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Pauline Yates, who played the long-suffering Elizabeth Perrin in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, has died at the age of 85.
She passed away yesterday in Denville nursing home in Northwood, Middlesex, home of many retired actors.
Yates was born in St Helens, Lancashire on 16 June 1929, and joined Oldham Rep straight after leaving school.
In 1957 she became a familiar face on British TV when she as cast as Estelle Waterman in Emergency Ward 10, and her TV credits of the 1970s include Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, and The Ronnie Barker Playhouse.
In 1976 she was cast as the wife of Reggie Perrin, playing the sober counterpoint to her on-screen husband’s increasingly erratic ways as the travails of the rat race became too much for him.
She then went on to appear in four out of the five series of 1980s ITV sitcom Keep It In The Family, where Yates played the wife to another eccentric character, comic-strip artist Dudley Rush.
Her husband, the actor Donald Churchill, died in 1991 on set the set of Granda's TV's EL CID, just after recording his final scene. They had two daughters, Jemma, also an actress who appeared in the recent revival of Upstairs Downstairs, and Polly, a writer of children’s TV shows including Teacup Travels and Topsy And Tim.
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2015/01/22/21692/pauline_yates,_aka_mrs_reggie_perrin,_dies_at_85
She passed away yesterday in Denville nursing home in Northwood, Middlesex, home of many retired actors.
Yates was born in St Helens, Lancashire on 16 June 1929, and joined Oldham Rep straight after leaving school.
In 1957 she became a familiar face on British TV when she as cast as Estelle Waterman in Emergency Ward 10, and her TV credits of the 1970s include Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, and The Ronnie Barker Playhouse.
In 1976 she was cast as the wife of Reggie Perrin, playing the sober counterpoint to her on-screen husband’s increasingly erratic ways as the travails of the rat race became too much for him.
She then went on to appear in four out of the five series of 1980s ITV sitcom Keep It In The Family, where Yates played the wife to another eccentric character, comic-strip artist Dudley Rush.
Her husband, the actor Donald Churchill, died in 1991 on set the set of Granda's TV's EL CID, just after recording his final scene. They had two daughters, Jemma, also an actress who appeared in the recent revival of Upstairs Downstairs, and Polly, a writer of children’s TV shows including Teacup Travels and Topsy And Tim.
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2015/01/22/21692/pauline_yates,_aka_mrs_reggie_perrin,_dies_at_85
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is that you kenny?
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RIP
First two series still look outstanding of this classic .....less said about series 3 the better. |
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I was in the same class at school as Bruce Bould who was in the series. We got quite pally in the first year. The guy who kept saying super.
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Denville nursing home in Northwood, Middlesex, home of many retired actors
Do they host autograph day for visitors who want to pose for selfies? |
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Wasn't she married to the actor Bob Todd ?
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No. You're getting her mixed up with Pauline Collins. This is Pauline Yates - the one who turned out to be Hughie Green's illegitimate daughter.
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^That was Paula Yates.
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Great !
sorry kens man |
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So who was married to Bob Todd?
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That was Anne Todd,the English actress and producer.
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very good actress, I liked her, r.i.p
a classic |
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No no no no no...Anne Todd was married to Richard Todd, the actor who played Guy Gibson in The Dambusters.(the name my parents gave me).
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Dambuster, that is, Not Guy Gibson,...or. Anne Todd.
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This is like a conversation in an old folks home.
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Ooo. Didn't she used to be on The Tube with that nice Jools Holland? I couldn't stand him.
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I thought Richard Todd was married to Honor Blackman.
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kenny mann 06 Nov 11 23:26 Joined: 29 Apr 10 | Topic/replies: 29,303 | Blogger: kenny mann's blog
She was engaged to Richard Todd, but thought about it and changed her mind. Keep up, kenny. |
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So where does queenie watts come into it then?
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She didn't want to be Honor Todd, presumably!
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V. good
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I liked the Bruce Bould character, and it's GREAT to know that Kenny was his school chum. "Coincidence City, Arizona" as sidekick Tony Webster would doubtless have described it.
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Thanks screaming.
Yes Hanson Grammar 1960 66 alun, David Bairstow was there too, although 2 years below. RIP. Had a lot of laughs with him, he was a funny lad. |