Pamela Buchner, a talented British actress, was born in 1939 in Boston, Lincolnshire, to Kathleen Florence née Bristol and Gilbert Elliott Ernest Buchner, a Chief Engineer at Witham Fourth District Internal Drainage Board who received the MBE in the 1958 Birthday Honours.
Growing up, Pamela's interest in acting led her to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she appeared in the original production of Peter Gill's play A Provincial Life at the Royal Court Theatre in 1966 and in The Miracle Worker at the Grand Theatre in Leeds in 1970.
Throughout the 1970s, Pamela performed in South Africa with Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB),taking on roles in various productions, including Rookery Nook, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Mr Rhodes and the Princess, Antony and Cleopatra, and Present Laughter.
Pamela's television career spanned many years, with notable roles including Queen of Night/Papagena (speaking) in Operavox (1995),Dr Mayner in The Bill (1994),Brenda in Moon and Son (1992),Mrs Janie Russell in The Gentle Touch (1980-1983),Miss Young in the episode The Kipper and the Corpse in Fawlty Towers (1979),Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez in the TV movie Charley's Aunt (1977),Miss Portal in Wolly Wenpol, the Complete Works for ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1970),Female Officer in Parkin's Patch (1969),and WDC Ann Foster in Dixon of Dock Green (1967-1968).
In addition to her television work, Pamela has also had a successful stage career, with notable performances including Mrs Perkins in The Admirable Crichton for the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1997, Miss Shepherd in a stage version of The Lady in the Van at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick in 2008, and Rebecca Nurse in Arthur Miller's The Crucible at the York Theatre Royal in York in 2011.
