1. Elsie Noel Dyson was an English character actress.
10 Facts About Noel Dyson
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Noel Dyson's best remembered roles are as matriarch Ida Barlow, one of the original characters in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street, and Nanny in the sitcom Father, Dear Father.
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Noel Dyson initially performed in repertory companies around Britain, in Birmingham, Oxford and Windsor and elsewhere, before moving on to London's West End.
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Noel Dyson's first known TV credit came in a 1949 BBC production The Guinea Pig, and for the next decade or so she would appear, mainly in one-off supporting roles, in a number of TV programmes as well as a handful of films.
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In 1960 Noel Dyson was cast in the role of Ida Barlow in the newly commissioned Coronation Street set in a fictional working class district of Salford.
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Noel Dyson was written as a calm-natured, placid character who frequently had to act as mediator between her hot-headed husband and son Ken, whose upwardly-mobile aspirations were seen by Frank as a rejection of his family background.
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Noel Dyson appeared as John Hurt's mother in the 1983 film Champions.
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Noel Dyson's last credit was an episode of Heartbeat, broadcast posthumously in September 1995.
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Noel Dyson was married twice, to actor Kenneth Edwards, in 1949, and school teacher Major Harry Judge.
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Noel Dyson died of cancer on 29 June 1995, aged 78.