Her best known creation was played by George Baker on TV, she died on the 2nd May 2015 aged 85 - who was she?
"George Baker (actor) George Morris Baker, MBE (1 April 19317 October 2011) was an English actor and writer. He was best known for portraying Tiberius in ""I, Claudius"", and Inspector Wexford in ""The Ruth Rendell Mysteries"". Baker was born in Varna, Bulgaria. His father was an English businessman and honorary vice consul and his mother a Red Cross nurse who moved to Bulgaria to help fight cholera. He attended Lancing College, Sussex; he then appeared as an actor in repertory theatre and at the Old Vic. Baker's third wife, Louie Ramsay, who died earlier in 2011, played his onscreen wife"
"Mary Sinclair Mary Sinclair (November 15, 1922 – November 5, 2000) was an American television, film and stage actress and “a familiar face to television viewers in the 1950s” as a performer in numerous plays produced and broadcast live during the early days of television. Sinclair was also a painter and had in her youth been a Conover model. Her husband, for a time, was Broadway producer and director, George Abbott. Sinclair was born Ella Delores Cook and raised in San Diego, California. As a young woman she began modeling in Los Angeles, and in 1944, she left Hollywood for"
"""I've been happily married for 30-something years. It's insulting."" Jane Asher Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author, and entrepreneur, who achieved early fame as a child actress, and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career. Asher has appeared in TV shows and films such as ""Deep End"""", The Masque of the Red Death"", ""Alfie"", ""The Mistress"", ""Crossroads"", ""Death at a Funeral"", and ""The Old Guys"". She is also known for supplying specialist cakes and kitchenware, and publishing three best-selling novels. She was a key figure of 1960s UK entertainment and arts culture,"
"Jane Asher Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author, and entrepreneur, who achieved early fame as a child actress, and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career. Asher has appeared in TV shows and films such as ""Deep End"""", The Masque of the Red Death"", ""Alfie"", ""The Mistress"", ""Crossroads"", ""Death at a Funeral"", and ""The Old Guys"". She is also known for supplying specialist cakes and kitchenware, and publishing three best-selling novels. She was a key figure of 1960s UK entertainment and arts culture, as well as being well-known as the girlfriend and"
"February 25, 2014, three days shy of her 87th birthday. Juanita Bartlett Juanita Bartlett (28 February 1927 – 25 February 2014) was a television writer and producer best known for her work on ""The Rockford Files"" and ""The New Maverick"", both starring James Garner. She also worked on Garner's series ""Nichols"", as well as ""The Greatest American Hero"", ""Scarecrow and Mrs. King"", and several others. Although she was born in San Francisco, Bartlett spent her early years in Honolulu, Hawaii, after her family moved there. They returned to California when she was 10 years old. After her initial efforts at"
"behavior in children. This inspired her most successful novel, ""The Whipping Boy"" (1978), which focused on the ""emotional abuse"" of children. She used the pen name ""Beth Holmes"" to shield her family from being compared with fictional characters in the novel. Baker was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1972 and described the experience humorously in her book ""My Darling, Darling Doctors"" in 1975. She lost her 15-year battle with breast cancer on December 8, 1987 at age 70. Fay Baker Fay Baker (born Fay Schwager; January 31, 1917 – December 8, 1987) was an American stage, film and television actress,"
"Susan Fitzgerald Susan Mary Theresa FitzGerald (28 May 1949 – 9 September 2013) was an Irish actress, best known for her work in television and her work in Irish theatre. She also played the role of May in Samuel Beckett's ""Footfalls"" for the Gate Theatre's ""Beckett on Film"" project. At her death she was hailed as ""one of Ireland's best known stage actresses"" and ""the pre-eminent stage actress of her generation and beloved of theatre audiences."" Born in Leicester, England, she was the eldest of six children born to William FitzGerald, a GP, and his wife, Emily Irwin; her parents"
"Hattie Jacques on stage, radio, screen and record Hattie Jacques (; born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 1922–1980) was an English actress who appeared in many genres of light entertainment including radio, film, television and stage. Jacques's career spanned from 1939 until her death in 1980. She is best remembered for her appearances in fourteen ""Carry On"" films and for her professional partnership with Eric Sykes. In 1939 Jacques became involved in amateur dramatics, appearing as Doris Gow in Noël Coward's short play ""Fumed Oak"". Five years later, after wartime service as a nurse and a welder, she made her professional theatrical"
"studio director at the BBC. They had one daughter. Peters died on 26 July 2016, aged 90. Sylvia Peters Sylvia Lucia Petronzio (26 September 1925 – 26 July 2016), better known as Sylvia Peters, was an English actress, and from 1947 to 1958 a continuity announcer and presenter for BBC Television. She introduced the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and later advised the Queen as she prepared for her first televised Christmas Message in 1957. Peters was born in Highgate, north London, to Romelo Petronzio, an Italian who owned a clock-making business, and Ethel Edwards, an English ballet"
"television series, Jimmy Perry, has said ""It was a mistake...not to cast Janet in the role because the viewing public has come to recognize her as Mrs. Pike. But that was a decision made by Columbia"". Davies died on 28 September 1986, aged 59, from breast cancer which had metastasized to her lungs. Her ""Dad's Army"" co-star, Bill Pertwee, said that she ""spent her last days in a hospice and died peacefully"" adding that she was a ""lovely woman"". Janet Davies (actress) Janet Kathleen Davies (14 September 1927 – 22 September 1986) was an English actress best known for her"
"Tina Baker Tina Baker (born 4 May 1958 (Age 59), in Coalville, Leicestershire, England) is a broadcaster and journalist and a leading British soap opera and TV critic. She has featured on many TV programmes such as, ""Coronation Street Secrets"", ""The Good Soap Guide"", ""How Soaps Changed the World"", Big Brother's Big Mouth, and ""The Top 100 TV Christmas Crackers"". She is well known as the soap opera expert on the morning television programme GMTV and is member of the judging panel on the annual ""British Soap Awards"". Tina worked as a presenter/reporter on TV-am in the 1980s. However she"
"survived by her three children and her five siblings. Susan Fitzgerald Susan Mary Theresa FitzGerald (28 May 1949 – 9 September 2013) was an Irish actress, best known for her work in television and her work in Irish theatre. She also played the role of May in Samuel Beckett's ""Footfalls"" for the Gate Theatre's ""Beckett on Film"" project. At her death she was hailed as ""one of Ireland's best known stage actresses"" and ""the pre-eminent stage actress of her generation and beloved of theatre audiences."" Born in Leicester, England, she was the eldest of six children born to William FitzGerald,"
"on 30 December 2015. Kathy Secker Kathy Secker (18 February 1945 – 15 December 2015) was a British broadcaster, best known for her work at Tyne Tees Television and BBC Radio Newcastle. After she had worked as a secretary to an ENT specialist and as a bank clerk, her husband persuaded her to consider a career as a model, which proved to be successful. Secker became the face of an advertising campaign for the Northern Gas Board. In later years, she also fronted TV adverts for Co-op stores in the North East. The popularity of the gas board campaign led"
"Carroll Baker credits Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage, and television. Spanning a career of fifty years, Baker appeared in 66 feature and television films, as well as 16 television appearances and over 15 stage credits, including 3 Broadway productions. Her most prolific role was in Elia Kazan's 1956 film ""Baby Doll"", which earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Throughout her career, she became an established movie sex symbol. Baker began her acting career in New York City as a member of the Actors Studio, and starred"
"on 15 November 2011, five days before her 96th birthday. Dulcie Gray Dulcie Winifred Catherine Denison, (""née"" Bailey; 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011), known professionally as Dulcie Gray, was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist. Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1915, although she would later shave four years off her age, and attended school in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, later returning to Malaya to teach. After her father's death, she came back to Britain. Following a brief period at art school, she enrolled at the"
"Josephine Baker Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. During her early career she was renowned as a dancer, and was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris. Her performance in the revue ""Un vent de folie"" in 1927 caused a sensation in Paris. Her costume, consisting of only a girdle of artificial bananas, became her most iconic image and"
"Ritchie’s ""Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998). Vera Day Vera Day (born 4 August 1935 in London), is a British film and television actress. From the late 1950s Day was a popular figure in British films, a glamorous blonde bombshell who appeared most memorably in the classic Stanley Baker drama ""Hell Drivers"" (1957) and the Hammer science fiction film ""Quatermass 2"" (1957). Her other film roles include that of George Cole’s girlfriend in Mario Zampi’s comedy ""Too Many Crooks"" (1959) and as the heroine in the horror film ""Womaneater"" (1958), one of her few leading parts. Many years later,"
"Catherine E. Coulson Catherine Elizabeth Coulson (October 22, 1943 – September 28, 2015) was an American stage and screen actress who worked behind the scenes on various studio features, magazine shows and independent films as well as acting in theater and film since the age of 15. She is best known for her role as Margaret Lanterman, the enigmatic Log Lady, in the David Lynch TV series ""Twin Peaks"". Coulson was born in Elmhurst, Illinois, and grew up in Southern California, the daughter of ballet dancer Elizabeth Fellegi; her father was a radio and television producer and public relations executive."
"material for TV performers such as Gerry Connolly, Garry McDonald, Dave Allen and Pamela Stephenson. Webber's most successful and best-known work came later in her life in the form of the children's TV series ""Mortified"". This series was a comedy drama playing on the embarrassment that children often feel towards their parents, and in 2006 won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Children's Television Drama. ""Mortified"" has since been sold to more than 15 countries, including Britain, France, Italy and Argentina. In 2005 Webber was diagnosed with lung cancer. She died at her Coogee home from cancer-related causes on"
"Lynn Whitfield Lynn Whitfield (""née"" Butler-Smith; born May 6, 1953) is an American actress and producer. She began her acting career in television and theatre, before progressing to supporting roles in film. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Josephine Baker in the HBO biographical drama film ""The Josephine Baker Story"" (1991). Whitfield spent her career after breakthrough performance as Josephine Baker playing the leading roles in a number of made for television movies in the 1990s, and had several"
"living in Egypt before and after the 2011 revolution. Claire Gordon died of a brain tumour on 13 April 2015 in a nursing home in west London. After her death, two former ""property consultants"" were sent for trial on charges of fraud and conspiracy to defraud by altering her will. Claire Gordon Claire Gordon (16 January 1941 – 13 April 2015) was an English film actress and comedian known for leading and cameo roles in many British films from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, and for working with most of the television comedy stars of that time. She was"
"episode of ""The Wednesday Play"" in 1965. Atkinson went on to portray Miss Fellowes in the 1974 television adaptation of William Somerset Maugham's novel ""Cakes and Ale"". Her most recent television performance was in a 1998 episode of ""The Bill"". Barbara Atkinson died on New Year's Day 2015, one week before her 89th birthday. Barbara Atkinson Barbara Atkinson (8 January 1926 – 1 January 2015) was an English actress from Manchester. Her first professional appearance was at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in December 1945. She appeared in various television episodes from 1965 onward. Barbara Atkinson was born in Manchester to"
"Her last credit was an episode of ""Heartbeat"", broadcast posthumously in September 1995. Dyson was married twice, to Kenneth Edwards and Harry Judge. She died of cancer on 29 June 1995, aged 78. Noel Dyson Elsie Noël Dyson (23 December 1916 – 29 June 1995) was an English actress. Dyson appeared in a number of stage and films but is best remembered as a versatile television actress who became a familiar face to British viewers in a career spanning almost 50 years. Dyson's best remembered roles are as Ida Barlow, one of the original characters in the long-running soap opera"
"Thelma Scott Thelma Scott (17 June 1913 – 23 November 2006) was an Australian character actress and television director whose 70-year career in theatre, radio, film and Australian television made her one of her country's most recognizable and beloved personalities. Having started her career in the early 1930s in theatre and film productions, she became one of the nation's biggest radio performers, during the 1940s featuring in productions such as ""Big Sister"" and ""Blue Hills"". She returned to films in the early 1950s and then became a star on television after it was launched in Australia. She became best known"
"and ""radically redefined notions of race and gender through style and performance in a way that continues to echo throughout fashion and music today, from Prada to Beyoncé."" On 3 June 2017, the 111th anniversary of her birth, Google released an animated Google Doodle, which consists of a slideshow chronicling her life and achievements. Josephine Baker Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. During her early career she"
"Lori March Lori March (March 6, 1923 – March 19, 2013) was an American television actress. She was best known for her roles on daytime soap operas. Her obituary on the Television Academy's web site noted that she ""was dubbed 'First Lady of Daytime Television.'"" March was born in Hollywood, California. She was the daughter of Theodore von Eltz, an actor, and Peggy Prior, a screenwriter. Poet Joseph Moncure March was her adopted father. She attended Beverly Hills High School. March's Broadway credits include ""Giants, Sons of Giants"" (1961), ""The Chalk Garden"" (1955), and ""Charley's Aunt"" (1953). March played Lenore"
"birth. Gabrielle Ray Gabrielle Ray (28 April 1883 - 21 May 1973), was an English stage actress, dancer and singer, best known for her roles in Edwardian musical comedies. Ray was considered one of the most beautiful actresses on the London stage and became one of the most photographed women in the world. In the first decade of the 20th century, she had a good career in musical theatre. After an unsuccessful marriage, however, she never recovered the fame that she had enjoyed. She spent many of her later years in mental hospitals. Ray was born Gabrielle Elizabeth Clifford Cook"
"and William Alfred's ""The Curse of an Aching Heart"" in 1982. Beers continued to work as an actress until she retired in 2007. Her last big role was as Mrs. Lefkowitz in ""In Her Shoes"" (2004). Francine Beers died on Thursday, March 27, 2014, aged 89, in her apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. 1988: Helen Hayes Award, Washington D.C. ""Light Up the Sky"" - Arena Stage Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Resident Production. Francine Beers Francine Beers (November 26, 1924 – March 27, 2014) was an American radio, television, film and theatre actress. Her career spanned nearly six decades."
"Dumont died from a heart attack on March 6, 1965. She was cremated and her ashes were interred in the vault at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles. She was 82, although many obituaries mistakenly gave her age as 75. Margaret Dumont Margaret Dumont (October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965) was an American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films. Groucho Marx called her ""practically the fifth Marx brother"". Dumont was born Daisy Juliette Baker in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of"
"on 21 November 2017 in Llandwrog, at the age of 71. Iola Gregory Iola Gregory (1946 – 21 November 2017) was a Welsh actress. She was best known for her role as Jean McGurk (""Mrs Mac"") in the long-running S4C soap series ""Pobol y Cwm"". Gregory's mother, Millicent ""Millie"" Gregory, was a Welsh language campaigner for the Welsh Language Society who died of a heart attack. Her father, Oliver Gregory, was manager of National Westminster Bank in Aberystwyth. Gregory started acting professionally in the 1970s. In 1977, she co-founded Theatr Bara Caws, a community theatre in Caernarfon. She began starring"
"Joyce Grenfell Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer. She is remembered especially for performances in such roles as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in ""The Happiest Days of Your Life"" and Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's films. At that time, it was still unusual for a woman of her high social class to be professionally engaged in show business. Born in Montpelier Square in Knightsbridge, London, Joyce was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps (1880–1953), the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and"
"Vanessa Cavanagh Vanessa Cavanagh (16 June 1984 – 3 November 2002) was an English actress and singer. Cavanagh first came to prominence as Amber in children's stage school drama The Biz in 1996-97 in which she sang, acted and danced. She also took part in two episodes of ""The Famous Five"" as Jo, the gypsy girl in the 1990s adaptation of the Enid Blyton novels. In"" The Famous Five"", her role was as one of their closest friends. Jo was very plucky, and annoying, but a great friend to the Five. Following her initial acting success Cavanagh started to focus"
"at the age of 49. Sarah Long Sarah Long (18 March 1938 – 23 November 1987) was an English actress and television presenter. Born in London, she is best remembered for her long run as a presenter on the preschool children's television series ""Play School"" from September 1971 until May 1986. She also appeared in films and television, notably as Evelyn Harrington in ""Village of the Damned"" (1960) and as the young Queen Mary in the film adaptation of ""Henry VIII and his Six Wives"" (1972). She was married to the television actor Peter Baldwin. She died in London of"