Angela Baddeley will forever be remembered as Mrs Bridges the cook in the television series “Upstairs, Downstairs which ran from 1971 until 1975 and is still popular to-day. She had a very distinguished stage career with occasional forays into film and television. She was born in 1904 and was the older sister of actress Hermione Baddeley. Her film debut in 1931 was in “The Speckled Band” and other films included “The Ghost Train”, “Quartet” in 1948 and “No Time For Tears” in 1957. She was due to make a series on Mrs Bridges when she died suddenly in 1976 at the age of 71.