Patsy Byrne

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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: Patsy Byrne
  • Popularity: 1.612
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1933-07-13
  • Place of Birth: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Patricia Patsy Byrne, Patricia Byrne
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Patsy Byrne Movies

  • 1962
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    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard

    8 1962 HD

    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...

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  • 1990
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    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

    6.056 1990 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Britannia Hospital

    Britannia Hospital

    6.393 1982 HD

    Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...

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  • 1988
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    Blackadder's Christmas Carol

    Blackadder's Christmas Carol

    7.868 1988 HD

    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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  • 1974
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    The Gathering Storm

    The Gathering Storm

    7 1974 HD

    Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.

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  • 1971
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    Platonov

    Platonov

    1 1971 HD

    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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  • 1999
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    Blackadder: Back & Forth

    Blackadder: Back & Forth

    7 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    The Class Of Miss MacMichael

    The Class Of Miss MacMichael

    5.8 1979 HD

    A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.

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  • 1972
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    The Ruling Class

    The Ruling Class

    6.5 1972 HD

    When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman;...

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  • 1970
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    The Cellar and the Almond Tree

    The Cellar and the Almond Tree

    1 1970 HD

    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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  • 1986
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    Hotel du Lac

    Hotel du Lac

    4 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    As You Like It

    As You Like It

    1 1963 HD

    One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with...

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  • 1983
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    Floating Off

    Floating Off

    1 1983 HD

    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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  • 1992
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    Emily's Ghost

    Emily's Ghost

    4 1992 HD

    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,...

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  • 1996
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    The Gingerbread House

    The Gingerbread House

    1 1996 HD

    A 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother are dumped by their abusive mother and her boyfriend to spend a few days at the rambling country house...

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  • 2000
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    Kevin & Perry Go Large

    Kevin & Perry Go Large

    4.99 2000 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    The Treasure Seekers

    The Treasure Seekers

    6 1996 HD

    Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.

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  • 1988
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    Hanna's War

    Hanna's War

    4.7 1988 HD

    Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person,...

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  • 1983
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    The Return of the Soldier

    The Return of the Soldier

    6.2 1983 HD

    The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife,...

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  • 1993
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    The Higher Mortals

    The Higher Mortals

    1 1993 HD

    This movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the early 1990s recession, and makes use of metaphor and...

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  • 1998
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    Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    7.2 1998 HD

    In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

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  • 1985
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    Mr. Love

    Mr. Love

    5.2 1985 HD

    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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  • 1979
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    Tales of the Unexpected

    Tales of the Unexpected

    6.7 1979 HD

    A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and...

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  • 1992
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 1992 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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  • 1987
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    Watching

    Watching

    7.833 1987 HD

    A British television sitcom set on Merseyside that revolves around the relationship between Malcolm, a polite and friendly but dull man from...

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  • 1987
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    Inspector Morse

    Inspector Morse

    7.832 1987 HD

    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector...

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  • 1976
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    I, Claudius

    I, Claudius

    7.9 1976 HD

    Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors -...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1979
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    My Son, My Son

    My Son, My Son

    5 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Old Curiosity Shop

    The Old Curiosity Shop

    6 1979 HD

    The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor.

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  • 1993
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    Peak Practice

    Peak Practice

    5.5 1993 HD

    Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the...

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  • 1983
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    Blackadder

    Blackadder

    7.975 1983 HD

    Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle...

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  • 1994
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    Hard Times

    Hard Times

    1 1994 HD

    Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life.

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  • 1978
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.6 1978 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

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  • 1987
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    A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

    A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

    6.9 1987 HD

    Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter...

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  • 1988
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    A Taste for Death

    A Taste for Death

    4.667 1988 HD

    Sir Paul Berowne - a prominent Government Minister - turns to his old friend Adam Dalgleish following a series of threatening letters delivered to...

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  • 1983
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    Blackadder

    Blackadder

    7.975 1983 HD

    Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle...

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  • 1980
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    A Little Silver Trumpet

    A Little Silver Trumpet

    1 1980 HD

    A sad and sudden event brings to an abrupt end the happiness shared by Mrs Jessop and her younger daughter, Alison, in their cottage by the sea. One...

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