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Pamela Isabel Cundell (15 January 1920 – 14 February 2015) was an English character actress.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pamela Cundell )〕 Her best-known role was as Mrs Fox in the long-running TV comedy ''Dad's Army''. She is a descendant of Henry Condell, one of the managers of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company of William Shakespeare.〔 Henry Condell also helped put together the first folio of Shakespeare's works after his death. ==Life and career== Pam Cundell was born in 1920〔 into a show business family and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before gaining experience in rep and summer shows as a stand up comic. She worked with many of the great comics of her time, including Frankie Howerd, Benny Hill and Bill Fraser, the last of whom she married in 1981 (he died in 1987). Making her first television appearance in 1957 with Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, she went on to appear in many popular television shows, including ''The Bill'', ''On the Buses'', ''Casualty'', ''Z-Cars'', and ''Big Deal''. Pam Cundell kept busy with theatre work and pantomime, and appeared in several feature films. Her most notable credits included ''Dad's Army'' as Mrs Fox (who married Clive Dunn's character Lance-Corporal Jones in the final episode), ''The Borrowers'', ''The Benny Hill Show'' and, in 2005–06, as Nora Swann in ''EastEnders''. She died at the age of 95 on 14 February 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LatestNews )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pamela Cundell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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