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Article: Sitcom veteran Mollie Sugden dies aged 86
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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Comedy actress Mollie Sugden died in hospital yesterday after a
long illness; aged 86
The Yorkshire-born star of popular sitcom Are You Being Served?
died in the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford yesterday
afternoon.
Her twin sons, Robin and Simon Moore, were at her bedside,
according to her agent Joan Reddin.
She was one of Britain's top television sitcom actresses,
renowned for her portrayal of fearsome battleaxes.
Among her best-known roles were the overbearing Mrs Slocombe in
Are You Being Served? and the fearsome Mrs Hutchinson in The Liver
Birds.
Her portrayal of overpowering and snooty women made her a
household name, not least for her talent of bringing a humourous
warmth to ...