MOLLIE SUGDENComedy actress Mollie Sugden died in hospital aged 86 on 1 July, 2009.
She was most famous for her role as Mrs Slocombe in the hit BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? She later repeated the role in the spin-off series Grace and Favour.
She also appeared in The Liver Birds - as Mrs Hutchinson - and Coronation Street.
She passed away at the Royal Surrey Hospital after a long illness.
Mary Isobel Sugden was born in Keighley,Yorkshire, in 1922.
During World War Two she worked in a Yorkshire munitions factory and later went on to secure a place at the the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
She developed her acting skills working in rep with actors including Roy Dotrice and Eric Sykes.
Her first regular sitcom role was from 1962 to 1966 when she played Mrs. Crispin in the sitcom Hugh and I.
She went on to play the mother of Sandra Hutchinson (Nerys Hughes) in The Liver Birds from 1971 to 1979, and again in 1996, when The Liver Birds was revived.
But her big break came when she won the role of Mrs Slocombe in the popular and long-running comedy series Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1985.
From 1965 to 1976, she intermittently played Nellie Harvey, the landlady of The Laughing Donkey pub, in Coronation Street.
Mollie Sugden also played leading roles in other sitcoms, including That's My Boy, which ran from 1981 to 1986 and My Husband and I (1987-1988) in which she played opposite her real-life husband, actor William Moore.
The couple had married in 1958 after meeting in rep at Swansea. They had twin sons, Robin and Simon. Mr Moore died in 2000.
Ms Sugden was survived by her sons and grandchildren.
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