Barbara Flynn
British actress · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1948 · age 78
Barbara Joy Flynn is an English actress. She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War (1970-1972).
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Something wrong?A life in dates
Open All Hours: Inside OutFilm2023
Beyond ParadiseSeries, Anne Lloyd2016
The DurrellsSeries, Aunt Hermione2013
The Christmas CandleFilm, Lady Camdon2011
Celebrity Antiques Road TripSeries
Just HenryFilm, 2011Mrs Beaumont2010
Burlesque FairytalesFilm, Mrs. Argyle2008The Marchioness DisasterFilm, Eileen Dallaglio2007
CranfordSeries, Mrs Jamieson2006
Cracker: Nine ElevenFilm, Judith Fitzgerald2003
George Orwell: A Life In PicturesFilm, Narrator2002
The Forsyte SagaSeries, Emily ForsyteNight FlightFilm, 2002Moira1999
The EscortFilm, Kim's Mother1998
HornblowerSeries, Mrs Mason1997
The Vanishing ManFilm, Me Jeffries1993
CrackerSeries, Judith Fitzgerald1989
Agatha Christie's PoirotSeries, Mrs Allerton1986Day To RememberFilm, Judy1982
A Mother Like HimFilm, Jill1980
Standing in for HenryFilm, Heather1976
Open All HoursSeries, The Milk Woman1975
The Flight FundFilm, Angie1970
Play for TodaySeries, Monica Potter1948Born5 August 1948People around Barbara
Close ties
Kris Marshall Also in Beyond Paradise- Malcolm Bradbury Wrote Inspector Morse and Love on a Gunboat
Antonia Bird Directed Inspector Morse
Sally Bretton Also in Beyond Paradise
Dylan Llewellyn Also in Beyond Paradise
Felicity Montagu Also in Beyond Paradise
Tony Haygarth Also in Britannia Hospital and Hornblower: Duty
Zahra Ahmadi Also in Beyond Paradise
Danny Boyle Directed Inspector Morse
Tom Hooper Directed Elizabeth I (2005)
James Fox Also in 1864 and Death on the Nile
John Madden Directed Inspector Morse
Lisa Eichhorn Also in Inspector Morse and Cracker: Nine Eleven
Ole Bornedal Directed 1864
Stephen Campbell Moore Also in Burlesque Fairytales and Just Henry- Dudley Sutton Also in The Beiderbecke Trilogy
- Jack Gold Directed Inspector Morse
Andrea Lowe Also in Night Flight and Cracker: Nine Eleven
David Kirschner Produced Miss Potter (2007)
Herbert Wise Directed Inspector Morse
Ron Cook Also in Hornblower: Duty and Hornblower: Loyalty- Alastair Reid Directed Inspector Morse
Andrew Grieve Directed Hornblower: Duty (2003)
Liza Walker Also in Inspector Morse and The Escort
Known for
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Miss Potter 2006
Britannia Hospital 1982
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 2012
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 36
97 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
Photos 1
About this person
She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours (1976-1985), Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985-1988), Dr. Rose Marie in the BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice (1986-1988), Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker (1993-1995), and Mrs. Jamieson in Cranford (2007-2009). In 2021, she appeared in Doctor Who: Flux as Tecteun, a founder of Time Lord society and The Doctor's adoptive mother. Starting in 2023, she acted in Beyond Paradise, playing the mother of the detective's girlfriend. This included some episodes in 2024 where she was reunited with Peter Davison, her A Very Peculiar Practice co-star.
