Australian stage and screen actor Mary Ward has died at the age of 106.
Ward was best known for her role as Jeanette “Mum” Brooks in the 1979-1981 prison drama Prisoner: Cell Block H (titled simply Prisoner in its native Australia).
According to her family, she died peacefully on Monday (19 July) morning at a care facility in Melbourne.
Born on 6 March, 1915, Ward studied acting in Perth and London, returning to Australia at the onset of the Second World War.