
Janet Henfrey
Department: Acting
Biography
Janet E. A. Henfrey (born 16 August 1935) is a British stage and television actress. She is best known for playing Mrs. Bale on As Time Goes By, which is still rerun in the United States on PBS stations, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the BBC Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective.
Known For

Foreign Body
1986

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989

Swept from the Sea
1998

The Weather in the Streets
1983

The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
2000

Chocky
1984

The Moonstone
1996

The Count of Solar
1992

Cruella
2021

Persuasion
2022

Dual Balls
1997

It's All Happening
1963

Unfair Exchanges
1985

The Treasure Seekers
1996

London Road
2015

Fanny Hill
1983

Bernard and the Genie
1991

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016

The Fool
1990

Deadly Obsession
1992

Jilting Joe
1998

National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
2009

The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997

Fairytale of London Town
2010

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
1989

Dragonworld
1994

Metamorphosis
2012

EverAfter
1998

Bridget Jones's Baby
2016

Stand Up, Nigel Barton
1965

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984

Blow Dry
2001

Mrs. Dalloway
1997

Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
2019

The Tamarind Seed
1974

Doomwatch: Winter Angel
1999

The Omen
2006

A Pin for the Butterfly
1995

Dirty Little Rascals
2018

Jeeves and Wooster
1990

Doctor Who
1963

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000

Lovejoy
1986

The Worst Witch
1998

Oliver Twist
1985

Martin Chuzzlewit
1964

Young Charlie Chaplin
1989

Doctor Who
2005

Father Brown
2013

My Uncle Silas
2001

The Crown
2016

The Upper Hand
1990

Attila
2001

Tales of the Tardis
2023

Tipping the Velvet
2002

As Time Goes By
1992

Oliver Twist
1985

The New Pope
2020

Wolf Hall
2015

Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983

The Jazz Age
1968

The Singing Detective
1986

Churchill's People
1974

The Basil Brush Show
2002

Wessex Tales
1973

Screen Two
1985