She was born Daisy Nichols in Hammersmith, London, and had success as comedy character actress, appearing in many British films. She reprised her role as Else in the first series of the sequel In Sickness and in Health. After Nichols's death a second series was made, with Alf as a widow. Alf often referred to Else as a "silly old moo" – the word "cow" would have been unacceptable to contemporary audiences.
External links
Dandy Nichols (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/874193/) at screenonline.
Dandy Nichols (http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/N/htmlN/nicholsdand/nicholsdand.htm) at The Musuem of Broadcast Communications.
DandyNichols is remembered above all for one role only, that of the long-suffering Else, wife of the appalling Alf Garnett, in the long-running series Till Death Do Us Part and the rather milder follow-up In Sickness and In Health, both written by Johnny Speight.
Born in Hammersmith, DandyNichols was quite at home with the East End locale of the Garnett series, and she proved inimitable in the character with which she became most closely identified.
Deadpan in the face of Garnett's unforgivable verbal abuse, and resigned to her role as the target of much of her husband's frustration and invective, she could be by turns hilarious and pathetic and she quickly became a firm favourite of the British viewing public.
DandyNichols (May 21, 1907 – February 6, 1986) was an actress most noted for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBCsitcom Till Death Us Do Part.
She was born Daisy Nichols in Hammersmith, London, and had success as comedy character actress, appearing in many British films.
DandyNichols at The Museum of Broadcast Communications.
Feeds |
Contact