Lynda Baron

Lynda Baron
Birth date:	24 March 1939
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Captain Wrack, Val
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1966, 1983, 2012
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Open All Hours, Crossroads, Yentl, Last of the Summer Wine, The Two Ronnies, KYTV, The Upper Hand, Come Outside, Coronation Street, dinnerladies, The Bill, Fat Friends, Colour Me Kubrick, Eastenders, Doctors, Casualty, The Road to Coronation Street, The Charles Dickens Show, Still Open All Hours
IMDb profile

Lynda Baron played Captain Wrack in the Doctor Who serial Enlightenment and Val in Closing Time. Years earlier, in 1966, Baron recorded the original song "The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon" for the soundtrack of the serial The Gunfighters. She had two stints in the BBC show EastEnders. She is probably best known as Nurse Gladys in the sitcom Open All Hours, as well as Auntie Mabel in the children's programme Come Outside.

External links

• Lynda Baron at the Internet Movie Database