
Janet Henfrey
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.
Movie Appearances

Foreign Body
as Landlady
1986

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as Alice
1989

Swept from the Sea
1998

The Weather in the Streets
as Lady Blanche
1983

The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
as Janice Waily
2000

Chocky
as Cranky Woman
1984

The Moonstone
as Mrs. Yolland
1996

The Count of Solar
as Mlle Debierre
1992

Cruella
as Society Maven
2021

Persuasion
as Viscountess Lady Dalrymple
2022
Dual Balls
1997

It's All Happening
as April
1963

Unfair Exchanges
as Teacher
1985

The Treasure Seekers
as Governess
1996

London Road
as Ivy
2015

Fanny Hill
as Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited
1983

Bernard and the Genie
as Miss Purse
1991

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as Dowager
2016
The Fool
1990

Deadly Obsession
as Kathleen 'Kay' Calhaem
1992
TV Appearances

Jeeves and Wooster
as Miss Mapleton
1990

Doctor Who
as Miss Hardaker
1963
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000

Lovejoy
as Miss Frobisher
1986

The Worst Witch
as Mistress Hecketty Broomhead
1998

Oliver Twist
1985

Martin Chuzzlewit
1964

Young Charlie Chaplin
as Sister Mills
1989

Doctor Who
as Mrs Pitt
2005

Father Brown
as Vera Thimble
2013

The Crown
as Vita Sackville-West
2016

The Upper Hand
as Dorothy Cooper
1990