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Name
Patsy Byrne

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1933-07-13

Deathday
2014-06-17 (81 years old)

Place of Birth
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK

Biography

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.

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1962 The Cherry Orchard as Dunyasha
1990 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair as Giant Nanny
1982 Britannia Hospital as Nurse
1988 Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Nursie / Bernard
1974 The Gathering Storm as Cook
1971 Platonov as Sasha
1999 Blackadder: Back & Forth as Nursie
1978 The Class Of Miss MacMichael as Mrs. Green
1972 The Ruling Class as Mrs. Treadwell
1970 The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1986 Hotel du Lac as Mrs. Dempster
1963 As You Like It as Audrey
1983 Floating Off as Lady on train
1992 Emily's Ghost as Mrs. Crabtree
1996 The Gingerbread House as Mrs. Nesbit
2000 Kevin & Perry Go Large as Old Lady
1996 The Treasure Seekers as Eliza
1988 Hanna's War as Rosie
1983 The Return of the Soldier as Mrs. Plummer
1993 The Higher Mortals as Matron
1998 Les Misérables as Toussaint
1986 Mr. Love as Mrs Lunt
1988 Stealing Heaven
2008 Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
1972 The Alf Garnett Saga as Mrs. Frewin

1979 Tales of the Unexpected ( 1 episode ) as Jean
1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Martha Coutts
1987 Watching ( 50 episodes ) as Marjorie Stoneway
1987 Inspector Morse ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Maltby
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Cook
1979 My Son, My Son ( 8 episodes )
1993 Peak Practice ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Burns
1983 Blackadder ( 6 episodes ) as Nursie
1994 Hard Times ( 4 episodes ) as Old Woman
1978 All Creatures Great and Small ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Hammond
1987 A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Pettican
1988 A Taste for Death ( 2 episodes ) as Millicent Gentle
1980 A Little Silver Trumpet ( 5 episodes ) as Mrs. Cleaver
1999 David Copperfield ( 2 episodes ) as Mrs. Gummidge
1989 Maid Marian and Her Merry Men ( 1 episode ) as Marian's Mum
1988 The Chronicles of Narnia ( 2 episodes ) as Giant Nanny
1970 Doomwatch ( 1 episode ) as Mary Franklin
1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Sasha Platonov (née Triletski)
1985 In Sickness and in Health ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Jones
1979 The Old Curiosity Shop ( 4 episodes ) as Mrs Nubbles
1976 I, Claudius ( 1 episode ) as Martina
1978 Hazell ( 1 episode ) as Mrs Dobson
1986 Worlds Beyond ( 1 episode ) as Mrs Simmons
1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Dempster
1963 Espionage ( 1 episode ) as Maid
1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Marenka
1984 Miracles Take Longer ( 34 episodes ) as Betty Hackforth

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