"Scouse git" and "Swamp Duck" die

[Accy cyclist]

Actor Tony Booth and actress Liz Dawn have gone to that big stage in the sky.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-s-actor-father-Tony-Booth-dies-aged-85.html

Swamp duck is the name her "husband" Jack referred to her as,in Coronation Street. Incase anyone's wondering.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ion-Street-s-Vera-Duckworth-dies-aged-77.html

 

[Dave7]

Yes............read that.
Tony Booth was good with Alf Garnett in "Till Death Us Do Part" although it would not fit in with todays pc world. Father of Cherie Blair if I have my facts right.
Ahh Vera with her faux stone faced terraced house and her duck "muriels" on the wall. Quite young by today's standards but it was emphysema and I read that she did smoke quite heavily.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Links to the Daily Mail should go in the Politics section.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Ahh Vera with her faux stone faced terraced house and her duck "muriels" on the wall.

That was Hilda Ogden.

 

[petek]

Yep Hilda Ogden had the plaster ducks and a 'Muriel' on her sitting room wall.
RIP Liz Dawn and Tony Booth.
Apropos 'Til death us do part' . When that was on telly if I had a pound for everytime somebody in our Workingmens club said "That Alf Garnett has got it right" , and the ale was under ten bob a pint then I'd have been pi**ed most nights.
Warren Mitchell dissembled somewhat in claiming that Alf Garnett was for laughing at rather than agreeing with.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Warren Mitchell dissembled somewhat in claiming that Alf Garnett was for laughing at rather than agreeing with.

Till Death Us Do Part backfired spectacularly from it's intended purpose. Alf Garnett became something of a working class hero, regarded with affection rather than contempt. I was at West Ham a couple of times in the sixties when Warren Mitchell appeared in character and on both occasions the roof nearly came off the stadium with the reception he got.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Two class acts passed today.

 

[Drago]

R.I.P. Liz Dawn. Jack and Vera made us cringe, laugh and cry in equal measure. TV treasure.

 

[classic33]

That was Hilda Ogden.

You know your Coronation Street.

 

[Smokin Joe]

You know your Coronation Street.

My mother was an avid fan. And of Crossroads too.

Corrie was quite an amusing program till they went down the Eastenders route of serial kidnappers and rapists.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Yes............read that.
Tony Booth was good with Alf Garnett in "Till Death Us Do Part" although it would not fit in with todays pc world.

Today's more balanced world, surely.
Just as much as it made fun of the racist, that show also gave the actual racists a misguided affirmation that there were still people out there on TV just like them and their views were at worst, cheeky and funny. Sadly, 80% of Al Murray's audience are proof that even in 2017, there are still too many that don't recognise that they're the punchline.

 

[classic33]

Ex Mayoress of Leeds, in 2000.

Played the part of her own ghost when Jack died.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21243072

 

[Tim Hall]

Yes............read that.
Tony Booth was good with Alf Garnett in "Till Death Us Do Part" although it would not fit in with todays pc world. Father of Cherie Blair if I have my facts right.

I read somewhere, some time ago, that he was related to John Wilkes Booth, who gained fame by spoiling Mrs. Lincoln's night at the theatre. I have no idea whether this is true though.

 

[Dave7]

That was Hilda Ogden.

Ahh so it was.............they must have looked similar