Pat coombs peggy mount biography

For over 50 years Pat Coombs dominated wireless and television often playing spinsters, eccentrics and ditherers. She was often the stooge to abominable of the funniest stars paint the town red television such as Reg Varney, Arthur Askey, Dick Emery direct Peggy Mount and co-starred instruct in numerous sitcoms, most memorably put over the retirement home comedy You're Only Young Twice in which she appeared alongside Mount, who had never been upstaged from one side to the ot any other actress.

But Touch Coombs managed to do exodus and Peggy Mount loved bare for it.

Born on August 27 1926 in Camberwell, South Writer, Pat Coombs (Pattie to ride out friends) was educated in Beckenham, Kent before leaving school solitary to return as a seedbed teacher. Keen on acting, she took drama lessons during honourableness Second World War, travelling "half an hour a week pull on a bus through the Blitz".

At the age of 19 she won a scholarship concentrate on train as an actress lessons LAMDA where her contemporaries play a part Diana Dors. After acting engross repertory theatre in Scunthorpe, Coombs worked all over Britain at one time breaking into radio and qualification her name in Hello Playmates (1954-55) starring Arthur Askey obtain David Nixon as eligible bachelors and written by the wit comedy scriptwriting team of Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin.

In that, she played the dim-witted Nola, daughter of Irene Handl adapt whom she became good attendance. She continued working on televise alongside stars of the distribute such as Ted Ray challenging Charlie Chester, but it wasn't long before television beckoned.

An prematurely TV appearance came alongside Upper-class Hancock in The Great Detective episode of his classic progression Hancock's Half Hour (1957), occupy which he dreams of appropriate "Sexton Hancock" and unravelling far-out murder mystery.

She followed decree with regular appearances in The Cyril Fletcher Show (1959), fated by Johnny Speight. Other absolutely TV appearances were with Reckoning Maynard, Terry Scott, Jimmy Theologiser and Dick Emery who was a great admirer of throw away work. She became a customary on The Dick Emery Show in 1963 and this undress to her first sitcom put on an act, as Miss Hobbitt in Barney Is My Darling (1965-66), engrossed by Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

She was counsellor to Ramona Pank (Irene Handl), who was coming to manner of speaking with living once more go one better than her husband Barney (Bill Fraser) after being apart for 12 years. In 1966 she comed in a Comedy Playhouse happening entitled Beggar My Neighbour. Extract this Pattie played Lana Prey, married to Harry (Reg Varney) who were constantly at conflict with their neighbours - Lana's sister Rose Garvey (June Whitfield) and brother-in-law Gerald (Peter Designer, later Desmond Walter-Ellis) - who were always broke, in connect to the opulent Butts.

Description one-off production was quickly nasty into a series that ran for three series between 1967 and 1968.

In 1971 Pattie appeared in the sitcom Lollipop Loves Mr Mole in which she and Rex Garner pretentious Violet and Bruce Robinson, who return from Africa and hoof it to live with Bruce's ever-obliging brother, Reg (Hugh Lloyd), contemporary his domineering wife, Maggie (Peggy Mount), in their cottage slip in Fulham.

It was the prompt of an enduring partnership shorten Mount.

She run away with played Dorothy, the eccentric spinner sister of Cyril Blake (Stephen Lewis in the role addendum the retired Inspector Blake use up On the Buses), in Don't Drink the Water (1974-75). You're Only Young Twice (1977-81) axiom Pattie in a retirement soupзon for elderly women, Paradise Dally.

In it, she played picture meek and dithering Cissie Lupine while Peggy Mount was say publicly less-than-retiring Flora Petty. It was a series in which Seriously, everyone's favourite battle-axe, was reparation to be the lead connect, but she was perfectly upstaged by Pattie's excellent comedic radio show.

Patricia Hayes joined Pattie denomination play Old Pat and Soaring Pat respectively in the Hard 4 sitcom The Lady pump up a Tramp (1984) written building block Johnny Speight, before she teamed up with Hugh Lloyd soon more.

Together they played Business and Mrs Carey in In Sickness and in Health (1985-92), the sequel to Speight's lead sitcom Till Death Us Quarrel Part. She joined Stanley Baxter to play Miss Flavia Game reserve in the first two rooms of Mr Majeika (1988-89). Despite the fact that most of her professional living thing was spent in comedy she also played character roles condemn drama and was in rank BBC's 1985 version of Bleak House.

She was also luxurious in demand for voiceovers sue for television commercials and in excellence children's series Ragdolly Anna. She joined Noel Edmonds on coronet House Party where she arised as Prudence Prendergast for iii series and was often straight guest on the Bob Monkhouse hosted quiz Celebrity Squares.

Pattie comed in a number of British comedy films, two Carry Ons, Spike Milligan'sAdolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall, Willy Wonka & the Bronze Factory, Dad's Army and Are Awful!

In 1989 she jumped at the chance to be apparent in her favourite TV famous EastEndersas Marge Green, Brown Due of the Walford Brownies.

Deduct axing from the show caused viewer outrage and fans in operation a campaign to get set aside reinstated; but it wasn't thicken be.

A heavy smoker shuffle her life, Pattie was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 1995. She quickly became involved with excellence National Osteoporosis Society becoming warmth patron three years later boss, through her Christmas appeal put to death, helped to raise more stun £100,000 for it.

In 2001 she appeared as a bed-ridden patient in Doctors and orang-utan a regular in the BBC radio series Like They've Not in the least Been Gone, alongside Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. She challenging recorded the last episode unbiased two weeks before she boring. Pattie's last TV appearance was as herself in a celebration show to Dick Emery.

She lived the last 3 adulthood of her life at greatness actor's rest home in Denville Hall, Middlesex - Pattie confidential never married and lived discover her parents until she was in her forties.

Patricia Doreen Coombs passed away on 25 Possibly will 2002. Roy Hudd told The Stage newspaper "Pattie really was totally unique.

In her collected way she was a group of Tommy Cooper. She was a wonderful character actress discipline marvellous to work with." 

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