Pamela Cundell
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Pamela Cundell in May 2011
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| Born |
Pamela Isabel Cundell 15 January 1920 Croydon, Surrey, England |
| Died | 14 February 2015 (aged 95) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Bill Fraser 1981 - 5 September 1987 (his death) |
Pamela Isabel Cundell (15 January 1920 – 14 February 2015) was an English character actress. Her best-known role was as Mrs Fox in the long-running TV comedy Dad's Army.
She was a descendant of Henry Condell, one of the managers of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company of William Shakespeare. Henry Condell also helped put together the first folio of Shakespeare's works after his death.
Pam Cundell was born in 1920 into a show business family and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before gaining experience in rep and summer shows as a stand up comic. She worked with many of the great comics of her time, including Frankie Howerd, Benny Hill and Bill Fraser, the last of whom she married in 1981 (he died in 1987).
Making her first television appearance in 1957 with Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, she went on to appear in many popular television shows, including The Bill, On the Buses, Are You Being Served? Casualty, Z-Cars, and Big Deal. Pam Cundell kept busy with theatre work and pantomime, and appeared in several feature films.
Her most notable credits included Dad's Army as Mrs Fox (who married Clive Dunn's character Lance-Corporal Jones in the final episode), The Borrowers, The Benny Hill Show and, in 2005–06, as Nora Swann in EastEnders. She died at the age of 95 on 14 February 2015.
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