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Dateline: 3rd July, 2009
Mollie Sugden (1922 - 2009) Comedy actress Mollie Sugden, best known as Mrs Slocombe in the long-running TV sitcom Are You Being Served?, has died just weeks before her 87th birthday after a long illness. She was born in Keighley where she worked in a munitions factory when war broke out just after she left school. She was made redundant and went ot the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, after which she worked in rep for eight years alongside Eric Sykes and Roy Dotrice. Although she made appearances on both radio and TV, it was not until she played Mrs Crispin for five series in Hugh and I, which starred Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd (1962 - 1966). From 1971tro 1979 she played Nerys Hughes' snobbish mother Mrs Hutchinson in The Liver Birds. She played Mrs Slocombe, the part with which she is most associated, from 1972 to 1985 in Are You Being Served?, and then in the follow-up Grace and Favour, which ran for two series. She also appeared intermittently in Coronation Street between 1965 and 1976. Other TV appearances included Benny Hill, Just Jimmy (as Jimmy Clitheroe's mother), Z-Cars, Up Pompeii!, The Goodies, Steptoe and Son and Jackanory. She also played Robin Nedwell's mother in Doctor in Charge (1972) and John Alderton's in My Wife Next Door (1972). She leaves twin sons. Her husband, whom she met and married while working at Swansea Rep, died in 2000.
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