Alma Butterfield
Australian writer and actor
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Alma Butterfield was an Australian writer and character actress. She was best known for her work on radio including the Gwen Meredith serials The Lawsons and a long stint on its sequel Blue Hills as Mrs. Jenkins. According to one critic her performance in TV movie The Slaughter of St Terese's Day was "sublime: she brilliantly encapsulates an entire generation of Australian womanhood, with her hunched shoulders, faded dress, mangled vocabulary and verbal sniping."
As a writer she authored six children's stories, two chiildren's plays and several poems, as well as contributing humorous stories to magazines.
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Television
- The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day (TV movie) (1960)
- A Little South of Heaven (TV movie) (1961)
Radio
- The Lawsons as Mrs. Brown
- Blue Hills - Mrs Jenkins
- Hagens Circus - (radio)
- Aunt Jenny Real Life Stories