- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- May 31, 1948
- Place of Birth
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Died
- October 19, 2014
Lynda Bellingham
Lynda Bellingham played many roles during her five-decade professional career, but became synonymous with one. "Being a mum making gravy was not quite how I had seen my career advancing," she said once. But between 1983 and 1999 that's what she did in 42 "episodes" of an award-winning TV ad. Since the early 1980s, her name was rarely mentioned in print without it being prefaced with "Oxo mum". During her career, though, she starred on TV as the vet's wife Helen Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small in the 80s and as one of two divorcees trying to forge a relationship in the 90s sitcom Second Thoughts, opposite James Bolam. On stage she was best known for playing the lead in a touring production of Calendar Girls between 2008 and 2012. She was also, for four years between 2007 and 2011, a regular member of the team on Loose Women, the daytime TV chat show. She had few regrets about ho…
Filmography
Too Close for Comfort
2012 · Mum
Odd One In
2010
Mister Eleven
2009 · Shirley
tvAll Star Mr & Mrs
2008
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Self
tvBonkers
2007
tvRobin Hood
2006
movieDevil's Gate
2004 · Marlene
tvMurder in Suburbia
2004 · Milly Goodman
movieThe Long Bank Holiday
2004 · Councillor Marjorie Balsam
tvNew Tricks
2004
One Life
2003
movieCelebrity Naked Ambition
2003 · Self (archive footage)
tvThe Last Detective
2003
movieBodywork
2001 · Poppy Fields
tvWaking the Dead
2001 · Mary Mantel
movieThe Romanovs: A Crowned Family
2000 · Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna
tvAt Home with the Braithwaites
2000 · Pauline Farnell
tvLoose Women
1999 · Self
movieDon't Go Breaking My Heart
1999 · Maxine
movieHey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998
movieThe Scarlet Tunic
1998 · Emily Marlowe
movieAn Audience with Ronnie Corbett
1997
tvMidsomer Murders
1997 · Jane Willows
tvFaith in the Future
1995
tvMartin Chuzzlewit
1994 · Mrs Lupin
Junior Masterchef
1994
Gibberish
1992
tvSecond Thoughts
1991 · Faith
tvThis Morning
1988 · Self
movieThe Vision
1987 · Mary Morris
tvFilthy Rich & Catflap
1987 · Ms Tomkins
movieDoctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
1986 · The Inquisitor
movieDoctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
1986 · The Inquisitor
movieDoctor Who: Mindwarp
1986 · The Inquisitor
movieDoctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
1986 · The Inquisitor
tvCasualty
1986 · Steph Yates
tvScreen Two
1985 · Mary Morris
tvSurprise, Surprise
1984 · Self
tvWogan
1982 · Self
movieRiding High
1981 · Miss Mott
Funny Man
1981 · Gwen
tvMackenzie
1980 · Ruth Isaacs
tvShoestring
1979 · Nicola
The Waterloo Bridge Handicap
1978 · Likely Lady (Miss Beamish)
The Pink Medicine Show
1978
tvAll Creatures Great and Small
1978 · Helen Herriot
tvAn Audience with...
1978 · Self
tvBlake's 7
1978 · Vena
tvThe Professionals
1977 · Betty Hope
Cottage to Let
1977 · Barbara
tvDon't Forget to Write!
1977 · Angela
movieStand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977 · Valerie
movieSweeney!
1977 · Janice Wyatt
movieConfessions of a Driving Instructor
1976 · Mary Truscott
tvYus, My Dear
1976 · Carol
tvAngels
1975
tvThe Sweeney
1975 · Nancy King
Tell Tarby
1973 · Nurse Norma Snockers
tvThe Misfit
1970 · Wee Jeannie
tvITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Nurse Mary Tiller
tvDoctor Who
1963 · The Inquisitor
tvZ-Cars
1962