Mabel Constanduros

Writer · Actor
IVA Star Rating : 29
Mabel Constanduros, birth name Mabel Tilling, was an English actress and screenwriter. She gained public notice playing Mrs.Buggins on the radio programme The Buggins Family, which ran from 1928 to 1948. As well as writing the series, she started off playing the whole family as well. She trained under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech...read more

Mabel Constanduros, birth name Mabel Tilling, was an English actress and screenwriter. She gained public notice playing Mrs.Buggins on the radio programme The Buggins Family, which ran from 1928 to 1948. As well as writing the series, she started off playing the whole family as well. She trained under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech Training, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London, making her stage debut at the London Coliseum in 1929. She subsequently played a variety of roles in London and on tour, including Anne of Cleves in The Rose Without a Thorn at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1933. Constanduros became a radio celebrity after broadcasting her own sketches in 1925. She also wrote novels, short stories, and co-wrote 29 Acacia Avenue with her nephew Denis Constanduros. After World War II, she played Earthy Mangold in the popular Worzel Gummidge radio serial on the BBC Children's Hour.

Birth Name

Mabel Tilling

Born

Monday, 29 March 1880

Died

Friday, 08 February 1957

Actress Filmography

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Actress Filmography

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