Gabrielle Blunt

Gabrielle Hilda Blunt
Gabrielle Hilda Blunt
Born	8 January 1919; Blean, Kent, England, UK
Died	10 June 2014 (aged 95); Denville Halle, London, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1940s–2001
Spouse	Julian Bond (1955–1972; div) Tony Thawnton (1941–1950; div)

Gabrielle Hilda Blunt (8 January 1919 - 10 June 2014) was a British actress. She had a very lengthy career on film and television mainly as a character actress.

Blunt was born in Blean, Kent, England, UK.

Blunt began her theatrical career in regional rep in the early 1940s touring Europe with the Entertainments National Service Association in 1945. The same year,she was seen in Vanbrugh's The Confederacy at the York Festival.

Blunt's first significant role was in the film Whisky Galore!. In the early 1990s she appeared in a documentary about the film Whisky Galore, which was later included on a DVD release of the original 1949 film.

She became best known however for her roles in British series, soaps or sitcoms, appearing over the years in Emmerdale, Happy Ever After, Shine on Harvey Moon, Roll Over Beethoven, an early episode of One Foot in the Grave as Mrs Birkett, a character which continued to be mentioned (but never reappeared) for almost a decade, Drop the Dead Donkey, Victoria Wood's film 'Pat and Margaret' and two episodes of The Thin Blue Line in the 1990s.

Aged almost 80, in 1998, Blunt toured the UK and Europe in Out of Joint's premiere of Caryl Churchill's Blue Heart, travelling to New York the following year to perform.

Blunt was married and divorced twice and had three children. Her first husband was the actor Tony Thawnton. Her second husband, Julian Bond, adopted her two children from her first marriage.

She continued to work in television until the early 2000s. Her final appearance on the small screen being in November 2001 in an episode of the series Heartbeat.

She at the age of 95 of natural causes in the actors' retirement home Denville Hall in London, England, UK on 10 June 2014.