Penny Ramsey (25 June 1947 – 11 February 2009) was an Australian character actress.
Her work is featured in over three decades of classic Australian TV series. Her credits include ''
Prisoner
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'', ''
The Bush Gang
''The Bush Gang'' is an Australian children's series which first screened on the ABC in 1981.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 95 It tells stories of the Marsh family who are from a country town who move to th ...
'', ''
Matlock Police
''Matlock Police'' is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for The 0-10 Network (now known as Network 10) between 1971 and 1976. The series focused on the police station and crime in the Victorian town of Ma ...
'', ''
Homicide
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'', ''
Number 96'', ''
The Box'', ''
Division 4
''Division 4'' is an Australian television police drama series broadcast by the Nine Network and created by Crawford Productions airing between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes.
Synopsis
The series was one of the first to follow up on the enor ...
'', ''
Mrs. Finnegan'', ''
Riptide'' and ''
Anything Goes
''Anything Goes'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised considerably by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madc ...
''.
Filmography
Film
Television
Personal life
Her partner was the Australian actor
Rod Mullinar
Rodney Mullinar (born 1942) is a British Australian actor, noted for his roles on Australian television.
Biography Early life
Mullinar born in Hereford, Hertfordshire, emigrated to Australia in 1966, at the urging of an Australian friend in ...
, she was the daughter of
Cuthbert Ramsey and actress
Lois Ramsey
Lois June Ramsey (; 18 June 1922 – 22 January 2016) also billed as Lois Ramsay, was an Australian actress, best known for her regular roles on television series '' The Box'' and ''Prisoner''. She often played quirky, eccentric old ladies on ...
.
Ramsey died of unspecified
cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving Cell growth#Disorders, abnormal cell growth with the potential to Invasion (cancer), invade or Metastasis, spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Po ...
in 2009, aged 61.
References
External links
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2009 deaths
1947 births
Australian film actresses
Australian soap opera actresses
Actresses from Adelaide
Deaths from cancer in Victoria (state)
20th-century Australian actresses
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