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Angela Thorne: To the Manor Born actress dies aged 84
Entertainment reporter
Actress Angela Thorne, best-known for starring in To The Manor Born, has died aged 84, her family has said.
She played Marjory Frobisher in the BBC comedy series, alongside Penelope Keith as Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton and Peter Bowles as Richard DeVere from 1979 to 1981.
Thorne also starred in the BBC comedy Three Up, Two Down, opposite Michael Elphick, from 1985-1989.
Her family said she died "peacefully at home".
Thorne was also the mother of actors Rupert and Laurence Penry-Jones. and had been married to the late actor Peter Penry-Jones, who appeared in two episodes of To the Manor Born in 1981,
A statement from Rupert said she died on 16 June, adding: "She was the beloved wife of Peter Penry-Jones, and is survived by her two sons Rupert and Laurie Penry Jones and her grandchildren, Florence, Peter, Giorgio and Delilah.
"We will all miss h
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Peter Penry-Jones
Welsh actor (1938–2009)
Peter David Penry-Jones (20 May 1938 – 11 March 2009) was a British actor. He was born in Cardiff and died in Anglesey.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Jones's television credits include: Colditz, The Professionals, To the Manor Born ("Connections in High Places"), Bergerac, Howards' Way, Kavanagh QC and Midsomer Murders ("The Electric Vendetta").[2][3] He worked with Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre.[4]
Personal life
[edit]The son of the Rev. David Penry-Jones, a Presbyterian minister in South Wales, in September 1967 in Westminster Jones married actress Angela Thorne,[5] and they had two sons, actors Laurence and Rupert.[6][7]
Jones died of bowel cancer in 2009, aged 70, in Anglesey.[8]
Filmography and television
[edit]- 1969 - Dance of Death - Lieutenant - Film
- 1972 - Love Story - Martin - TV Series, Episode: Third Par
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Angela Thorne
English actress (1939–2023)
Angela Margaret Leslie Thorne (25 January 1939 – 16 June 2023) was a British actress of stage, television and film having performed roles in World in Ferment (1969), Get Some In! (1976), The Good Life (1977), Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War and Heartbeat, The BFG (1989) as the voice of the Queen, Three Up, Two Down and Lassie (2005).
However, she was probably best known for playing Marjory Frobisher in To the Manor Born (1979–2007), and for playing Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis? (initially at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, for which she was nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the 1981 Laurence Olivier Awards, and subsequently for the video release).[1]
Early life
[edit]Thorne was born in Karachi, British India, in 1939. The daughter of an Indian Army doctor father, William Herbert Alfred Thorne, and a teacher mother, Sylvia (née Leslie), she spent the first five years of her life in Indi