Janet Henfrey

Janet Ethne Anne Henfrey (born 16 August 1935) is an English actress with a career spanning seven decades. She is a familiar face on stage and screen since the 1960s starring in a variety of British Television favourites. She is perhaps best known for playing Mrs. Bale on As Time Goes By, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the Dennis Potter television play Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965) and Potter's serial The Singing Detective (1986), also as a schoolteacher.