Daphne Oxenford
Acting • Born 1919-10-31 – Died 2012-12-21
Biography
Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford was an English actress, known for her early stage roles, and later her radio and television work. She was the voice ("Are you sitting comfortably ...?") of BBC radio's Listen with Mother from its inception in 1950 to 1971. As spinster Esther Hayes, she was part of the original cast of Coronation Street.
Filmography
46 credits
Sweet William
Movie • 1980
Mrs. Walton
The Reluctant Dragon
Movie • 1987
Mother (voice)
Dawson's Electric Cinema
Movie • 1975
Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)
Movie • 1990
Self (segment "Smalltown Boy")
The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?
Movie • 1979
Miss Garton
Who Pays?
Movie • 1968
Sheila Bannister
The Waiting Game
Movie • 1967
Miss Bannister
Girl from the South
Movie • 1988
Grandmother
Doctor Who: Dragonfire
Movie • 1987
Archivist
That'll Be The Day
Movie • 1973
Mrs Sutcliffe
Prince William
Movie • 2002
Queen Mother
Jingle Bells
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Johnson
All Creatures Great and Small
Movie • 1975
Mrs. Pumphrey
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Very Models
Movie • 1998
Narrator (voice)
Fothergill
Movie • 1981
Invalid Lady
Beloved
Movie • 1976
Ellen
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Movie • 1969
Lady In Garden (uncredited)
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
Movie • 1989
Girl Hedgehog (voice)
More Children's Summer Stories
Movie • 1989
Fieldmice (voice)
The Wind in the Willows
Movie • 1984
Girl Rabbit (voice)
To the Manor Born
TV • 1979
Mrs. Polouvicka
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Archivist
The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Mrs. Rosier
Shadows of Fear
TV • 1970
Mrs. Tindall
Fresh Fields
TV • 1984
Miss Denham
How to be a Little Sod
TV • 1995
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
TV • 1996
Mrs. Willoughby
Crown Court
TV • 1972
Gladys Kiteley
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
TV • 1996
Mayoress
Casualty
TV • 1986
Mrs. Johnson
The Royal
TV • 2003
Mrs. Silverwood
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
TV • 1994
Customer
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Enid Bakewell
Legends
TV • 2006
Self
Rising Damp
TV • 1974
Announcer
The House of Eliott
TV • 1991
Mrs Dodds
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Muriel
EastEnders
TV • 1985
Alice Dutton
To the Manor Born
TV • 1979
Mrs. Patterson
Never the Twain
TV • 1981
Mrs Scott
That's My Boy
TV • 1981
TV Voice (voice)
The Odd Man
TV • 1960
Woman (voice)
Man About the House
TV • 1973
Mrs Plummer
The Carnforth Practice
TV • 1974
Marion Douglas
Victorian Scandals
TV • 1976
Ellen
The Duchess of Duke Street
TV • 1976
Miss Dean