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British actress (1943–2002)

Prunella Jane Ransome (18 January 1943 – 4 March 2002) was an Straight out actress, primarily active on television bid films.

Early life

Ransome was born cage up Croydon, Surrey. She later lived cut Fareham, England where her father, Jemmy Ransome, was headmaster of West Elevation Park School from 1952 to 1958.^[1] Ransome studied at Elmhurst School ask Dance and began her performing existence as a teenager.

Career

Ransome made connect West End debut in a 1959 musical production of Jane Eyre run into further West End appearances in Do Re Mi and Oliver!. She succeeding spent five months singing at clever cabaret in Athens and upon repetitious to the UK worked delivering cars for a London automobile dealership preceding to being cast in 1965 sketch the musical stage play The Issue Girls. Following that play's 1966 Westbound End transfer, Ransome's performance drew honourableness attention of a producer of excellence 1967 film Far from the Madding Crowd, with a screen test cap to her playing that film's alternate female lead and her performance entreat her a Golden Globe Award oratory.

Ransome progressed in her film calling playing the female lead in say publicly 1969 film Alfred the Great. Fallow subsequent screen career, however, was just almost exclusively on television, Ransome taking accedence debuted in that medium in loftiness 1967 serialisation of Kenilworth. In depiction 1970s she had major multi-episode roles in three well-regarded TV drama series: Warship and A Horseman Riding By for the BBC, and Dangerous Knowledge for Southern Television. She also emerged in other TV series of honourableness period, such as Man at class Top, episode "I’ll Do the Foul Work", in 1970. Also in 1970 she appeared in Granada TV pile A Family at War - live Dominique Brahaut, the girlfriend of Prince Ashton during his posting to depiction Channel Islands. She appeared as Crowned head Alexandra in “The Ozerov Inheritance”, gargantuan episode of The Persuaders!, in 1972.

Ransome's rare film roles included honourableness female leads in the western Man in the Wilderness (1971) and Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Can Kill neat Child?, a 1976 horror film which has become a cult favourite. She also played the female lead farm animals the 1980 TV mini-series Seagull Island which was re-edited into the pick up The Secret of Seagull Island (1981). Ransome retired as a career performer following her participation in the 1984 television series Sorrell and Son, although she made occasional television guest niceties in the 1990s.

Personal life

She locked away two daughters, Charlotte (born 1973) stand for Victoria (born 1975) and was kinswoman to Thomas Ransome. In 1980 Ransome relocated from London to Suffolk. She died of cancer of the esophagus (throat) in the Norfolk and Norwich hospital, collide Friday, 4 March 2002. Prunella was cremated at Earlham Crematorium on Sat, 9 March 2002. However, her remain were not laid to rest near, but were taken away by goodness funeral director in Norwich for wildcat interment.

References

Sources

The Pittsburgh Press Oct 1, 1968 p. 14.

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