Jean Boht
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Jean Boht (born Jean Dance) was an English actress. She was most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's comedy Bread. In a career spanning from 1971 to the 2010s, she appeared in such productions as Softly, Softly (1971), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978), Juliet Bravo in the mid 1980s, and most recently in 2004, Mothers and Daughters. In 1989, she was the subject of This Is Your Life. She was married to composer Carl Davis, and they had two daughters. She was a pupil at Wirral Grammar School for Girls. In 2006 she starred on-stage in 'Embers' along with Jeremy Irons at the Duke of York Theatre in London. In 2008 she made a guest appearance in BBC daytime soap Doctors. She starred in Chris Shepherd's 2010 award winning film Bad Night For The Blues. She obtained the name Boht from her first marriage to Bill Boht at that time Manager of the Ritz cinema in Birkenhead.
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Credits
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)
as Madame Joliet
Jim's Gift (1996)
as Mrs. Leaver
Liberation (1994)
as Narrator
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
as Aunty Nell
Where Adam Stood (1976)
as Mary Teague
The Girl in a Swing (1988)
as Mrs. Taswell
The Big Game (1995)
as Mrs. Harper
£60 Single, £100 Return (1971)
as Mrs Potter
The Asylum (2000)
as Mrs. Brindle
Bad Night for the Blues (2010)
as Glad
Sons and Lovers (1981)
as Mrs Leivers
Arthur's Hallowed Ground (1984)
as Betty
Eskimos Do It (1988)
as Mrs. Bing
Mothers and Daughters (2004)
as Mary