Keeping Up Appearances Actors You May Not Know Passed Away
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Gretchen Franklin was briefly Daddy's bride-to-be
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While contending with community service in Season 1's 'The Charity Shop," Hyacinth also had to deal with a strange situation at her father's apartment. It appeared that a woman had come to live with Daddy after he offered to marry her and refused to leave despite considerable pressure from Hyacinth, Richard, and Rose. Eventually, the woman's son (Norman Lovett) was called in to retrieve his mother.
Actress Gretchen Franklin, who played Daddy's "fiancé" in "The Charity Shop," was a well-known face to British TV viewers thanks to her role as Ethel Skinner, a saucy, beloved character on the long-running soap opera "EastEnders." Franklin began her career as a chorus girl in the late 1920s before moving into musical revues and stage comedies. One of her first credited screen appearances came in the 1955 thriller "Shadow of Fear" and was quickly joined by roles in films ranging from the Beatles' "Help!" to "The Three Musketeers."
In addition to "EastEnders," Franklin's TV work included recurring and guest roles on "Crossroads," "Rising Damp," "Secret Agent," and "The Foretelling," the debut episode of "Blackadder," for which she played one of the witches who mistakenly named Rowan Atkinson's Edmund as the king of England. Franklin retired from acting after her "EastEnders" character died in 2000 and she devoted her energies to charities until her death at the age of 94 on July 11, 2005.
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