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  • Keeping Up Appearances star Dame Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

    10/03/2025 8:57:48 AM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 36 replies
    Yahoo News / BBC ^ | 10/3/2025 | Ian Youngs
    Actress Dame Patricia Routledge, known for playing Hyacinth Bucket in classic TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died at the age of 96. She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played BBC One's amateur sleuth Hetty Wainthropp, while also enjoying an acclaimed stage career. Her agent told the PA news agency on Friday that she died "peacefully in her sleep this morning surrounded by love".
  • Keeping Up Appearances star Clive Swift [Richard Bucket] dies at 82

    02/02/2019 5:46:18 AM PST · by Republican Wildcat · 52 replies
    The Times ^ | 2/2/2019 | Harry Shukman
    Clive Swift, who played the exasperated husband of Hyacinth Bucket in the 1990s TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died at the age of 82. Swift, who spent ten years at the Royal Shakespeare Company before breaking into television, died at home after a short illness. He played Richard Bucket opposite Dame Patricia Routledge in the sitcom, rolling his eyes as his on-screen wife tried to improve her social standing. Swift, who was born in Liverpool in 1936, had been an actor for decades before achieving fame. “I could walk the street unrecognised, but all that changed with Keeping Up...