Avis Bunnage

Avis Bunnage

​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.

  • Popularity : 1.175
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1923-04-22
  • Place of Birth : Manchester, England, UK
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Avis Bunnage Movies

  • 1965
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    A Study in Terror

    A Study in Terror

    6.3 1965 HD

    When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is...

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  • 1990
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    The Krays

    The Krays

    6 1990 HD

    The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and...

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  • 1963
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    Tom Jones

    Tom Jones

    5.916 1963 HD

    Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

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  • 1962
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    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    7.2 1962 HD

    A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance...

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  • 1967
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    The Whisperers

    The Whisperers

    6.4 1967 HD

    Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers...

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  • 1968
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    Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

    Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

    4.5 1968 HD

    Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a...

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  • 1962
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    The L-Shaped Room

    The L-Shaped Room

    6.7 1962 HD

    Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion....

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  • 1963
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    Sparrows Can't Sing

    Sparrows Can't Sing

    5.2 1963 HD

    Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up...

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  • 1978
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    Panic

    Panic

    7.5 1978 HD

    After being harassed by a couple of punks, a young woman picks up an old lady standing at the roadside in the rain.

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  • 1982
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    Gandhi

    Gandhi

    7.6 1982 HD

    In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...

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  • 1972
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    The Stumbling Block

    The Stumbling Block

    1 1972 HD

    Alfred decides to move with the times and improve his family business. However, he finds that it's bad enough to be up against strong-minded...

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  • 1981
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    Find Me First

    Find Me First

    1 1981 HD

    A TV play from Taste of Honey writer Shelagh Delaney. A chance encounter late one night in central Manchester reunites two estranged sisters-but for...

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  • 1960
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    Doctor in Love

    Doctor in Love

    5.5 1960 HD

    Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness...

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  • 1966
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    The Wrong Box

    The Wrong Box

    6.456 1966 HD

    In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

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  • 1978
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    Scully's New Year's Eve

    Scully's New Year's Eve

    8 1978 HD

    Scully invites his mates to gatecrash his mum's New Year's Eve party.

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  • 1985
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    Mrs. Capper's Birthday

    Mrs. Capper's Birthday

    1 1985 HD

    Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

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  • 1985
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    No Surrender

    No Surrender

    6.2 1985 HD

    It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and...

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  • 1960
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    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    7 1960 HD

    A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

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  • 1971
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    Everybody Say Cheese

    Everybody Say Cheese

    1 1971 HD

    Comedy play about a seaside photographer, Henry Hunter, who goes to Margate every year to work, staying with his friends Frank and Hylda. However, he...

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  • 1959
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    Expresso Bongo

    Expresso Bongo

    5.4 1959 HD

    A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

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  • 1965
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    Rotten to the Core

    Rotten to the Core

    6.2 1965 HD

    Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's...

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  • 1963
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    What a Crazy World

    What a Crazy World

    6.6 1963 HD

    Unemployed East End lad Alf Hitchens has an on-off relationship with his girlfriend Marilyn and a dream of hitting the big time in the music...

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  • 1980
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    Jessie

    Jessie

    1 1980 HD

    A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his...

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  • 1981
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    Virginia Fly is Drowning

    Virginia Fly is Drowning

    1 1981 HD

    Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when...

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  • 1969
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    In Loving Memory

    In Loving Memory

    6.8 1969 HD

    In Loving Memory is a British period sitcom set in an undertakers business that starred Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny. A pilot was transmitted in...

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  • 1978
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    The Mayor of Casterbridge

    The Mayor of Casterbridge

    5.5 1978 HD

    Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his...

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  • 1972
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    Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables

    1 1972 HD

    Anne of Green Gables is a made-for-television British mini-series directed by Joan Craft based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud...

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  • 1968
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    Cilla

    Cilla

    10 1968 HD

    A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.

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  • 1963
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    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    8.2 1963 HD

    The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for...

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  • 1965
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    Gideon's Way

    Gideon's Way

    6.8 1965 HD

    Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at...

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  • 1974
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    Rising Damp

    Rising Damp

    7.4 1974 HD

    Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.

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  • 1985
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    EastEnders

    EastEnders

    4.1 1985 HD

    The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End...

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  • 1972
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    The Frighteners

    The Frighteners

    8.5 1972 HD

    A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.

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