Actress Pauline Yates has died, aged 85.
The British star was best known for her starring role in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979, as the title character's wife Elizabeth Perrin opposite Leonard Rossiter.
She also played the wife of comic-strip artist Dudley Rush (Robert Gillespie) in Keep It In the Family, and starred in Bachelor Father.
Yates's family have said that she "died peacefully in her sleep" yesterday (January 21) in Denville Hall nursing home in Northwood, Middlesex.
During a career that spanned six decades, Yates became a regular performer in 1960s TV series, including Armchair Theatre, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Gideon's Way, Nightingale's Boys, The Human Jungle and The Ronnie Barker Playhouse.
She returned as Elizabeth Perrin for The Legacy of Reginald Perrin in 1996, and continued to perform on stage. Her most recent roles were in Rose and Maloney and Doctors in the early 2000s.
Yates...
The British star was best known for her starring role in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979, as the title character's wife Elizabeth Perrin opposite Leonard Rossiter.
She also played the wife of comic-strip artist Dudley Rush (Robert Gillespie) in Keep It In the Family, and starred in Bachelor Father.
Yates's family have said that she "died peacefully in her sleep" yesterday (January 21) in Denville Hall nursing home in Northwood, Middlesex.
During a career that spanned six decades, Yates became a regular performer in 1960s TV series, including Armchair Theatre, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Gideon's Way, Nightingale's Boys, The Human Jungle and The Ronnie Barker Playhouse.
She returned as Elizabeth Perrin for The Legacy of Reginald Perrin in 1996, and continued to perform on stage. Her most recent roles were in Rose and Maloney and Doctors in the early 2000s.
Yates...
- 1/22/2015
- Digital Spy
Hey Britcom fans! To celebrate the release of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: The Complete Series on DVD today, JustPressPlay is giving away three copies of the box set! If you have heard of it, you know the series has "Comedy Classic" written all over it. In short, it's about a business man at the end of his rope and the funny things he begins to do as he loses his mind. Or you could read our review!
For those of you that have never heard of Reginald Perrin before today, consider the following:
Do you like The Office (UK or Us)? Do you think obsessive compulsive disorder or anxiety attacks can be funny? Do you wish Monk was funnier? Do you like Monty Python? Do you like Fawlty Towers?
If you said yes to one or more of these questions - you ought to enter the contest.
For those of you that have never heard of Reginald Perrin before today, consider the following:
Do you like The Office (UK or Us)? Do you think obsessive compulsive disorder or anxiety attacks can be funny? Do you wish Monk was funnier? Do you like Monty Python? Do you like Fawlty Towers?
If you said yes to one or more of these questions - you ought to enter the contest.
- 5/12/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Like much of the very best of classic British comedy, the likes of Steptoe and Son (remade for the Us as Sanford and Son) and `Till Death Us Do Part (remade as All In The Family), The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin was a zeitgeist television program that effectively captured the idiosyncrasies of a cultural and political climate on the verge of a major shift in values.
Adapted by writer David Hobbs from his own darkly comic series of novels, the short, sharp shock of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin comprised three seasons, and effectively a beginning, middle and end that encompassed one ordinary man’s complete mental breakdown brought about by the suffocating monotony of the everyday.
A comedy of manners that slighted both the middle class and the rise of consumerism in English society, each episode began with the now iconic title sequence that showed...
Adapted by writer David Hobbs from his own darkly comic series of novels, the short, sharp shock of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin comprised three seasons, and effectively a beginning, middle and end that encompassed one ordinary man’s complete mental breakdown brought about by the suffocating monotony of the everyday.
A comedy of manners that slighted both the middle class and the rise of consumerism in English society, each episode began with the now iconic title sequence that showed...
- 5/12/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
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