Penny Morrell (4 February 1938 – 3 January 2020) was a British actress. She was married to the actor
George Cole until his death in 2015.
Death
Penny Morrell died at the
Royal Berkshire Hospital
The Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) is a large NHS hospital in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. It provides acute hospital services to the residents of the western and central portions of Berkshire, and is managed by the R ...
, Berkshire, England on 3 January 2020, aged 81.
She is survived by her children Tara and Toby and her grandchildren Harry, Amelia and Thomas.
Selected filmography
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Reach for the Sky'' (1956)
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Brothers in Law'' (1957)
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Lucky Jim
''Lucky Jim'' is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant ...
'' (1957)
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The Bulldog Breed
''The Bulldog Breed'' is a 1960 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom and directed by Robert Asher.
Plot
Norman Puckle (Norman Wisdom), a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, cannot seem to do anything right. After being rejected b ...
'' (1960)
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Make Mine Mink
''Make Mine Mink'' is a 1960 British comedy farce film directed by Robert Asher (director), Robert Asher and featuring Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques and Billie Whitelaw. The screenplay concerns a group of eccentric misfits who go o ...
'' (1960)
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Too Hot to Handle'' (1960)
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Out of the Fog'' (1962)
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Mrs. Gibbons' Boys'' (1962)
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A Matter of Choice
''A Matter of Choice'' is a 1963 British drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Anthony Steel, Jeanne Moody and Ballard Berkeley. The screenplay concerns two youths who accidentally kill a man.
It was one of a number of low budget Br ...
'' (1963)
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The Wild Affair
''The Wild Affair'' is a 1965 British comedy film written and directed by John Krish and starring Nancy Kwan, Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Logan, Gladys Morgan, and Betty Marsden. It was adapted from the 1961 novel ''The Last Hours of Sandra Lee'' by W ...
'' (1963)
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A Stitch in Time'' (1963)
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The Comedy Man
''The Comedy Man'' is a 1964 British kitchen sink realism drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff and starring Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price and Billie Whitelaw. It depicts the life of a struggling actor in Swinging London.
More later ...
'' (1964)
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Smokescreen'' (1964)
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The Early Bird
''The Early Bird'' is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom. It also features Edward Chapman, Bryan Pringle, Richard Vernon, John Le Mesurier and Jerry Desmonde. It was the first Norman Wisdom film to ...
'' (1965)
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The End of the Affair
''The End of the Affair'' is a 1951 novel by British author Graham Greene, as well as the title of two feature films (released in 1955 and 1999) that were adapted from the novel. Set in London during and just after the Second World War, the n ...
'' (1999)
Television credits (partial)
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Minder
A minder is the person assigned to guide or escort a visitor, or to provide protection to somebody, or to otherwise assist or take care of something, i.e. a person who " minds".
Government-appointed persons to accompany foreign visitors are of ...
'' - Daphne Mount
*''An Independent Man'' - Mrs Bamford
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EastEnders
''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the Ea ...
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Heartbeat'' - Mrs. Roberts
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ChuckleVision
''ChuckleVision'' is a British children's comedy television series created by Martin Hughes and the Chuckle Brothers for the BBC. It starred Barry and Paul Elliott as the Chuckle Brothers and occasionally their older brothers, Jimmy, and Brian ...
'' - Lettice / Fairy Godmother
*''Bramwell'' (TV mini-series) - Mrs. Landers
*''Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' (1998 TV film) - Rolliver's Landlady
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The Bill
''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 August 1983 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, '' Woodentop'', broadcast in August 1983.
The programme focused on ...
'' (1997) - Sally
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Five Children and It
''Five Children and It'' is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the '' Strand Magazine'' under the general title ''The Psammead, or the Gifts'', with a segment appearing each month from April ...
'' (1991 TV series) - Lady Chittenden
*''About Face'' (TV series) - Deirdre
*''Valentine Park'' (1987-1988 TV series) - Maggie / Claire's Mother
*''Stiff Upper Lip'' (1967)
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Theatre 625
''Theatre 625'' is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production a ...
: Simon and Laura'' (1966) - Janet Honeyman
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The World of Wooster
''The World of Wooster'' is a comedy television series, based on the Jeeves stories by author P. G. Wodehouse. The television series starred Ian Carmichael as English gentleman Bertie Wooster and Dennis Price as Bertie's valet Jeeves.
The s ...
'' (1966 TV series) - Rhoda
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Marriage Lines
''Marriage Lines'' is a British television sitcom first broadcast between 1963 and 1966. The series gave Richard Briers and Prunella Scales, its lead stars, a significant boost in their careers. At first titled ''The Marriage Lines'', the prog ...
'' (1965 TV series) - Patty
*''Orlando'' (1965 TV series)
*''Detective'' (1964 TV series) - Betty
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A World of His Own
"A World of His Own" is episode thirty-six of the American television anthology series ''The Twilight Zone''. It was the last episode of the show's first season and essentially comedic in tone. It originally aired on July 1, 1960, on CBS.
Opening ...
'' (1964)
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Maigret
Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created b ...
'' (1961 TV series)
*''Saturday Playhouse'' (1959 TV series) - Marlene Cheetah
*''ITV Play of the Week'' (1958 TV series) - Jean Smith
*''Shadow Squad'' (1957 TV series) - Isobelle Hughes
Further reading
* https://archive.today/20130129061047/http://mubi.com/topics/3994
* https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606269/filmoyear
References
External links
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1938 births
British actresses
2020 deaths