Mary Hignett was a British

United Kingdom

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 actress best known for her role as Mrs Edna Hall in the television

Television

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 series All Creatures Great and Small

All Creatures Great and Small (TV serial)

All Creatures Great and Small is a popular British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot.-Background:...

. She played the role of Hall, the cook and housekeeper, in the first three series which ran from 1978–1980; she died shortly after the third series was filmed. Hignett was scheduled to have a hip replacement, and was convinced by her doctors to have riskier 'double' hip replacement rather than the single. This is believed to have led to her death.

Other credits include the 1974 Hammer Horror film, Demons of the Mind

Demons of the Mind

Demons of the Mind is a British period horror film, produced by the Hammer studio. It was directed by Peter Sykes and its cinematographer was Arthur Grant. The cast includes Gillian Hills , Robert Hardy, Patrick Magee, Michael Hordern, and Shane Briant...

(in which fellow All Creatures actor Robert Hardy

Robert Hardy

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 played the role of Zorn) and the 1971 movie Crucible of Horror.

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