Bunney Brooke (9 January 1920 – 2 April 2000) (born as
Dorothy Cronin), was an Australian actress and
Casting director/agent, best known for her being one of the early faces of
Australian television. Known for her television,
movie,
theatre acting and comedy roles including the long-running role of Flo Patterson in the soap opera and movie release version of
Number 96 in the 1970s (a role for which she won a Silver Logie Award), and in her later years to a new generation of viewers in her role in children's series
Round the Twist (1989 and 1992) and her role as Violet "Vi" Patchett in
E Street (1990).