Creator / Pamela Cundell

She'll do anything to get her hands on Jones' meat.

I was born in Croydon, and I come from a theatrical family, and I started my career in the chorus dressing up me legs! I wasn't really good enough because I couldn't keep in line with the others, so I thought I'd better go out and get a part. So, I did, and that was the start of it all."

Pamela Isabel Cundell, (15 January 1920 — 14 February 2015), was a British actress best known for playing Mrs. Fox in Dad's Army.

Her interest in acting came from her family, which was in show business. Early on, she attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, following which she appeared in repertory theatre. In 1957, she made her first TV appearance alongside Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine. She appeared in two episodes of Dad's Army's third series as Mrs. Fox, a role she would continue to play regularly until the end of the series in 1977.

Outside of her role in Dad's Army, Cundell had guest roles in many other Britcoms, including Are You Being Served?, Bless This House, Bread (1986), Goodnight Sweetheart, and Potter. From 1984 to 1986, she starred in Big Deal as Vi Box and from 2005 to 2006, she played Nora Swann in five episodes of EastEnders.

Later in her career, she got involved in amateur theatre. She was the President of the Harlequins Theatre Club and directed plays with her Dad's Army co-star Frank Williams.

She was married to fellow actor Bill Fraser (and starred with him in the first series of The Train Now Standing...) and died at the age of 95.

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Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:

Films

• Brighton Rock (1948) — Pierrot Artiste (Uncredited Role)
• Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968) — Woman on Embankment
• On the Buses (1971) — Ruby Wilson
• The Wicked Lady (1983) — Coach Passenger
• Never Rest (1993) — Mary/Mrs. Mop
• Run for Your Wife (2012) — War Widow
• A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) — Irene

Series

• The Army Game, unknown amount of episodes (1958-60) — Fat Alice
• Dixon of Dock Green, episode "Guilty People" (1966) — Mrs. Knight
• The Benny Hill Show, 3 episodes (1968-72) — Various
• Dad's Army, 13 episodes (1969-77) — Mrs. Mildred Fox
• Doctor in the House, episode "If You Can Help Somebody... Don't!" (1970) — Ward Sister
• Z Cars, 3 episodes:
  • 2 episodes^{show list}"By Bread Alone: Part 1", "By Bread Alone: Part 2" (1970) — Mrs. Whitby
  • "Tonight and Every Night" (1975) — Maggie Donovan
• The Train Now Standing..., 6 episodes^{show list}"Double Top", "Just Like Old Times", "Royal Flush", "Send Him Victorious", "The Tannoy", "It Never Rains" (1972) — Rosie
• Bless This House, episode "And Afterwards At..." (1974) — Peggy
• Are You Being Served?, episode "Cold Store" (1975) — Mr. Lucas' Customer
• Minder, 3 episodes:
  • "Poetic Justice, Innit?" (1982) — Juror
  • "Fatal Impression" (1989) — Woman Mourner
  • "Gone with the Winchester" (1993) — Marge (Uncredited Role)
• French and Saunders, 1 episode (1987) — Woman at Séance
• Bread, 1 episode (1987) — Woman at Police Station
• London's Burning, 1 episode (1990) — Mrs. Bainbridge
• CASUAL+Y, episode "Pressure! What Pressure?" (1991) — Mary
• The Borrowers, 6 episodes (1992) — Aunt Lupy
• The Bill, 2 episodes:
  • "Kith and Kin" (1993) — Mrs. Brett
  • "Debt of Love" (2001) — May
• The Return of the Borrowers, 2 episodes (1993) — Aunt Lupy
• Goodnight Sweetheart, episode "Fools Rush In" (1993) — Edna
• A Touch of Frost, episode "Widows and Orphans" (1994) — Mrs. Barrett
• The Choir, 2 episodes (1995) — Mrs. Monk
• The Detectives, episode "Sacked" (1996) — Granny-o-gram
• Holby City, episode "Private Lives, Public Faces" (2001) — Polly
• Doctors, 4 episodes:
  • 2 episodes^{show list}"Wars", "Any Drop Not to Drink" (2001) — Mrs. Lonsdale
  • "Falling Between" (2005) — Barbara Moore
  • "Maternal Instincts" (2009) — Amy Rodgers
• EastEnders, 5 episodes (2005-06) — Nora Swann

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