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Katherine Patricia Routledge CBE (born 17 February 1929) is a Tony Award-winning English actress who is best known to television audiences for her role of Hyacinth Bucket in the television comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. Prior to Keeping Up Appearances, Routledge had a prolific career in theatre, particularly in musical theatre in the UK and the US during the 1960s and 1970s [1]. Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket. ...
February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Map sources for Birkenhead at grid reference SJ3088 Birkenhead is a town on The Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. ...
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Hyacinth Bucket, receiving a call from her son Sheridan. ...
Keeping Up Appearances was a British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as social snob Hyacinth Bucket. ...
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a semi-humourous English crime drama television series which ran from 1996 to 1998 on the BBC. A feature-length pilot episode had much earlier been screened in 1990, based on a 1986 novel. ...
Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority...
February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
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Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ...
Hyacinth Bucket, receiving a call from her son Sheridan. ...
Keeping Up Appearances was a British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as social snob Hyacinth Bucket. ...
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The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
Routledge is single, and has no children.
Background
Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire in 1929. After education at Birkenhead High School, an independent girls' school, and the University of Liverpool, Routledge launched her acting career at the Liverpool Playhouse. She also studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Map sources for Birkenhead at grid reference SJ3088 Birkenhead is a town on The Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. ...
The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a...
The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England in the United Kingdom. ...
The Liverpool Playhouse is a theatre in Williamson Square in the city of Liverpool, England. ...
The Coopers Hall (right) became the theatre foyer in the 1970s The Bristol Old Vic is a theatre complex and theatrical company in the centre of Bristol, England. ...
Career
Theatre credits Routledge has appeared in many stage productions, including West End productions of Little Mary Sunshine, Noises Off, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Solid Gold Cadillac, as well as a number of less successful vehicles. In recent years she played the role of Aunt Nettie to great acclaim in the 1993 production of Carousel; more recently, in a 2006 production of The Best of Friends (based on a book by Hugh Whitemore) at the Hampstead Theatre, Routledge portrayed Dame Laurentia McLachlan, OSB. The play focused on her friendships with Sir Sydney Cockerell and George Bernard Shaw. // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the...
Little Mary Sunshine is an American musical in emulation of older operetta, with book, music, and lyrics by Rick Besoyan. ...
Noises Off is a 1982 British play by Michael Frayn. ...
The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde, a comedy of manners in either three or four acts (depending on edition) inspired by W. S. Gilberts Engaged. ...
Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman pillory big business and big businessmen in this adaptation of their Broadway play. ...
Carousel is a 1945 stage musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) that was adapted from Ferenc Molnars play Liliom. ...
The Best of Friends is a compilation album (9th release) by singer/songwriter duo Loggins and Messina, released in late 1976 (see 1977 in music). ...
Hugh Whitemore Hugh Whitemore is an English playwright and screenwriter. ...
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OSB may stand for: Oracle Secure Backup Order of Saint Benedict – a monastic order Oriented Strand Board – an engineered wood product This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962) was a British museum curator, collector, and well-connected figure in the literary world. ...
George Bernard Shaw (George) Bernard Shaw[1] (born Dublin, 26 July 1856 – died 2 November 1950 in Hertfordshire) was an Irish playwright based in England. ...
She made her Broadway debut in 1968 in the musical Darling of the Day, for which she won a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical, sharing the honor with Leslie Uggams of Hallelujah, Baby!. In the New York Times, Walter Kerr wrote that Routledge gave "the most spectacular, most scrumptious, most embraceable musical comedy debut since Beatrice Lillie and Gertrude Lawrence came to this country." He added, "I understand there are some insane people going around this town saying that they didn't care all that much for Darling of the Day. I'd stay away from them if I were you. I warn you: if you don't catch her act now, you'll someday want to kill yourself." Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
Darling of the Day is a musical with a book by Nunnally Johnson, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, and music by Jule Styne. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
Leslie Uggams (born May 25, 1943 in New York City) is an African American actress and singer, best known for her Tony Award-winning work in Hallelujah, Baby! Uggams first started in show business in 1950, playing the niece of Ethel Waters on the television series Beulah. ...
Hallelujah, Baby! is a musical with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comdenwith a book by Arthur Laurents. ...
The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
Walter Kerr (July 8, 1913 – October 9, 1996) was an American writer and Broadway theater critic. ...
Beatrice Lillie (May 29, 1894-January 20, 1989) was the outstanding comedic actress of her time. ...
Gertrude Lawrence (June 4, 1898 - September 6, 1952) was an actress and musical performer popular in the 1930s-40s, appearing on stage in London and on Broadway, and in several films. ...
Following Darling of the Day, Routledge had roles in several more unsuccessful Broadway productions, including a musical called Love Match, in which she played Queen Victoria; the legendary 1976 Leonard Bernstein flop, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in which she portrayed every First Lady from Abigail Adams to Eleanor Roosevelt; and a 1981 musical called Say Hello to Harvey, based on the Mary Chase play Harvey, which closed in Toronto before reaching New York. Perhaps because of this ill-starred career, she did not follow the 1993 West End production of Carousel when it travelled to Broadway in 1994. Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
Queen Victoria, see Queen Victoria (ship). ...
Leonard Bernstein in 1971 Leonard Bernstein (pronounced Bern-styne)[1] (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. ...
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was a legendary Broadway flop in 1976, running only seven performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. ...
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Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of the second President of the United States, and is seen as the second First Lady of the United States, though that term was not coined until after her death. ...
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 to promote her husbands (Franklin D. Roosevelts) New Deal, as well as American Civil Rights Movement|civil rights]]. She...
Mary Chase can refer to: Author Mary Ellen Chase Playwright/screenwriter Mary Coyle Chase ...
Harvey is an English surname and place-name, derived from a personal name meaning soldier or man-at-arms. It is thought to have come to England with the Breton mercenaries of William the Conqueror as Hervé. It is also used as a given name. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
// West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the...
Carousel is a 1945 stage musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) that was adapted from Ferenc Molnars play Liliom. ...
Film and television credits
 Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances Routledge's screen credits include To Sir, with Love and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River. Image File history File links Routledge. ...
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To Sir, with Love (1967) is a British film starring Sidney Poitier that deals with social issues in an inner city school, written and directed by James Clavell and based on a novel of the same name by E.R. Braithwaite. ...
This comedy, released in the United States on July 12, 1968 stars Jerry Lewis. ...
Her early television appearances, including roles in Coronation Street and several BBC drama serials, brought her little notice until the 1980s, when she appeared in both Victoria Wood's comedy series and Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series of short plays. Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, and its consistently highest-rating programme, first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV. It was created by Tony Warren and is produced by Granada Television (now branded ITV Productions), holder of the ITV franchise...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ...
Victoria Wood OBE (born 19 May 1953) is an English comedian, actress, singer and writer. ...
Published by Faber/Profile Books in 2005 Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English author and actor famous for his work, schoolboy-like appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent. ...
Talking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett. ...
In 1990, Routledge landed the high-profile role in the comedy series Keeping Up Appearances, in which she starred as Hyacinth Bucket, a one-time working-class woman with social pretensions (insisting her surname be pronounced "bouquet") and visions of grandeur (her often-mentioned but never-seen "candlelight suppers" apparently were legendary only in her own mind). Keeping Up Appearances was a British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as social snob Hyacinth Bucket. ...
Hyacinth Bucket, receiving a call from her son Sheridan. ...
In 1996, she accepted the lead in another long-running series, the mystery drama Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, which co-starred rising star Dominic Monaghan as her assistant. She has also played several real-life characters on television, including Barbara Pym and Hildegard of Bingen. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a semi-humourous English crime drama television series which ran from 1996 to 1998 on the BBC. A feature-length pilot episode had much earlier been screened in 1990, based on a 1986 novel. ...
Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan[1] (born December 8, 1976) is an English actor. ...
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (June 2, 1913 - January 11, 1980) was an English novelist. ...
A medieval illumination showing Hildegard von Bingen and the monk Volmar Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (alternatively, German von Bingen or Latin, Bingensis) (1098 – September 17, 1179) was a German magistra,[1] monastic leader, mystic, author, and composer of music. ...
In 2001, Routledge starred in Anybody's Nightmare, a fact-based television drama in which she played a piano teacher who served four years in prison for murdering her elderly aunt but was acquitted following a retrial.
Her radio credits include the BBC dramatization of Carole Hayman's Ladies of Letters, in which she and Prunella Scales play elderly women who exchange humorous correspondence over the course of several years. Carole Hayman, is an English writer, broadcaster and journalist. ...
Ladies of Letters is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales, based on the series of books of the same name written by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield. ...
Prunella Scales CBE (born June 22, 1932) is an English actor best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. ...
The honour of the OBE was bestowed upon her in 1993, and in 2004, Routledge was promoted to CBE. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority...
Barbara Harris (born July 25, 1935) is the American Tony Award-winning Broadway stage star and Academy Award-nominated motion picture actress. ...
The Apple Tree is a musical with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. ...
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical is awarded to the actress who was voted as the best actress in a musical, whether a new production or a revival. ...
Darling of the Day is a musical with a book by Nunnally Johnson, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, and music by Jule Styne. ...
Angela Lansbury (right) with Bea Arthur at the 1989 Emmy Awards. ...
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Footnotes - ^ Patricia Routledge - Unsung Heroines, Musical Theatre.net
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