Personal Info
Birth date
1918-07-07 (106 Years)
Day of death
1996-02-19
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Also known as
-Brenda Bruce
Biography
We dont have a biography for Brenda Bruce
Filmography
Casualty
6.1
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.Doctor Who
7.859
Overview:
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.BBC Play of the Month
5
Overview:
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.The First Lady
NYR
Overview:
The series starred Thora Hird as crusading local councillor Sarah Danby and was set around the fictional borough of Furness in Lancashire. Capitalising on the popularity of its lead actress, The First Lady was a down-to-earth series exploring the inner workings of local government.The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
Overview:
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.The New Statesman
7.5
Overview:
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.Bergerac
6.667
Overview:
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.The Wednesday Play
4.5
Overview:
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
6.429
Overview:
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.Budgie
7
Overview:
Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall . The show was produced by Verity Lambert, Rex Firkin was the Executive producer.Lovejoy
7.3
Overview:
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.Murder Most English
5.5
Overview:
1970s detective series based on the Flaxborough novels by Colin Watson. Starring Anton Rodgers as Detective Inspector Purbright and Christopher Timothy as Detective Sergeant Love, the series pays tribute to a long-gone England of heavy tweed jackets, dial telephones, typewriter ribbons and good old-fashioned investigation and deduction.Sherlock Holmes
6.4
Overview:
Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.The Riff Raff Element
5.7
Overview:
The Riff Raff Element is a 1990's British comedy-drama series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock, who also directed Dressing for Breakfast and episodes of The Bill and Bergerac. It was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 1994.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
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Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Jeeves and Wooster
8.1
Overview:
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.David Copperfield
4.75
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A miniseries adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic, following David Copperfield's life starting from his idyllic childhood and continuing through to adulthood.Men of the World
5
Overview:
Men of the World is a BBC sitcom which starred David Threlfall and John Simm.The Mad Death
6
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A French visitor to Scotland smuggles her cat into the country, sparking a terrifying outbreak of rabies which threatens to engulf an entire community.Connie
10
Overview:
After years of exile in Greece, Connie returns to England to lay claim to the family fashion business.Bedtime Stories
NYR
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Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist.Armchair Thriller
4.2
Overview:
Armchair Thriller is a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in two series in 1978 and 1980. Owing something to some of the off-shoots of the earlier Armchair Theatre, the new series used scripts adapted from published novels and stories. Although not properly a horror series it included several supernatural elements. Armchair Thriller was produced by Thames Television, but it included serials made by Southern Television. The format was of a twice weekly 25 minute episodes, usually screened on a Tuesday or Thursday at 20:00-21:00.Armchair Theatre
5.8
Overview:
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.Peeping Tom
7.4
Overview:
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.Late Night Horror
NYR
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A short-lived horror anthology broadcast in the United Kingdom weekly in 1968 from 11 April until 16 May 1968 on the BBC. After complaints that is was not suitable for audiences, the series was pulled, with five of the six episodes believed lost.Splitting Heirs
5.178
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A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.Acting
1995The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd as Grandmother
1994The Riff Raff Element (12 Episodes) as Granny Grogan
1994Men of the World (6 Episodes) as Mrs Daff
1993Harnessing Peacocks as Amy Tremayne
1993Riders as Granny Maxwell
1993Splitting Heirs as Mrs. Bullock
1992Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1 Episode) as Nurse (voice)
1991Performance (1 Episode) as Grandmother
1990The Fool as Unknown
1990December Bride as Martha Gilmartin
1990Jeeves and Wooster (3 Episodes) as Aunt Dahlia
1990Circles Of Deceit as Maisie
1990Antonia and Jane as Therapist
1989Back Home as Lady Beatrice 'Beattie' Langley
1988The Tenth Man as Madame Mangeot
1987Doctor Who: Paradise Towers as Tilda
1987The New Statesman (1 Episode) as Beryl
1987The Secret World of Polly Flint as Granny Porter
1986David Copperfield (10 Episodes) as Betsy Trotwood
1986Casualty (1 Episode) as Carrie Springett
1986Time After Time as June Swift
1986Lovejoy (1 Episode) as Mrs. Jaglom
1985Connie (13 Episodes) as Bea
1985Steaming as Mrs. Meadows
1983Macbeth as First Witch
1983The Mad Death (3 Episodes) as Miss Stonecroft
1981Bergerac (1 Episode) as Karen Markham
1979Henry V as Hostess
1979Henry IV Part 2 as Hostess Quickly
1979Henry IV Part 1 as Mistress Quickly
1978The BBC Television Shakespeare (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Mistress Quickly, First Witch, Hostess Quickly, Hostess
1978A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts as Mrs Hackett
1978Quiet as a Nun as Sister Elizabeth
1978Armchair Thriller (2 Episodes) as Sister Elizabeth
1977The Man in the Iron Mask as Reine Anne d'Autriche
1977Murder Most English (7 Episodes) as Lucilla Teatime
1977Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes as Auntie Kathleen
1975All Creatures Great and Small as Miss Harbottle
1974Swallows and Amazons as Mrs Dixon
1974Bedtime Stories (1 Episode) as Gertie
1973Alice Through the Looking Glass as The White Queen
1973Jingle Bells as Madge
1973That'll Be The Day as Doreen
1972Not Counting the Savages as Unknown
1971Budgie (1 Episode) as Janey-Baib
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Madge
1969The Virgin Soldiers as Nursing Sister
1968Late Night Horror (1 Episode) as Mary Pearl
1968The First Lady (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Way Off Beat as Betty Bradshaw
1965BBC Play of the Month (1 Episode) as Lady Bountiful
1965The Uncle as Addie Morton
1964The Wednesday Play (1 Episode) as Mollie
1964Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Unknown
1964Nightmare as Mary Lewis
1963Doctor Who (2 Episodes) as Tilda
1962Zero One (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Peeping Tom as Dora
1958Behind the Mask as Elizabeth Fallon
1958Law and Disorder as Mary Cooper, Blacky
1957Theatre Night (1 Episode) as Lily Loudon
1956Armchair Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Miss Cashcart, Gwen
1953The Final Test as Cora
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1, 1 Episode) as Miss Harbottle, Madame Mangeot
1951Two on the Tiles as Janet Lawson
1949Don't Ever Leave Me as Miss Smith
1949Marry Me as Brenda Delamere
1948My Brother's Keeper as Winnie Foreman
1947When The Bough Breaks as Ruby Chapman
1947While the Sun Shines as Mabel Crum
1946Piccadilly Incident as Sally Benton
1946I See a Dark Stranger as American Waitress (uncredited)
1946Night Boat to Dublin as Lily Leggett
1945I Live in Grosvenor Square as Girl in Guard's Van
1945What's the Next Job? as Helen
1944They Came to a City as WAAF (uncredited)
1943Millions Like Us as Brenda