Bella Emberg


Bella Emberg was an English comedy actress whose television career spanned 60 years.Bella appeared in several light hearted TV commercials in the 1980s playing the part of an unusual bird.

Early life and career

Emberg was born in Brighton, and grew up wanting to be an entertainer. Her professional debut was in weekly repertory in Ryde, Isle of Wight in the summer season of 1962, aged 25.
She appeared in TV series such as The Benny Hill Show, Softly, Softly, Z Cars, Bear Behaving Badly and Grange Hill. Her best-known role was in The Russ Abbot Show, where she played superheroine Blunderwoman alongside Abbot's Cooperman character. The show ran from 1980 to 1996, and at its peak attracted 18 million viewers.
Emberg also starred in Mel Brooks' film History of the World, Part I. She made a guest appearance in the revived version of The Basil Brush Show in 2006, and also featured in Doctor Who three times. In 1965 she had an uncredited appearance in Undermind, and other uncredited roles in the 1970s Third Doctor serials Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Time Warrior.
Prior to her death, she completed filming for In the Long Run, a Sky One comedy created by Idris Elba, due to be broadcast in April 2018.

Death

Emberg died at home in Morden, London on 12 January 2018, aged 80, from natural causes.

Filmography