Mabel Constanduros

Born: 29 March 1880, London, England, UK

Died: 8 February 1957, Chichester, Sussex, England, UK

Mabel Costanduros was a character actress and writer. She wrote for radio, stage and then film. She became a radio celebrity in the mid-1920s, broadcasting her own sketches to British listeners and then created and wrote The Buggins Family, a radio series that ran from 1928 to 1948 in which Mabel initially played all the parts. The pinnacle of her screenwriting success was when she co-wrote 29 Acacia Avenue with her nephew Denis Constanduros. 

Medal for the General (1944) as Mrs. Bates