Person
Janet Henfrey
Acting · Born 1935-08-16 · Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
Biography
Janet E. A. Henfrey (born 16 August 1935) is a British stage and television actress. She is best known for playing Mrs. Bale on As Time Goes By, which is still rerun in the United States on PBS stations, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the BBC Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective.
Known for
Doctor Who
Mrs Pitt
Doctor Who
Miss Hardaker
The Crown
Vita Sackville-West
Father Brown
Vera Thimble
Screen Two
Teacher
Cruella
Society Maven
Jeeves and Wooster
Miss Mapleton
The Upper Hand
Dorothy Cooper
Lovejoy
Miss Frobisher
As Time Goes By
Mrs. Bale
Filmography
- 2023Tales of the TardisMiss Hardaker
- 2022PersuasionViscountess Lady Dalrymple
- 2021CruellaSociety Maven
- 2020The New PopeLady Brannox
- 2019Sil and the Devil Seeds of ArodorThe Adjudicator
- 2019Sil and the Devil Seeds of ArodorThe Adjudicator
- 2018Dirty Little RascalsNan
- 2016The CrownVita Sackville-West
- 2016Bridget Jones's BabyMavis Enderbury
- 2016Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesDowager
- 2015London RoadIvy
- 2015Wolf HallLady Margaret Pole
- 2013Father BrownVera Thimble
- 2012Metamorphosis
- 2010Fairytale of London TownElsie Grindell
- 2009National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends WellThe Widow
- 2006The OmenMrs. Horton
- 2005Doctor WhoMrs Pitt
- 2002Tipping the VelvetMrs. Jex
- 2002The Basil Brush ShowAunt Quartermass
- 2001My Uncle SilasAunt Tibby
- 2001Blow DryAerobics Teacher
- 2001AttilaPalcharia
- 2000Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
- 2000The Nine Lives of Tomas KatzJanice Waily
- 1999Doomwatch: Winter AngelJulie
- 1998The Worst WitchMistress Hecketty Broomhead
- 1998Jilting JoeMiss Doughty
- 1998EverAfterCeleste
- 1998Swept from the Sea
- 1997The Man Who Knew Too LittleMs. Goldstein
- 1997Mrs. DallowayMiss Pym
- 1997Dual Balls
- 1996The MoonstoneMrs. Yolland
- 1996The Treasure SeekersGoverness
- 1995A Pin for the ButterflyMrs. Veverka
- 1994DragonworldMiss Twittingham
- 1992Deadly ObsessionKathleen 'Kay' Calhaem
- 1992The Count of SolarMlle Debierre
- 1992As Time Goes ByMrs. Bale
- 1991Bernard and the GenieMiss Purse
- 1991In Suspicious CircumstancesHester
- 1990The Fool
- 1990The Upper HandDorothy Cooper
- 1990Jeeves and WoosterMiss Mapleton
- 1989Doctor Who: The Curse of FenricMiss Hardaker
- 1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her LoverAlice
- 1989Young Charlie ChaplinSister Mills
- 1986The Singing DetectiveSchoolteacher
- 1986Foreign BodyLandlady
- 1986LovejoyMiss Frobisher
- 1985Oliver Twist
- 1985Unfair ExchangesTeacher
- 1985Screen TwoTeacher
- 1984ChockyCranky Woman
- 1984She'll Be Wearing Pink PyjamasLucy
- 1983The Weather in the StreetsLady Blanche
- 1983Reilly: Ace of SpiesReceptionist
- 1983Fanny HillLady in Intellegence Office (uncredited
- 1974Churchill's PeopleCharlotte
- 1974The Tamarind SeedEmbassy Section Head
- 1973Wessex TalesMary
- 1968The Jazz AgeFrau Tonn
- 1965Stand Up, Nigel BartonMiss Tillings
- 1964Martin Chuzzlewit
- 1963Doctor WhoMiss Hardaker
- 1963It's All HappeningApril
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