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1 July 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Beloved British TV actress Mollie Sugden has died, aged 86.

The TV star passed away in hospital in Surrey, England on Wednesday after a long running illness, according to her agent.

Her twin sons Robin and Simon were by her bedside.

Sugden shot to fame in Brit sitcom Are You Being Served? in 1972 and appeared in a string of other television shows, including The Liver Birds and long-running soap opera Coronation Street.

David Croft, one of the Are You Being Served? writers, remembers the actress as a "marvellous character" who loved to make people laugh.

He says, "She would never refuse any sort of comedy situation, no matter how undignified it was she would always go along with it. She was marvellously funny."

Sugden is survived by her two sons and several grandchildren. »

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30 April 2009 5:44 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Cinema Retro columnist Gareth Owen (left) with Jimmy Perry. .By Dave WorrallLast Friday (April 24th) saw scriptwriter Jimmy Perry as the guest speaker at The Lunch Club, a monthly networking club for people who work in the media industry. Perry, now a spritely 87, is the 'other half' of writing team Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who have written some of the most successful BBC comedy shows in the history of British television, including Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mom and Hi-De-Hi!   Perry started his career as a bit-part actor before turning to writing, and was awarded an OBE in 1978 for his services to the TV industry. Many of the sitcoms Perry co-wrote with Croft drew heavily on his personal experience: at 17 he joined the Watford Home Guard (Dad's Army); two years later he was called up into the regular forces, and was sent to Burma with the Royal Artillery, »

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2 articles from 2009