Elizabeth Bradley
11 movies · 10 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 20, 1922
- Died
- Oct 30, 2000 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
Biography
Elizabeth Bradley (20 May 1922 – 30 October 2000) was an English actress. She played Maud Grimes in the British soap opera Coronation Street.
Bradley was born Joan Abraham in Macclesfield, Cheshire, the daughter of a senior civil servant, and took her father's middle name as her stage surname. She started acting professionally at the age of 23.
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Bradley's played wheelchair-using pensioner Maud Grimes in Coronation Street from 1993 to 1999. The character was described as a battle-axe and was once called "the mother-in-law from hell". She filmed 476 episodes during this time. Bradley had previously played character Councillor Adams in the soap in 1978, but was credited then as Margaret Bradley.
She has also made TV appearances in London's Burning, The Bill, Casualty, Bad Girls and The Sweeney. Her film roles included Four Dimensions of Greta and The Flesh and Blood Show (both 1972) with director Pete Walker, and as the old woman who encounters a naked David Naughton at London Zoo in An American Werewolf in London (1981).
She was also a successful theatre actress, obtaining an Olivier Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role in a National Theatre production of Billy Liar.
Known for
Elizabeth Bradley: movies and TV shows
Acting (21)
- 1999
- 1992 Memento Mori
as Mrs Anthony
- 1992 Resnick: Lonely Hearts
as Vera Barnett
- 1990
- 1986
- 1984
- 1984
- 1982 Brimstone & Treacle
as Woman Passer By
- 1982 God Speed Co-operation
as Mrs. Burrows
- 1982
- 1981 London Is Drowning
as Mum
- 1981 An American Werewolf in London
as Woman in Zoo
- 1979
- 1979 Waterloo Sunset
as Nelly
- 1978
- 1976 No Hard Feelings
as Mrs Etheridge
- 1975 In This House of Brede
as Dame Margaret
- 1975
- 1972
- 1972 The Four Dimensions of Greta
as Mrs. Schickler
- 1965 Davey Jones' Locker
as Mrs Haddock