Editing Eleanor Bron (section)

===Television work===
Bron's earliest work for television included appearances on [[David Frost]]'s ''[[Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life]]'',<ref name=SunTime10/> ''[[My Father Knew Lloyd George (TV programme)|My Father Knew Lloyd George]]'' and ''[[BBC-3 (TV series)|BBC-3]]'', where she performed in sketches with [[John Fortune]]; they had already worked together at Peter Cook's [[The Establishment (club)|Establishment Club]]. Later, her work included such programmes as ''[[Where Was Spring?]]'' (1969, also alongside Fortune), ''[[World in Ferment]]'' (1969),<ref>{{cite journal|title=TELEVISION TODAY; Reviews: In a rare class of comedy show|author=Marjorie Bilbow|journal=[[The Stage and Television Today]]|issue= 4603|date=July 3, 1969|page=12}}</ref> and ''[[After That, This]]'' (1975) – the one with the "egg" timer in the opening credits.

She collaborated with novelist and playwright [[Michael Frayn]] on the [[BBC]] programmes ''[[Beyond a Joke (1972 TV series)|Beyond a Joke]]'' (1972)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287834/combined |title="Beyond a Joke" (1972) |publisher=Internet Movie Database |access-date=28 June 2011 }}</ref> and ''Making Faces'' (1975).<ref>{{Cite book |title=Understanding Michael Frayn |last=Moseley |first=Merritt |year=2006 |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |location=Columbia, SC |isbn=1-57003-627-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/understandingmic00mose/page/18 18] |url=https://archive.org/details/understandingmic00mose |url-access=registration |access-date=28 June 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847353/ |title="Making Faces" (TV series 1975) |publisher=Internet Movie Database |access-date=28 June 2011 }}</ref>

From the mid-1970s, Bron made occasional appearances with the [[Monty Python]] team, such as ''[[The Secret Policeman's Ball]]'' series of concerts in support of [[Amnesty International]].<ref name="nytimesball">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/21/movies/secret-policeman-from-monty-python.html | title='Secret Policeman' from Monty Python | work=The New York Times | date=21 May 1982 | last1=Canby | first1=Vinceny }}</ref>

She appeared in "[[Equal Opportunities (Yes Minister)|Equal Opportunities]]", a 1982 episode of the BBC series ''[[Yes Minister]]'', playing a senior civil servant in [[Jim Hacker]]'s Department.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/yes-minister/equal-opportunities/episode/74549/summary.html|title=Yes, Minister: 'Equal Opportunities' episode summary|publisher=TV.com|access-date=30 November 2010|archive-date=22 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122071518/http://www.tv.com/yes-minister/equal-opportunities/episode/74549/summary.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hacker plans to promote her—ostensibly to strike a blow for women's rights—only to be sorely disappointed.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/yes-minister/equal-opportunities-74549/recap/ |title=Yes, Minister: 'Equal Opportunities' episode recap |publisher=TV.com |access-date=3 February 2018 |archive-date=4 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204000830/http://www.tv.com/shows/yes-minister/equal-opportunities-74549/recap/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1979 Bron appeared as Maggie Hartley, a stage actress accused of murder, in an episode of the popular British legal series ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'', entitled "Rumpole and the Show Folk", which starred [[Leo McKern]] in the title role. She and Leo McKern had appeared together in ''[[Help! (film)|Help!]]''. She appeared as [[Virgin Mary|Mary]] in ''[[The Day Christ Died]]'' (1980), and played Mrs Barrymore in the 1983 TV movie ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film)|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'' which starred [[Ian Richardson]] as [[Sherlock Holmes]]. That year also saw her appearance in an episode of ''[[Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)|Tales of the Unexpected]]'' (Series 6, The Tribute).

Bron appeared twice in the original series of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. She had a brief comedic scene in the serial ''[[City of Death]]'' (1979) alongside [[John Cleese]], which was at the suggestion of its co-writer [[Douglas Adams]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=David J. Howe |author2=Mark Stammers |author3=Stephen James Walker | title=Doctor Who: The Seventies|year=1995|page=137|publisher=Virgin Publishing|isbn=978-0863698712}}</ref> The pair are art critics in [[Denise Rene]]'s art gallery in Paris who are admiring the [[TARDIS]] (which they think to be a piece of art), when [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|the Doctor]] ([[Tom Baker]]), [[Romana (Doctor Who)|Romana]] ([[Lalla Ward]]), and Duggan ([[Tom Chadbon]]) rush into it and it dematerialises. Bron's character, believing this to be part of the work, states that it is "Exquisite, absolutely exquisite!"<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/cityofdeath/detail.shtml |title=Doctor Who: City of Death |publisher=BBC.co.uk |access-date=28 June 2011 }}</ref> She also had the main guest billing as the villain Kara in the [[Colin Baker]] era serial ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'' (1985).<ref>{{cite book |editor=Chris Hansen | title=Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who|year=2010|pages=93–94|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1443820844}}</ref> Bron later appeared in the ''Doctor Who'' audio drama ''[[Loups-Garoux]]'' (2001) starring [[Peter Davison]], in which she played the wealthy heiress Ileana de Santos.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.doctorwhoreviews.co.uk/6PB.htm |title=Loups-Garoux |publisher=DoctorWhoReviews.co.uk |access-date=30 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110216023429/http://www.doctorwhoreviews.co.uk/6PB.htm |archive-date=16 February 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref>

Bron played an art critic again in 1990, appearing in the BBC sketch comedy show ''[[French and Saunders]]'' in a parody of an [[Andy Warhol]] documentary.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/french-andamp-saunders/dangerous-liaisons/episode/148178/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary |title=Episode Guide > Season 3, Episode 5: Dangerous Liaisons |publisher=TV.com |access-date=30 June 2011 |archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218012639/http://www.tv.com/shows/french-and-saunders/dangerous-liaisons-148178/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later she made frequent appearances in [[Jennifer Saunders]]' television series ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]''. Bron played, via flashback, the recurring character of Patsy's mother, a woman who "scattered bastard babies across Europe like a garden sprinkler". After giving birth, she would always say "Now take it away! And bring me another lover."<ref name=SunTime10/> In 1992, she played Maria Lazlos in an episode of the first series of ''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]''. She had a supporting role in the 1994 BBC ghost story ''[[The Blue Boy (film)|The Blue Boy]]'', and also appeared in the BBC's biographical TV movie ''[[Saint-Ex]]'' in 1996. She also narrated an episode on ''Wild Discovery''.