Yootha Joyce (Actress) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Yootha Joyce Female Born Aug 20, 1927 Yootha Joyce was an English actress, best known for playing Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred. related links Dyer Tribe: Dees Shouldn't Play Hard To Get Melbounre Times Weekly Google News - Aug 23, 2011 'They&#39;re the footy equivalent of thumbing through an old <mark>Yootha Joyce</mark> fan magazine under a freezing cold shower. It was great to see the Tigers carve their initials into Melbourne&#39;s private school hearts to see if they really did bleed blue' The Inbetweeners Movie: When Comedy Takes A Break The Independent Google News - Aug 14, 2011 'Brian Murphy and <mark>Yootha Joyce</mark> reprised the eponymous characters in one of the countless spin-offs from 1970s sitcoms.

To celebrate their wedding anniversary, Mildred decides they should have a break in a posh London hotel, despite George&#39;s concerns' For Sale: Burial Plots X 2. Genuine Reason, Owner Moving Away Expressandstar.Com (Blog) Google News - Jul 22, 2011 'This week, their house was about to be demolished and Mildred (<mark>Yootha Joyce</mark>) urged George (Brian Murphy): âWe can&#39;t just sit here like King Canute.â George replied: âI can&#39;t see what burning the cakes has to do with it.â Pause and consider this' Town In Shock Over Pier Theatre's Plight Bournemouth Echo Google News - May 29, 2011 'The theatre has played host to some of entertainment&#39;s top names over its 51 years, including Sid James, Arthur Askey, <mark>Yootha Joyce</mark>, Brian Murphy and Les Dawson. Mr Jarvis, who lives in Bournemouth and became a star on the CBeebies channel,' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Yootha Joyce.

CHILDHOOD 1927 Birth Born on August 20, 1927. TWENTIES 1956 28 Years Old In 1956 she married the actor Glynn Edwards, best known for playing Dave, landlord of the Winchester Club in Minder. … Read More It was through Edwards that she first came to prominence in the renowned Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, appearing at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be and going on to make her film debut in Sparrows Can't Sing (1963). Read Less FORTIES 1968 40 Years Old Joyce and Edwards divorced in 1968 but remained close friends, to the extent that she used to console him after his subsequent relationships broke down.

… Read More In the 1960s and 1970s she became a familiar face in many one-off sitcom roles and supporting parts in films, with her first main recurring role being Miss Argyll, frustrated girlfriend of the title star Milo O'Shea in three series of Me Mammy (1968â71); the tapes of that series are now lost. Prior to that, she played a cameo role in Jack Clayton's The Pumpkin Eater (1964) as a psychotic young woman opposite Anne Bancroft, delivering a performance that has been called one of the "best screen acting miniatures one could hope to see." She also had a featured role (as brassy housekeeper Mrs Quayle) in Clayton's next film Our Mother's House (1967), a dark drama starring Dirk Bogarde, which dealt with a group of young children who conceal the death of their single mother to prevent being split up.

Read Less 1973 45 Years Old It was not until 1973 that she acquired a starring role, when she was cast as man-hungry Mildred Roper, wife of sub-letting landlord George, in the sitcom Man About the House. … Read More This series, which starred Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, and Brian Murphy as George Roper, ran until 1976, deriving its comic narrative from two young women and a young man sharing the flat above the Ropers. Read Less 1976 48 Years Old When the series ended, a spin-off was written featuring the Ropers; George and Mildred was first broadcast in 1976. … Read More The couple were seen moving from the London house in Middleton Terrace in the previous programme and into a newer suburban property in Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick. Much of the new series centred on Mildred's desire to better herself in her new surroundings, but always being thwarted, usually unwittingly, by her lifeskills-lacking husband's desire for a quiet life.<br /><br /> Joyce's high-profile roles in the two sitcoms concealed her alcoholism.

Read Less FIFTIES An Audience with Linda Regan & Brian Murphy » The Cinema Museum, London An Audience with Linda Regan & Brian Murphy Thu 28 Apr 2011 @ 19:30 · Events For this evening’s event, well-loved comedy actor Brian Murphy and his wife, actress & crime novelist Linda Regan, look back at their careers in film, theatre, television and fiction-writing. Brian Murphy was an original member of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop, alongside many other now-famous names whose careers were launched in this radical ensemble, including his later TV co-star Yootha Joyce, Sheila Hancock, Harry H. Corbett and Murray Melvin. While with the company, he created the roles he played on stage in Sparrers Can’t Sing (1960) and Oh, What a Lovely War! (1963), the former performance being reprised in a subsequent film version.

Brian Murphy / Yootha Joyce A jobbing actor in the 1960s and early 1970s, he combined his theatre work with appearances in classic television shows including The Avengers, Z Cars and Dixon of Dock Green, before being cast in the role which would make him a household name, as the lazy and scheming George Roper. He played opposite Yootha Joyce’s Mildred in first Man About the House, with Richard O’Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, and then George and Mildred, both hugely successful series, from 1973 until 1980. There were movie spin-offs for both shows, while other films include Ken Russell’s The Devils and The Boyfriend. At the consumer end of the film industry, Brian is a keen film collector and Patron of the British Film Collectors Convention. Jeffrey Holland / Linda Regan Born into a theatrical family, Linda Regan has been a professional actress all her working life.

Best remembered as April the lovestruck Yellowcoat, often reprimanded for “mooning after Spike” (Jeffrey Holland) in the smash hit BBC sitcom Hi-De-Hi, Linda has worked extensively in television, appearing in both comedy and drama series, including the Bob Mortimer-penned sketch show Tittybangbang and Lynda La Plante’s ITV drama Framed. Her films include Carry on England, Quadrophenia and The Last Horror Movie. Linda is also a successful crime writer, her work frequently set in the sleazy underbelly of the entertainments industry. “I am passionate about South London – it is the place I call home … My training and long career as an actress has a strong influence on my crime writing. As a performer I am led by my emotions and I now realise that as a writer I am driven in exactly the same way, ie I write about things I feel an emotional connection to. I know I only want to write about South London crime.” Linda is currently working on her fourth novel. This event is expected to end around 22.00.

Tickets & Pricing 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road) London SE11 4TH Yootha Joyce - Buy, Rent, and Watch Movies & TV on Flixster Yootha Joyce Aug 20, 1927 Bio: Yootha Joyce was an English stage, movie, and television actress who spent two decades mostly playing intensely sinister or comedic supporting roles before she emerged to stardom on British television as the sexually frustrated Mildred Roper on the sitcom Man About the House (which was retooled for America as Three's Company) and its spin-off, George… More Bio: Yootha Joyce was an English stage, movie, and television actress who spent two decades mostly playing intensely sinister or comedic supporting roles before she emerged to stardom on British television as the sexually frustrated Mildred Roper on the sitcom Man About the House (which was retooled for America as Three's Company) and its spin-off, George and Mildred (which was redone in the United States as The Ropers). In both of the series, she was teamed opposite character actor Brian Murphy, who played her husband, George.

Born Yootha Joyce Needham in London in 1927, she was the daughter of singer Hurst Needham and concert pianist Jessica Revitt. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where one of her fellow students was a young Roger Moore. She pursued a career as a working actress across the 1950s, achieving her first success with the Joan Littlewood theater company, through which she also made her screen debut in 1963 with the feature Sparrows Can't Sing. Joyce became known on British television over the next few years in one-off supporting roles, and international audiences began discovering her starting in 1964 with her work in Jack Clayton's feature film The Pumpkin Eater, working alongside Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch. Joyce reached a somewhat younger and wider audience -- especially in subsequent television broadcasts of the movie -- with her powerful performance as the sinister servant in Silvio Narizzano's chiller Fanatic (U.S. title: Die! Die! My Darling!, 1965), working in a cast that included Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers.

Joyce subsequently had prominent supporting roles, often with a sinister or comedic twist (or, sometimes, both), in movies as different as Having a Wild Weekend (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Charlie Bubbles (1967), and The Horrors of Burke and Hare (1971). Joyce also showed up on a lot of British television during the early to mid-'60s, though the only one of those appearances that international viewers likely would have seen was an episode of The Avengers, entitled "Something Nasty in the Nursery" (1967). She was doing more and more film work as the 1970s began when, in 1973, she was cast in the role of Mildred Roper in Man About the House. The latter ensured her of lasting fame as the wry-witted, frustrated landlord's wife. The role also made her enough of a star to afford her appearances as a guest on U.K. variety shows -- and it turned out that Joyce was a singer as well as an actress.

She and her co-star Brian Murphy also got their own series, George and Mildred, which led to a feature film of the same name that wasn't released until after her death in 1980. Joyce had grappled with chronic alcoholism for decades, never beating the disease completely; she died of complications from the disease a few days after her 53rd birthday, in August of 1980. Her final television appearance, broadcast more than five months after her death, was on a Max Bygraves variety show taped shortly before her death, on which she sang the Carpenters' hit "For All We Know." She was later the subject of a tribute by the rock group the Smiths, who used her image in connection with their 1986 single "Ask." And in 2001, a documentary about the actress, entitled The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce and featuring contributions by her surviving co-stars and colleagues, was broadcast on England's ITV network.

Most Popular Birthplace: Not Available Yootha Joyce was an English stage, movie, and television actress who spent two decades mostly playing intensely sinister or comedic supporting roles before she emerged to stardom on British television as the sexually frustrated Mildred Roper on the sitcom Man About the House (which was retooled for America as Three's Company) and its spin-off, George and Mildred (which was redone in the United States as The Ropers). In both of the series, she was teamed opposite character actor Brian Murphy, who played her husband, George. Born Yootha Joyce Needham in London in 1927, she was the daughter of singer Hurst Needham and concert pianist Jessica Revitt. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where one of her fellow students was a young Roger Moore. She pursued a career as a working actress across the 1950s, achieving her first success with the Joan Littlewood theater company, through which she also made her screen debut in 1963 with the feature Sparrows Can't Sing.

Joyce became known on British television over the next few years in one-off supporting roles, and international audiences began discovering her starting in 1964 with her work in Jack Clayton's feature film The Pumpkin Eater, working alongside Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch. Joyce reached a somewhat younger and wider audience -- especially in subsequent television broadcasts of the movie -- with her powerful performance as the sinister servant in Silvio Narizzano's chiller Fanatic (U.S. title: Die! Die! My Darling!, 1965), working in a cast that included Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers. Joyce subsequently had prominent supporting roles, often with a sinister or comedic twist (or, sometimes, both), in movies as different as Having a Wild Weekend (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Charlie Bubbles (1967), and The Horrors of Burke and Hare (1971).

Joyce also showed up on a lot of British television during the early to mid-'60s, though the only one of those appearances that international viewers likely would have seen was an episode of The Avengers, entitled "Something Nasty in the Nursery" (1967). She was doing more and more film work as the 1970s began when, in 1973, she was cast in the role of Mildred Roper in Man About the House. The latter ensured her of lasting fame as the wry-witted, frustrated landlord's wife. The role also made her enough of a star to afford her appearances as a guest on U.K. variety shows -- and it turned out that Joyce was a singer as well as an actress. She and her co-star Brian Murphy also got their own series, George and Mildred, which led to a feature film of the same name that wasn't released until after her death in 1980. Joyce had grappled with chronic alcoholism for decades, never beating the disease completely; she died of complications from the disease a few days after her 53rd birthday, in August of 1980.

Her final television appearance, broadcast more than five months after her death, was on a Max Bygraves variety show taped shortly before her death, on which she sang the Carpenters' hit "For All We Know." She was later the subject of a tribute by the rock group the Smiths, who used her image in connection with their 1986 single "Ask." And in 2001, a documentary about the actress, entitled The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce and featuring contributions by her surviving co-stars and colleagues, was broadcast on England's ITV network. Filmography Yootha Joyce - Found a GraveFound a Grave z Yootha Joyce (Yootha Joyce Needham) Yootha Joyce Needham was born in Wandsworth, London, the only child of musical parents Hurst Needham, a well-known singer, and Jessica Revitt, a concert pianist. Her mother named her “Yootha” an Aboriginal name meaning “thirsty” ) Joyce was evacuated to Hampshire during World War II. She left school at 15, then trained at RADA where Roger Moore was a fellow student and toured with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA).

In 1958, she married the actor Glynn Edwards, best known for playing Dave, landlord of the Winchester Club in Minder. It was through Edwards that she first came to prominence in the renowned Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, appearing at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be[4] and going on to make her film debut in Sparrers Can’t Sing (1963). Joyce and Edwards divorced in 1968 but remained close friends, to the extent that she used to console him after his subsequent relationships broke down. In the 1960s and 1970s, she became a familiar face in many one-off sitcom roles and supporting parts in films, with her first main recurring role being Miss Argyll, frustrated girlfriend of the title star Milo O’Shea in three series of Me Mammy (1968–71), although the tapes of that series are now lost.

Prior to that, she played a cameo role in Jack Clayton’s The Pumpkin Eater (1964) as a psychotic young woman opposite Anne Bancroft, delivering a performance that has been called one of the “best screen acting miniatures one could hope to see.” She also had a featured role (as brassy housekeeper Mrs Quayle) in Clayton’s next film Our Mother’s House (1967), a dark drama starring Dirk Bogarde, which dealt with a group of young children who conceal the death of their single mother to prevent being split up. Her talent for comedy was also used to good effect in programmes such as Steptoe and Son and On the Buses. She made appearances in the films Catch Us If You Can, A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Charlie Bubbles, (1967) as well as TV spin-off films Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width (1973), Nearest and Dearest (1972) and Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973). She also appeared as customer Mrs. Scully in the pilot episode of Open All Hours (1973).

It was not until 1973 that she acquired a starring role, when she was cast as man-hungry Mildred Roper, wife of sub-letting landlord George, in the sitcom Man About the House. This series, which starred Richard O’Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, and Brian Murphy, as George Roper, ran until 1976 and found comedy from two young women and a young man sharing the flat above the Ropers. When the series ended, a spin-off was written featuring the Ropers; George and Mildred was first broadcast in 1976. The couple were seen moving from the London house in Middleton Terrace in the previous programme and into a newer suburban property in Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick. Much of the new series centred on Mildred’s desire to better herself in her new surroundings, but always being thwarted, usually unwittingly, by her lifeskills-lacking husband’s desire for a quiet life. Joyce’s high-profile roles in the two sitcoms concealed her alcoholism. A feature film was made of George and Mildred in 1980, but this was her last work.

Amidst growing concern over her health she was admitted to hospital in the summer of 1980. Joyce died in hospital of liver failure four days after her 53rd birthday on 24 August 1980. Her good friend Brian Murphy, who played her screen husband George Roper, was at her bedside. She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. At the inquest into her death, it was revealed that she had been drinking upwards of half a bottle of brandy a day for ten years, and that she had, in the words of her lawyer Mario Uziell-Hamilton, become a victim of her own success and the thought of being typecast as Mildred Roper. She appeared posthumously in her last recorded television performance, duetting with Max Bygraves on his variety show, Max. The episode was aired on January 14, 1981. The actor/comedian Kenneth Williams wrote of the performance that “…she looked as though she was crying…” He also went on to mention her in a later entry in his diary (9 April 1988) that she was “a lady who made so many people happy and a lady who never complained”.

In 1986, the Smiths used an image of Joyce on the sleeve of their UK single release “Ask” and the German release of “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others”, thereby adding her to what would become a significant set of musical releases, made iconic by their notable design (other Smiths ‘cover stars’ included Truman Capote, Terence Stamp, Elvis Presley, Pat Phoenix and Billie Whitelaw, Alan Closs). In 2001, a tribute documentary entitled The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce was broadcast by ITV, which featured many of her co-stars and friends, including Sally Thomsett, Brian Murphy and Norman Eshley, talking about memories and their relationships with Joyce. In 2014 a biography was written on her, entitled Dear Yootha… The Life of Yootha Joyce, in which reliable contributions were made by those who knew and worked with her, including Glynn Edwards, Murray Melvin and Barbara Windsor. Born Yootha Joyce - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia I Live my life to the Fullest!!! coz you know you only get one !!!

Yootha Joyce Cause of death Liver failure Name Yootha Joyce Full Name Yootha Joyce Needham Born 20 August 1927 (1927-08-20) Wandsworth, London, England, UK Died August 24, 1980, London, United Kingdom Spouse Glynn Edwards (m. 1956–1968) Buried Golders Green Crematorium, London, United Kingdom Parents Hurst Needham, Jessica Revitt Movies and TV shows George and Mildred, Man About the House, Fanatic, The Pumpkin Eater, A Man for All Seasons Similar People Brian Murphy, Norman Eshley, Glynn Edwards, Richard O'Sullivan, Sally Thomsett Who is yootha joyce Sponsored Links Yootha Joyce (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980) was an English actress, best known for playing Mildred Roper in sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred.

The unforgettable yootha joyce documentary 2001 Early life Yootha Joyce Needham was born in Wandsworth, London, the only child of musical parents Hurst Needham, a well-known singer, and Jessica Revitt, a concert pianist. Her mother named her "Yootha" an Aboriginal name meaning "thirsty". Joyce was evacuated to Hampshire during World War II. She left school at 15, then trained at RADA where Roger Moore was a fellow student and toured with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). In 1958, she married the actor Glynn Edwards, best known for playing Dave, landlord of the Winchester Club in Minder. It was through Edwards that she first came to prominence in the renowned Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, appearing at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be and going on to make her film debut in Sparrers Can't Sing (1963). Joyce and Edwards divorced in 1968 but remained close friends, to the extent that she used to console him after his subsequent relationships broke down.

Career In the 1960s and 1970s, she became a familiar face in many one-off sitcom roles and supporting parts in films, with her first main recurring role being Miss Argyll, frustrated girlfriend of the title star Milo O'Shea in three series of Me Mammy (1968–71), although the tapes of that series are now lost. Prior to that, she played a cameo role in Jack Clayton's The Pumpkin Eater (1964) as a psychotic young woman opposite Anne Bancroft, delivering a performance that has been called one of the "best screen acting miniatures one could hope to see." She also had a featured role (as brassy housekeeper Mrs Quayle) in Clayton's next film Our Mother's House (1967), a dark drama starring Dirk Bogarde, which dealt with a group of young children who conceal the death of their single mother to prevent being split up. Sponsored Links Her talent for comedy was also used to good effect in programmes such as Steptoe and Son and On the Buses.

She made appearances in the films Catch Us If You Can, A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Charlie Bubbles, (1967) as well as TV spin-off films Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width (1973), Nearest and Dearest (1972) and Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973). She also appeared as customer Mrs. Scully in the pilot episode of Open All Hours (1973) Mildred Roper It was not until 1973 that she acquired a starring role, when she was cast as man-hungry Mildred Roper, wife of sub-letting landlord George, in the sitcom Man About the House. This series, which starred Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, and Brian Murphy, as George Roper, ran until 1976, deriving its comic narrative from two young women and a young man sharing the flat above the Ropers. When the series ended, a spin-off was written featuring the Ropers; George and Mildred was first broadcast in 1976.

The couple were seen moving from the London house in Middleton Terrace in the previous programme and into a newer suburban property in Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick. Much of the new series centred on Mildred's desire to better herself in her new surroundings, but always being thwarted, usually unwittingly, by her lifeskills-lacking husband's desire for a quiet life. Final years and death Joyce's high-profile roles in the two sitcoms concealed her alcoholism. A feature film was made of George and Mildred in 1980, but this was her last work. Amidst growing concern over her health she was admitted to hospital in the summer of 1980. Joyce died in hospital of liver failure four days after her 53rd birthday on 24 August 1980. Her good friend Brian Murphy, who played her screen husband George Roper, was at her bedside. She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.

At the inquest into her death, it was revealed that she had been drinking upwards of half a bottle of brandy a day for ten years, and that she had, in the words of her lawyer Mario Uziell-Hamilton, become a victim of her own success and the thought of being typecast as Mildred Roper. She appeared posthumously in her last recorded television performance, duetting with Max Bygraves on his variety show, Max. The episode was aired on 14 January 1981. The actor/comedian Kenneth Williams wrote of the performance that "...she looked as though she was crying..." He also went on to mention her in a later entry in his diary (9 April 1988) that she was "a lady who made so many people happy and a lady who never complained".

In 1986, the Smiths used an image of Joyce on the sleeve of their UK single release "Ask" and the German release of "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", thereby adding her to what would become a significant set of musical releases, made iconic by their notable design (other Smiths 'cover stars' included Truman Capote, Terence Stamp, Elvis Presley, Pat Phoenix and Billie Whitelaw, Alan Closs). In 2001, a tribute documentary entitled The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce was broadcast by ITV, which featured many of her co-stars and friends, including Sally Thomsett, Brian Murphy and Norman Eshley, talking about memories and their relationships with Joyce. In 2014 a biography was written on her, entitled Dear Yootha... The Life of Yootha Joyce, in which reliable contributions were made by those who knew and worked with her, including Glynn Edwards, Murray Melvin and Barbara Windsor.

Filmography Sparrers Can't Sing (1962) as Barmaid The Pumpkin Eater (1964) as Woman at Hairdressers Fanatic (1965) as Anna Catch Us If You Can (1965) as Nan Kaleidoscope (1966) A Man for All Seasons (1966) Stranger in the House (1967) Charlie Bubbles (1967) Who is Yootha Joyce? - YouTube Who is Yootha Joyce? Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Aug 24, 2015 Who is Yootha Joyce Read more about the life of Yootha in Paul Curran's book "Dear Yootha...: The Life of Yootha Joyce".

Image courtesy Yootha Joyce Archive Yootha Joyce (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980) was an English actress, best known for playing Mildred Roper in sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred. Yootha Joyce Needham was born in Wandsworth, London. Joyce was evacuated to Hampshire during World War II. She left school at 15, then trained at RADA where Roger Moore was a fellow student and toured with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). In 1958, she married the actor Glynn Edwards, best known for playing Dave, landlord of the Winchester Club in Minder. It was through Edwards that she first came to prominence in the renowned Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, appearing at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be and going on to make her film debut in Sparrers Can't Sing (1963). Joyce and Edwards divorced in 1968 but remained close friends, to the extent that she used to console him after his subsequent relationships broke down.

In the 1960s and 1970s, she became a familiar face in many one-off sitcom roles and supporting parts in films, with her first main recurring role being Miss Argyll, frustrated girlfriend of the title star Milo O'Shea in three series of Me Mammy (1968–71), although the tapes of that series are now lost. Prior to that, she played a cameo role in Jack Clayton's The Pumpkin Eater (1964) as a psychotic young woman opposite Anne Bancroft, delivering a performance that has been called one of the "best screen acting miniatures one could hope to see." She also had a featured role (as brassy housekeeper Mrs Quayle) in Clayton's next film Our Mother's House (1967), a dark drama starring Dirk Bogarde, which dealt with a group of young children who conceal the death of their single mother to prevent being split up. Her talent for comedy was also used to good effect in programmes such as Steptoe and Son and On the Buses.

She made appearances in the films Catch Us If You Can, A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Charlie Bubbles, (1967) as well as TV spin-off films Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width (1973), Nearest and Dearest (1972) and Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973). She also appeared as customer Mrs. Scully in the pilot episode of Open All Hours (1973) It was not until 1973 that she acquired a starring role, when she was cast as man-hungry Mildred Roper, wife of sub-letting landlord George, in the sitcom Man About the House. This series, which starred Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, and Brian Murphy, as George Roper, ran until 1976 and found comedy from two young women and a young man sharing the flat above the Ropers. When the series ended, a spin-off was written featuring the Ropers; George and Mildred was first broadcast in 1976.

The couple were seen moving from the London house in Middleton Terrace in the previous programme and into a newer suburban property in Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick. Much of the new series centred on Mildred's desire to better herself in her new surroundings, but always being thwarted, usually unwittingly, by her lifeskills-lacking husband's desire for a quiet life. Joyce's high-profile roles in the two sitcoms concealed her alcoholism. A feature film was made of George and Mildred in 1980, but this was her last work. Amidst growing concern over her health she was admitted to hospital in the summer of 1980. Joyce died in hospital of liver failure four days after her 53rd birthday on 24 August 1980. Her good friend Brian Murphy, who played her screen husband George Roper, was at her bedside. She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.

At the inquest into her death, it was revealed that she had been drinking upwards of half a bottle of brandy a day for ten years, and that she had, in the words of her lawyer Mario Uziell-Hamilton, become a victim of her own success and the thought of being typecast as Mildred Roper. In 1986, the Smiths used an image of Joyce on the sleeve of their UK single release "Ask" and the German release of "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", thereby adding her to what would become a significant set of musical releases, made iconic by their notable design (other Smiths 'cover stars' included Truman Capote, Terence Stamp, Elvis Presley, Pat Phoenix and Billie Whitelaw, Alan Closs). In 2001, a tribute documentary entitled The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce was broadcast by ITV, which featured many of her co-stars and friends, including Sally Thomsett, Brian Murphy and Norman Eshley, talking about memories and their relationships with Joyce. In 2014 a biography was written on her, entitled Dear Yootha...

The Life of Yootha Joyce, in which reliable contributions were made by those who knew and worked with her, including Glynn Edwards, Murray Melvin and Barbara Windsor. Category Brian Murphy - IMDb IMDb Actor | Soundtrack | Writer Brian Murphy was born on September 25, 1932 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England as Brian Trevor John Murphy. He is an actor, known for Last of the Summer Wine (1973), George & Mildred (1976) and Man About the House (1973). He has been married to Linda Regan since March 14, 1995. He was previously married to Carol Gibson. See full bio » Born: George And Mildred - Series 1 .

Episodes 1 to 6 [VHS] [1976]: Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn, Nicholas Bond-Owen, Avril Elgar, Reginald Marsh, Simon Lloyd, Pussy Galore, Roy Kinnear, Norman Mitchell, Gretchen Franklin: Amazon.co.uk: Video Product Description Product Description The complete first series of the sitcom spin-off from 'Man About the House', in which George (Brian Murphy) and Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce) move to pastures new and try to adapt to life in a posh suburb. Episodes are: 'Moving On', 'The Bad Penny', 'And Women Must Weep', 'Baby Talk', 'Your Money or Your Life', 'Where My Caravan Has Rested', 'The Little Dog Laughed', 'Best Foot Forward', 'My Husband Next Door' and 'Family Planning'. From Amazon.co.uk George and Mildred was a spin-off from Johnny Mortimer and Brian Cooke's successful 1970s sitcom Man About the House, and ran from 1976 to 1980. This release features the first six episodes.

Starring the late, great Yootha Joyce as Mildred Roper, a sex-starved cockney housewife with pretensions to the middle classes, and Brian Murphy as George, her hopeless and incorrigible husband, this series sees them make the upward move to posh Middlesex suburbia, despite George being on supplementary benefit--mortgage conditions were evidently easier in 70s sitcomland. Their neighbours are snooty estate agent Jeffrey Fourmile, his wife Ann and son Tristram. Jeffrey is perturbed that the Ropers' arrival will lower the tone of the neighbourhood ("Tristram will get nits!") as they stink up the street with their three-wheel car and cheap wartime furniture. Much mildly amusing comedy at the expense of the working/middle class divide ensues, with no double-entendre left unturned and some period gags to match the Ropers' interior decor. Situations involving a local MP, Mildred's even snobbier sister and an unsightly caravan brought out the best in Joyce and Murphy's excellent characters, while Nicholas Owen as Tristram was among the least annoying of child sitcom stars.

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Question: Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy played the title roles in which UK 1970s TV sitcom?
Answer: George and Mildred