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