#patsy rowlands

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Out of the Unknown | S1.E6

+ later finds

Remembering British actress and comedienne, Patsy Rowlands, who passed away January 22nd, 2005, aged 74.

Having won a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, her career spanned more than fifty years. She appeared in nine Carry On films, including the most profitable of all, Carry on Loving, and left an impressive body of work in British television and on stage, in comedy, musicals and quality drama.

She created an enduring comic persona of a slightly desperate, middle-aged single woman on the make, generally working as a secretary or housekeeper, or as in the Please Sir movie, a fellow teacher at Fenn Street in love with Mr Hedges (John Alderton).

She starred opposite Thora Hird in a sitcom based on the Salvation Army, Hallelujah (1983-84), appeared in The Bill, and in 1992 had a memorable cameo as Spudgun's mum, Mrs Potato, in the Rik Mayall/ Ade Edmondson comedy Bottom.

Her final screen credit was for a dramatic role in the family saga, The Cazalets (2001).

She had a great moment with Kenneth Williams in Carry on at Your Convenience (1971). After the WC Boggs and Son works outing, Mr Boggs himself (Kenneth Williams) finds himself unclothed and in the bed of his secretary, Miss Withering. She was given possibly one of the great Carry On lines;

"Don't worry, I know what a man looks like, you know...and you're not all that much different..."

Out of the Unknown: Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? (1.6, BBC, 1965)

"I think I'd plump for science, if I had a choice. Then I could invent things, and be really sure of what I'm doing instead of guessing all the time. I'd direct all my intelligence towards plants and flowers, and concentrate until I made everybody else think about them the same as I do."

"You mean you'd like everybody to be kind to flowers?"

"Yes."

Bless This House | Gerald Thomas | 1972

Tom Jones | Tony Richardson | 1963