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Queenie Ashton
Queenie Ashton AM (190321 October 1999) born as Ethel Muriel Ashton was a British-born soprano and English and Australian character actress and comedienne. She had a long career, primarily on radio, although she was also a renowned theatre actress, a specialist in voice production and drama who added television and film performances to her impressive repertoire. She was particularly known for her role as "Granny Bishop" a character many years her senior in the long-running Gwen Meredith radio serial ''Blue Hills''.
==Biography==
Ethel Muriel Ashton was born in London, England in 1903. She was an accomplished ballet dancer, who started performing when she was fourteen. She appeared in musical comedy on the London stage (even appearing with playwright Noël Coward), and performed for Dame Nellie Melba in 1927 while travelling to Australia through the Suez Canal.〔Crocker, Patti ''Radio Days'' (with foreword by Queenie Ashton), Simon and Schuster 1989 ISBN 0-7318-0098-2〕
She played Budge's mother in "Budge's Gang", a segment of the ABC Children's Session (ca. 1941–45 and it was so popular it was made into a comic book). Most notably, she played the wife of Dr. Gordon〔 and the long-running role of Granny Bishop (a character many years her senior) in the radio serial ''Blue Hills'', for the entire 27 years of the serial's run (1949-76 - indeed, hers were the very first and last spoken parts). She also played this role on Australia's first television serial ''Autumn Affair''. In 1957 she appeared in a one-off television play called ''Tomorrow's Child''. Other television roles included ''Division 4'', ''Certain Women'' (as "Dolly Lucas"), ''The Restless Years'' (as "Jessica Metcalf"), and ''Mother and Son''. She was a semi-regular cast member of ''A Country Practice'' (as "Lillian Coote") and ''G.P.'' (as "Mrs Sculthorpe")〔Lane, Richard ''The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama'' Melbourne University Press 1994 ISBN 0-522-84556-8〕 film roles included Mama's Gone A-Hunting, opposite Judy Morris and Double Skulls, and also appeared in many television commercials most notably for Sara Lee. She was still performing in stage and cabaret plays and films in her nineties and was one of Australia's last great grand dames and one of the oldest entertainers still performing. She died in 1999, at the age of 95, after a successful 80-year career in the arts.
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