Janet E. A. Henfrey (born 16 August 1935) is a British stage and television actress. She is best known for playing Mrs. Bale on As Time Goes By, which is still rerun in the United States on PBS stations, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the BBC Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective.
Foreign Body
As Landlady
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
As Alice
Swept from the Sea
The Weather in the Streets
As Lady Blanche
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
As Janice Waily
Chocky
As Cranky Woman
The Moonstone
As Mrs. Yolland
The Count of Solar
As Mlle Debierre
Cruella
As Society Maven
Persuasion
As Viscountess Lady Dalrymple
Dual Balls
It's All Happening
As April
Unfair Exchanges
As Teacher
The Treasure Seekers
As Governess
London Road
As Ivy
Fanny Hill
As Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited
Bernard and the Genie
As Miss Purse
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
As Dowager
The Fool
Deadly Obsession
As Kathleen "Kay" Calhaem
Jilting Joe
As Miss Doughty
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
As The Widow
The Man Who Knew Too Little
As Ms. Goldstein
Fairytale of London Town
As Elsie Grindell
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
As Miss Hardaker
Dragonworld
As Miss Twittingham
Metamorphosis
EverAfter
As Celeste
Bridget Jones's Baby
As Mavis Enderbury
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
As Miss Tillings
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
As Lucy
Blow Dry
As Aerobics Teacher
Mrs. Dalloway
As Miss Pym
Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
As The Adjudicator
The Tamarind Seed
As Embassy Section Head
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
As Julie
Jeeves and Wooster
As Miss Mapleton
Doctor Who
As Miss Hardaker
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Lovejoy
As Miss Frobisher
The Worst Witch
As Mistress Hecketty Broomhead
Oliver Twist
Martin Chuzzlewit
The Jazz Age
Young Charlie Chaplin
As Sister Mills
Doctor Who
As Mrs Pitt
Father Brown
As Vera Thimble
The Singing Detective
As Schoolteacher
My Uncle Silas
As Aunt Tibby
The Crown
As Vita Sackville-West
The Upper Hand
As Dorothy Cooper
Attila
As Palcharia
Tales of the Tardis
As Miss Hardaker
Tipping the Velvet
As Mrs. Jex
As Time Goes By
As Mrs. Bale
The New Pope
As Lady Brannox
Wolf Hall
As Lady Margaret Pole
Reilly: Ace of Spies
As Receptionist