Lynda Baron

Lynda Baron
Birth date:	24 March 1939
Death date:	5 March 2022
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Captain Wrack, Val
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	see credits
Main time period active:	1966, 1983, 2011
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Open All Hours, Come Outside, Coronation Street, EastEnders, Still Open All Hours
IMDb profile

Lynda Baron (24 March 1939-5 March 2022) played Captain Wrack in the Doctor Who television story 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.

In April 2006, Baron inadvertently rejoined the Doctor Who universe when a photograph of her in-character as Rubes Malone (and Bernard Cribbins as Frank Cosgrove) was recycled from the BBC television series Down to Earth for the feature Weddings published on the Torchwood House tie-in website that coincided with the broadcast of Tooth and Claw.

Career

She had two stints in the BBC show EastEnders, but is probably best known as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the sitcom Open All Hours, as well as Auntie Mabel in the children's programme Come Outside.

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• The Gunfighters - Singer
• Enlightenment - Captain Wrack
• Closing Time - Val

External links

• Lynda Baron at the Internet Movie Database