Gwen Plumb

Gwendoline Jean Plumb AM BEM (2 August 1912 – 5 June 2002), was an Australian performer of international appeal, actress and comedian active in literally every form of the art genre, (except circus) including revue, pantomime, vaudeville, interviewing, game shows, live appearances, compering, radio production, scriptwriting and acting, television soap opera and mini-series and made-for-TV film. She was considered the "Grand Dame of Australian entertainment", with a career spanning 65 years, in her later years she was best known to local and international audiences in serial The Young Doctors as gossip Ada Simmonds, the ill-fated Richmond Hill as May "Mum" Foote and the pilot of Home and Away as Doris Peters. She released an autobiography in 1994 called Plumb Crazy.