---
name: "Janet Dale"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/janet-dale"
fi1m_id: "janet-dale"
imdb_id: "nm0197711"
tmdb_id: 99180
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T11:59:16.240838+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Janet Dale

## Identity

Janet Dale

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/janet-dale
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** janet-dale
- **IMDb ID:** nm0197711
- **TMDB ID:** 99180
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197711/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99180

Actor. Born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Active:** 1993–1998
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197711/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99180

## Biography

Janet Dale was a British actor whose career spanned theatre and television for five decades. She trained at Bristol University, where she studied German and drama, and began her professional work in the 1970s with productions at the Library Theatre in Scarborough, including several Alan Ayckbourn plays.

Dale appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the award-winning 1982 production of *Nicholas Nickleby*. She received Olivier award nominations for her performances in *The Accrington Pals* (1981) and *The Merry Wives of Windsor* (1986), and played Queen Charlotte in Alan Bennett’s *The Madness of George III* (1991). On television she was credited as Auntie Jean in the 1993 BBC series *The Buddha of Suburbia* and appeared in series including *Midsomer Murders*, *Father Brown*, *The Bill* and *As Time Goes By*.

Dale was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and died in 2023.

*Sources: theguardian.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Vanity Fair* (1998), Fi1m 72, as Miss Briggs — [page](https://film.one/tv/vanity-fair.md)
- *The Buddha of Suburbia* (1993), Fi1m 74, Actor — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-buddha-of-suburbia.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Father Brown* (2013), series, as Freda Knight
- *The Mystery of Edwin Drood* (2012), series, as Miss Twinkleton
- *Waking the Dead* (2001), series, as Joanne Riley
- *The Last Train* (1999), series, as Jean Wilson
- *Vanity Fair* (1998), series, as Miss Briggs — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vanity-fair.md)
- *A Certain Justice* (1998), series, as Mrs Buckley
- *Kangaroo Palace* (1997), series, as Mrs. Macaleese
- *Kangaroo Palace* (1997), as Mrs Macaleese
- *Breakout* (1997), as Gwenda Irwing
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Betty Pringle — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *The Moth* (1997), as Alice Bradley
- *The Tenant of Wildfell Hall* (1996), series, as Mrs Wilson
- *The Vet* (1995), series, as Noreen Mulholland
- *The Buddha of Suburbia* (1993), series, Actor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-buddha-of-suburbia.md)
- *Peak Practice* (1993), series, as Jean Thurston, Mary Willett
- *Magic Grandad* (1993), series, as Teacher
- *Heartbeat* (1992), series, as Vera Hartley
- *As Time Goes By* (1992), series, as Doris
- *Soldier Soldier* (1991), series, as Mrs. Penn
- *The Wolvis Family* (1991), series, Actor
- *Taking the Floor* (1991), series, as Mrs. Wheeler
- *Chicago Joe and the Showgirl* (1990), as Mrs Cook
- *Nice Work* (1989), series, as Marjorie Wilcox
- *Prick Up Your Ears* (1987), as Mrs Sugden
- *84 Charing Cross Road* (1987), as Joan Todd (Mrs) Secretary
- *The Bill* (1984), series, Actor
- *The Road to 1984* (1984), as Eileen Blair
- *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby* (1982), series, Actor
- *Shine on Harvey Moon* (1982), series, as Mrs. Pelham
- *The Three Sisters* (1981), as Olga
- *Lies* (1978), as Mrs Stubbs
- *Travellers* (1978), as Agnes/Mary/Sales Rep's Wife
- *Pickersgill People* (1978), series, as Nancy J. Winpenny

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