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| Actress Mollie Sugden dies at 86 | Actress Mollie Sugden dies at 86 |
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| Actress Mollie Sugden has died at the age of 86, her agent has said. | Actress Mollie Sugden has died at the age of 86, her agent has said. |
| The TV star, best known for playing Mrs Slocombe in long-running BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?, died at the Royal Surrey Hospital after a long illness. | The TV star, best known for playing Mrs Slocombe in long-running BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?, died at the Royal Surrey Hospital after a long illness. |
| The Yorkshire-born actress's twin sons, Robin and Simon Moore, were at her bedside, agent Joan Reddin said. | The Yorkshire-born actress's twin sons, Robin and Simon Moore, were at her bedside, agent Joan Reddin said. |
| David Croft, one of the writers of Are You Being Served?, remembered her as a "marvellous character" who would never turn down chances to make people laugh. | David Croft, one of the writers of Are You Being Served?, remembered her as a "marvellous character" who would never turn down chances to make people laugh. |
| "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," he said. | "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," he said. |
| Ms Reddin, who began representing Sugden in the 1960s, said the actress had become a "very close friend". | |
| "She had had a long illness and various problems but it was very quick in the end. Her twin boys were with her and she faded away. | "She had had a long illness and various problems but it was very quick in the end. Her twin boys were with her and she faded away. |
| "She was a lovely, lovely person and I never had any trouble with her. She was a great professional." | "She was a lovely, lovely person and I never had any trouble with her. She was a great professional." |
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| After training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Sugden served a long apprenticeship in repertory theatre before television gave her a taste of fame. | After training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Sugden served a long apprenticeship in repertory theatre before television gave her a taste of fame. |
| She appeared in the comedy series Hugh and I in 1962 and Coronation Street as the gossiping Nellie Harvey. | She appeared in the comedy series Hugh and I in 1962 and Coronation Street as the gossiping Nellie Harvey. |
| But it was The Liver Birds that enabled her to make her first real impact, as Nerys Hughes' snobbish mother. | But it was The Liver Birds that enabled her to make her first real impact, as Nerys Hughes' snobbish mother. |
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