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Lynda Baron

Actress

Born - 24 March 1939, Urmston, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Died - 5 March 2022

Comely, raven-haired, bright-smiling English actress in a variety of (mostly comedy) film roles, but immortalised as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the long-running TV series Open All Hours. Born Lilian Ridgway, she entered films in the 1960s after TV and theatre experience: The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), Hide and Seek (1964), Hot Millions (1968), Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968), Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), Hands of the Ripper (1971), Tiffany Jones (1973), Yentl (1983), Carry On Columbus (1992), Diggity's Treasure (2001), Scoop (2006), You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger (2010), Run for Your Wife (2012) and Dream Horse (2020), her last. Her (second) husband John died in 2001.