Patsy Byrne
Patricia 'Patsy' Byrne (13 July 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English actress, best known for her role as 'Nursie' in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm's domineering mother in the ITV comedy series Watching.
Byrne was educated at Ashford County Grammar School. She studied drama at Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company playing parts such as Maria in Twelfth Night and Gruscha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Aldwych Theatre in the early 1960s. In the 1980s she also worked at Chichester Festival Theatre.
Byrne starred alongside Tony Robinson in a Series 3 episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. She played ORD "Betty the Tea Lady" on the BBC children's programme Playdays. Other roles included appearances in I, Claudius (1976), Stealing Heaven (1988), Inspector Morse (1989), Les Misérables (1998), David Copperfield (1999) and Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), as well as numerous radio plays. Byrne performed in the 1990 BBC production of C.S. Lewis' "The Silver Chair" as the giant nanny in the city of the giants.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6402 |
| Birthday | 1933-07-13 |
| Place of Birth | Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Patricia Patsy Byrne, Patricia Byrne, |
1962
The Cherry Orchard
8/1
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The Cherry Orchard
1990
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
6.4/9
Eustace is sent to a horrible school and finds a friend in Jill Pole, who's also running from bullies and looking for a place to hide. The two of them...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
1982
Britannia Hospital
6.2/69
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Britannia Hospital
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
7.6/27
After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1974
The Gathering Storm
7/3
Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
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The Gathering Storm
1971
Platonov
0/0
The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russian Don Juan except that he himself doesn't seek to...
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Platonov
1999
Blackadder: Back & Forth
6.986/182
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and h...
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Blackadder: Back & Forth
1979
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
4.8/5
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1972
The Ruling Class
6.42/94
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The Ruling Class
1970
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
0/0
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed...
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1986
Hotel du Lac
3/3
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by obse...
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Hotel du Lac
1963
As You Like It
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One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with joy by a...
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As You Like It
1983
Floating Off
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Businessman Jack Humpage and his secretary Janice try to make an unconventional deal with a merchant bank before Humpage's son finds out.
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Floating Off
1992
Emily's Ghost
4/1
Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and...
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Emily's Ghost
1996
The Gingerbread House
0/0
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The Gingerbread House
2000
Kevin & Perry Go Large
4.965/156
When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to bec...
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Kevin & Perry Go Large
1996
The Treasure Seekers
5.3/6
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
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The Treasure Seekers
1988
Hanna's War
4.7/3
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Hanna's War
1983
The Return of the Soldier
6.2/21
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The Return of the Soldier
1993
The Higher Mortals
0/0
This movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the early 1990s recession, and makes use of metaphor and an...
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The Higher Mortals
1998
Les Misérables
7.212/671
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Les Misérables
1986
Mr. Love
4.4/5
An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
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Mr. Love
1988
Stealing Heaven
6.1/16
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixtee...
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Stealing Heaven
2008
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
7.8/11
To mark the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of Blackadder in 1983, the iconic cast of the much-loved sitcom appear together in a documen...
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Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
1972
The Alf Garnett Saga
4.5/6
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home'...
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