Rosemarie Dunham

Dunham was born in Leuchars, Fife, the daughter of Willis Tomlinson, an English squadron leader stationed on the RAF base at Leuchars.[1]

On stage, Dunham was a member of the Croydon Repertory Players in 1953.[2] She played Nerissa in a 1961 production of The Merchant of Venice at the Old Vic theatre, sharing the bill with Barbara Leigh-Hunt and John Stride.[3] She appeared in a 1967 production of Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All? at London's Savoy Theatre, sharing the bill with William Mervyn, Vincent Ball, Jane Downs, and Viola Keats.[4]

Dunham's television work was extensive, and included appearances in The Avengers, No Hiding Place, Public Eye, The Sweeney, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Father Brown, Coronation Street, and The Cedar Tree. Her best-known film role was as the "aging, but amorously inclined, landlady" Edna in the 1971 gangster movie Get Carter.[5] Her other film roles included Something to Hide (1972), Mistress Pamela (1974), The Incredible Sarah (1976), Lady Oscar (1979), Croupier (1998), and The Wolves of Kromer (1998).[6]

Rosemarie Tomlinson was married to Michael Dunham Ingrams, the television presenter and documentary film-maker, and took her stage name from his middle name.[7][8] They had a son, Paul Ingrams, born in 1949.[9] Her second husband was Gerald William Paul Orlando Bridgeman; they married in 1965. She died in 2016, in London, just before her 92nd birthday.

• The Masque of the Red Death (1964) – (uncredited)
• Get Carter (1971) – Edna
• Something to Hide (1972) – Elsie
• Mistress Pamela (1974) – Mistress Blimper
• The Incredible Sarah (1976) – Mrs. Bernhardt
• Lady Oscar (1979) – Marquise de Boulainvilliers
• Tai-Pan (1986) – Mrs. Fothergill
• Croupier (1998) – Jewish Woman
• The Wolves of Kromer (1998) – Mrs Drax
• Out of Depth (2000) – Rose (final film role)

• Rosemarie Dunham at IMDb
• Rosemarie Dunham at the British Film Institute