Patsy Byrne
Patricia 'Patsy' Byrne (13 July 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English actress, best known for her role as 'Nursie' in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm's domineering mother in the ITV comedy series Watching. Byrne was educated at Ashford County Grammar School. She studied drama at Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company playing parts such as Maria in Twelfth Night and Gruscha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Aldwych Theatre in the early 1960s. In the 1980s she also worked at Chichester Festival Theatre. Byrne starred alongside Tony Robinson in a Series 3 episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. She played ORD "Betty the Tea Lady" on the BBC children's programme Playdays. Other roles included appearances in I, Claudius (1976), Stealing Heaven (1988), Inspector Morse (1989), Les Misérables (1998), David Copperfield (1999) and Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), as well as numerous radio plays. Byrne performed in the 1990 BBC production of C.S. Lewis' "The Silver Chair" as the giant nanny in the city of the giants. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Les Misérables
as ToussaintIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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The Ruling Class
as Mrs. TreadwellWhen the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits...
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Kevin & Perry Go Large
as Old LadyWhen stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the...
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Blackadder: Back & Forth
as NursieWhat was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly...
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Britannia Hospital
as NurseBritannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a...
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Nursie / BernardAfter a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous...
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The Return of the Soldier
as Mrs. PlummerThe horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The...
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The Gathering Storm
as CookWinston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
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Mr. Love
as Mrs LuntAn fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
as Giant NannyEustace is sent to a horrible school and finds a friend in Jill Pole, who's also running from...
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Hanna's War
as RosieHanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who...
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The Treasure Seekers
as ElizaFive motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their...
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Emily's Ghost
as Mrs. CrabtreeEmily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves...
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Mrs. GreenA dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative...
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The Higher Mortals
as MatronThis movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the...
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Hotel du Lac
as Mrs. DempsterRomantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a...
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The Cherry Orchard
as DunyashaMadame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family...
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
as uncreditedThe Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in....
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Peak Practice
as Mrs. BurnsPeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as JeanA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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All Creatures Great and Small
as Mrs. HammondAll Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British...
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Inspector Morse
as Mrs. MaltbyInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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Heartbeat
as Martha CouttsSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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I, Claudius
as uncreditedAcclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies,...
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Blackadder
as NursieBlack Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as CookHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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The Old Curiosity Shop
as Mrs. NubblesThe Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was...
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Watching
as Marjorie StonewayA British television sitcom set on Merseyside that revolves around the relationship between...
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Hard Times
as Old WomanCharles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London...
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A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
as Mrs. PetticanThree elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the...
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