Patricia Routledge

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Feb 17, 1929 (96 years old)

Patricia Routledge

Known For

Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
1h 8m
Movie 2023

Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances remains one of Britain's best loved series. Running for 5 years throughout the 90s, millions of viewers tuned in to watch the delightfully monstrous Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) as she attempted to climb the social ladder, only to be endlessly let down by her family. In this 90-minute celebration we feature the very best and most hilarious moments from the series, and cast, crew and celebrity fans pay tribute to the show and share backstage secrets. Featuring an exclusive interview with Dame Patricia Routledge, who shares her memories of the show, we learn how she came to be cast, how she developed the character, and what happened when the cameras stop rolling.

Joe Orton Laid Bare
1h 20m
Movie 2017

Joe Orton Laid Bare

Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.

Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge
0h 47m
Movie 2016

Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

Patricia Routledge, as patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, presents a documentary on the author's life and work.

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
0h 50m
TV Show 1996

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

Mrs Pym's Day Out
TV Show 1992

Mrs Pym's Day Out

‘Miss Pym’s Day Out’ is a 47-minute film made for the BBC in 1992 by James Runcie. Both documentary and drama, the film follows Pym through a fictionalised version of 23 November 1977, the day when she traveled from her home in Finstock to London for the Booker Prize award dinner. - From barbara-pym.org

Keeping Up Appearances
0h 30m
TV Show 1990

Keeping Up Appearances

Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you that she is a gracious hostess, a respected citizen, and a well-connected member of high society. If you don't believe that, just ask her best friend Elizabeth, held captive in Hyacinth's kitchen; or the postmen and neighbours who bristle at the sound of her voice; or Richard, her weary and compliant husband. In fact, Hyacinth's reputation could be as perfect as her new lounge set, if not for her senile father's love of running wild in the nip. Oh, and she would prefer it if her brother-in-law was a sharper dresser. And that her husband was more ambitious. And that her sisters were more presentable. And do take your shoes off before you come in the house, dear. Mind that you don't brush against the wallpaper.

Missing Persons
1h 44m
Movie 1990

Missing Persons

During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.

First and Last
2h 12m
Movie 1989

First and Last

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

Customers From Hell
0h 10m
Movie 1989

Customers From Hell

John Cleese training video on customers.

Talking Heads
3h 0m
Movie 1988

Talking Heads

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

Biography

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, DBE is a British actress, comedian and singer. She is best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in 1992 and 1993.

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