Bron also appeared in a Doctor Who radio drama, Loups-Garoux ( 2001 ), in which she played the wealthy heiress Ileana de Santos.

Bron played, via flashback, the recurring character of Patsy's mother, an exuberantly horrible woman who " scattered bastard babies across Europe like a garden sprinkler ".

Actresses who have played the role include: Elinor Aickin, Eleanor Bron, Annette Crosbie, Helen Haye, Mary Hinton, Anne Jeffreys, Janet May, and Maggie Smith.

The film was parodied on a 2008 episode of The Simpsons entitled " Dangerous Curves ", with Marge and Homer as Hepburn and Finney, Ned and Maude Flanders portraying the characters played by Daniels and Bron.

" Eleanor Bron played the Duchess ; McKellen played Bosola, Jonathan Hyde Ferdinand, and Petherbridge the Cardinal.

Although Spice regularly played venues like the Marquee it wasn't until they met up with manager Gerry Bron that things began to happen.

The band rehearsed and played diligently and during this time Bron redubbed the band Uriah Heep from the Charles Dickens classic David Copperfield.

Bron appeared in a brief scene in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who serial City of Death ( 1979 ) alongside John Cleese as art critics in Denise Rene's art gallery in Paris.

* Eleanor Bron previously appeared in the television series as an art critic in City of Death and Kara in Revelation of the Daleks.

In 1985, Bron was selected for her authoritative tone to become " the voice of BT " and can still be heard on various error messages such as " Please hang up and try again " and " The number you have dialled has not been recognised ".

Bron appeared in the long-running British TV series Midsomer Murders as Lady Isobel DeQuetteville in the episode " The Dark Rider ", first aired on ITV1 on 1 February 2012.

Cleese and Bron agreed on the condition that there be no pre-publicity regarding their appearance ; Cleese wanted them to be credited as " Helen Swanetsky " and " Kim Bread " but the BBC declined, failing to see the joke.

Fortune and Bird also worked together on the TV show A Series of Birds in 1967, and Fortune and Bron wrote and performed a series of sketches for TV in Where Was Spring in 1969.

Earth's Stellar Commando has placed their secret agent Commander Bron on a planet where they hope he will be able to find out the coordinates of a rival space empire, the Destroyers.

" I thought they were a band I could develop and I took them on that basis ", remembered Bron later.

The merged charity, now known as Age UK was formed on 1 April 2009, and launched a major branding exercise in April 2010, featuring Brian Cox, Ian McKellen and Eleanor Bron in the charity's first television campaign.

The highest point in the forest, easily reached on foot with clear paths, is ' The Mast ' at Craig Bron Bannog 501m ( 1, 644 feet ).

Four days later, in Bron, a suburb of Lyon, Kelkal opened fire on gendarmes at a checkpoint and evaded arrest.

It was one of the first theatrical movies to show male genitals, when Gerald Crich ( Oliver Reed ) and Rupert Birkin ( Alan Bates ) wrestle in the nude in front of a roaring fireplace, in addition to several early skinny dipping shots and an explicit sequence of Birkin running naked in the forest after being hit on the head by his spurned former mistress, Hermione Roddice ( Eleanor Bron ).

The Bron campus is located on the south-eastern edge of the town, close to the Parc de Parilly and Saint-Priest.

The novel examines how Triton's freedoms and customs are perceived by the main characters, particularly Bron Helstrom, a young man who has previously worked on Mars as a male prostitute.

The only Zentraedi who had not left on the REF mission were former Zentraedi spies Rico, Konda, and Bron, who briefly cared for Dana, until all three died only a short time after her parents left.

In the decanonized Jack McKinney novel " The Final Nightmare " ( book 9 ), Dana, in a remark recorded by Nova Satori, provides more detail on her relationship with the three former Zentraedi spies Rico, Konda, and Bron.

On 18 March 1911, the aeroplane of the Belgian pilot, Charles den Bron, successfully took off at the airport in Sha Tin on an aeroplane named Spirit of Sha Tin ().

News satire has been prevalent on television since the 1960s, when it enjoyed a renaissance in the UK with the Satire Boom, led by such luminaries as Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, David Frost, Eleanor Bron and Dudley Moore and the television programme That Was The Week That Was.

He went on to study with Zakhar Bron, the famous violin teacher.

The albums generated two books of poetry, BBC television shows, a West End musical, a pantomime (" Captain Beaky And His Musical Christmas " performed by Twiggy, Eleanor Bron, Keith Michell, and Jeremy Lloyd at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, London in December 1981 ), performances by the National Youth Ballet of Great Britain, and a gala in aid of UNICEF (" The Wonderful World of Captain Beaky " performed by Roger Moore, Joanna Lumley, Jeremy Lloyd and the National Youth Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall, London in December 2011 ).

Cook expanded television comedy with Eleanor Bron, John Bird and John Fortune.

Rowan Atkinson, Eleanor Bron, Connie Booth, Jasper Carrott, Billy Connolly, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, Chris Langham, Hugh Laurie, Griff Rhys Jones, John Bird, John Fortune, Jimmy Mulville, Sir Peter Ustinov, Robbie Coltrane, Clive James, Jonathan Lynn, John Wells, Ben Elton, Adrian Edmondson, Alexei Sayle, Carol Cleveland, Jennifer Saunders, Victoria Wood, and Ruby Wax.

From December 1909, the French Department of War began to send army officers and non-commissioned officers ( NCOs ) from all branches of the army, especially engineering and artillery, to undergo flying training at civilian schools as “ pupil-pilots ” ( élèves-pilotes ), including at places such as Rheims and Bron.

* History of Bron ( in French )

Saint-Ex is a 1997 British film biography of French author-adventurer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, filmed and distributed in the United Kingdom, and featuring Bruno Ganz, Eleanor Bron, and Miranda Richardson.

A comic parody of Faust, it stars Cook as George Spigott ( The Devil ) who tempts Stanley Moon ( Moore ), a frustrated, short-order chef, with the promise of gaining his heart's desire – the unattainable beauty and waitress at his cafe, Margaret Spencer ( Eleanor Bron ) – in exchange for his soul, but repeatedly tricks him.

In 1997 Chloë Hanslip was featured in a television documentary in Germany with Igor Oistrakh and Professor Bron.

In 1170, Benjamin of Tudela visited the city, which he called by its Frankish name, St. Abram de Bron.

Moore and Cook co-starred in the film Bedazzled ( 1967 ) with Eleanor Bron, and also had tours called Behind the Fridge and Good Evening.

Eleanor Bron ( born 14 March 1938 ) is an English stage, film and television actress and author.

Bron was born in 1938 in Stanmore, Middlesex, into a Jewish family.

Before her birth, her father Sidney had legally shortened the surname from Bronstein to Bron as an effort to enhance his newly-founded commercial enterprise, Bron's Orchestral Service.

Bron was the longtime partner of noted architect Cedric Price until his death in 2003 ; they had no children.

Her elder brother is record producer Gerry Bron.

Bron began her career in the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, entitled The Last Laugh, in which Peter Cook also appeared.

Bron also gave the premiere performance of The Yellow Cake Revue ( 1980 ), a series of pieces for voice and piano written by Peter Maxwell Davies in protest against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands.

In April 2010, Bron, along with Ian McKellen and Brian Cox, appeared in a series of TV advertisements to support Age UK, the charity recently formed from the merger of Age Concern and Help the Aged.

* Taylor, Bron, ed.

Douglas Adams knew John Cleese and Eleanor Bron through his connections with Monty Python and Cambridge Footlights.

In 1852 in response to rapid urban development round the edge of Lyon, the ( hitherto Isère ) communes of Bron, Vaulx-en-Velin, Vénissieux and Villeurbanne were transferred to Rhône.

His early career included contributions to Peter Cook's Establishment Club team, which included Eleanor Bron and John Bird in 1962.

According to the band's manager Gerry Bron ( brother of the actress Eleanor Bron ), Vivian Stanshall was given several weeks to produce songs for the new professional Bonzo Dog Band.