Eileen Essell

Eileen Essell October 8 1922 February 15 2015 was an English actress noted in part for the age at which she began her screen acting career Although she acted on the stage for 13 years in the 1940s and 50s her first screen performance was in her late 70s in an episode of Doctors and has since appeared in many other TV programmes including The Bill Doc Martin Holby City Hustle Casualty Ideal and Sensitive Skin On film she appeared in Finding Neverland 2004 Ali G Indahouse 2002 The Producers 2005 and as Grandma Josephine in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005