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Chasen also played many roles in BBC Radio 2's The Navy Lark from 1959 to 1977, and appeared in the television series Marked Personal from 1973 to 1974. She played the recurring role of Lydia Simmonds in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role which received positive reviews from critics and EastEnders crew and cast members.
The Navy Lark [1] is a radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge (a play on HMS Troubridge, a Royal Navy destroyer) based in HMNB Portsmouth. In series 1 and 2, the ship and crew were stationed offshore at an unnamed location known simply as "The Island".
May 25, 2020 · Heather Chasen, the actress, who has died aged 92, played the lion’s share of the female characters in the long-running radio comedy The Navy Lark, and later brought glamour to the Midlands’ most...
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Chasen was born on 20 July 1927, in Singapore. Chasen's father, F.N. Chasen was an English ornithologist, who fought in World War I under the Norfolk Yeomanry as a trooper. In 1921, he left England, to work at the Raffles Library and Museum in Singapore, marrying Chasen's mother, Agnes H McCullock, in 1926. After Chasen's birth, her parents had ano...
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“ :-I did an episode where I played this journalist which they must have quite liked because they got back to me about a month later. [They asked me] 'Would you come back and join the cast and change the colour of your hair?' Well, I said okay and so I changed my [hair] colour from red to blonde and I looked exactly the same! I didn't look any different at all. And so then I came back as this naughty lady, Valerie Pollard. The most fun I had was when I was helping out behind the bar which is...
Other work
Chasen appeared in other television programmes such as The Bill and The Harry Hill Show. She has had guest roles in Z-Cars and Dixon of Dock Green and has voiced a number of characters in the radio show The Navy Lark, most notably WREN Heather Chasen and "battle axe" Ramona Povey. In soaps, she has had four separate stints in the BBC soap opera Doctors, with her most recent stint in 2014,> reprising her role as Grace Barberry from 2012, played Sylvie Leigh in Holby City and played Madge Benne...
Chasen was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, while she appeared in the New York adaptation of A Severed Head between 1963-65. She appeared the cast of the Seasons of Mists which won a number of awards internationally.
Mar 31, 2024 · Janet Brown replaced Heather Chasen and 10 episodes were produced, but the change in setting proved unpopular with listeners. A new batch of six regular The Navy Lark episodes quickly followed, billed as Series 5 and rewriting The TV Lark into failed-spin-off status.
Chasen became known for her role in the radio show The Navy Lark, and appearing in films such as Cat Run, and 2012's Les Misérables.
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Heather Chasen by Fred Vintner, Editor, Navy Days . Heather Chasen was a skilled actor with a lengthy career spanning from the mid-40s. Her early days consisted of demanding rep work, which required stamina and enthusiasm.
