Acting

Janet Henfrey

Born 1935-08-16 · Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

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.

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