Dropping like flies...

[caddyman]

I see that Wendy Richard has died from cancer, aged 65.

The BBC obituary is here.

The 65-year-old was diagnosed last year with an aggressive form of cancer that attacked her kidney and spread to the top of her spine and left ribs. She died yesterday morning at the Harley Street Clinic in central London. Husband John Burns was by her bedside.

All the reports talk about her being mainly known for playing the part of Pauline Fowler in Eastenders, but truly speaking, she will always be Miss Brahms, the hapless foil for Mollie Sugden's Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?:


Wendy Richard, MBE (born Wendy Emerton 20 July 1943 – 26 February 2009)

Comments

[mezzogiornouno.livejournal.com]

She also had a number one hit in 1962, although Mike Sarne was the principal artist, but she was the cockernee voice telling him to "leave orff" in "Come Outside". You're right about Miss Brahms though; despite the preoccupation of the tabloids with what goes on in them, not everyone is interested in soaps, but everyone who was around at the time watched "Are you being served?".

"everyone who was around at the time"

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

are you saying there are people who haven't seen that programme?

Re: "everyone who was around at the time"

[mezzogiornouno.livejournal.com]

No, I just meant that different age groups will recall her for different things. A bit like Molly Sugden. Most people (I generalise, but wth) will remember her as Mrs Slocombe, but people even older than me and Mr Caddyman might always associate her with 50's and early 60's "comedy" The Clitheroe Kid

Re: "everyone who was around at the time"

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I remember her as Jimmy Clitheroe's mum!

Re: "everyone who was around at the time"

[mezzogiornouno.livejournal.com]

I saw Jimmy Clitheroe in the Yorkshire Penny Bank in Bingley when I was about 7. In the flesh he looked about 60! (which he may well have been)

[pauln.livejournal.com]

"First floor telephones,
gents ready-made suits,
shirts, socks, ties, hats,
underwear and shoes...going up"

Let's hope she is.

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

i listened to that track like 3 times after reading this.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Despite her decades of misery and whinging, Miss Brahms will be missed. I think the Beeb lost a good comic actress when they signed her up for that moribund pile of shite.

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

As a friend of mine said, one hopes she is already happy, reunited with Mrs Slocum's pussy.