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Obituary: Sheila Burrell: Character actress who played Ada Doom in 'Cold Comfort Farm' by Anthony Hayward

As the eccentric anthropologist Honor Klein, sleeping with her half-brother in Iris Murdoch and JB Priestley's musical-beds comedy A Severed Head (1963-64), she was reputed to be the first actress to bare her breasts on the West End stage, before reprising the role on Broadway.

SOURCE: The Independent at 10:58AM on July 29, 2011

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