Janet Henfrey
Acting • Born 1935-08-16
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.
Filmography
65 credits
Foreign Body
Movie • 1986
Landlady
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Movie • 1989
Alice
Swept from the Sea
Movie • 1998
The Weather in the Streets
Movie • 1983
Lady Blanche
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Movie • 2000
Janice Waily
Chocky
Movie • 1984
Cranky Woman
The Moonstone
Movie • 1996
Mrs. Yolland
The Count of Solar
Movie • 1992
Mlle Debierre
Cruella
Movie • 2021
Society Maven
Persuasion
Movie • 2022
Viscountess Lady Dalrymple
Dual Balls
Movie • 1997
It's All Happening
Movie • 1963
April
Unfair Exchanges
Movie • 1985
Teacher
The Treasure Seekers
Movie • 1996
Governess
London Road
Movie • 2015
Ivy
Fanny Hill
Movie • 1983
Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited
Bernard and the Genie
Movie • 1991
Miss Purse
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Movie • 2016
Dowager
The Fool
Movie • 1990
Deadly Obsession
Movie • 1992
Kathleen 'Kay' Calhaem
Jilting Joe
Movie • 1998
Miss Doughty
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
Movie • 2009
The Widow
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Movie • 1997
Ms. Goldstein
Fairytale of London Town
Movie • 2010
Elsie Grindell
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Movie • 1989
Miss Hardaker
Dragonworld
Movie • 1994
Miss Twittingham
Metamorphosis
Movie • 2012
EverAfter
Movie • 1998
Celeste
Bridget Jones's Baby
Movie • 2016
Mavis Enderbury
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Movie • 1965
Miss Tillings
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Movie • 1984
Lucy
Blow Dry
Movie • 2001
Aerobics Teacher
Mrs. Dalloway
Movie • 1997
Miss Pym
Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
Movie • 2019
The Adjudicator
The Tamarind Seed
Movie • 1974
Embassy Section Head
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
Movie • 1999
Julie
The Omen
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Horton
A Pin for the Butterfly
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Veverka
Dirty Little Rascals
Movie • 2018
Nan
Jeeves and Wooster
TV • 1990
Miss Mapleton
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Miss Hardaker
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
TV • 2000
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Miss Frobisher
The Worst Witch
TV • 1998
Mistress Hecketty Broomhead
Oliver Twist
TV • 1985
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV • 1964
Young Charlie Chaplin
TV • 1989
Sister Mills
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Mrs Pitt
Father Brown
TV • 2013
Vera Thimble
My Uncle Silas
TV • 2001
Aunt Tibby
The Crown
TV • 2016
Vita Sackville-West
The Upper Hand
TV • 1990
Dorothy Cooper
Attila
TV • 2001
Palcharia
Tales of the Tardis
TV • 2023
Miss Hardaker
Tipping the Velvet
TV • 2002
Mrs. Jex
As Time Goes By
TV • 1992
Mrs. Bale
Oliver Twist
TV • 1985
Martha
The New Pope
TV • 2020
Lady Brannox
Wolf Hall
TV • 2015
Lady Margaret Pole
Reilly: Ace of Spies
TV • 1983
Receptionist
The Jazz Age
TV • 1968
Frau Tonn
The Singing Detective
TV • 1986
Schoolteacher
Churchill's People
TV • 1974
Charlotte
The Basil Brush Show
TV • 2002
Aunt Quartermass
Wessex Tales
TV • 1973
Mary