Fanny Carby

Fanny Carby (2 February 1925 – 20 September 2002) was a British actress. She had two different roles on Coronation Street: she played Mary Hornigold in 1965, then in 1987 she took the role of Vera Duckworth's domineering mother, Amy Burton, a role she played into the following year. Fanny's other credits include Street spin-off Pardon the Expression, On The Buses, Sykes, The Bill, In Sickness and in Health and Goodnight Sweetheart.

Appearances

• Operation Diplomat as Mrs. Dobson (1952; Episode:- Under Suspicion)
• The Pickwick Papers as Mary (1952; Episode:- The Fourth Paper)
• Meet Mr. Lucifer as Lady in Street (1952; Uncredited)
• The Million Pound Note as Nursemaid in Belgrave Square (1954; Uncredited)
• Father Brown as Prostitute in Police Van (1954; Uncredited)
• Othello (1955)
• Lost as Nanny in the Park (1956; Uncredited)
• Theatre Royal as Neighbour (1956; Episode:- Just Off Piccadilly)
• Women Without Men as Brooker (1956; Uncredited)
• Blonde Bait as Brooker (1956; Uncredited)
• ITV Play of the Week as Nurse (1956; Episode:- One)
• Rheinegold Theatre (1956; Episode:- Homecoming)
• The Crime of the Century as Waitress (1956; Episode:- Major Trump)
• The Secret Place as Woman with Pram (1957; Uncredited)
• Nathaniel Titlark as Sally the barmaid (1957; Episode:- O Woodman, Spare That Tree)
• BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952; Episode:- Love and Mr. Lewisham); as Gwen (1952; Episode:- Black Limelight); as Agnes (1952; Episode:- The Cathedral); as a Party Guest (1955; Episode:- The Makepeace Story #3: Family Business); as Woman of Troy (1958; Episode:- Television World Theatre: Women of Troy); as a Prostitute (1959; Episode:- The Sleeping Clergyman)
• The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff as Doll Tearsheet (1959; 2 episodes)
• Love and Mr. Lewisham as Girl Student (1959; Parts 2, 3 and 5)
• The Never Never Murder as Mrs. Phipps (1961)
• The Kitchen as Winnie (1961)
• The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre as Mrs. Wall (1962; Episode:- The Share Out)
• The Traitors (1962)
• Some People as Johnnie's Mother (1962)
• It's a Living as Bertha (1962; 5 episodes)
• Maigret (1962; Episode:- Seven Little Crosses)
• Sparrows Can't Sing as Lil (1963)
• What a Crazy World as Dolly (1963)
• Crossroads as Rene Haines (1964)
• Pardon the Expression as Mrs. Field (1965; Episode:- Little Boy Lost); as Fiona McBride (1966; Episode:- Rustle of Spring)
• The Idol as Barmaid (1966)
• Out of the Unknown as Miss Mitkin (1966; Episode:- Tunnel Under the World)
• The Family Way as Mrs. Stone (1966)
• Adam Adamant Lives! as Dolly (1967; Episode:- Conspiracy of Death)
• Till Death Us Do Part (1967; Episode:- A Woman's Place Is In the Home)
• How I Won the War as Mrs. Clapper (1967)
• The White Bus as a Supporter (1967)
• Mrs Thursday as Agnes Blakey (1967; 3 episodes)
• Journey to the Unknown as Housekeeper (1968; 1 episode and uncredited)
• Oh! What a Lovely War as Mill Girl (1969)

External links

• Fanny Carby at the Internet Movie Database