Margaret Burton (actress)
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Margaret Burton | |
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Born | Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | 18 March 1924
Died | 23 November 1984 Hove, East Sussex, England | (aged 60)
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Actor and singer |
Spouses |
Margaret Burton (18 March 1924 — 23 November 1984) was an English actress who appeared in roughly a dozen British films between 1964 and 1985, including in Sex and the Other Woman (1972) and Secrets of a Superstud (1976), and in the TV series The Tomorrow People.[1][2][3]
Career
Burton trained at the Royal Manchester College of Music, and had a successful musical comedy career in the theatre, including as principal boy in pantomime at the London Palladium in 1954, and as Louella Parsons in Marilyn! the Musical at the Adelphi Theatre in 1983.[4][5][6]
On TV, she played Gordon's mother in the Last of the Summer Wine episode "Going to Gordon's Wedding" (1976), and appeared in four episodes of Coronation Street in 1980 as Poppy Watts.[4]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1972 | Sex and the Other Woman | Flora | |
1976 | Secrets of a Superstud | Aunt Sophie |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1962 | Harpers West One | Barmaid | Episode #2.10 |
1964 | Detective | Kath | Episode: "The Quick One" |
1971 | Z-Cars | Teresa O'Farrell | Episode: "Nobody Wins, Nobody Loses: Part 1" |
1973 | ITV Sunday Night Theatre | Landlady | Episode: "Free as a Bird" |
1973 | Orson Welles Great Mysteries | Secretary Miss Ford | Episode: "For Sale - Silence" |
1974 | Comedy Playhouse | Mrs. Kintoul | Episode: "Pygmalion Smith" |
1974 | South Riding | Madame Hubbard | 3 episodes |
1975 | The Tomorrow People | The Momma | "A Man for Emily" - 3 episodes |
1975 | Three Comedies of Marriage | Barmaid | Episode: "Feeling His Way" |
1976 | Last of the Summer Wine | Gordon's Mum | Episode: "Going to Gordon's Wedding" |
1978 | Send in the Girls | Ida Mawson | Episode: "Chickabiddy" |
1978 | Angels | Mrs. Harris | Episode: "Present Imperfect" |
1979 | Sally Ann | Mrs. Glendill | Episode: "Put Out to Grass" |
1980 | Coronation Street | Poppy Watts | 4 episodes |
1982 | Horace | Madame Henrietta | 2 episodes |
1983 | Being Normal | Shop assistant | Television film |
1985 | The Personal Touch | Street Singer |
References
- ^ "Margaret Burton". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ "Margaret Burton". aveleyman.com.
- ^ "A Man for Emily[23/04/75] (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Peter Sellers' secret love revealed". The Argus.
- ^ "Margaret Burton | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "Marilyn! (1983-03-Adelphi Theatre-London)". musicalsworld.be.
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