April Walker
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April Walker | |
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| Born | April Walker 1943 (age 81–82) |
| Education | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1962-2009 |
April Walker (born 1943) is a retired English actress.
Walker was born in 1943 in Sherborne, Dorset. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art between 1960 and 1962.[citation needed]
Career
Walker worked extensively in repertory and touring theatre before appearing on television in BBC TV comedy series such as The Two Ronnies, Fawlty Towers (as Jean Wilson, in an early episode in which a hotel proprietor, Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, seeks to stamp out suspected extra-marital liaisons on his premises), Yes Minister (as a journalist, who discovers that a Government Minister, whose wife is a friend of hers, has retained for himself a valuable vase presented during an overseas visit), Dad's Army (as a Second World War “land girl”), Morecambe and Wise, The Dick Emery Show, Terry and June, Sykes, and The Les Dawson Show.
Interspersed with the comedy were drama series which included appearances in Inspector Wycliffe, Anna Karenina, Minor Complications, Father Brown, The Prince and the Pauper, Judge John Deed and Waking The Dead. She has also performed on radio, including the last series of The Navy Lark, and in films such as The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Rhubarb Rhubarb and Shadow in a Landscape.
Walker's experience of touring took her to Canada and South Africa in 1979, with Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, and to the Middle East and Far East in 1990 with Tim Brooke Taylor in a Derek Nimmo production of Alan Ayckbourn's Table Manners. She has appeared in West End productions: Oh Clarence at the Lyric Theatre in 1968 (in which she played Jon Pertwee's niece), in Key For Two at the Vaudeville in 1982, Present Laughter at both the Aldwych Theatre and the Wyndham Theatre in 1996, and Brief Encounter at the Lyric Theatre in 2000.
