Английская Википедия:Brenda Bruce

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Brenda Bruce OBE (7 July 1919 – 19 February 1996) was an English actress. She was focused on the theatre, radio, film and television.

Career

Bruce was born in Prestwich, Lancashire in 1919, and started her acting career as a teenager on stage as a chorus girl. She appeared with the Birmingham Repertory Company (1936–39) and was a long-time actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). She was the RSC's resident Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, playing the role in 1964, 1968, 1975 and 1995. She appeared as Irma in the RSC's production of Jean Genet's The Balcony in 1971. In the 1950s she appeared on television in many dramas, and in a chat show Rich and Rich with her husband. She starred as Winnie in the 1962 British premiere of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, and in 1977 as Lucilla Edith Cavell Teatime in Murder Most English.

Bruce played Aunt Dahlia in the 1990s production of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Other roles include Tilda in the Doctor Who story "Paradise Towers", Bea in the rag trade drama Connie and Granny Grogan in The Riff Raff Element. Among her film roles were Peeping Tom, where she played a prostitute murdered in the opening scene, and in 1964, she played Mary Lewis in Nightmare. In 1994, she starred in Honey for Tea, a short-lived sitcom.

Personal life

She was married and widowed twice, first to television personality Roy Rich, with whom she had two daughters, and second to actor Clement McCallin, with whom she adopted a son. McCallin died in 1977.

Death

She died in London on 19 February 1996 from undisclosed causes, aged 76.

Awards

• In 1962 she was given the Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards 1962.
• She was named Best Actress in 1963 by BAFTA British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
• She was awarded an OBE in the 1985 New Year Honours.

Theatre

Stage
Year	Play	Role	Notes
1949	Love in Albania	Susan Lawn	St James's Theatre
1962	Happy Days	Winnie	Royal Court Theatre
	Woman in a Dressing Gown		The Vaudeville Theatre
1967	Little Murders		Aldwych Theatre
1970	The Balcony	Irma	Aldwych Theatre
1980	Romeo and Juliet	Nurse	Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Radio

Radio
Year	Play	Role	Notes
1965	Host Planet Earth	Clare Stewart	BBC Light Programme
1977	Cry God for Harry!	Doll Tearsheet	BBC Radio 4
1983	When the Wind Blows	Hilda	BBC Radio 4
1983	A Mad World, My Masters	Courtesan's Mother	BBC Radio 3
1986	Too Long an Autumn	Maisie May	BBC Radio 4
1987	Kiss of Life	Dot	BBC Radio 4
1992	The Boy with the Cart	Mother	BBC Radio 4
1993	A Perfect Spy	Miss Dubber	BBC Radio 4

TV and filmography

Film & Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1938	Laugh with Me	Rose Dinwiddy	TV movie
	The Wooing of Anne Hathaway	Katharine Hathaway	TV movie
1943	Millions Like Us	Brenda	Uncredited
1944	They Came to a City	One of couple on hillside
1945	I Live in Grosvenor Square	1st Girl in Guard's Van
1946	Night Boat to Dublin	Lily Leggett
	I See a Dark Stranger	American Waitress	Uncredited
	Piccadilly Incident	Sally Benton
	Carnival	Maudie Chapman
1947	While the Sun Shines	Mabel Crum
	When the Bough Breaks	Ruby Chapman
1948	My Brother's Keeper	Winnie Foreman
1949	Marry Me!	Brenda Delamere
	Don't Ever Leave Me	Miss Smith
1951	Two on the Tiles	Janet Lawson
1953	The Final Test	Cora
	The Motorola Television Hour		"Westward the Sun"
1954	Douglas Fairbanks Presents	Emily	"Man Who Heard Everything"
1958	Law and Disorder	Mary Cooper
	Behind the Mask	Elizabeth Fallon
	Mary Britten, M.D.	Mary Britten	13 episodes
1960	Peeping Tom	Dora
1961	Sunday Night Theatre	May Sommers	"Nearer to Heaven"
	Sunday Night Theatre	Elaine	"The Wrong Side of the Park"
1962	Armchair Theatre		"Girl in a Bird Cage"
	ITV Play of the Week	Millie Crocker Harris	"A Lily in Little India"
	Zero One	Sarah Elkinson	"Stoneface"
	The Winter's Tale	Paulina	TV movie
	Sunday Night Theatre	Ethel Gibbons	"This Happy Breed"
1963	Armchair Theatre		"The Monkey and the Mohawk"
	Dr. Finlay's Casebook	Bridie Bell	"The Face Saver"
1964	Nightmare	Mary Lewis
1965	The Uncle	Addie Morton
	Armchair Theatre	Ellen	"The Lodger"
	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Pat Pendleton	"Give the Clown His Supper"
1966	The Wednesday Play	Betty Bradshaw	"Way Off Beat"
	ITV Play of the Week	Millie Crocker Harris	"The Browning Version"
	Knock on Any Door		"The First Day of Spring"
	Knock on Any Door		"The Dear Ones"
1967	The Girl	Miss Cashcart
	The Wednesday Play	Mollie	"Death of a Teddy Bear"
	Softly, Softly	Hilda Berry	"An Eye for an Eye"
1968	Sherlock Holmes	Saunders	"The Dancing Men"
	Late Night Horror	Mary Pearl	"William and Mary"
	The First Lady	Mary Tunnicliffe	"Mrs. Whatever"
	The Gamblers	Gertie	"Give and Take"
1969	The Virgin Soldiers	Nursing Sister	Uncredited
	The Wednesday Play	Ma	"Happy"
1971	A Family at War	Mrs Thomas	"Happy Returns"
	Budgie	Janey Baib	"Sunset Mansions or Whatever Happened to Janey Baib?"
1972	Country Matters	Mrs Holland	"The Mill"
	Thirty-Minute Theatre	The Wife	"Not Counting the Savages"
	The Man from Haven	Mary Balfour
1973	Cheri	Charlotte	5 episodes
	That'll Be the Day	Doreen
	Play for Today	Madge	"Jingle Bells"
1974	Bedtime Stories	Gertie	"Hansel and Gretel"
	Dial M for Murder	Kath	"Recording Angel"
	Alice Through the Looking Glass	The White Queen	TV movie
	Swallows and Amazons	Mrs Dixon
1975	All Creatures Great and Small	Miss Harbottle	TV movie
1976	Ubu roi	Ma Ubu	TV movie
	Crown Court	Angela Stacey	"A Matter of Honour"
1977	The Man in the Iron Mask	Queen Anne of Austria	TV movie
	Murder Most English	Lucy Teatime	4 episodes
	Centre Play	Auntie Kathleen	"Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes"
1978	Armchair Thriller	Sister Elizabeth	"Quiet as a Nun"
	The Devil's Crown	Matilda	2 episodes
	Play for Today	Mrs Hackett	"A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts"
	Play of the Month	Lady Bountiful	"The Beaux' Stratagem"
	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	Aunt Miranda
1979	BBC Television Shakespeare	Mistress Quickly	"The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, with the life and death of Henry surnamed Hotspur"
	BBC Television Shakespeare	Mistress Quickly	"The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth, including his death and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth"
1983	The Mad Death	Miss Stonecroft	three-part BBC television serial
	The Home Front	Mrs Place	6 episodes
	BBC Television Shakespeare	First Witch	"Macbeth"
	Farmers Arms	Mrs Casson	TV movie
1984	Weekend Playhouse	Margaret	"Winter Break"
	Crown Court	Angela Stacey	"Oddball"
1985	Connie	Bea	10 episodes
	Steaming	Mrs Meadows
1986	Screen Two	June Swift	"Time After Time"
	David Copperfield	Betsey Trotwood	7 episodes
1987	Doctor Who	Tilda	"Paradise Towers"
	The Secret World of Polly Flint	Granny Porter	3 episodes
	London Embassy	Madge Cowrie	"Tomb with a View"
1988	The Tenth Man	Madame Mangeot
	Little Dorrit	Duchess
	Worlds Beyond		"Home"
	Menace Unseen	Norma Trisk	3 episodes
	The Return of the Antelope	Mrs Henshaw	"Travelling Companions"
1990	Jeeves and Wooster	Aunt Dahlia Travers	"The Hunger Strike", "Brinkley Manor"
	Bergerac	Karen Markham	"In Love and War"
	Back Home	Lady Beatrice Langley
	Theatre Night	Old Woman	"Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death"
	Screen Two	June Swift	"Circles of Deceit"
	The Fool
	Antonia and Jane	Therapist
1991	December Bride	Martha Gilmartin
	Lovejoy	Mrs Jaglom	"Bin Diving"
	The New Statesman	Beryl	"Keeping Mum"
	4 Play	Sarah	"Finding Sarah"
1992	Goodbye Cruel World	Marjory	3 episode
	Growing Rich	Mrs Baker	2 episode
1993	The Riff Raff Element	Granny Grogan	TV movie
	Splitting Heirs	Mrs Bullock
	Riders	Granny Maxwell	TV movie
	CASUAL+Y	Carrie Springett	"The Final Word"
	Harnessing Peacocks	Amy Tremayne	TV movie
1994	Men of the World	Mrs Daff	3 episode
	Honey for Tea	Mary Harris	2 episodes
1995	Performance	Grandmother	"The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd"
1996	The Vet	Kath Paley	"Stormy Weather" (final appearance)

External links

• Шаблон:IMDb name
• Performances in the Theatre Archive University of Bristol
• Brenda Bruce filmography, timeout.com