Background
Braunton was born in Cardiff in 1895, the daughter of Sarah and James Braunton, a carriage builder.
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Nan Braunton
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In her youth she was the nanny to the brothers Jack, Barry and Roger Livesey who called her "Nan" and who as adults persuaded her to try acting. By 1922 she was appearing in the stage play John Glayde"s Honour and in 1929 she toured the United States in a theatrical company as an actress. She made her film début in 1953 in Will Any Gentleman..?.
She also appeared as Mission Jones in the film lieutenant"s a Great Day (1955).
Braunton"s television appearances included Mission Jones in The Grove Family (1955-1957), Mission Dobson in Quatermass and the Pit (1958), Fräulein Rottenmeier in Heidi (1959), in the "Figure of Fun" episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Sunday Night Theatre (1959), and Second Lady in Hotel Imperial (1960), Mission Sedgebeer in Yorky (1960), Mission Osborne in Harpers West One (1962), Mistress Mortimer in Emergency – Ward 10 (1962), Second Matron in Armchair Theatre (1963), Mistress
Prebble in The Wednesday Thriller (1965), Bridge player in The Wednesday Play (1968), Mistress Parteridge and Florence Gill in Detective (1964 and 1968), Mistress
Love Senior in Comedy Playhouse (1969), Mission Blake in Strange Report (1969), Cissy Godfrey in Dad"s Army (1969-1971), various roles in Dixon of Dock Green (1955-1969), and Old Lady in Six Dates with Barker (1971).
During her prolific stage career her appearances included Lady Lerode in John Glayde"s Honour at the Grand Theatre in Derby (1922), Dracula at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln (1926), Mrs Smith in Suspect and the 101-year-old Adelaide Whiteoak in Whiteoaks at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham (1939), Number Orchids for Mission Blandish (1943), firstly in the West End and then on tour, Jessica in Michael and Roland Pertwee"s The Paragon at the Fortune Theatre (1948) and The Boy David (1953) with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Braunton died in 1978 at her home in Hillingdon, London.
