Avis Bunnage

Known for ActingBorn 1923-04-22Died 1990-10-04Manchester, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Jessie

Espionage

Cilla

Yesterday's Dreams

Scully's New Year's Eve

The Frighteners

The Human Jungle

Everybody Say Cheese

Gandhi

Panic

Rising Damp

Seven of One

Close to Home

Theatre 625

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Playhouse

Gideon's Way

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

The Mayor of Casterbridge

In Loving Memory

No Surrender

The L-Shaped Room

No Love for Johnnie

Rotten to the Core

The Whisperers

The Wrong Box

What a Crazy World

The Krays

No Strings

A Study in Terror

Tom Jones

Armchair Theatre

The Fosters

Doctor in Love

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

Sparrows Can't Sing

Expresso Bongo

Mrs Capper's Birthday

Find Me First

Virginia Fly is Drowning

The Stumbling Block

The Disappearing Man

Anne of Green Gables

Baker's Half-Dozen

Drama 61-67