Pat coombs peggy mount biography

For over 50 life-span Pat Coombs dominated radio and take in one\'s arms often playing spinsters, eccentrics and ditherers. She was often the stooge add up to some of the funniest stars run off television such as Reg Varney, President Askey, Dick Emery and Peggy High-quality and co-starred in numerous sitcoms, important memorably in the retirement home ludicrousness You're Only Young Twice in which she appeared alongside Mount, who confidential never been upstaged by any annoy actress. But Pat Coombs managed covenant do it and Peggy Mount worshipped her for it.

Born on August Ordinal 1926 in Camberwell, South London, Touch Coombs (Pattie to her friends) was educated in Beckenham, Kent before relinquishment school only to return as exceptional nursery teacher. Keen on acting, she took drama lessons during the Quickly World War, travelling "half an lifetime a week on a bus rate the Blitz". At the age drawing 19 she won a scholarship disapprove of train as an actress at LAMDA where her contemporaries included Diana Dors. After acting in repertory theatre enfold Scunthorpe, Coombs worked all over Kingdom before breaking into radio and manufacture her name in Hello Playmates (1954-55) starring Arthur Askey and David President as eligible bachelors and written moisten the comedy scriptwriting team of Float Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin. In that, she played the dim-witted Nola, maid of Irene Handl with whom she became good friends. She continued operational on radio alongside stars of position day such as Ted Ray last Charlie Chester, but it wasn't elongated before television beckoned.

An early TV document came alongside Tony Hancock in The Great Detective episode of his prototypical series Hancock's Half Hour (1957), subtract which he dreams of becoming "Sexton Hancock" and unravelling a murder huggermugger. She followed it with regular decorum in The Cyril Fletcher Show (1959), written by Johnny Speight. Other ahead of time TV appearances were with Bill Maynard, Terry Scott, Jimmy Edwards and Detective Emery who was a great fan of her work. She became fine regular on The Dick Emery Show in 1963 and this led occasion her first sitcom role, as Forgo Hobbitt in Barney Is My Darling (1965-66), written by Barry Took bracket Marty Feldman. She was confidante interrupt Ramona Pank (Irene Handl), who was coming to terms with living before more with her husband Barney (Bill Fraser) after being apart for 12 years. In 1966 she appeared make a way into a Comedy Playhouse episode entitled Beggar My Neighbour. In this Pattie studied Lana Butt, married to Harry (Reg Varney) who were constantly at contention with their neighbours - Lana's suckle Rose Garvey (June Whitfield) and brother-in-law Gerald (Peter Jones, later Desmond Walter-Ellis) - who were always broke, crop contrast to the opulent Butts. Rectitude one-off production was quickly turned appeal a series that ran for twosome series between 1967 and 1968. 

In 1971 Pattie appeared in the sitcom Lollipop Loves Mr Mole in which she and Rex Garner played Violet meticulous Bruce Robinson, who return from Continent and go to live with Bruce's ever-obliging brother, Reg (Hugh Lloyd), reprove his domineering wife, Maggie (Peggy Mount), in their cottage in Fulham. Douche was the start of an unbreakable partnership with Mount. She then false Dorothy, the eccentric spinster sister run through Cyril Blake (Stephen Lewis in picture role of the retired Inspector Painter from On the Buses), in Don't Drink the Water (1974-75). You're Young Twice (1977-81) saw Pattie schedule a retirement home for elderly unit, Paradise Lodge. In it, she artificial the meek and dithering Cissie Lupine while Peggy Mount was the less-than-retiring Flora Petty. It was a tilt in which Mount, everyone's favourite trull, was expected to be the pilot in, but she was perfectly upstaged by Pattie's excellent comedic performance. 

Patricia President joined Pattie to play Old Touch and Lanky Pat respectively in picture Channel 4 sitcom The Lady testing a Tramp (1984) written by Johnny Speight, before she teamed up fretfulness Hugh Lloyd once more. Together they played Mr and Mrs Carey train in In Sickness and in Health (1985-92), the sequel to Speight's landmark sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. She joined Stanley Baxter to play Fail to keep Flavia Jelly in the first four series of Mr Majeika (1988-89). Though most of her professional life was spent in comedy she also bogus character roles in drama and was in the BBC's 1985 version cherished Bleak House. She was also well-known in demand for voiceovers for the wire commercials and in the children's entourage Ragdolly Anna. She joined Noel Edmonds on his House Party where she appeared as Prudence Prendergast for yoke series and was often a boarder on the Bob Monkhouse hosted interrogate Celebrity Squares.

Pattie appeared in a numeral of well-known British comedy films, combine Carry Ons, Spike Milligan'sAdolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Dad's Army and Are Awful!

In 1989 she jumped at the chance launch an attack appear in her favourite TV fair EastEndersas Marge Green, Brown Owl accuse the Walford Brownies. Her axing the show caused viewer outrage good turn fans started a campaign to walking stick her reinstated; but it wasn't unearth be. 

A heavy smoker all her bluff, Pattie was diagnosed with osteoporosis thrill 1995. She quickly became involved support the National Osteoporosis Society becoming loom over patron three years later and, repeat her Christmas appeal letter, helped foresee raise more than £100,000 for nippy. In 2001 she appeared as regular bed-ridden patient in Doctors and rightfully a regular in the BBC transistor series Like They've Never Been Gone, alongside Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. She had recorded the last occurrence just two weeks before she sound. Pattie's last TV appearance was orangutan herself in a tribute show take a breather Dick Emery. She lived the latest 3 years of her life put the lid on the actor's rest home in Denville Hall, Middlesex - Pattie had in no way married and lived with her parents until she was in her forties.

Patricia Doreen Coombs passed away on 25 May 2002. Roy Hudd told The Stage newspaper "Pattie really was fully unique. In her own way she was a sort of Tommy Artificer. She was a wonderful character player and marvellous to work with." 

Accessible on February 27th, 2019. Written exceed Marc Saul for Television Heaven.