Daphne Oxenford
Department: Acting
Biography
Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford was an English actress, known for her early stage roles, and later her radio and television work. She was the voice ("Are you sitting comfortably ...?") of BBC radio's Listen with Mother from its inception in 1950 to 1971. As spinster Esther Hayes, she was part of the original cast of Coronation Street.
Known For
Sweet William
1980
The Reluctant Dragon
1987
Dawson's Electric Cinema
1975
Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)
1990
The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?
1979
Who Pays?
1968
The Waiting Game
1967
Girl from the South
1988
Doctor Who: Dragonfire
1987
That'll Be The Day
1973
Prince William
2002
Jingle Bells
1973
All Creatures Great and Small
1975
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Very Models
1998
Fothergill
1981
Beloved
1976
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1969
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
1989
More Children's Summer Stories
1989
The Wind in the Willows
1984
To the Manor Born
1979
Doctor Who
1963
The Sweeney
1975
Shadows of Fear
1970
Fresh Fields
1984
How to be a Little Sod
1995
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Crown Court
1972
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Casualty
1986
The Royal
2003
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
1994
Heartbeat
1992
Legends
2006
Rising Damp
1974
The House of Eliott
1991
Midsomer Murders
1997
EastEnders
1985
To the Manor Born
1979
Never the Twain
1981
That's My Boy
1981
The Odd Man
1960
Man About the House
1973
The Carnforth Practice
1974
Victorian Scandals
1976
The Duchess of Duke Street
1976