Jo Kendall
Acting • Born 1940-02-17 – Died 2022-01-29
Biography
Josephine Mary Robinson, better known by her stage name Jo Kendall (17 February 1940 – 29 January 2022) was a British actress and writer. She was known for her work on the BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which debuted in 1964, and for her role as Peggy Skilbeck on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (then Emmerdale Farm) from 1972 to 1973, in which she also spoke the programme's first line of dialogue in the inaugural episode. Kendall was born Josephine Mary Robinson in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, on 17 February 1940. After leaving Leicester she trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and gained her Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM).
Filmography
38 credits
Howards End
Movie • 1992
Annie
James and the Giant Peach
Movie • 1976
Glow-Worm / American Woman
Star Quality
Movie • 1985
Linda Copeland
Building Sites Bite
Movie • 1978
Mum
Horizontal Hold
Movie • 1968
Jane Hills
The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?
Movie • 1979
Mrs. Brown
The Remains of the Day
Movie • 1993
Publican's wife
Scum
Movie • 1979
Matron
A Sudden Wrench
Movie • 1982
Frank's wife
Bridge of Dragons
Movie • 1999
Lily
Mrs. Silly
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Lyng
The Unvarnished Truth
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Stuart-Dubonnet
Treasure Island
Movie • 1977
Sarah Hawkins
At Last the 1948 Show
TV • 1967
The Brittas Empire
TV • 1991
Mrs Dapping
The Uninvited
TV • 1997
The Bill
TV • 1984
The Goodies
TV • 1970
The Queen (voice)
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV • 1975
Broaden Your Mind
TV • 1968
Marlene Marlowe Investigates
TV • 1993
Shine on Harvey Moon
TV • 1982
Mrs. Fairweather
The New Avengers
TV • 1976
Nurse
Angels
TV • 1975
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
TV • 1970
Anne Stanhope
The Regiment
TV • 1972
Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Rose Godfrey
Grange Hill
TV • 1978
Mrs. Browning
The Good Companions
TV • 1980
Mrs. Joe
Emmerdale
TV • 1972
Peggy Skilbeck
Sense and Sensibility
TV • 1971
Charlotte Palmer
In Sickness and in Health
TV • 1985
Woman on Phone
Man About the House
TV • 1973
Podge Randall
Fortunes of War
TV • 1987
Landlady
The Edwardians
TV • 1972
Vesta Victoria
Sinister Street
TV • 1969
Mrs Ross
Sinister Street
TV • 1969
Miss Carthew
The Pallisers
TV • 1974
Adelaide Palliser