Anna Dawson

Known for ActingBorn 1937-07-27 (age 88)Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Born in Bolton, Lancashire, Dawson spent part of her childhood in Tanganyika, where her father worked. She attended the Elmhurst Ballet School and after training at the Central School of Speech and Drama she learned her craft by playing in repertory theatre companies. Dawson went on to star in several West End musicals. She featured in episodes of Dixon of Dock Green during the 1960s, The Benny Hill Show during the 1980s, and played Hyacinth Bucket's sister Violet ("the one with the Mercedes, sauna and room for a pony") in the final series of the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, though her character was only featured on screen briefly in four episodes. Dawson is married to former Black and White Minstrel Show soloist John Boulter.Read more

Movies & web series

Benny Hill Show

Benny Hill's World Tour: New York!

Gabrielle and the Doodleman

Keeping Up Appearances

The Kenny Everett Video Show

The Benny Hill Show

O Lucky Man!

Life Begins at Forty

If You Go Down in the Woods Today

Love Thy Neighbour

The New Statesman

Bloodbath at the House of Death

Blankety Blank

Benny Hill - Unseen

The Crowther Collection

Larry Grayson

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

The Girl from Starship Venus

Kenny Everett - The Complete Naughty Bits

Down at the Hydro

Granny Gets the Point