British character actress, best known as Fanny La Fan in the
long-running sit-com 'Allo 'Allo. She continued to act until her
eighties before spending her final years living at Denville Hall, the
actors retirement home in Middlesex.
Began her career as a soprano in 1939, and for 12 years performed on
the English operatic stage, mainly with the Sadler's Wells and English
Opera companies.