Gabrielle Daye

Gabrielle Daye
Born(1911-10-02)2 October 1911
Manchester, Lancashire, England
Died5 January 2005(2005-01-05) (aged 93)
Essex, England
OccupationActress

Gabrielle Daye (2 October 1911 – 5 January 2005) was an English stage, film and television actress, notable for her TV role as Mrs. Pring on Bless Me, Father.[1] Other television appearances include Coronation Street (as Beattie Pearson, 1961, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1983–84), The War of Darkie Pilbeam (1968), Persuasion (1971), Survivors (Long Live The King, 1977), Dear Enemy (1981), Juliet Bravo (John the Lad, 1983), Ever Decreasing Circles (The Tea Party and The New Neighbour, 1984), Bleak House (1985) and A Very British Coup (1988).[2] She also appeared in the feature films 10 Rillington Place (1971), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! (1974), Cry Wolf (1980) and No Surrender (1985).[3]

On stage, she was in the original Royal Court production of David Storey's In Celebration in 1969 for director Lindsay Anderson; and she reprised her role in his film version in 1975.[4][5] She worked again for Anderson in the long running Ben Travers farce The Bed Before Yesterday at London's Lyric Theatre in 1975.[6]

  1. ^ "Gabrielle Daye - Obituaries - The Stage". 12 April 2005.
  2. ^ "Gabrielle Daye".
  3. ^ "Gabrielle Daye". Archived from the original on 20 April 2018.
  4. ^ "In Celebration - Lindsay Anderson". www.lindsayanderson.com.
  5. ^ "In Celebration (1975)". Archived from the original on 29 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Production of The Bed Before Yesterday - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.